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Elimination Chamber (2014) (also known as No Escape (2014) in Germany) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by WWE. The fifth Elimination Chamber event took place on February 23, 2014, at the Target Center in Minneapolis. Eight matches, including the pre-show, took place at the event. In the Elimination Chamber match main event for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, Randy Orton retained his title against John Cena, Daniel Bryan, Christian, Cesaro and Sheamus. The event had 183,000 buys, down from previous year's 213,000 buys.〔http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2014/0501/574674/updated-pay-per-view-buys-for-wwe-2014-royal-rumble-and/〕 ==Background== Elimination Chamber consisted of professional wrestling matches that involved wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines played out on WWE's primary television programs, ''Raw'' and ''SmackDown''. Wrestlers portrayed faces (heroes) or heels (villains) as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. The main event was the Elimination Chamber match, where Randy Orton defended the WWE World Heavyweight Championship against five wrestlers after retaining it at the Royal Rumble from John Cena. The night after the Rumble on ''Raw'', Daniel Bryan confronted The Authority for keeping him out of the Rumble match. Stephanie McMahon claimed they didn't want to overwork him with two matches in a night, but Bryan concluded they disliked him due to his popularity. He demanded Triple H put him in the Elimination Chamber title match. Triple H sent in The Shield to attack Bryan, but Cena and Sheamus saved him. This set up an Elimination Chamber qualifying match between those three and The Shield. During the match, The Wyatt Family attacked Cena, giving his team a disqualification win, meaning Cena, Sheamus, and Bryan all qualified for the Chamber match. On the January 31 ''SmackDown'', Cesaro defeated Dolph Ziggler to qualify, and his partner Jack Swagger lost his qualifier to a returning Christian. On the February 2 edition of ''Raw'', Stephanie McMahon would mandate Randy Orton to compete in a ''Elimination Chamber Gauntlet'' where he must face each of his Chamber opponents in single matches. He was defeated by Daniel Bryan that same night, but secured a win by defeating Christian on the February 7 edition of ''SmackDown''. He then was defeated by Cena on the February 10 edition of ''Raw'' and by Cesaro on February 14 episode of ''SmackDown''. His last opponent, Sheamus won by disqualification, as The Shield and The Wyatt Family got involved on the February 17 episode of ''Raw''. On the January 31 ''SmackDown'', The Shield refused Triple H's request for the group to drop the matter of The Wyatt Family disqualifying them from the Chamber match, so a six-man tag team match between the factions was set up for the pay-per-view. After Batista's WWE return was announced in December, Alberto Del Rio began saying fans should talk about him instead and vowed to eliminate Batista from the Royal Rumble match. On the January 20 ''Raw'', following a victory over Rey Mysterio, Del Rio was attacked by Batista and hit with his finishing move the Batista Bomb. Del Rio entered the Rumble at number 27 and lasted just under three minutes before Batista, who was the next entrant, eliminated him. On the February 3 ''Raw'', Batista was interrupted and briefly assaulted by Del Rio, however the latter quickly escaped the ring. On the next ''Raw'', after Del Rio defeated Dolph Ziggler, Batista came out and delivered a Batista Bomb to Del Rio through the announce table. Triple H then announced the two would wrestle at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view. On the February 13 ''SmackDown'', Jack Swagger defeated Mark Henry, Rey Mysterio, and Kofi Kingston in a Fatal Four-Way match to become the number one contender for the Intercontinental Championship, and would wrestle champion Big E for the title at the pay-per-view. On WWE.com, it was announced The Usos (Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso) would face WWE Tag Team Champions The New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn) for the titles at the pay-per-view. This was made when The Usos asked the Outlaws to fight for the championship for the following weeks. Then, they accepted the challenge. Former Prime Time Players tag team members Titus O'Neil and Darren Young would wrestle at the pay-per-view. The feud began on the January 31 episode of ''SmackDown'' when O'Neil attacked Young after a tag team loss by the Prime Time Players, with O'Neil claiming that Young was "dead weight" and "holding him back". The ''Elimination Chamber Kickoff Show'' saw Cody Rhodes and Goldust squaring off against RybAxel (Ryback and Curtis Axel). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elimination Chamber (2014)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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