10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE Elimination Chamber
4. Mark Henry's Pod Broke And It Ruined The Match
The idea behind offering the Intercontinental Championship up in the Elimination Chamber was - stop us if you think you’ve heard this one before - to try and recapture the glory days of the secondary strap.
Unfortunately for WWE, 2015 was a world without Gunther on SmackDown, and with an knackered old chamber and even more knackered old boss at the helm. Stability wasn’t exactly a staple of either, and there was something karmic about stability was so desperately needed could a contest fall apart so horrifically.
Midway through the clash, Dolph Ziggler was thrown into Mark Henry's pod breaking the plexiglass and allowing 'The World's Strongest Man' an early start in the contest. This drew distracting questions from commentators as to if Henry was yet a legal participant which (like Henry's involvement in the match in general) were eventually forgotten along whatever else had been pencilled in.
Further to that, an attempt to actually ape an old Chamber spot with a gimmick we broken door also fell badly flat - Sheamus let himself into he match as the last entrant with villainous glee, as if he wasn’t just about to enter via normal means all the same.
The final portions of the match were similarly devoid of kayfabe drama, with Ryback pinning 'The Celtic Warrior' in an anaemic ending played out to a largely bored crowd that had presumably spotted it falling apart from the other side of the chainlink.