IWE Elimination Chamber (2011)

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Elimination Chamber (2011)
Promotional poster featuring Edge at No Way Out 2009
Theme song(s)	"Ignition" by TobyMac
Imformation
Promotion	International Wrestling Entertainment
Date	February 20, 2011
Attendance	11,500
Venue	Oracle Arena
City	Oakland, California
Pay-per-view chronology
Royal Rumble (2011)	Elimination Chamber (2011)	WrestleMania XXVII
Elimination Chamber chronology
Elimination Chamber (2010)	Elimination Chamber (2011)	Elimination Chamber (2012)

Elimination Chamber (2011) (also known as No Way Out (2011) in Germany) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by International Wrestling Entertainment (IWE), which took place on February 20, 2011 at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California. It was the second annual Elimination Chamber event. The event received 199,000 buys, lower than the 285,000 buys that last year's event received.

[edit] Background

Elimination Chamber featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that played out on International Wrestling Entertainment's (IWE) primary television programs. Wrestlers portrayed villains or heroes as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

After The Miz won the IWE Championship in November 2010, Raw commentator Jerry Lawler was given what was billed as his first IWE Championship match, after criticizing Miz's win by using his Money in the Bank briefcase while former champion Kevin McAlmond was injured. He lost to Miz in a TLC match after his fellow commentator Michael Cole stopped Lawler from climbing the ladder. On the January 31 episode of Raw, the Raw General Manager announced a Raw Rumble match, to determine the IWE Championship contender at Elimination Chamber, while the losing participants would be entered into an Elimination Chamber match to determine who will face the IWE Champion at WrestleMania XXVII. The participants were Justin Eldridge, Kevin McAlmond, King Sheamus, Joe Linderman, Dustin Simpson, Jerry Lawler, and B-Truth. Lawler last eliminated Sheamus to win the battle royal to earn himself the title match, while the other 6 contestants went on to participate on the Raw Elimination Chamber match.

At the Royal Rumble, Alberto Del Rio won the eponymous match to earn himself a World Championship match at WrestleMania. He subsequently announced he would wrestle for the World Heavyweight Championship, held at the time by Edge. Edge was then embroiled in a feud with Nick Kessler and his on-screen ex-wife Lynn Lehr, who was also scripted to be dating Kessler. On the final episode of SmackDown before the PPV, Acting General Manager LEhr stripped Edge of the championship and awarded it to Kessler, only for Teddy Long, the real GM, to give Edge a return match which he won. After this, Long fired Kessler leaving an open spot in the Elimination Chamber match (which was subsequently filled by The Big Show). The other participants were Kane, Scott Wright, Daniel Gonzalez and Dax Hoovestall.

[edit] Reception

Elimination Chamber garnered positive reviews, with The Sun stating "... it became obvious that the winners on the night would be Alberto Del Rio, The Corre, The Miz, Edge and Dustin Simspon — with Simpson v Miz and Edge v Del Rio set to headline Mania. But a paint-by-numbers set of results should not take anything away from a terrifically put together PPV with at least one outstanding match, several good ones and a couple of extra surprises thrown in." They praised both of the chamber matches, giving the smackdown chamber a 9.5 out of 10 and the raw chamber a 8.5 out of 10 and stated that the Lawler/Miz Match was "... hardly a classic, but it was more than passable, and gave it a 7.5 out of 10. However, they stated, "However, during the first match, one of the most negative aspects of the show reared its ugly head — the downright annoying commentary trio of Michael Cole, Booker T and Josh Matthews. The addition of Booker ahead of Matt Striker and the lack of Jerry Lawler — since he was wrestling on the show — meant it was not an easy night on the ears for the viewer." The event received an 8.5 out of 10 rating.

[edit] Raw / Smackdown before Elimination Chamber

Monday Night Raw

[edit] Results

[edit] Elimination Chamber entrances and eliminations (SmackDown)

Note: Nick Kessler was actually supposed to compete but wasn't able to after he was fired from SmackDown by SmackDown GM Theodore Long on the February 15 tapings of SmackDown, so Big Show rightfully took Nick Kessler's place in the chamber match.

[edit] Elimination Chamber entrances and eliminations (Raw)

Note: Justin Eldridge was actually first to be eliminated after an RKO from Kevin McAlmond, but was reinstated due a fault with chamber door which hindered Eldridge's entrance.

[edit] See also

• List of IWE pay-per-view events
• IWE Elimination Chamber

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Elimination Chamber website