The match is good, the winner is right, but the 2002 Elimination Chamber began one of the most frustrating periods in WWE: The lengthy two-year feud between Shawn Michaels and Triple H.

The two would go on to Armageddon, where they would try to have the greatest match of all time, three times in a row, in a laborious 3 Stages Of Hell Match. Triple H wins, beginning a reign of terror that still haunts him to this day. They’d then have their Last Man Standing Match at The Royal Rumble, a truly divisive bore that saw both men fight to a no contest. Then Michaels inserted himself in the Triple H vs. Chris Benoit World Heavyweight Title feud, which then led to the infamous Bad Blood 2004 Hell In A Cell match. 

There’s just a lot of bad wrestling that follows the Elimination Chamber, and it’s hard not to watch the show, and once again see all the promising pieces that are about to get knocked off the board in favor of very long Triple H promos, and endless aura farming from Evolution.