page_title: Elimination Chamber (2017)
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Elimination Chamber (2017) / Production / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: The 2017 alteration of the Elimination Chamber structure.
context_page_description: Elimination Chamber was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event and WWE Network event produced by WWE for their SmackDown brand division. It took place on February 12, 2017, at the Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix, Arizona. This was the seventh event under the Elimination Chamber chronology, the first to be held since 2015, and this was also the first pay-per-view to feature three women's matches on the main card.
  Eight matches were contested at the event, including one on the Kickoff pre-show. In the main event, Bray Wyatt won the titular Elimination Chamber match to become the new WWE Champion, the first singles championship of his career. On the undercard, Naomi defeated Alexa Bliss to become the new SmackDown Women's Champion, marking her first championship in WWE, Randy Orton defeated Luke Harper, American Alpha retained the SmackDown Tag Team Championship in a tag team turmoil match, and Becky Lynch defeated Mickie James.
context_section_description: Elimination Chamber is a gimmick pay-per-view first produced by WWE in 2010, and is generally held in February. An Elimination Chamber event did not occur in 2016, but it was brought back for 2017. The concept of the show is that one or two main event matches are contested inside the Elimination Chamber, either with championships or future opportunities at championships at stake. 2017 was the seventh event under the Elimination Chamber chronology and was a SmackDown-branded event, following the reintroduction of the brand split in July 2016. The 2017 event also saw a redesign of the chamber structure, becoming square in design, instead of circular.
  Since 2011, the show has been promoted as "No Escape" in Germany as it was feared that the name "Elimination Chamber" may remind people of the gas chambers used during the Holocaust.
caption: The redesigned Elimination Chamber structure introduced at the event.
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