#3 – Shawn Michaels
Shawn Michaels won the very first Elimination Chamber match, immediately making him more important than most people on this list. Despite having some of the most ugly wrestling gear in history, and weirdly short hair cut, he returned from a career-threatening injury, kicked three people in the face, and realized the "boyhood dream" one more time.
Fun fact: Shawn Michaels was involved in all four of the first Chamber matches, between 2002 and 2006. After winning the first, he participated in the second, but fell like everyone else to a spearing spree by Goldberg. He was named the special guest referee of the third match, competed in the fourth, and stepped back inside the Chamber several years later to try and earn a WWE Championship shot at WrestleMania XXIV. That's four Chamber matches, actively involved in a fifth.
But let's not forget what happened in 2010. The Undertaker looked poised and ready to win his second Elimination Chamber match, taking the World Heavyweight Championship to WrestleMania. But it was Shawn Michaels who hid underneath the Chamber structure. And it was Shawn Michaels who broke through the floor, kicked the Deadman in the face, and forced the Phenom's hand into a second WrestleMania match, putting his career on the line in the process. So, by affiliation, HBK has been involved in a whopping six Elimination Chamber matches.
He's also one of the best performers in the match's long history. The story he told coming back from injury, defying all the odds to win the very first Chamber match – that's a classic not many have forgotten. One of the best compete PPV events of all time, and in the world's most famous wresting arena, Madison Square Garden. He's faced off against everyone from Goldberg to John Cena, from Kurt Angle to Triple H and everyone in between. Shawn Michaels may be known as "Mr. WrestleMania", but the title of "Mr. Elimination Chamber" may not be completely out of the question.
