History
New Year's Revolution was a pay-per-view (PPV) event consisting of a main event and undercard that featured championship matches and other various bouts. The first New Year's Revolution took place on January 9, 2005 and aired live on PPV. The main event was an Elimination Chamber match, a special professional wrestling match type promoted on rare occasions in WWE. The Elimination Chamber is 16-feet-high and weighs 10-tons. It is composed of two miles of chain, steel grating, and plexiglas pods (which contain the individual wrestlers). The 2006 event also featured an Elimination Chamber match as the main event. Later that year, however, the annual Elimination Chamber match was moved to December to Dismember and was made ECW-exclusive. After its 2006 return, the December to Dismember event was canceled in 2007, and the Elimination Chamber matches were moved once again to the No Way Out event. The New Year's Revolution event was then canceled in 2008.
In 2002, WWE held a draft that split its roster into two distinctive brands of wrestling, Raw and SmackDown, and ECW later in 2006. Before the draft, matches featured wrestlers from the roster without any limitations; after the draft, however, matches consisted only of wrestlers from their distinctive brands. The first New Year's Revolution event which took place on January 9, 2005. New Year's Revolution was exclusive to the Raw brand. After three years of being produced as a brand-exclusive event, New Year's Revolution (2007) was the final New Year's Revolution event.
At the final New Year's Revolution in 2007, the main event was a singles match for the WWE Championship between John Cena and Umaga, which Cena won to retain the title.
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