Preliminary Matches
The first match that aired was the tag team encounter between MNM and The Hardys. After a back and forth match, which lasted over 20 minutes, MNM performed a flapjack DDT on Jeff, a move that sees an opponent get pushed upwards in air by the tag team and then is forced to dive forward onto his own head. During a pinfall attempt, Matt interrupted and performed a double neckbreaker on MNM. Jeff then performed a Swanton bomb and pinned Nitro. Next was Matt Striker versus Balls Mahoney in a "Striker's Rules" match, a match with "no gouging of the eyes, no pulling of the hair, no maneuvers off the top rope and, most importantly, no foul language". Mahoney won the match after he performed a spinebuster.
After the match, Sabu was depicted as injured backstage and unable to compete in the Extreme Elimination Chamber match. His place was taken by Hardcore Holly. In reality, however, it was rumored that Sabu had animosity surrounding him backstage and was said to be uninterested at television tapings. Rumors evolved stating that WWE viewed Sabu as being "useless" in normal matches and that he could only perform in matches that included "stunts and tables and they don't respect him because of that". This was reportedly part of the reason he had been scripted to be easily defeated by Umaga on an episode of Raw a few weeks earlier. WWE chairman Vince McMahon wanted to put Holly in the match, so Lashley would have more villains to overcome. Heyman was legitimately unhappy with the decision, saying that Sabu's high-flying wrestling would be "the ideal showcase" inside the Extreme Elimination Chamber. The fans inside the James Brown Arena chanted "bullshit" during the segment.
In the second tag-team match of the night, Elijah Burke and Sylvester Terkay defeated F.B.I. members Little Guido Maritato and Tony Mamaluke. Burke pinned Mamaluke after a Forward Russian legsweep on him. After the match, Terkay performed a Muscle Buster on Maritato. During this match, the fans inside the James Brown Arena chanted "TNA, TNA" (a reference to WWE's rival professional wrestling promotion, as well as two of their performers utilizing the moves of Jeff Jarrett and Samoa Joe, respectively). A standard match between Daivari and Tommy Dreamer followed. The Great Khali accompanied Daivari to the ring for this match but was ejected from ringside early on for interfering. Daivari won the match using a roll-up. Khali came back out after the match had ended and grabbed Dreamer by the neck and gave him a chokebomb. EMTs came out to help Dreamer up, but he got up on his own and headed backstage.
The next match was an intergender tag team match between Kevin Thorn and Ariel against Mike Knox and Kelly Kelly. Before the match began, Kelly Kelly was shown wishing CM Punk, her on-screen crush, luck for the main event. The finish of the match came when Knox walked out on Kelly Kelly, leaving her on her own in the ring. Ariel performed a legsweep, a variation of a takedown, on Kelly Kelly for the pinfall. Following the match, Ariel and Thorn then tried to attack Kelly Kelly, however, The Sandman interrupted and hit Thorn repeatedly with a kendo stick.
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