10 Most Ridiculous Variations Of WWE Matches

10. Extreme Elimination Chamber (December To Dismember 2006)

Much has been written about December to Dismember 2006, not least of which its debacle of a main event, the "Extreme" Elimination Chamber. What was so "extreme" about it?

Two men (Rob Van Dam and Hardcore Holly) would start off one-on-one like a standard Chamber match, and also like a standard Chamber, a new wrestler would come out of their pod every five minutes. However, in every pod, each wrestler had a weapon they could use upon entering the match. CM Punk had a steel chair, Test had a crowbar, Bobby Lashley had a table, and Big Show had a barbed wire baseball bat.

Obviously, the question is: Why do you need weapons to make an Elimination Chamber seem extreme?

By 2006, the Elimination Chamber was still fairly new, and hadn’t been run into the ground. Matches such as the inaugural contest from Survivor Series 2002 showed how brutal and chaotic things could get just from having six men inside the steel structure. Adding gimmicky weapons is redundant at best, and at worst, reeks of desperately trying to make the match feel like it was ECW. Ironically, it was arguably the most tepid Elimination Chamber at that point. Lashley, the winner and Vince’s obsession at the time, emerged from the match completely unscathed, despite going one-on-one with the Big Show, who had a barbed wire baseball bat!

Nothing says ECW Champion quite like a ripped adonis protected by management.