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The 2009 Royal Rumble was the 22nd annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brand divisions. The event took place on January 25, 2009, at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan.
List of Royal Rumble dates, venues, and winners Event Date City Venue Winner Ref. Note 1 House show October 4, 1987 St. Louis, Missouri: St. Louis Arena: One Man Gang [113] [114] 12-man Royal Rumble 2 House show March 14, 1988 East Rutherford, New Jersey: Brendan Byrne Arena: Jake Roberts [115] 22-man Royal Rumble 3 House show March 16, 1988
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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]
As Reigns attempted a Spear on Orton, Orton countered into an RKO and eliminated Reigns to win the match and earn himself a match for his brand's WWE Championship at WrestleMania 33. As a result of his win, Orton became a two-time Royal Rumble winner (the first time was in 2009), and the seventh wrestler to win multiple Royal Rumble matches.
On July 10, 2017, WWE and AB 1, extended their partnership into its 18th year with a new, multi-year agreement to broadcast WWE programming. [217] On July 20, 2017, WWE and SuperSport, reached a new, multi-year agreement to broadcast WWE programming live for the first time in more than 50 countries. [218]
The event's main featured match is a battle royal-type match, also titled the Royal Rumble. It is regarded as one of the "Big Four", as along with WrestleMania , SummerSlam and Survivor Series , as it was one of the original four annual WWE pay-per-views.
On the August 6 edition of Raw, he played The WWE Dating Game, a parody of The Dating Game, losing when Maria Kanellis chose Ron Simmons. [1] [74] On December 31, he lost a 2008 Royal Rumble qualifying match to the returning Umaga. [1] [75] After that, he began primarily appearing on Heat once again, defeating locals and teaming with Super Crazy.