 What's good, George, but Ross back again with another video. So I'm going to check out 12 times. WWE got the elimination chamber right by a parts fund known. Elimination chamber is literally right around the corner. So y'all already know we had to check out some elimination chamber related videos. There have been some times where, uh, WWE managed to get the elimination chamber winner correct. And just the overall event and hyping it up and bringing that excitement to it. Some of the spots you've seen in elimination chamber were done correctly, whether to promote how dominant a wrestler is or maybe, you know, enhance a storyline that was going into the elimination chamber. So really check out the few times. They actually got it right with the winners and what went on inside the chamber. Appreciate all the love and support you guys have shown on the channel. Just keep writing to this one. The Chamber of Horrors, Satan's structure, the box of boxes. So comes time for the elimination chamber to once again throw a spanner in the works of WrestleMania. Sometimes that happens accidentally and sometimes it happens by design. Sometimes WWE nails the elimination chamber, making the road to WrestleMania that much more interesting and exciting because of it. It may not happen 100% of the time. And for those examples, may I offer you our list of times WWE got the elimination chamber wrong. But in the meantime and in between time, let's keep that Royal Rumble positivity going here today. Much like our recent list of times WWE got the Royal Rumble right. This is a list of times WWE's decision making was on point rather than a list of best chamber performances. So we'll just have to wait to praise the great colleague some other time. I'm Tephas Taylor from Parts Fun Known, and these are 12 times WWE got the elimination chamber right. Number 12, the Shayna Baszler Chamber. In theory, Shayna Baszler eliminating the entire field of the 2020 women's elimination chamber match was a good idea. In theory, communism works in theory. Entering this list in the bottom spot is WWE's attempt at smashing over the new top star of the women's division. I say attempt because when all was said and done, more people were talking about how boring this match was than how dominant Shani Bazz actually was. As said off the top, WWE had the perfect idea for this match. Having the former NXT women's champion eliminate the other five competitors, but for as good an idea as this was, execution is important and WWE did not execute this idea well at all. There was way too much time spent standing around waiting for the next pod to open a problem that could have been easily solved as Shayna had simply entered the match fifth instead of fourth. However, this is a positive list and this match does deserve praise for producing a worthy WrestleMania challenger for Becky Lynch. It would have just, you know, been nice if Shayna had like, yeah, I don't know, won that match. And I think that's the I don't think anyone had a problem with her winning is just people had a problem with her placement because it kind of got born. She's she's pretty much KO and people packing people up one by one, and then you have to wait the next two or a minute or a half for the other pod to open. Instead, she should have came out last. She should have came out last, maybe had it should have been like maybe a few competitors in there. And you still could have had her be dominant and just destroy people, pack them up one by one. That's what probably should have happened or because her going out and just destroying everybody one by one, you know, there's a lot of waiting and downtime, but the right decision was made and her winning is just he didn't really amount to that because she didn't win the match that I think she should have won against Becky. But you know how to go, you know, you know. 11 Kofi's paranoia back in the early days of 2009, a bright eyed Jamaican named Kofi Kingston was set to receive his first world title opportunity inside the elimination chamber. Then a certain no good bastard, but a stop to that scrambling Kofi's brains and taking his spot in the chamber one year later, Kofi was older, wiser 100% less Jamaican and made certain that the same thing did not happen again. In probably my favorite part of the 2010 raw elimination chamber match, Kofi makes his entrance frequently checking his back to make sure he wouldn't get jumped again. It is just such a smart little moment and sure in the grand scheme of things, it probably doesn't mean too much, but it is emblematic of a time when WWE paid a little bit more attention to detail. I'm not sure whether this was a Kofi idea or something he was instructed to do by WWE, but commentary did point it out and I really don't trust Michael Cole to do his research. So I'm going to say this was intentional. In case it isn't, it places low on the list, but it places high in my heart. That is funny, man. Is he behind me? All right, I'm good. Fucking ads, man. Just diabolical. Triple H doesn't save Batista. The build to WrestleMania 21's main event between Evolution running mates Triple H and Batista is one of the best stories WWE has ever told. And at New Year's Revolution, we got maybe my favorite moment of this legendary storyline. It was a storyline built up over time with subtlety playing a large role in the animals emergence as a main event star. So came the Elimination Chamber for the vacant world title in Puerto Rico with both Triple H and Batista taking part. Batista's goal was clear, help Triple H become world champion again, but when the time came, a white hot stare down took place between the leader and his heavy. Triple H was scared straight by standing opposite Batista and when Randy Orton hit an RKO on Big Dave, Triple H can be seen clear as day, rising from the corner to make the