WWE Elimination Chamber: 10 Worst Matches Ever

4. The Smackdown Elimination Chamber Match - No Way Out (2008)

The Undertaker vs Batista vs Big Daddy V vs The Great Khali vs Finlay v MVP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IckvOhU8WLo When WWE announced on January 28th 2008 that they were integrating two separate Elimination Chamber Matches into that year's No Way Out PPV, to determine the #1 Contenders for Raw & Smackdown's World Championships at Wrestlemania 24, response was mixed. On one hand, the gesture smacked of trial and error. It had been two years at that point since the Chamber had been featured on a WWE themed PPV and the honeymoon period of the Chamber itself was well and truly over. Despite only 5 Chamber matches taking place in the previous 5 years and change since its inception, one might have been forgiven for wondering if the Chamber had jumped the shark already. On the flip-side, with only 3 weeks between the event and the 2008 Royal Rumble, it surely superseded the alternative of a rushed, stagnant regular PPV; a notion that was supported by it's buy-rate- up a full 111,000 buys from the previous year's event. Since then, it has remained a ratings draw for WWE in a difficult spot, between the Royal Rumble and Wrestlemania. Venture a success I would say, boys! Not that you'd tell from the first of WWE's 2nd generation of Chamber Matches, the opening Smackdown/ECW offering at the event. Starting strongly with The Undertaker & Batista, the match quickly degenerated into a random assortment of slow, plodding clotheslines and chops with the aging Big Daddy V and critically limited Great Khali entering the fray. Offerings of veteran Finlay and, granted, the excellent MVP later led to each of them being routinely squashed by Taker and Batista as they renewed a rivalry that headlined a the first 5 months of the previous year as they 'topped and tailed' an otherwise dire and uninspiring Chamber Match. Falling in stark contrast to the, much greater, Raw offering later that same night and both offerings of the following two years' events, this match stands out like a sore thumb. The booking of the match itself did little to offset the limitations of Big V and Khali and relative lack of heat for Finlay and MVP, instead choosing to make all 4 appear like jobbers as the were systematically fed to Undertaker and Batista. I would not encourage anyone to watch this Chamber match, as I did. It's one big huge, cumbersome chore. Not the absolute worst Elimination Chamber Match... but not far off. In a quick aside, my personal condolences to the family of Big Daddy V, aka Mabel & Viscera; Nelson Frazier, Jr. whom passed away earlier this week.