WWE Elimination Chamber: 10 Worst Matches Ever

10. Elimination Chamber #4, New Year's Revolution (2006)

Shawn Michaels vs John Cena (c) vs Carlito vs Kurt Angle vs Chris Masters vs Kane (WWE Championship) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMzFecPtEnE Everyone remembers the ending to New Year's Revolution 2006 but it's not because of an old-school, classic, Elimination Chamber Match, nope. Good job too otherwise this event would've been a complete let down- anyone remember Jerry Lawler vs Gregory Helms or Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera? Edge cashed in the first Money in the Bank Championship contract following this Chamber match and, in barely over a minute, the previous thirty, overwhelmingly mediocre, ones were blasted into Purgatory. WWE went with an angle throughout this entire Chamber match. Young guns Carlito and Chris Masters- both still very green- were a tag-team at the time and WWE decided that having both of them go over established stars like Kurt Angle, Kane and Shawn Michaels in this match would take them to the next level. A decent idea on paper, the problem, of course, was that both would then job out to John Cena, right at the death of his first of eleven WWE Championship reigns. To skirt around this, they had Carlito turn on Masters in the match, betraying him at the apex before being swiftly rolled up by a bloodied Cena whom had started the match. It didn't help their cause. It made them look daft, immediately destroying the momentum they had built up with the previous eliminations. They would go on the languish in the mid-card until their respective releases. The other issue was the live crowd. This was right when the anti-Cena movement hit into full stride with predominantly male residuals from the Attitude Era rejecting Cena as the next Hogan or Austin. Cena was roundly booed in this match for the first time and so soon after WWE had placed him on the pedestal as the top guy. They all knew where this was going. 8 years later, we're still there. When Cena won the match and before anyone knew of Edge's sudden appearance, the finish fell completely dead. Nobody, not a soul in that arena believed either Carlito or Masters would win the strap. Once Shawn Michaels was eliminated, the place went dead. It's actually a good thing for this match that Edge cashed in afterwards, otherwise nobody would care to ever mention it. Compared to the lofty standards of the previous year's Chamber Match (New Year's Revolution '05) this was just a little bit stagnant, to be honest. By no means the worst, however.