WWE Elimination Chamber: 10 Worst Matches Ever

1. "Extreme" Elimination Chamber - ECW December To Dismember (2006)

Hardcore Holly vs Rob Van Dam vs CM Punk vs Test vs Bobby Lashley vs Big Show (c) (ECW World Championship) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpFL3m9R_h4 I know, I know. Y'all are thanking me for not linking you to highlights of this debacle. It's cool man, you don't need to thank me. I'm a humanitarian, you know, I care. I really do. You're all lovely people. Enjoy Big Show pulling a stupid face instead. 90,000. That is the number of people whom bought this PPV event, headlined by the "Extreme" Elimination Chamber match, the lowest PPV buy-rate in WWE history- bar none. Take a look at that match above as your main event. It's not hard to see why. An ECW themed PPV headlined by a 6-man Match that contained one genuine ECW talent. The rest? A combination of rookies and guys who who would only ever get close to the main event of a regular WWE PPV if they were in a buffer match for people to go urinate in. The Elimination Chamber, here, was a Hail Mary- a desperate attempt to salvage a dreadful card with an attraction, something people might want to buy the PPV for. As Vince McMahon always says, PPV is an attraction based business. The only thing attractive about this match was Rob Van Dam's singlet. They even tried to buff it up a bit by adding the "Extreme!" aspect to the match, which basically meant each of the guys in the pods would have a weapon with them when they came out. Doesn't that smack of desperation!? Ironically, I think the live crowd popped more for the entrance of the crowbar than Test, whom was carrying it. God rest your soul, Andrew Martin. On a more serious note, the issue with this match wasn't just its lack of star power, it was that the two genuinely over guys in the ECW realm, at the time, Punk and RVD, were both passed over in favour of a vastly out of shape Big Show (he would take a sabbatical from pro-wrestling shortly after this) and the charisma vacuum that was Bobby Lashley. Not that Lashley wasn't without his potential, he was just way too green at this time. It's, perhaps, a blessing in disguise that the PPV buy-rate was so low and has such passed into the dungeons of WWE history, never to be spoken of again, as I think it allows the majority of the current crop of WWE fans to live in ignorance that this match ever even existed. What you don't know wont hurt you, right? Right?... And now, a brief summary which will link this article to the upcoming Chamber PPV on Sunday: The 2014 edition of WWE Elimination Chamber occurs this Sunday and quite honestly, there's a very good chance I might end up revising this list come Monday. I don't like to go into PPV's expecting the worst but with the WWE network launching the following night, it's clear where the focus and attention at the head office lies right now and it isn't on making this PPV a resounding success. The Chamber match itself has all the potential to fall into either one of the categories of Elimination Chamber Match history; the dregs I've listed here or the idolised that others have listed over and over again everywhere else. The under-card looks uninspiring to say the least but with a powerful effort from The Shield and The Wyatt Family, a breakout performance from Cesaro, not too much of a convoluted screw-job when Cena gets beat and perhaps, even, a history making night from Daniel Bryan, maybe just maybe the show might be worth the price of admission.