Elimination Chamber (2015)
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| Promotion | WWE | ||
| Date | May 31, 2015 | ||
| City | Corpus Christi, Texas | ||
| Venue | American Bank Center | ||
| Attendance | 7,000 | ||
| Buy rate | 41,000 (excluding WWE Network views) | ||
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The 2015 Elimination Chamber (known as No Escape in Germany) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was the sixth annual Elimination Chamber event and took place on May 31, 2015, at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas. The event centered on the men's Elimination Chamber match, a type of roofed steel cage that surrounds the ring and ringside area with no disqualifications; the objective is to eliminate all other opponents either by pinfall or submission with championship implications at stake.
Seven matches were contested at the event, including one on the Kickoff pre-show. In the main event, Dean Ambrose defeated WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins by disqualification but did not win the title as titles do not change hands by disqualification unless stipulated. There were two Elimination Chamber matches on the undercard; one saw Ryback defeat Dolph Ziggler, King Barrett, Mark Henry, R-Truth, and Sheamus to win the vacant WWE Intercontinental Championship, while in the other, which was the opening bout, The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods) defeated The Ascension (Konnor and Viktor), The Lucha Dragons (Kalisto and Sin Cara), Los Matadores (Diego and Fernando), The Prime Time Players (Darren Young and Titus O'Neil), and Tyson Kidd and Cesaro to retain the WWE Tag Team Championship. Also on the card, NXT Champion Kevin Owens defeated WWE United States Champion John Cena in a non-title match, which was Owens's main roster debut match.
This was the only Elimination Chamber event to be held in May; previous and future incarnations have taken place in February (except 2020 and 2025, which both took place in March). The event aired exclusively on the WWE Network in the United States, marking the first Elimination Chamber to be broadcast on the service, and it was available on PPV in various territories outside the country. It was also the first event to include a tag team Elimination Chamber match, and it was the first event in WWE history where the Chamber did not play host to a match for a world championship or future world championship match. An Elimination Chamber event was not held in 2016, but it returned in 2017; in turn, it was the last Elimination Chamber event to be held before the reintroduction of the brand extension in July 2016 and the last event to feature the original circular Elimination Chamber structure that was used since 2002 as it became square and slightly smaller upon its return in 2017.