Elimination Chamber: Perth

Elimination Chamber: Perth (also known as No Escape in Germany) is the upcoming 14th Elimination Chamber professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It will be held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The event will take place on Saturday, February 24, 2024, at the Optus Stadium in Perth, Western Australia, Australia, marking WWE's first event to be held in Australia since Super Show-Down in October 2018, and the only WWE event in the Asia–Pacific region in 2024. This will also be the third Elimination Chamber to be held outside of the United States, after the 2022 and 2023 events, and the first to have a subtitle named after its host city. The event will also be the first Elimination Chamber event to take place in an outdoor venue.

Elimination Chamber: Perth
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PromotionWWE
Brand(s)Raw
SmackDown
DateFebruary 24, 2024
CityPerth, Western Australia, Australia
VenueOptus Stadium
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Production

Background
The event will be held at the Optus Stadium in Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

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, either with championships or future opportunities at championships at stake.[1]

Announced on September 21, 2023, the 14th Elimination Chamber event, titled as Elimination Chamber: Perth, is scheduled to take place on Saturday, February 24, 2024, at the Optus Stadium in Perth, Western Australia, Australia, and will feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. This marks the first Elimination Chamber event to be held in Australia, and the third to be held outside of the United States, after the 2022 and 2023 events, which were held in Saudi Arabia and Canada, respectively. This also marks WWE's first event to be held in Australia since Super Show-Down in October 2018, and the only WWE event in the Asia–Pacific region in 2024.[2][3] The event will air on pay-per-view worldwide and will be available to livestream on Peacock in the United States and the WWE Network in most international markets. It will also livestream on Binge in Australia after the Australian version of the WWE Network merged under Foxtel's channel Binge in January 2023.[4]

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.[5][6]

Storylines

The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands,[7][8] while storylines are produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.[9]

References
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  2. Lambert, Jeremy (September 21, 2023). "WWE Elimination Chamber 2024 To Take Place At Optus Stadium In Perth, Western Australia On 2/24". Fightful. Archived from the original on September 29, 2023. Retrieved September 21, 2023.
  3. Zimmerman, Josh; May, Rebecca Le (September 21, 2023). "WWE Elimination Chamber in Perth: Roger Cook, Rita Saffioti confirm wrestling event at Optus Stadium in 2024". Perth Now. Archived from the original on September 27, 2023. Retrieved September 21, 2023.
  4. Sim, Josh (September 28, 2022). "WWE Network lands on exclusively Foxtel's Binge streaming service in Australia". SportsPro. Archived from the original on November 3, 2022. Retrieved September 29, 2022.
  5. "WWE No Escape". WWE (in German). Archived from the original on February 8, 2017. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
  6. 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.
  7. Grabianowski, Ed (January 13, 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
  8. "Live & Televised Entertainment". WWE. Archived from the original on February 18, 2009. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  9. 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.
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