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Elimination Chamber Flashback: Women Enter the Chamber for the First Time (2018)
The first women’s Elimination Chamber match took place in 2018, just one month after the first women’s Royal Rumble.
The Chamber pay-per-view had taken a year off in 2016 before returning in 2017 with a historic event.
Bray Wyatt won the WWE championship on that show, defeating AJ Styles, Dean Ambrose, The Miz, Baron Corbin, and previous champion John Cena.
WOMEN’S CHAMBER DEBUT
Alexa Bliss defended the Raw women’s championship in the first women’s Chamber match.
Bayley and Sonya DeVille were the first two participants, so there’s the answer to a trivia question.
Mandy Rose came in to double-team Bayley, but Sasha Banks emerged next to even the sides.
Banks forced Rose to submit to the Bank Statement crossface. Mickie James came out and dove off the pod to eliminate DeVille.
Bayley pinned James after a Bayley-to-Belly Suplex. The champion, Bliss, came out last and pinned Bayley with a rollup.
Alexa pinned Sasha with a DDT, retaining her championship by pinning two all-time greats.
STUFFING THE CHAMBER
The men’s Chamber had seven participants, so it began with three wrestlers in the ring. The winner would face Brock Lesnar for the WWE Universal title at WrestleMania 34.
Seth Rollins, Finn Balor, and The Miz started the match. The next three were John Cena, Roman Reigns, and Braun Strowman.
Braun wiped out The Miz with a running powerslam before Elias (the guitar player) came out last. Braun gave him the same treatment.
Strowman’s roll continued when he put away Cena, Balor, and Rollins with the running powerslam. That set a record for most eliminations in one Chamber match.
Usually, that would be enough to win, but Roman Reigns hit a pair of spears to defeat Strowman.
THE AFTERMATH
Reigns earned a rematch with Lesnar from three years earlier at WrestleMania 31. That time, Seth Rollins cashed in the Money in the Bank briefcase and won the belt in “The Heist of the Century.”
In the rematch, Lesnar defeated Reigns by hitting the F-5 six times.
Don’t worry: Reigns had a lot of winning in his future.
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