WWE Elimination Chamber 2026 Results As Rhea Ripley Wins Women’s Chamber

At WWE Elimination Chamber 2026, six of the women’s division biggest and brightest stars entered the sadistic chamber structure for a shot at WrestleMania glory.

After a series of qualifying matches across Raw on SmackDown, a star-studded field headed to Elimination Chamber in Chicago’s United Center: Alexa Bliss, Asuka, Kiana James, Raquel Rodriguez, Rhea Ripley and Tiffany Stratton. The grand prize for the winner? A shot at the WWE Women’s Championship.

With Royal Rumble winner Liv Morgan already confirming that she’ll face Women’s World Champion Stephanie Vaquer at WrestleMania 42, the 2026 WWE Elimination Chamber will face Jade Cargill on the “The Grandest Stage of Them All.”

ForbesWWE Elimination Chamber 2026 Preview, Picks And PredictionsBy Blake Oestriecher

WWE Elimination Chamber 2026 Results for Women’s Chamber Match

The 2026 women’s WWE Elimination Chamber match had no real favorite, largely due to creative uncertainty surrounding Cargill and the WWE Women’s Championship. But that uncertainty exists no more.

After entering the chamber at No. 6, Rhea Ripley punched her ticket to WrestleMania 42 and a blockbuster match with Cargill. Ripley, the clear favorite, unsurprisingly picked up the win after blasting Tiffany Stratton with a Riptide for the elimination and the emphatic victory.

Here are the key highlights and takeaways from Ripley’s big win in the Elimination Chamber match:

• Kiana James and Tiffany Stratton were the first two entrants. There were arly chants of “Tiffy Time” from the Chicago crowd. Early on, Stratton inadvertently crashed into Raquel Rodriguez’s pod while attempting a back handspring.
• Asuka was entrant No. 3. James immediately attacked her as she escaped her pod. Asuka quickly countered and unleashed havoc on both Stratton and James, ending it with a double dropkick off the top rope.
• The fourth entrant was Alexa Bliss. She quickly laid out Asuka and James with a series of moved, capped off by a tornado DDT on James. Stratton hit a rolling senton and attempted the PME, but Bliss stopped her and hit her with a running basement dropkick.
• James catapulted Stratton into an empty pod. Then, Ripley entered at No. 4 and went after Asuka with a series of clotheslines, then hit Stratton with a headbutt and launched her into Asuka with a Razor’s Edge. Bliss went for a spinning DDT on Ripley, who countered.
• Bliss and Ripley botched a sequence of counter attempts, but Ripley eventually went to the outside and attempted a Riptide. Bliss avoided and climbed up the cage. With all four other competitors on the outside, Bliss jumped off a pod with a Twisted Bliss to take out all four of her opponents.
• Back in the ring, Bliss teased Sister Abigail on James, but Asuka spit the dreaded green mist in her eyes and James rolled her up for the three-count. Bliss was eliminated first. Seconds later, Rodriguez entered at No. 6. and quickly cleaned house.
• Rodriguez slammed Ripley into the cage and then powerbombed her into the ring from the outside. She hit Asuka with a fallaway slam from the outside to the inside, too. Then, Rodriguez hit James with a running powerslam that sent her crashing through the pod.
• Back in, Rodriguez caught Asuka and hit her with a Tejana Bomb on top of James. She then pinned both Asuka and James to eliminate them simultaneously. What a sequence for Rodriguez. Only Ripley, Rodriguez and Stratton remained.
• Rodriguez nailed Stratton with a spinning slam for a two-count. Rodriguez trapped Ripley’s leg in the chain link cell. Rodriguez caught Stratton, who then dumped her into the ring with a modified hurricanrana. Rodriguez hit Stratton with a big boot, a fallaway slam and a spinning corkscrew elbow.
• Rodriguez attempted a top rope move on Stratton, but Ripley jumped off the pod with a cannonball. That allowed Stratton to hit Rodriguez with the PME. Stratton pinned Rodriguez to eliminate the Judgment Day star. The crowd didn’t like seeing Rodriguez eliminated.
• Ripley went for the Razor’s Edge, but Stratton landed on her feet and hit an Alabama Slam for two. Stratton missed a swanton bomb and got hit with a kick by Ripley, who hit her with a modified face-first electric chair drop. Ripley missed a shoulder tackle and hit the ring post, then Stratton hit a swanton bomb for a two-count.
• Stratton hit the rolling senton and went for the PME, but Ripley pushed her off the top rope and into the pod. Then, Ripley nailed the Riptide to eliminate Stratton and win the match.

WWE Elimination Chamber 2026 Results: What’s Next for Rhea Ripley?

The lack of two notable WWE stars, Charlotte Flair and Bianca Belair, from the 2026 WWE Elimination Chamber match made the bout quite the toss-up.

WWE had considered names like Flair and Tiffany Stratton as Cargill’s WrestleMania 42 opponent, likely due to Belair still recovering from finger surgery. The ideal matchup, certainly from a storyline perspective, would have been Cargill vs. Belair in a battle of former tag team partners and two of WWE’s most physically impressive stars.

But with Belair still sidelined, WWE had to go back to the drawing board in what has been a recurring theme for the WrestleMania 42 build. A slew of major injuries to stars like Belair, Bron Breakker and Seth Rollins combined with a lack on long-term storytelling has really hampered the excitement of what should be WWE’s most intriguing season.

Ripley vs. Cargill is absolutely a microcosm of that reality.

On paper, this sounds like a potentially epic matchup between two of WWE’s biggest powerhouses. In reality, however, the timing for it simply isn’t right. Ripley has been attached at the hip with Iyo Sky, both as an opponent and tag team partner, and they should either face or team with one another at WrestleMania 42.

Cargill’s reign as champion has been disappointing, marred by a serious lack of title defenses or intriguing storylines. Yet, Cargill has still been portrayed as virtually unstoppable, so there are very few stars who have been built up either as formidable or interesting rivals for “The Storm.”

Ripley is one of WWE’s biggest stars and clearly the top name in the women’s division, making it difficult to envision a scenario in which she loses at WrestleMania this year even if it is to Cargill. Still, this feels like a backup plan to a backup plan.

Ripley is beloved. Cargill is attempting to prove she belongs. After Ripley’s WWE Elimination Chamber win , WWE set up a classic between the immovable object and the unstoppable force. Can Ripley leave WrestleMania as champion again?