save, but choosing not to. This is such a brilliant piece of storytelling and it just goes to show that sometimes simple and subtle storytelling can have the greatest lasting impact. And that was really subtle, even Randy Orton pointed it out. He's like, see, he could have saved you, but he didn't. And I like that. What they were cooking with Batista and Triple H at that time, that was some good build up and like he said, the subtle nuances to when you pay attention to certain things, they don't obviously put it in the forefront, but you just got to look. And that's always a good moment because he could have saved him, but he didn't. And I love when, you know, stipulation matches like this create even more story going out, you know, going into this match is some story being built up and created, leaving the match, more stories being built up and created. I definitely appreciate that when WWE does that. Number nine, CM Punk's sermon again, we recently spoke about CM Punk's famous Royal Rumble sermon, but now it is time for the oft forgotten sequel. After the swift dismissal of our truth, I'm sure you'll win the world title next time, truth. CM Punk took to the mic to antagonize each of his four remaining opponents still locked in their pods. Punk told Undertaker he would make him tap out again, referencing their screw job finish at breaking point a few months earlier. And Undertaker was none too pleased about it. May have had something to do with being set on fire moments earlier, but he used to say words cut deep. Eventually, Punk's sermon was cut off by the arrival of Rey Mysterio, but this was once again WWE and CM Punk making the absolute most out of every single moment of Punk's screen time. And anyone who can get the biggest reactions of the match without taking a bump is a genius worker in my book. Number eight, rivalries reignited. Much like how WWE likes to start the Royal Rumble match with an Easter egg or a callback, the same applies for the Elimination Chamber. There have been many examples of WWE starting a chamber match with former rivals and more often than not, it has yielded magical results. It doesn't matter the era. It doesn't matter the rivalry. The chamber is where enemies found each other. Jericho and Michaels in 03. Jericho and Benoit in 05. Taker and Batista in 08. Jericho and Michaels again in 08. Edge and Mysterio in 2011. Cena and Styles in 2017. Bryan and Joe in 2019. This is just something that WWE gets right in their Elimination Chamber matches. And it means so, so much. If I'm going to highlight a few of them, the big shout outs have to go to Taker and Batista and Edge and Mysterio for being the two sets of rivals not only to start their matches but finish their matches while being the best part of their matches as well. Number seven, and that's good. Like, like I was saying, it's always good to have those, those stories that you know, they got history about to lock up in the chamber. And it makes that, that one-on-one at that particular time, it makes it that much more exciting and gets you amped up for the rest of the Elimination Chamber. Just having those people who have had feuds with each other or when I kind of lock up and get the match started. It's always good to have that. A ballad of Santino Morella. On the list of unlikely WWE world title contenders, you have names like Bob Holly, R-Truth, Eric Bischoff, the Patriot, Zack Ryder. But none of them ever came as close to actually capturing the gold as Santino Morella. The only interesting thing about Elimination Chamber 2012 as a whole was the journey of Santino who had won the last spot in the World Heavyweight Championship Elimination Chamber match by winning a battle royal on SmackDown. Now that sure doesn't sound like praise for a pay-per-view and truthfully it wasn't a good one, but Santino doing stares in preparation for the biggest match of his career was a chuckle-worthy setup for his actual performance in, as they say in Italy, the Elimination Chamber. Santino somehow outlasts Big Show, the great colleague Cody Rhodes and Wade Barrett to go toe-to-toe with the world champion Daniel Bryan and in the most ludicrous near-fall in Elimination Chamber history, nearly pinned him with the Cobra. That's right, the sock puppet nearly ended the great reign of Daniel Bryan. Of course if that actually had happened, this would be on a completely different list. There's no denying that Santino offering a comedy underdog performance was precisely the best way to go about this, otherwise very forgettable match. Number six. I know some people are gonna be like, nah, fuck that. I understand when WWE tries to do the underdog story, like the big underdog story, and a lot of times it does work. Santino, even though he does have his comedic moments, it's just, you know, it really comes down to if you find him funny or not. For example, if you were to put R-Truth in Elimination Chamber this year, the crowd would go crazy for it. I would actually go crazy for it. Not crazy, but I actually would have a problem seeing it only because R-Truth is quite hilarious. And I think that's kind of the subjective part. Right now he's one of the most WWE stars right now. He's hilarious, he's an idiot. They have him acting like an idiot in a goof, and you can't really take him seriously as a champion, but at the same time, no one would trip if he was. So it's one of those things where kind of the same with Santino. Does it make sense on paper? Absolutely not. But if he's over it with the comedic gimmick, people will give it a pass. That's how it's always been in wrestling. And I think the same thing would apply to R-Truth. If he wasn't in Elimination Chamber this year, the crowd would go crazy because he's that over. The 2008 Raw Chamber Participants Now this one is personal for me because no way out 2008 was the first pay-per-view