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The Royal Rumble match generally features 30 wrestlers and the winner traditionally earns a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] As a result of the reintroduction of the brand extension, the winner of the 2017 Royal Rumble match earned a match for their brand's top championship at WrestleMania 33 : Raw's WWE ...
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]
A 30-man Royal Rumble on January 17, 1994, at Madison Square Garden was won by Owen Hart, last eliminating Fatu. An 18-man Royal Rumble match took place on May 9, 1994, in Osaka, Japan and was won by The Undertaker, last eliminating Bam Bam Bigelow. There was a tag team Royal Rumble on the June 15, 1998 episode of Raw.
Bigelow, however, would go on to eliminate Tatanka from the 30-man Royal Rumble match. On the March 7 episode of Raw, Tatanka was honored by retired professional wrestlers Chief Jay Strongbow and Chief Wahoo McDaniel and by Lumbee tribesman Ray Littleturtle. Littleturtle presented him with a full-length Lumbee tribe chief headdress. [9]
Like all of us, the WWE loves a nice big round number, so WrestleMania 40 (aka WrestleMania XL) will have been circled in its calendar several years ago.. But whatever thoughts and planning may ...
Royal Rumble: San Antonio, TX: Randy Orton won the 30-man Royal Rumble match by last eliminating Roman Reigns to earn a title match for his brand's world championship at WrestleMania 33 [8] Since Randy Orton was a member of the SmackDown brand, he earned a match for the WWE Championship. (c) – denotes defending champion(s)
At Royal Rumble on 27 January 2013, McIntyre competed in the 30-man Royal Rumble match, but was eliminated by Chris Jericho. [98] On 12 April episode of SmackDown, in an attempt to make a name for themselves, 3MB tried to attack Triple H, but were attacked themselves by The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns). [99]
On 29 January at the Royal Rumble event, Gallagher participated in the annual Royal Rumble match and was eliminated by Mark Henry. [26] On 7 February episode of 205 Live , Gallagher defeated Cedric Alexander , Mustafa Ali , Noam Dar , and T. J. Perkins in a fatal five-way elimination match to become the number one contender for the WWE ...