10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE Elimination Chamber

10. That Random Order Was Telegraphed In The First Two Matches

Entry to the Elimination Chamber is of course supposed to be entirely random, with flickering lights flitting from pod to pod before eventually settling on the wrestler selected to enter next.

At Survivor Series in November 2002 and at SummerSlam in August 2003, the Elimination Chamber match was contested for the first and second time. During those matches, the ‘random’ staggered entry of each of the four other competitors was telegraphed by the order in which they came to the ring, which matched exactly to the order that they were released from their pods later on.

Now, there are all kinds of conspiracy theories surrounding this, the most likely of which is that no one told the agents until the third match at New Year’s Revolution 2005 that entry was supposed to appear arbitrary.

Of course, if you’re going to put this down to basic incompetence, then it’s fun to imagine that the production guys were the ones that screwed up, and set up the ‘random light generator’ effect without verifying it with the agents for the match first. Coincidentally, long time WWE production designer Jason Robinson - the man largely responsible for taking the basic design of the Chamber and making it a reality - was misidentified as WWE’s lighting director.