With the Royal Rumble within the rear-view mirror, there’s just one path to a world championship match at WrestleMania, and that path is profitable the Elimination Chamber. The occasion takes place on Saturday at United Middle in Chicago.
Six males and 6 ladies will enter the Elimination Chamber, with the winners of the lads’s and ladies’s matches incomes their shot at a world title. With males’s Royal Rumble winner Roman Reigns already selecting world heavyweight champion CM Punk and ladies’s winner Liv Morgan choosing ladies’s world champion Stephanie Vaquer, that leaves WWE champion Drew McIntyre and WWE ladies’s champion Jade Cargill for the Elimination Chamber winners.
Two extra title matches are set for Saturday evening. CM Punk is ready to defend his world heavyweight title in opposition to Finn Balor in entrance of his hometown followers. And Punk’s spouse, AJ Lee, is scheduled to problem Becky Lynch for the ladies’s intercontinental championship.
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Let’s check out who the CBS Sports activities specialists imagine will emerge victorious on Saturday in Chicago.
2026 WWE Elimination Chamber predictions
Males’s Elimination Chamber Match — Randy Orton vs. LA Knight vs. Cody Rhodes vs. Je’Von Evans vs. Trick Williams vs. Logan Paul: Many occasions, choosing a winner in a match like this comes right down to eliminating who would not be a winner. Evans and Williams aren’t at the moment on the degree the place they will be going one-on-one for a world championship at WrestleMania. Orton is a legend, however not one who’s in a spot the place he is sensible as a WrestleMania headliner in 2026. That leaves Knight and Rhodes, solely one in every of whom has an ongoing difficulty — which some might say has been ongoing for a lot too lengthy — with McIntyre. That makes the result appear pretty apparent. Decide: Cody Rhodes wins — Brent Brookhouse (additionally Shakiel Mahjouri)
Ladies’s Elimination Chamber Match — Tiffany Stratton vs. Rhea Ripley vs. Alexa Bliss vs. Asuka vs. Kiana James vs. Raquel Rodriguez: The winner of this match will problem WWE ladies’s champion Jade Cargill at WrestleMania. These stakes assist slender the sector. The champ seems to be like a field workplace star, so WWE ought to decide a challenger with star energy and expertise. Asuka and Cargill are each heels, and whereas that generally works, it does not gel effectively right here. Bliss matches the invoice, however she’s extra attention-grabbing teaming with Charlotte Aptitude. Ripley vs. Cargill screams WrestleMania, a collision between two of WWE’s strongest ladies. Ripley’s standing as ladies’s tag staff champion complicates issues, however there’s extra upside right here than retreading Cargill vs. Stratton. Decide: Ripley wins — Mahjouri (additionally Brookhouse)
World Heavyweight Championship — CM Punk (c) vs. Finn Balor: It is good to see Balor positioned like a significant participant as soon as once more, and equally good that it’s signaling the top of his time in Judgment Day, however there’s simply no approach WWE pivots from Punk vs. Reigns at WrestleMania to Balor vs. Reigns. It was good to see WWE lastly carry up the weird ending to Balor vs. Reigns at Excessive Guidelines 2021, however that is not sufficient basis for a WrestleMania major occasion. Decide: CM Punk retains the title — Brookhouse (additionally Mahjouri)
Ladies’s Intercontinental Championship — Becky Lynch (c) vs. AJ Lee: Punk will clean issues over for Chicago after a tough begin for his or her adopted hero Lee. The ladies’s intercontinental champion wants a profitable title protection, particularly with the potential for an additional showdown at WrestleMania. Lee has wrestled twice in 10 years, beating Lynch in WarGames and a blended tag staff match with their husbands. Anticipate Lynch to steal a victory by nefarious means forward of a one-on-one rematch in Las Vegas. Decide: Lynch retains the title — Mahjouri (additionally Brookhouse)