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Announced on February 15, 2019, the 2020 event was the 33rd Royal Rumble and was scheduled to be held on January 26, 2020, at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas. It featured wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions , with some NXT wrestlers and WWE veterans appearing in both the men's and women's Royal Rumble matches.
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 4-man Royal Rumble took place on the January 8, 2004 episode of SmackDown, when Paul Heyman pit Chris Benoit against the three members of the F.B.I. Benoit won the match. A 15-man Royal Rumble was held during the January 29, 2004 episode of SmackDown to crown a contender for Brock Lesnar's WWE Championship at No Way Out.
Since: April 22, 2024. Won: Defeated Liv Morgan Flair last in a 14-woman Battle Royal to win the title vacated by Rhea Ripley on April 15 due to injury. WWE Women's Championship – Bayley
Raw's CM Punk, who returned to WWE at Survivor Series: WarGames in November 2023, entered at number 27, marking his first WWE televised match since the 2014 Royal Rumble match. 2020 Rumble winner Drew McIntyre entered at number 29 followed by Sami Zayn as the number 30 and final entrant, both from Raw.
The 2021 Royal Rumble was the last Royal Rumble in which three championships were an option for the Royal Rumble winner, as well as the last Royal Rumble in which the NXT Championship and NXT Women's Championship were an option for that winner, as in September 2021, the NXT brand was rebranded as "NXT 2.0" and reverted to being WWE's ...
WWE Royal Rumble 2024 results: Cody Rhodes among winners in record-breaking night. Jacob Stolworthy. January 28, 2024 at 5:20 AM ... Meanwhile, the winner of the 2024 Men’s Royal Rumble Match, ...
The event was held at The Dome at America's Center in St. Louis, Missouri.. The Royal Rumble is an annual gimmick event produced every January by WWE since 1988. It is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views (PPV), along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, originally dubbed the "Big Four", [2] and as of August 2021, it is considered one of the "Big Five", along with ...