Elimination Chamber (2026)

Elimination Chamber
Promotion	WWE
Brand(s)	Raw SmackDown
Date	February 28, 2026
City	Chicago, Illinois
Venue	TBD
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The 2026 Elimination Chamber (known as No Escape in Germany), is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by the American company WWE. It will be the 16th Elimination Chamber event and will take place on February 28, 2026, in Chicago, Illinois. It will be held for wrestlers from the promotion's brand divisions Raw and SmackDown. The event is based around the Elimination Chamber match, a type of multi-person elimination-based Steel Cage match in which championships or future opportunities at championships are at stake.

Production

Background

Elimination Chamber is a professional wrestling event first produced by the American promotion WWE in 2010. It has been held every year since, except in 2016, generally in February. The concept of the event is that one or two main event matches are contested inside the Elimination Chamber, which is a type of multi-person elimination-based Steel Cage match in which championships or future opportunities at championships are at stake. ^[1]

On October 14, 2025, Sports Illustrated reported that the 16th Elimination Chamber event is scheduled to take place on February 28, 2026, in Chicago, Illinois. ^[2] It will feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. This will mark the first Elimination Chamber event to be held in Chicago and the first to be held in the United States since 2021.

In 2011 and since 2013, the event has been promoted as "No Escape" in Germany as it was feared that the name "Elimination Chamber" may remind people of the gas chambers used during the Holocaust. ^{[3] [4]}

Storylines

The event will comprise of matches that resulted from scripted storylines. Results will be predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, ^{[5] [6]} while storylines are produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown . ^[7]

References

1. "Elimination Chamber Match rules". World Wrestling Entertainment . Archived from the original on February 8, 2011. Retrieved February 2, 2010.
2. Heydorn, Zack (October 14, 2025). "WWE Elimination Chamber 2025 Announced For Toronto". Sports Illustrated . Retrieved October 26, 2025.
3. "WWE No Escape". WWE (in German). Archived from the original on February 8, 2017. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
4. Hoffmann, Martin (February 20, 2018). "Darum hat eine WWE-Show zwei Namen" [This is why a WWE show has two names]. Sport1 (in German). Archived from the original on February 25, 2018. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
5. Grabianowski, Ed (January 13, 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
6. "Live & Televised Entertainment". WWE . Archived from the original on February 18, 2009. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
7. Steinberg, Brian (May 25, 2016). "WWE's 'Smackdown' Will Move To Live Broadcast On USA (Exclusive)". Variety . Archived from the original on May 26, 2016. Retrieved May 25, 2016.

External links

• Elimination Chamber Official Website