cycle I ever saw as a fan, and it influenced a lot of my opinions about WWE, particularly how you book a field of Elimination Chamber competitors to seem like potential winners. Competing for this shot at the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 24 was Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Chris Jericho, Jeff Hardy, JBL, and Umaga. Now JBL and Umaga may not have had much of a chance of going on and main eventing WrestleMania, but they played a fun role as the heel tandem with JBL paying off Umaga to make sure he won. But the other four is where this chamber really shines. Not only do you have four main event stars that each could have headlined WrestleMania at the time, but they each had their own completely separate beefs with Champion Randy Orton from the months leading up to Mania. Triple H lost to Orton in October, HBK lost in November, Jericho in December, and Hardy in January. And I don't think we have seen the chamber since with as many believable main event caliber winners as this one. Number five, Tag Team Champions, Kloss and Hug. While Isla Dawn and Alba Fire may have placed a retroactive curse on the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship that has meant that those who hold it are doomed to be injured, badly booked, or deleted from existence in the case of Aliyah, the first night the titles were introduced was the very best night they ever had. As stated off the top, this isn't as much a list of WWE choosing the right winners of these chamber matches, but in this case there was only one team that would have made fitting first champions for WWE's Beyblade Belts, and they were Boss and Hug. Not the Beyblade, I mean Sasha Banks and Bayley. There is a bit of a question to be asked about why the tag titles were introduced in a match that featured zero tags, but otherwise WWE got the Elimination Chamber right at Elimination Chamber 2019. It was already clear WWE was going to struggle to fill out the Women's Tag Division when they did not have six teams to hand to fill out this match, but of the established teams involved, Sasha Banks and Bayley had the most fan support, they had the most credibility, and they were simply the best wrestlers present. Their reign may not have amounted to much, but when you watch this show, you can't help but feel something when their tears start flowing. Number four. Nah, it was a cool moment. It was. They were the right people to win, but man, I'm sure they promised them, promised them like a good title reign and really gonna push those titles to be something to be taken seriously. You know, they were lied to. They were lied to. They didn't give a damn about them titles. They didn't. Sasha and Bayley did, but Tom Vincent didn't give two Fs about them titles. And honestly, I think they need to retire them. I know they're trying to make them, people care about them now, and I can appreciate that, but honestly, I'd rather them just do like a mid-card women's championship title, create that than the women's tag titles. Because it's just, it's, there's some good stuff. It's better than what it was before, but at the same time, it's kind of a hit or miss. I mean, personally, I think they should probably get rid of them. That's just my personal opinion on it. First one. It can often be difficult to introduce a brand new match type into the universe. Insert drawing of the Ultimate X match here. And you really need to nail the first one if the match type is going to have a chance of sticking. Insert drawing of the championship scramble here. Thankfully, the Elimination Chamber was not only presented very well as a concept by Eric Bischoff and the WWE video production team, but the first match was as close to perfect as you could expect the match to be when one guy in it nearly crushed his throat. Simply put, if this match sucked, you would have a lot more fast lanes in February. Six top Raw wrestlers competed for the world title with Kane Rob Van Damme. This is so good. With Shawn Michaels, who was wrestling only his second match back from retirement, trying to take the title off of Triple H. Shawn does capturing his final world title and helping to establish one of the greatest WWE original creations of all time. Yes. While wearing poopy brown pants. I'm sorry, I can't not mention them. Number three. Not gonna lie to you. That first Elimination Chamber chef's kiss. JR on commentary when HPK finally won the championship at the coming back, the crowd reaction, the confetti. It was great. And we didn't know what to expect with this. It looked diabolical. Just a structure. The promo package. I love you. I hate you. I can't live without you. That video package alone is just, it gives me goosebumps. Oh, take me back, bro. Take, just, just take me back. Kofi Mania. I mean, this match is almost entirely referred to as classic Kofi Mania Chamber at this point. Yeah. After Kofi Kingston caught fire on Smackdown in the Gauntlet match to determine who would enter the chamber last, this match sent him into the fan support stratosphere. And thus Kofi Mania was born. It would have been so easy for WWE to have Kofi enter this chamber, have a good showing, and then get eliminated third while the quote unquote real main eventers finished the match. But that isn't what happened. Kofi outlasted Randy Orton, Jeff Hardy, AJ Styles, and Samoa Joe until he was all alone with Brian Danielson. And in some of the most heated action in Elimination Chamber history, Kofi nearly beats Brian for the WWE Championship, but doesn't. I use no hyperbole when I say that this match had my friends and I on the edge of our seats at home because even though it was just before WrestleMania, WWE caught lightning in a bottle, and maybe just maybe they would go with everyone's main man Kofi. The decision to not have the title change hands was