Elimination Chamber (2011)

Elimination Chamber (2011)
Promotional poster featuring Edge
Theme song(s)	"Ignition" by TobyMac
Information
Promotion	World Wrestling Entertainment
Brand(s)	Raw SmackDown
Sponsor(s)	National Guard of the United States
Date	February 20, 2011
Attendance	11,500
Venue	Oracle Arena
City	Oakland, California
Pay-per-view chronology
Royal Rumble (2011) Elimination Chamber (2011) WrestleMania XXVII
Elimination Chamber chronology
Elimination Chamber (2010) Elimination Chamber (2011) Elimination Chamber (2012)

Elimination Chamber (2011) (also known as No Escape (2011) in Germany) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and presented by the National Guard, which took place on February 20, 2011 at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California.

It was the second annual Elimination Chamber event. The event received 212,000 buys, lower than the 287,000 buys that the previous year's event received.

The professional wrestling matches at Elimination Chamber featured professional wrestlers performing as characters in scripted events pre-determined by the hosting promotion, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Storylines between the characters were produced on WWE's weekly television shows Raw and SmackDown with the Raw and SmackDown brands—storyline divisions in which WWE assigned its employees to different programs.

After The Miz won the WWE Championship in November 2010, Raw commentator Jerry Lawler was given what was billed as his first WWE Championship match, after criticizing Miz's win by using his Money in the Bank briefcase while former champion Randy Orton was injured. He lost to Miz in a TLC match after his fellow commentator Michael Cole stopped Lawler from climbing the ladder. On the January 31 episode of Raw, the Raw general manager announced a Raw Rumble match, to determine the WWE Championship contender at Elimination Chamber, while the losing participants would be entered into an Elimination Chamber match to determine who will face the WWE Champion at WrestleMania XXVII. The participants were CM Punk, Randy Orton, King Sheamus, John Morrison, John Cena, Jerry Lawler, and R-Truth. Lawler last eliminated Sheamus to win the battle royal to earn himself the title match, while the other six contestants went on to participate in the Raw Elimination Chamber match.