Johnny TV Recalls Dropping From Top Of Cage At WWE Elimination Chamber 2011, Wanted To Do It For Years

Johnny TV had one of the first-ever wild WWE Elimination Chamber spots back in 2011, and he recently looked back at the big moment. The former John Morrison was part of the 2011 Chamber match against John Cena, CM Punk, Sheamus, Randy Orton, and R-Truth, with the competitors fighting for a WWE Championship match at WrestleMania XXVII. During the match, Morrison climbed to the inside top of the cage and dropped down onto Sheamus with a crossbody to eliminate him.

Johnny reflected on the spot in his interview on Insight With Chris Van Vliet. He noted that he had been coming up with possible spots for the chamber for two years before his first Chamber match and had plenty of ideas for big spots he could do. You can see highlights below:

On His Big Elimination Chamber Spot:

“I wouldn’t say growing up, but high school, college, I was watching the Chambers, always thought they were cool. When I got signed, and I was in OVW, Louisville, I started watching more closely. Then I saw that parkour movie, District 13, and started doing parkour a bunch, and I hadn’t been in a Chamber match. Then I started watching parkour and Chamber matches, and in my head, booking all these crazy things that I could potentially do in the Chamber and this is like two years before I had my first Chamber match. So when I knew that I was going to be in the Chamber match, I had like 10 ideas of different kinds of crazy things that I wanted to do, ready to go.”

On the Height Of the Spot:

“It’s so high! The one where I crawled up to the top and then dropped down on Sheamus. It’s funny. When you’re up there and you’re dropping, it feels like you’re three stories up. It doesn’t look like that on TV. It’s not that high, but it feels that high. It’s also when you’re falling backward, you just have to have a lot of trust in what’s behind you. I know Sheamus. I trust the hell out of that guy. He would always be there to catch you, pick you up, and then just hit you in the face with his fist.”