page_title: Elimination Chamber (2010)
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Elimination Chamber (2010) / Production / Background
caption_attribution_description: The Elimination Chamber featured at the WWE New Year's Revolution pay-per-view in Albany, New York.
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: In late 2009, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) held a poll on their official website to allow fans to choose a name for their February pay-per-view. The choices included Elimination Chamber, Heavy Metal, Battle Chamber, Chamber of Conflict, and No Way Out, which had been the name of the preceding Elimination Chamber-based event. The name Elimination Chamber won, but the event was still promoted as No Way Out in Germany as it was feared that the name "Elimination Chamber" may remind people of the gas chambers used during the Holocaust.
  The concept of the show was that each main event match was to be contested as an Elimination Chamber match. The Elimination Chamber is a circular steel cage, consisting of chains and girders, that surrounds the ring. Four 'pods' are enclosed within the chamber, one behind each ring post, which are on a steel platform surrounding the outside of the ring. Six wrestlers compete in the match; four are enclosed within the pods and released at random at specific time intervals, and two start the match. Wrestlers can only be eliminated via pinfall or submission, and the last wrestler left is the winner. For the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view, both WWE world championships, Raw's WWE Championship and SmackDown's World Heavyweight Championship, were to be defended in separate Elimination Chamber matches. 
  The 2010 event became the first event of what is now one of WWE's yearly pay-per-views. An Elimination Chamber event has occurred every year since except in 2016. It has also mostly occurred in February, except for the 2015 event, which was held in May, and the 2020 event held in March. While originally designed for single competitors, the first tag team Elimination Chamber match occurred at the 2015 event. The chamber itself was redesigned for the 2017 event, becoming square in design. A women's version of the match first occurred at the 2018 event, which also featured the first seven-man chamber match.
caption: The Elimination Chamber pay-per-view featured two Elimination Chamber matches.
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