5. Elimination Chamber
Card: Tons Of Funk (Brodus Clay and Tensai) vs. Team Rhodes Scholars (Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow) Alberto Del Rio (c) vs. The Big Show for the World Heavyweight Championship Antonio Cesaro (c) vs. The Miz for the United States Championship Jack Swagger vs. Daniel Bryan vs. Mark Henry vs. Randy Orton vs. Chris Jericho vs. Kane in an Elimination Chamber match The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns) vs. John Cena, Sheamus and Ryback Dolph Ziggler vs. Kofi Kingston Kaitlyn (c) vs. Tamina Snuka for the Divas Championship The Rock (c) vs. CM Punk for the WWE Championship Ever since it was tweaked to become a February event, the Elimination Chamber PPV has been an integral part of the build-up to Wrestlemania. Its signature match, which sees six participants locked in a chamber and released intermittently, rarely seems to disappoint. This year's matchup, though knocked down the card to accommodate for the main event of CM Punk vs. The Rock, was nevertheless an entertaining twenty five minutes of wrestling, which surprisingly ended in a victory for the returning Jack Swagger after a dominant performance from the also-returning Mark Henry. Elsewhere, The Shield established themselves as being more than one trick ponies when they beat the 'all-star' team of John Cena, Ryback and Sheamus, three wrestlers that the WWE had rarely booked to be on the losing end of a bout for some time. Many expected the trio of Ambrose, Rollins and Reigns to fall to a team containing the company's resident 'superman', but their victory helped them greatly on their way to becoming the dominant force of the year.