kane won the wwe elimination chamber in 2018.
kane won the wwe elimination chamber in 2018.
who won the wwe elimination chamber in 2018?
kane
at the royal rumble, shinsuke nakamura won the men's royal rumble match and decided to stay on smackdown to challenge for the wwe championship at wrestlemania 34. this left brock lesnar, who at the same event retained his universal championship in a triple threat match against braun strowman and kane, without an opponent at wrestlemania. in response, raw general manager kurt angle scheduled an elimination chamber match to determine the number one contender for the universal championship at wrestlemania. six qualification matches were scheduled. the first three were contested on the january 29 episode of "raw". in the first, strowman defeated kane in a last man standing match to qualify. kane was taken to a local medical center after the match. elias then qualified by defeating "woken" matt hardy after a distraction from bray wyatt, and free agent john cena defeated finn bálor to qualify. the following week, elias defeated cena and strowman in a triple threat match to determine who would get to enter the chamber last. that same episode, roman reigns and intercontinental champion the miz qualified by defeating wyatt and apollo crews (whose ringname was later shortened to apollo), respectively. on the next episode, cena defeated the miz in a match where the loser would be one of the men to start the chamber match. later, the final qualification match took place in what was originally a second chance fatal four-way match between bálor, wyatt, hardy, and apollo. however, angle added seth rollins, thus making it a fatal five-way. rollins and bálor both simultaneously pinned wyatt, and it was decided that both would be a part of the elimination chamber match, marking the first seven-man chamber match. the following week, all seven men participated in a gauntlet match that began with reigns and rollins. reigns was eliminated followed by cena. elias then eliminated rollins, but was in turn eliminated by bálor, who was eliminated by the miz. strowman won the gauntlet match by pinning the miz in what was the longest match in wwe history, lasting nearly two hours.
elimination chamber (2018)
the elimination chamber set has remained the same since its introduction in 2010, with the titantron at the top featuring a round screen in the shape of the elimination chamber with the ring always set up with white ring ropes and the same "wwe.com" logo and elimination chamber logo on the ring aprons. from 2010-2012, the event featured two elimination chamber matches, usually one for each brand until august 2011 when the brand extension ended. in 2010, the raw chamber was for the wwe championship and the smackdown chamber was for the world heavyweight championship. in 2011, the raw chamber determined the number one contender for the wwe championship at wrestlemania xxvii (due to alberto del rio, a smackdown superstar, winning the royal rumble) and the smackdown chamber was again for the world heavyweight championship. in 2012, there was one chamber match for the wwe championship and one for the world heavyweight championship. in 2013, only one chamber match took place with the winner receiving a world heavyweight championship match (in december 2013, the wwe championship and world heavyweight championship were unified). in 2014, there was only one chamber match and it was for the wwe world heavyweight championship. in 2015, the event was moved from february to late may and two chambers were announced. the first housed the first-ever tag team elimination chamber match, which was for the wwe tag team championship. the second chamber match was for the vacant wwe intercontinental championship. the event was discontinued in 2016, however, it was reinstated in 2017 as a smackdown-exclusive event (the brand extension returned in july 2016) and moved back to february. the main event was a chamber match for the wwe championship. in 2018, elimination chamber was a raw-exclusive event prior to new changes for the 2018 pay-per-view schedule which included the first ever women's chamber match for the wwe raw women's championship and the first seven-man chamber match for a wwe universal championship match at wrestlemania 34. the 2019 elimination chamber event was the first dual-branded event since 2011. it included a tag team chamber match that determined the inaugural holders of the wwe women's tag team championship.
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