Elimination Chamber (2017)
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| Promotion | WWE | ||
| Brand | SmackDown | ||
| Date | February 12, 2017 | ||
| City | Phoenix, Arizona | ||
| Venue | Talking Stick Resort Arena | ||
| Attendance | 11,000 | ||
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The 2017 Elimination Chamber (known as No Escape in Germany) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE, held exclusively for wrestlers from the promotion's main roster brand, SmackDown. It was the seventh Elimination Chamber event and took place on February 12, 2017, at the Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix, Arizona. 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.
Eight matches were contested at the event, including one on the Kickoff pre-show. Only one Elimination Chamber match was held, which was the main event that saw Bray Wyatt win the WWE Championship, the first singles championship of his career; he eliminated defending champion John Cena before lastly eliminating AJ Styles. In other prominent matches, Naomi defeated Alexa Bliss to win the SmackDown Women's Championship, marking her first championship in WWE, Randy Orton defeated Luke Harper, American Alpha (Chad Gable and Jason Jordan) retained the SmackDown Tag Team Championship in a tag team turmoil match, and in the opening bout, Becky Lynch defeated Mickie James.
This was the first Elimination Chamber event to be held since 2015, which returned the event to its regular February slot after that 2015 event was held in May. This was also WWE's first PPV and livestreaming event to feature three women's matches on the main card. The event also saw the debut of a new Elimination Chamber structure that became its standard design. This was also the first Elimination Chamber event held since the reintroduction of the brand extension in July 2016, as well as the first to be brand-exclusive for either brand split period. The first two events in 2010 and 2011 had featured wrestlers from both Raw and SmackDown as brand-exclusive PPV events during the first brand split were discontinued in April 2007, and then the first brand split ended in August 2011. This was also the last Elimination Chamber event held before a women's version of the Elimination Chamber match was introduced the following year.