The Elimination Chamber is a professional wrestling elimination-based match held in the WWE.

The steel cage was the first type of cage-based match in professional wrestling and consisted of four fenced walls of steel surrounding the ring apron while the Hell in a Cell was a taller roofed version that surrounded the ring and ringside area on the ground rather than the apron.

[6] To exploit additional on-screen talent after buying World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in March 2001, the following year WWE began a brand extension that divided the roster between the two brands of WWE, namely Raw and SmackDown.

In late 2016, it was announced that Elimination Chamber would return as a SmackDown-exclusive event in February 2017,[13] but it switched to being Raw-exclusive in February 2018, which was the last brand-exclusive Elimination Chamber event, as following WrestleMania 34 that year, brand-exclusive pay-per-views were discontinued.

Triple H suffered an injury during the 2002 Survivor Series match with swelling on the inside of his throat which put pressure on his esophagus and trachea.

[14][15] This was caused after Rob Van Dam performed the Five Star Frog Splash off the top of one of the chambers.

He was temporarily engulfed in flames on three occasions when the pyrotechnics were mistimed and his jacket briefly caught on fire.

He suffered first and second-degree burns to his neck and chest and according to a WWE spokesperson the injury "looked like a bad sunburn".

Originally, its design was a circular-like chain-linked structure, but since 2017 it is now square and encloses the ring.

[3] The chains that surround the chamber stretch 2 mi (3.2 km) long and weigh 6 short tons (5,400 kg).

Assembly in the arena takes eight hours to complete and eight motors are used to suspend the structure over the ring before each event.

At the top of the chamber at its center which is now 26 ft (7.9 m) tall is a large cutout of the WWE logo.

[21] The fifth match, held by the ECW brand at December to Dismember, was a slight variation called the Extreme Elimination Chamber.

[23] The four weapons used in the match were a crowbar, a table, a steel folding chair, and a barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat.

At New Year's Revolution in January 2005, Ric Flair distracted guest referee Shawn Michaels allowing Batista (who had been eliminated) to attack Randy Orton so Triple H could win the match.

[26] Later in the night, Shawn Michaels broke into the chamber to cost The Undertaker his World Heavyweight Championship to Chris Jericho.

[27] At the Elimination Chamber event in February 2013, Mark Henry took out the remaining participants in the chamber for a World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania 29 after being eliminated until SmackDown General Manager Booker T broke it up.

Kane would then come out to help escort The Wyatt Family out of the chamber, but would then interfere to cost Daniel Bryan the match to Orton.

[29] At the Elimination Chamber event in February 2023, Logan Paul interfered by sneaking into the chamber and attacking Seth "Freakin" Rollins, which subsequently allowed Austin Theory to retain the WWE United States Championship.

[30] The Elimination Chamber debuted at WWE's event Survivor Series at Madison Square Garden in November 2002.

Randy Orton holds the distinction of being involved in the most Elimination Chamber matches to date with 9.

The Elimination Chamber match has been contested only in indoor arenas in the United States and once each in Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, and Canada, with the 2024 event in Australia being the first to be held in an outdoor venue.