2025 Elimination Chamber matches preview
This will be the first Elimination Chamber event in Toronto and the first WWE event to be held at Rogers Centre since WrestleMania X8 in 2002 when it was still known as the SkyDome. It will also be the second Elimination Chamber event in Canada after the 2023 edition and the fourth consecutive Elimination Chamber to be held outside of the United States. This will also be the final Elimination Chamber appearance of John Cena due to his retirement from professional wrestling at the end of 2025.
Announced on November 8, 2024, the 15th Elimination Chamber event, titled as Elimination Chamber: Toronto, was scheduled to take place on Saturday, March 1, 2025, at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and will feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. This will mark the second Elimination Chamber event to be held in Canada, after 2023, and the fourth consecutive to be held outside of the United States, after the 2022, 2023, and 2024 events, which were held in Saudi Arabia, Canada (Montreal), and Australia, respectively. This will also mark WWE's first event to be held at the Rogers Centre since WrestleMania X8 in 2002 when the stadium was still known as the SkyDome. This will also be the second Elimination Chamber event to have a subtitle named after its host city and to take place in an outdoor venue, both after 2024.
The event will air on pay-per-view worldwide and will be available to livestream on Peacock in the United States, Netflix in most international markets, and the WWE Network in any remaining countries that have not yet transferred to Netflix due to pre-existing contracts. This marks the first Elimination Chamber to livestream on Netflix following the WWE Network's merger under the service in January 2025 in those areas. Rogers Communications, the owner of Rogers Centre (also Blue Jays Stadium), has been a longstanding partner of WWE and its parent company TKO Group Holdings, having been its broadcast and WWE Network distribution partner in Canada from 2014 to 2024, and continuing as the Canadian broadcast partner of co-owned mixed martial arts promotion Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), WWE's sister company under TKO. The official theme song for the event is "New Way Out" by Poppy.
In 2011 and since 2013, the event has been promoted as "No Escape" in Germany and some other European and Middle East regions as it was feared that the name "Elimination Chamber" may remind people of the gas chambers used during the Holocaust.
- 2025 Elimination Chamber Matches
1. Men's Elimination Chamber match
Three-time Elimination Chamber match winner John Cena will go head-to-head against the likes of Seth Rollins, Logan Paul, Drew McIntyre, Damian Priest and CM Punk in this six-men Elimination Chamber match. The match starts with two participants starting the match while the other four watching from the cage and each of them will join the fight in every three to five minutes. The elimination terms are included pinfall or submission. The winner of this match will guarantee the chance for the Undisputed WWE championship match against current champion Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania.
2. Women's Elimination Chamber match
Six best women in WWE: Alexa Bliss, Liv Morgan, Bianca Belair, Roxanne Perez, Bayley and Naomi will battle it out to earn a chance for a Women's World Title match at WrestleMania against reigning world champion Rhea Ripley. Bliss is already the inaugural winner in 2018, while Morgan had competed in every Elimination Chamber matches she participated since 2019 but yet to win. NXT sensation Perez is a debutant to watch in this forthcoming women's Elimination Chamber. Statistically, Bliss took the 2nd most eliminations in all Chamber appearances with three, alongside Belair, Mercedes Monet and Asuka.
- Other matches
1. Kevin Owens vs. Sami Zayn
Two local (Canadian) frenemies battle each other in a unsanctioned match.
2. Trish Stratus and Tiffany Stratton vs. Nia Jax and Candice LeRae Gargano
Local hero and hall-of-famer Trish Stratus allies with reigning WWE Women's Champion Tiffany Stratton, as Stratus and Stratton battle against the villainous pair of Jax and LeRae.
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