Elimination Chamber (2020)

Poster featuring Mercedes Martinez, Ruby Riott, Nikki Bella, Liv Morgan, Shayna Baszler and Sarah Logan

### Main Event

Ruby Riott vs Liv Morgan vs Sarah Logan vs Shayna Baszler vs Mercedes Martinez vs Nikki Bella

**Elimination Chamber** was a profession wrestling pay-per-view produced by WWE. It took place on March 8, 2020 and was the tenth event under the Elimination Chamber chronology. Ten matches were featured on the card, with the main event seeing Shayna Baszler, Mercedes Martinez, Nikki Bella, Ruby Riott, Sarah Logan and Liv Morgan facing off inside the Elimination Chamber to determine who would face Becky Lynch for the Raw Women's Championship at WrestleMania 36.

## Overview

### Production

Elimination Chamber is a gimmick pay-per-view first produced by WWE in 2010. It has been produced every year since, and is generally held in late February or early March. The concept of the show is that a few matches are contested inside the Elimination Chamber, either with championships or future opportunities at championships at stake. The 2020 event was the tenth event under the Elimination Chamber chronology and featured wrestlers from the Raw, SmackDown and NXT brands.

### Storylines

The show will include matches that result from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portray heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on all three brands, while storylines are produced on WWE's weekly television shows.

The main event saw six superstars, Shayna Baszler, Mercedes Martinez, Nikki Bella, Ruby Riott, Sarah Logan and Liv Morgan, facing off inside the elimination chamber to determine who would face off against Becky Lynch at WrestleMania 36 for the Raw Women's Championship. Lynch had become the hottest star in WWE since John Cena has retained her title for almost a year. Baszler, Martinez and Bella have all previously faced off against Lynch in the past, while Riott, Logan and Morgan haven't. The later trio were formerly a close-knit group of friends, a stable known as the Riott Squad, until Riott returned after nearly a year and attacked Morgan, having become jealous of her rise as a singles competitor. This threw Logan in the middle, causing a heated rivalry between the three.

Bella hadn't faced Lynch since SummerSlam (2016), where she had defeated her in a six-woman tag match. Bella had been the most dominant woman's champion of the New Era until Lynch broke her record. Baszler had faced off against Lynch at Survivor Series (2019), in a Triple Threat Match that she won by submitting Bayley. Martinez had just faced Lynch for the title at Payback (2020) in a Steel Cage Match, but it was interrupted by Baszler, who entered the cage, beat down both opponents before dragging Lynch out of the cage, making sure she retained the title as Baszler is determined to be the one to face at WrestleMania.

## Trivia

* This was the first time an Elimination Chamber was held in March.
* Of all ten Elimination Chamber entries, this is features the least amount of world championships defended on it, with only the NXT Championship being defended.
* Shayna Baszler is the competitor to enter the Chamber and eliminate all of her competitors.