WWE No Way Out

WWE No Way Out
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Created by	Vince McMahon
Promotion	WWE
Brands	Raw (2003, 2008–2009) SmackDown (2003–2009) ECW (2008–2009)
Other name	No Way Out of Texas: In Your House
First event	No Way Out of Texas: In Your House
Last event	2012
Signature match	Elimination Chamber match (2008-2009)

WWE No Way Out was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE, a professional wrestling promotion based in Connecticut. It was first held as the 20th In Your House PPV in February 1998 and was titled No Way Out of Texas. It returned as its own PPV in February 2000, with the event's title truncated to "No Way Out," and it continued as the annual February PPV until 2009. The events in 2008 and 2009 featured the Elimination Chamber match. In turn, No Way Out was replaced by a new annual PPV titled Elimination Chamber in 2010, but one further No Way Out PPV was held as a one-off event in June 2012 to replace Capitol Punishment. In 2013, No Way Out was again discontinued and it was replaced by Payback.

The first four events were held when the promotion was still called the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). In May 2002, the promotion was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). To coincide with the brand extension that was also introduced in 2002, No Way Out was held exclusively for wrestlers of the SmackDown! brand from 2004 to 2007. Following WrestleMania 23 in April 2007, brand-exclusive pay-per-views were discontinued; No Way Out 2007 was the promotion's final PPV to be brand-exclusive during the first brand extension. "WWE" became an orphaned initialism for the promotion in April 2011 in an unofficial term (the legal entity of the company, as shown in the copyrights at the end of each broadcast, is currently "World Wrestling Entertainment, LLC" in 2023) and the brand extension ended that August before No Way Out's one-off return in June 2012.