WWE Elimination Chamber: 10 Worst Matches Ever

9. WWE Title #1 Contenders Elimination Chamber Match - Elimination Chamber (2011)

John Morrison vs Sheamus vs Randy Orton vs John Cena vs R-Truth vs CM Punk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLb_C0KRQZM This match actually had some decent moments. John Morrison's scaling of the top of the Chamber, hanging upside-down before dropping on Sheamus to eliminate him and the CM Punk angle where he was trapped in-between his pod door, allowing Randy Orton to attack and eliminate him first before the infamous Anonymous Raw GM allowed him to re-enter his pod when he would later enter last to eliminate Orton; those were all good attempts to do something different and they needed to, as by this point a lot of their old tricks had ran their course. The problem with this match was two-fold: 1) the lacklustre build-up and 2) the blindly obvious predictability of the match, two factors which might well have quantified to the 86,000 buy-rate drop this event suffered from the 2010 edition. This match was the culmination of a lot of poor choices WWE made between Wrestlemania 26 and Wrestlemania 27- widely regarded as the two worst Wrestlemania offerings of the modern era. From the mishandling of the Nexus, to the 40-man Royal Rumble, the failed Edge heel turn, the RAW GM angle, Michael Cole's heel commentator persona and pushing The Miz to the main event of Wrestlemania where they obviously, since, believe he had no place being. WWE was poor in 2010 through till the summer of Punk, very poor. Part of their problem was the failure to generate interest in their stars. Orton was fresh out of the novelty of his babyface turn and lacking direction, Sheamus was going through the motions as a heel, Morrison was hot at the time but never truly given the ball the way he, perhaps, deserved to be and Punk was being so drastically misused, it led to a certain pipe-bomb promo he cut in Las Vegas. As for Cena, well, he was the guy who won and it was tedious as hell. You put all that together and you have a cold Chamber Match which Cena would obviously win on his route to one of the worst Wrestlemania main events in history against The Miz. All I can say is thank God WWE convinced The Rock to come back and finally banked on CM Punk because they were spinning tires around this time. I'm not a John Cena hater, for the record, I think he's drastically improved since CM Punk decided to light a fire under his ass but I'm well aware the first two matches on here have been Cena central and critical. Just a fair warning there are also two more to come. Sufficed to say, Elimination Chamber has not been the herald of his finest moments.