page_title: Elimination Chamber (2010)
section_title: Reception
hierarchical_section_title: Elimination Chamber (2010) / Reception
caption_attribution_description: English: John Morrison at the 2009 Royal Rumble
context_page_description: Elimination Chamber was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment for their Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. It took place on February 21, 2010 at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri. It was the first event in the Elimination Chamber chronology. Six matches were aired on the broadcast and one dark match occurred prior to the live broadcast.
  The concept of the event was that the two main event matches, one each for the World Heavyweight Championship and the WWE Championship, respectively, would occur in the Elimination Chamber. Each match featured six competitors: the defending champion and five challengers. Sheamus defended the WWE Championship against Triple H, Ted DiBiase, Randy Orton, John Cena, and Kofi Kingston in the Raw Elimination Chamber match, which was won by Cena. In the SmackDown Elimination Chamber match, The Undertaker defended the World Heavyweight Championship against Chris Jericho, John Morrison, Rey Mysterio, CM Punk, and R-Truth, which was won by Jericho.
context_section_description: The event received generally negative reviews. Writing for Canadian Online Explorer's wrestling section, Dale Plummer and Nick Tylwalk also slammed the Divas match, rating it 0.5 out of 10, and stating that it "was pretty much a complete waste of time", a sentiment echoed by the Pro Wrestling Torch's James Caldwell, who stated that the match was a "throwaway". The non-Elimination Chamber matches on the show were mostly derided as being unimportant, with The Baltimore Sun's reviewer Kevin Eck stating that they "came off as filler".
  Caldwell said that Morrison had "some standout moments" throughout the match. Wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer praised the United States Championship match between The Miz and Montel Vontavious Porter, stating that it was "good". Eck agreed, stating that it was "the best of the three non-chamber matches".
  Overall, Plummer and Tylwalk rated the event 5 out of 10, stating that it was "a strangely paced, uneven affair that dragged between its pair of namesake matches", but that it succeeded in building up matches for WrestleMania. Caldwell also criticised the pay-per-view heavily, stating that it was an "underwhelming overall PPV with a weak, weak mid-card".
  17,000 people attended Elimination Chamber at the Scottrade Center, drawing a gate of US$850,000. The event received 285,000 buys on pay-per-view, an increase of 13,000 compared to No Way Out 2009's 272,000 buys. The DVD of the event was released on March 23, 2010.
caption: John Morrison was praised for his performance in the SmackDown Elimination Chamber match.
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