The Highway to WrestleMania has reached its remaining prelude. WWE has only one PPV left earlier than the best present of all of them in April and that is the Elimination Chamber.
WWE returns to Chicago on Saturday evening for the epic occasion the place two superstars will punch their ticket to WrestleMania 42 by outlasting 5 others contained in the sadistic construction.
Six males and 6 girls will enter the Elimination Chamber, with the winners of the lads’s and girls’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 girls’s winner Liv Morgan choosing girls’s world champion Stephanie Vaquer, that leaves WWE champion Drew McIntyre and WWE girls’s champion Jade Cargill for the Elimination Chamber winners.
The opposite two matches are close to and expensive to the followers in Chicago. World heavyweight champion CM Punk places his title on the road in entrance of his hometown followers when he takes on Finn Balor. And Punk’s spouse, AJ Lee, challenges Becky Lynch for the ladies’s intercontinental title in her first singles match in additional than a decade.
Have a look under on the confirmed matches for Elimination Chamber. The occasion streams dwell on ESPN Limitless on Saturday with the primary card beginning at 7 p.m. ET. Make sure to try our predictions for every match as properly.
2026 WWE Elimination Chamber matches
World Heavyweight Championship — CM Punk (c) vs. Finn Balor: Balor returned to the primary occasion scene after Judgment Day ally Liv Morgan accused him of complacency. Balor fell in need of defeating the world heavyweight champion in Balor’s house nation of Eire. The respect Punk and Balor confirmed one another after the match fizzled out after Balor was denied a rematch by Uncooked common supervisor Adam Pearce. Balor took issues into his personal fingers, attacking Punk and scary the champ into granting him a rematch.
Elimination Chamber match — Randy Orton vs. LA Knight vs. Cody Rhodes vs. Je’Von Evans vs. Trick Williams vs. Logan Paul: An undisputed WWE title shot awaits the winner of the lads’s Elimination Chamber match. Orton certified by beating Aleister Black and Solo Sikoa in a triple menace match. Knight defeated Austin Concept and Penta to earn his spot. After Rhodes earned his spot with a win over Jacob Fatu and Sami Zayn, Evans grew to become the most important shock entrant within the match by defeating Gunther and Dominik Mysterio on Uncooked. Williams earned the penultimate spot by beating Carmelo Hayes and Damian Priest. Jey Uso initially earned the ultimate spot within the match, however he was taken out on SmackDown, resulting in a match between Fatu and Logan Paul, which Paul gained due to some further assist.
Girls’s Intercontinental Championship — Becky Lynch (c) vs. AJ Lee: Punk is not the one adored famous person coming house to Chicago. Lee seeks to hitch her husband as an energetic champion at Elimination Chamber. Lynch proposed the match, however solely agreed to defend her girls’s intercontinental title after Lee refused to wrestle her in any other case. Lee is 2-0 in opposition to Lynch since ending her 10-year retirement, beating her in a blended tag group match and in WarGames.
Elimination Chamber match — Rhea Ripley vs. Tiffany Stratton vs. Alexa Bliss vs. Asuka vs. Kiana James vs. Raquel Rodriguez: Stratton superior to the Elimination Chamber by beating Lash Legend and Chelsea Inexperienced on SmackDown. Ripley certified by overcoming Lyra Valkyria and Ivy Nile on Uncooked. Bliss defeated Giulia and Zelina Vega to seize a spot within the match, and was joined by Asuka, who defeated Bayley and Nattie. James snuck a pinfall over Charlotte Aptitude of their match with Nia Jax. Rodriguez has the possibility to hitch Judgment Day Liv Morgan in difficult for a world championship at WrestleMania after defeating Iyo Sky and Kairi Sane within the remaining qualifier.