the right one as it led to one of the greatest WrestleMania moments of all time. But I cannot understate the importance of this truly excellent match in getting the story to Mania. And this was so great. Fantastic. They actually made Kofi, who was always a star, but he had the ceiling. You know, he had the ceiling that they weren't going to get him past that tag team division. But once people got behind him and the performance he showed in Elimination Chamber and them booking him that way, that it was clear. Kofi or bus. Kofi Mania was running while people wanted to see it. And it was a beautiful thing to see because it was organic. And just it's a it's a good an extra good feeling for me because it happened in Houston. The Elimination Chamber took place in Houston in the Houston crowd. They showed out. And I appreciate that. I truly, truly appreciate that. And we were able to get one of the greatest WrestleMania moments of all time. So if there's anything we can take from Kofi Kingston's title reign is that it it started before the Elimination Chamber, but it really grew during that match. And the fans wanted him wanted to see him in the main event spot. And they did. It was a beautiful sight to see, man. But with the World Heavyweight Championship still around the waist of the dead man, going into Elimination Chamber, the question remained as to how WWE would shift their chess pieces into their necessary positions. Of course, you could just have Chris Jericho beat the Undertaker, but with all these Mania plans swirling, it felt like a more creative solution was needed. Enter Shawn Michaels. Literally, in fact, as Shawn illegally entered the cage at the end of the match, super kicking the Undertaker and allowing his long hated rival, Chris Jericho, to win the world title. Was Jericho winning the title a little predictable? Yeah. But how they got there continues to be remembered as one of the key moments in the all-time great story of Shawn Michaels willing to go to any lengths and ultimately put his career on the line for another shot at ending the Undertaker's streak. And number one. And that's why that one, that's why that's such a classic moment because HBK, he he was obsessed with it. It was like he had to find a way to get into the Elimination Chamber, to go over and and find a way to, you know, beat the Undertaker. It was like it was a obsession and I love that. This was a long story, a long storytelling right here, like long term storytelling. And the fact that he he didn't just they just open up the cage for him. He broke in, came from under the ring and attacked the Undertaker, cost him the championship. He's like, this is what I want now. Do I have your attention now? And I love the Undertaker's, you know, pretty much up in the end. He's like, all right, cool. You'll get one more shot. But you got to put your career on the line, which made it that much more important and impactful because they didn't want to go in there with the same type of stipulation like the same match as John trying to end the streak. No, he costs the Undertaker, the World Heavy, World Heavyweight Championships. So he's like, all right, if you want to fight me again at WrestleMania, you could put your career on the line. The streak versus the career. And even though, in my opinion, I don't think it was as good as their first, like their first iteration, like at WrestleMania 25, the match they had, I think that's just one of the best matches in WrestleMania history. It's hard to top that, but their second, their, you know, their second go-around was really, really good and the stakes was that much higher. So I think the first one was better by, you know, it was just, it's a classic match. And not by much either because the second one is fantastic, too. So, amen. This was a good story built up to that WrestleMania, man. One, Edge pulls Double Disney. One of the all-time great show-long stories WWE has ever told and the perfect example of Edge's ultimate opportunist character being the most interesting part of WWE at the time. At this point, everyone knows the story here. Edge wrestled the opening chamber match as WWE Champion got eliminated in three minutes, freaked the f*** out backstage and then decided to give Kofi Kingston a scrambled brain and also PTSD. Shout out to the me of 10 minutes ago for talking about that bit of awesomeness. That decision got Edge inserted into the World Heavyweight Championship Chamber in Kofi's place and saw him walk out as the new world champion. You never see the world title scene shuffled around like this right before WrestleMania, but no way out 2009 was one of those shows that got you thinking that when you watch an elimination chamber, anything actually can happen. And that's our list. Make sure of course. And you know, the thing about Edge, he's, you know, elimination chamber has been nice to him. If you guys remember when I think John Cena was going through the elimination chamber and he had just wanted bloodied up. Vince McMahon comes out there and then Edge comes out there to cash in on John Cena after he had a grueling elimination chamber become the WWE Champion I mean, he's he's pretty pretty successful at these elimination chamber matches, man, or just I don't even think that was an elimination chamber pay-per-view is just the match was there at the time when John Cena wanted. But this is just one of those things anytime there's elimination chamber, Edge seems to do pretty well, man. But comment down below. Let me know your favorite elimination chamber match of all time, name what year or whatnot. And let me know down below what made that match your favorite in your opinion. But I appreciate all the love and support. Road to 150K and I'm still here and speaking to you to wrestling champion the world. Appreciate y'all kicking me. See y'all next one. Peace.