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Elimination Chamber: Perth
Promotional poster featuring Rhea Ripley and the Elimination Chamber structure
PromotionWWE
Brand(s)Raw
SmackDown
DateFebruary 24, 2024
CityBurswood, Western Australia, Australia
VenueOptus Stadium
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Elimination Chamber: Perth (known as No Escape in Germany) is the upcoming 14th Elimination Chamber professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by the American company WWE. It will be held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The event will take place on Saturday, February 24, 2024, at Optus Stadium in the Perth suburb of Burswood, Western Australia, Australia, marking WWE's first event to be held in Australia since Super Show-Down in October 2018, and the only WWE event in the Asia–Pacific region in 2024. This will also be the third consecutive Elimination Chamber to be held outside of the United States, after the 2022 and 2023 events. The event will also be the first Elimination Chamber event to take place in an outdoor venue.

Production

Background

The event will be held at the Optus Stadium in Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

Elimination Chamber is a professional wrestling event first produced by the American promotion WWE in 2010. It has been held every year since, except in 2016, generally in February. The concept of the event is that one or two main event matches are contested inside the Elimination Chamber, either with championships or future opportunities at championships at stake.[1]

Announced on September 21, 2023, the 14th Elimination Chamber event, titled as Elimination Chamber: Perth, is scheduled to take place on Saturday, February 24, 2024, at Optus Stadium in Perth, Western Australia, Australia, and will feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. This marks the first Elimination Chamber event to be held in Australia, and the third to be held outside of the United States, after the 2022 and 2023 events, which were held in Saudi Arabia and Canada, respectively. This also marks WWE's first event to be held in Australia since Super Show-Down in October 2018, and the only WWE event in the Asia–Pacific region in 2024. This is also the first Elimination Chamber event to have a subtitle named after its host city.[2][3] The event will air on pay-per-view worldwide and will be available to livestream on Peacock in the United States and the WWE Network in most international markets. It will also livestream on Binge in Australia after the Australian version of the WWE Network merged under Foxtel's channel Binge in January 2023.[4] Tickets went on sale on November 10, 2023.[5]

In 2011 and since 2013, the event 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.[6][7]

Storylines

The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands,[8][9] while storylines are produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.[10]

On the February 2 episode of SmackDown, the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship Contender Series began, featuring two fatal four-way tag team matches, one for SmackDown and one for Raw, with the winning teams then facing off to determine who would challenge reigning champions The Judgment Day (Finn Bálor and Damian Priest) for the title at Elimination Chamber. Pete Dunne and Tyler Bate won the SmackDown bracket that night,[11] while on the following episode of Raw, #DIY (Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa) won the Raw bracket.[12] On that week's SmackDown, Dunne and Bate defeated #DIY to face Bálor and Priest for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship at Elimination Chamber.[13] Dunne and Bate subsequently took on the team name of New Catch Republic.[14]

On February 5, Raw General Manager Adam Pearce announced that due to the women's Royal Rumble match winner choosing to challenge for SmackDown's WWE Women's Championship at WrestleMania XL, Rhea Ripley's challenger for Raw's Women's World Championship at WrestleMania would be determined by an Elimination Chamber match.[15] The first qualifying match took place on that night's Raw, where Becky Lynch defeated Shayna Baszler.[12] Bianca Belair then defeated Michin on the February 9 episode of SmackDown.[13] The next qualifier took place on the February 12 episode of Raw, where Liv Morgan defeated Zoey Stark.[16] The fourth and fifth qualifying matches took place on the February 16 episode of SmackDown where Tiffany Stratton and Naomi defeated Zelina Vega and Alba Fyre,[a] respectively.[14] The last spot was determined by a Last Chance battle royal on the February 19 episode of Raw, which was won by a returning Raquel Rodriguez by last eliminating Chelsea Green.[18]

On the September 11, 2023, episode of Raw, Nia Jax made a surprise return to WWE and helped Rhea Ripley retain the Women's World Championship, only to attack Ripley after the match. At Crown Jewel on November 4, Ripley retained the title in a fatal five-way match, also involving Jax.[19] Since then, Jax continued to target Ripley, vowing to win the 2024 Royal Rumble match to face Ripley at WrestleMania XL, but failed.[20] On the next episode of Raw, Jax viciously attacked Ripley and said she would not make it to WrestleMania.[21] On the February 5 episode, Ripley called out Jax, however, Raw General Manager Adam Pearce appeared, trying to prevent a brawl between the two, and announced that Ripley would defend the Women's World Championship against Jax at Elimination Chamber. Despite this, a brawl still occurred.[12]

On the February 9 episode of SmackDown, SmackDown General Manager Nick Aldis and Raw General Manager Adam Pearce announced that due to the men's Royal Rumble match winner choosing to challenge for SmackDown's Undisputed WWE Universal Championship at WrestleMania XL, Seth "Freakin" Rollins's challenger for Raw's World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania would be determined by an Elimination Chamber match. The first qualifying matches took place on that same episode, with Drew McIntyre and Randy Orton defeating AJ Styles and Sami Zayn, respectively.[13] The next qualifiers took place on the February 12 episode of Raw, with Bobby Lashley and LA Knight defeating Bronson Reed and Ivar, respectively.[16] The last two qualifiers took place on the February 16 episode of SmackDown, where Kevin Owens and Logan Paul defeated "Dirty" Dominik Mysterio and The Miz, respectively.[14]

During the February 14 episode of The Bump, SmackDown and Australian wrestler Grayson Waller announced that he would be hosting a special edition of his talk show, "The Grayson Waller Effect", at Elimination Chamber, with special guests from Raw, 2024 Royal Rumble winner Cody Rhodes and World Heavyweight Champion Seth "Freakin" Rollins.[22]

Cancelled match

Brock Lesnar, who last appeared at SummerSlam in August 2023, was planned to have made his return at the Royal Rumble in the men's Royal Rumble match. It was also planned that he would have been eliminated by "Dirty" Dominik Mysterio to set up a match between the two at Elimination Chamber. However, due to Lesnar being referenced in a sex trafficking lawsuit against Vince McMahon, Lesnar was pulled from the Royal Rumble and all planned storylines for him leading into WrestleMania XL were scrapped.[23]

Matches

No.Matches*Stipulations
1PThe Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane) (c) (with IYO SKY) vs. Candice LeRae and Indi HartwellTag team match for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship
2The Judgment Day (Finn Bálor and Damian Priest) (c) vs. New Catch Republic (Pete Dunne and Tyler Bate)Tag team match for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship[24]
3Becky Lynch vs. Bianca Belair vs. Liv Morgan vs. Tiffany Stratton vs. Naomi vs. Raquel RodriguezElimination Chamber match for a Women's World Championship match at WrestleMania XL[25]
4Rhea Ripley (c) vs. Nia JaxSingles match for the Women's World Championship[26]
5Drew McIntyre vs. Randy Orton vs. Bobby Lashley vs. LA Knight vs. Kevin Owens vs. Logan PaulElimination Chamber match for a World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania XL[27]
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
P – the match will be broadcast on the pre-show
*Card subject to change

Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship Contender Series (2024)

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Notes

  1. ^ Shotzi was originally supposed to face Stratton, with Vega facing Naomi, however, Shotzi suffered a legitimate knee injury during a match on the February 13 taping of NXT (airing February 20). On February 14, the matchups were changed with Fyre announced as Shotzi's replacement.[17]

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