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Announced on September 30, 2016, the 2017 event was the 30th Royal Rumble and was scheduled to be held on January 29, 2017, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, marking the second Royal Rumble to be held at this venue after the 1997 event, and the fourth to be held in the state of Texas, after the 1989, 1997, and 2007 events.
The Royal Rumble match traditionally involves 30 wrestlers and usually lasts an hour (the 2011 edition had a 40-man field). The Greatest Royal Rumble (the only edition to have a 50-man field) [ 7 ] was the longest, lasting one hour and 17 minutes of a five-hour pay-per-view event while the first televised Rumble match in 1988 involved only 20 ...
30-man Royal Rumble match [39] Royal Rumble. January 27, 2024 St. Petersburg, Florida: Tropicana Field: 48,044 30-woman Royal Rumble match, Roman Reigns vs. Randy Orton vs. AJ Styles vs. LA Knight, Kevin Owens vs. Logan Paul, 30-man Royal Rumble match Royal Rumble January 26, 2020: Houston, Texas: Minute Maid Park: 42,715 30-man Royal Rumble ...
The Royal Rumble match was created by wrestler and WWE Hall of Famer Pat Patterson and the event was established by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). After the match was first tested at a house show in October 1987, [1] the first Royal Rumble event took place on January 24, 1988, and was broadcast live as a television special on the USA Network. [2]
The 2023 Royal Rumble was a financial success for WWE. The company reported that it was the biggest gate in Royal Rumble history, garnering more than US$7.7 million, more than 50% than the previous record set by the 2017 event. It also had a 52% increase in viewership over the previous record set by the 2022 event. Additionally, the 2023 event ...
The 2016 Royal Rumble was the 29th annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It took place on January 24, 2016, at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida .
The fourth match was the 30-woman Royal Rumble match for a women's championship match at WrestleMania 35. Lacey Evans , making her main roster debut, and Natalya began the match. Natalya applied a sharpshooter on Evans and Mandy Rose (entrant #3) at the same time before Liv Morgan entered at #4.
The Royal Rumble match generally features 30 wrestlers and the winner traditionally earns a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania. [5] [6] For the past two years, the men and women had the choice to challenge for the top championships of the Raw and SmackDown brands at WrestleMania.