Professional wrestling legend and two times WWE Hall of Fame Booker T who is a former five times WCW World Heavyweight Champion recently looked back at the first ever Elimination Chamber match that took place at Survivor Series 2002 and remembered being a participant of it.
As mentioned above, the first ever Elimination Chamber match took place back in 2002 at the Survivor Series pay per view event. This revolutionary Idea was pitched by Triple H, who himself was a part of the match as well and he walked in as the World Heavyweight champion into the chamber.
Booker T Remembers Competing In The First Ever Elimination Chamber Match
Booker T was also a part of the chamber who had an excellent record which can never be broken. He holds the record of eliminating the first wrestler from the chamber that was Rob Van Dam. And he himself was the second wrestler to get eliminated from the chamber.
The first ever Elimination Chamber match is still considered as one of the best chamber matches in the history of WWE. It is still hard to believe that it is more than 20 years old. The match was very well booked, and all the storylines that ended inside the chamber were excellently managed.
Booker T remained a World Championship Contender even after losing in the Chamber. He went on to challenge Triple H for the World Heavyweight championship at WrestleMania XIX. However, he lost it. It took him four more years to win his first WWE World Heavyweight Championship.
Booker T who is a former five times WCW World Heavyweight Champion recently spoke on his Hall of Fame podcast where he looked back at the first ever Elimination Chamber match that took place at Survivor Series 2002 and remembered being a participant of it. He said;
“If I saw Bautista today, I would give him a hug and tell him how great he’s doing in Hollywood. He’s knocking it out. He’s freakin’ killing it. It was an incident that happened between two men. And if you’re a man, you know something about that.
“If you’re a man who’s got testosterone running through your body and you’re in a testosterone-driven business, you might get in a fight with somebody. That doesn’t mean you hate them. Don’t mean you don’t like them. It was an incident that happened. I don’t even remember what the fight was about.”
Quotes via Wrestling Inc