Booker T vs. Chris Jericho vs. Kane vs. Rob Van Dam vs. Shawn Michaels vs. Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship (Elimination Chamber), from WWE Survivor Series 2002

What better way to ensure that the first Elimination Chamber match goes well than booking six guys with a combined seventy years of wrestling experience? There are two significant botches in the match, one involving wrestlers entering out of order and another involving a wrestler getting his throat smashed with a knee, and neither derail the action that much. What ensues recalls the cheesy extravagance of an NWA special event with modern wrestling brutality and psychology, making for a forty-minute match that feels half its length. Arguably the best Elimination Chamber, depending on how you feel about the 2009 encounters.

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