10 Secret Wrestling Retcons You DEFINITELY Don't Remember
4. Who Created Elimination Chamber
WWE video packages on the event/match type will state for the record that Triple H created the iconic Elimination Chamber structure. 'The Game' crafted it as a love letter to the classic NWA/WCW War Games match, they'll say. That kinda kicks what happened on TV in late-2002 squarely in the balls.
Won't somebody please think of Eric Bischoff?!
The then-Raw GM smiled an insincere smile on episodes of Raw heading into the '02 Survivor Series and revealed his latest evil genius creation: Elimination Chamber. Bisch said it'd marry matches like Royal Rumble, War Games and Survivor Series together into one unmissable event, and even took credit for coming up with it.
Yes, Eric was exclusively an on-screen character at the time, but he was given props for concocting this bold new pay-per-view attraction. Triple H didn't come into it until years later. In fact, decades later. Now, you'll rarely hear Bischoff mentioned in the same breath as the Chamber.