WWE Elimination Chamber 2012 Results - No Surprises Ahead of WrestleMania

By Matt Holmes / February 20, 2012

1) Elimination Chamber Match for WWE Championship CM Punk (c) defeated Kofi Kingston, The Miz, Dolph Ziggler, R-Truth and Chris Jericho to retain the title. Kofi and Punk started the match off. Dolph Ziggler was the third man in, R-Truth then the fourth. CM Punk eliminates R-Truth after the big elbow drop. The Miz is in fourth and then Chris Jericho. Chris Jericho next defeated Dolph Ziggler with the Code Breaker. Kofi Kingston is next to go after tapping out to the Walls of Jericho. Punk knocks out Chris Jericho from the chamber who then is 'knocked out' and can no longer continue. That leaves CM Punk and The Miz as the last two combatants and Punk defeats him with the GTS after Miz hit his head through the pod. Punk retains with the pinfall. One of the first hilarious Santino Marella vignettes ripped off from the Rocky film play. Hype video for WrestleMania 28 which goes on forever showing John Cena training in a gym he uses with WWE developmental talents. 2) WWE Divas Championship: Beth Phoenix (c) defeated Tamina Snuka Beth retains with the Glam Slam. Anti-bullying video airs. The second Santino Marella 'Rocky' package airs. Josh Matthews checks with Y2J who is still knocked out backstage. We then get the John Laurinaitis hyped announcement. He has his lawyer David Otunga beside him. Laurinaitis says that after the Board of Directors endorsement for him to stick around, he now believes SmackDown General Manager Teddy Long should also go under the same job evaluation scrutiny. Then three SmackDown superstars make their returns; Alberto Del Rio who says Long is a terrible GM and Johnny should get the job on both shows, Mark Henry who says he should never have been suspended and he agrees Long should be outed, and then Christian says he would have been competing for the World Title tonight if it wasn't for Long. They all pose for a pic with Otunga to support Laurinaitis. Another backstage segment with Santino training for the Chamber airs. Josh Matthews is then backstage with the Big Show who admits he hasn't had the best of luck winning at WrestleMania but he is going to take the World Title tonight. 3) Elimination Chamber Match for the World Heavyweight Championship Daniel Bryan (c) defeated Cody Rhodes, Wade Barrett, Big Show, The Great Khali and Santino Marella. Show and Barrett start the match. Cody is next in. Santino Marella is third in. Khali next. Khali is the first eliminated after Big Show spears him. Bryan is next in. Cody & Barrett team to defeat Big Show. Rhodes drops the DDT and Barrett hits an elbow from the top rope. Santino takes the opportunity to roll-up Cody from behind and Cody is eliminated. After a long back and forth match, Santino covers Barrett after Bryan dopes a head butt off the top. Bryan then defeats Santino who taps out from the LaBelle Lock but not before Santino got a few close covers including one after the Cobra that had the crowd going large! Post-match Sheamus interrupts Bryan's celebration and after a meeting in the middle of the ring, Sheamus catches him the kick. Sheamus grabs Bryan and takes him out with the Celtic Cross. Sheamus vs. Daniel Bryan for the World Title looks like it is going ahead for WrestleMania 28. Backstage segment with Hornswoggle who is wearing a cheeshead hat. He says he likes cheese and says 'cut the cheese' when Natalya is shown. She swears it wasn't her but grabs her stomach and lets out a loud fart. She runs off farting away. Justin Gabriel walks in to grab some cheese when Jack Swagger and Vickie Guerrero walk in. Hornswoggle jokes about Vickie but Swagger slaps his cheeshead off. Gabriel and Swagger go at it before Teddy Long comes in and makes Gabriel vs Swagger next for the U.S. Title. Swagger says Long just absues his power and that Laurinaitis should be running both shows. Long says he does like the idea of one man running both shows but that man should be him. Holla! 4) WWE United States Championship Jack Swagger (c) defeated Justin Gabriel Swagger retains after Gabriel taps out with the ankle lock. Hornswoggle tried to interfere to help Gabriel. Long vignette airs for tonight's main event. 5) Ambulance Match John Cena defeated Kane Cena locks Kane in the Ambulance to win the match. The show ends with Cena hitting the ring to point at the WrestleMania 28 sign as the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view goes off the air.