The Elimination Chamber match itself had been created in 2002 and held at various other WWE pay-per-views before the establishment of the namesake event in 2010.

The following year, the event's February slot was replaced by Fastlane, with the 2015 Elimination Chamber instead being held in May.

The 2019 event determined the inaugural holders of the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship.

Following the reintroduction of the brand split in mid-2016, the 2017 event was held exclusively for wrestlers from SmackDown.

The 2018 event was then Raw-exclusive and was the final Raw-branded PPV of the second brand split, as following that year's WrestleMania 34, WWE discontinued brand-exclusive pay-per-views.

After Elimination Chamber matches were featured at the 2008 and 2009 No Way Out events,[5][6][7][8] WWE conducted a survey in September 2009 indicating a possible renaming for No Way Out.

[10] The inaugural Elimination Chamber event was held on February 21, 2010, at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri.

[11][12] In April 2011, the company ceased using its full name, with "WWE" becoming an orphaned initialism,[13] and in August, the brand extension ended.

[19] However, the 2015 Elimination Chamber event was later announced to be streamed exclusively on the WWE Network in the United States on May 31 and was available on PPV internationally.

[22] It was also WWE's final Raw-exclusive PPV of the second brand split, as following that year's WrestleMania 34, WWE discontinued brand-exclusive pay-per-views,[23] thus the 2019 event featured wrestlers from both the Raw and SmackDown brands, as well as 205 Live, although it was the only to include 205 Live.

Beginning March 13, Raw and SmackDown's shows and pay-per-views were moved to the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida and held behind closed doors.

[27] In August, the company relocated Raw and SmackDown's shows to a bio-secure bubble called the WWE ThunderDome, which was first hosted at Orlando's Amway Center.

[28] The ThunderDome was then relocated to Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida in December,[29] which was also the location of the 2021 Elimination Chamber.

[30] In March 2021, the American version of the WWE Network became a premium channel under NBCUniversal's streaming service, Peacock.

This did not affect other countries at the time, which had maintained the separate WWE Network service distributed by WWE (a couple of other countries have since had the Network merged under a different streaming service, such as Binge in Australia in 2023[33]).

[37] The 2023 Elimination Chamber was scheduled to take place on Saturday, February 18, 2023, at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

This also marked the first major WWE event to be held in Montreal since Breaking Point in 2009.

[38] WWE would continue its run of holding Elimination Chamber outside of the United States, with the 2024 event, titled as Elimination Chamber: Perth, held on February 24 at the Optus Stadium in Perth, Western Australia, Australia, marking WWE's first event to be held in Australia since Super Show-Down in October 2018.

The women's match had three wrestlers from each brand, while the men's had three from SmackDown, two from Raw, and one free agent.