6 Times WWE Got The Elimination Chamber Winner Wrong

3. Jack Swagger (Elimination Chamber 2013)

When looking through the list of Elimination Chamber winners, everything seemed normal. You have your Triple Hs, your Randy Ortons, John Cena, Undertaker, Jack Swagger, CM Pun- wait, Jack Swagger?

Yes. The All American American himself was victorious in the match back in 2013. Swagger bested Mark Henry, Chris Jericho, Kane, Daniel Bryan and Randy Orton to emerge victorious and earn himself a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 29.

Immediately following Swagger’s win, he was arrested for a DUI and marijuana possession, immediately showcasing that he was, in fact, the wrong choice to win the match.

Swagger continued his path to WrestleMania, where he and Zeb Colter got even more mainstream heat due to the racial undertones of his storyline with World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio.

Del Rio beat Swagger in a boring match at a boring WrestleMania and Swagger never sniffed the championship again.

What a mess.

Who should have won: Chris Jericho

I have named Chris Jericho here, but the actual answer is ‘literally anybody else’.

Jericho winning the Chamber would have spared him from his Fandango nightmare, and finally given Jericho a win in one of WWE’s biggest match stipulations, as he has never secured a win in either the Royal Rumble or Money in the Bank, the match he invented.

“Jericho vs Del Rio?” I hear you ask. Well that’s where the power of hindsight comes in. Del Rio retained the championship over The Big Show on this show, which could have easily been replaced with Del Rio dropping the title to someone like Randy Orton.

But for me, the right decision would have been to have Dolph Ziggler cash in on Del Rio at the Chamber, going to WrestleMania and defending the title against Chris Jericho, the man who interrupted him at the Royal Rumble and who Ziggler got “fired” at SummerSlam eight months before.

Sure, you lose out on Ziggler’s iconic post-WrestleMania cash in, but he gets a big singles match at WrestleMania to make up for it instead of him having to wait seven more years for one against Otis of all people.

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