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The 2000 Royal Rumble was the 13th annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event and 100th PPV overall produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on January 23, 2000, at Madison Square Garden in New York City , New York .
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.
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]
Royal Rumble: February 27 Kurt Angle: No Way Out: April 2 Chris Benoit: WrestleMania 2000: May 2 Chris Jericho: SmackDown! May 8 Chris Benoit: Raw Is War: June 20 Rikishi: SmackDown! July 4 Val Venis: August 27 Chyna: SummerSlam: September 4 Eddie Guerrero: Raw Is War: November 21 Billy Gunn: SmackDown! December 10 Chris Benoit: Armageddon
The Royal Rumble is an annual gimmick pay-per-view (PPV) produced every January by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) since 1988. It is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, which were dubbed the "Big Four", [2] and was considered one of the "Big Five" PPVs, along with King of the Ring. [3]
At the Royal Rumble, Angle defeated Triple H in a singles match for the WWF Championship following interference from Austin. WWF Commissioner Mick Foley considered resigning due to a promise that he made on SmackDown! leading into the PPV, where if anyone suffered a serious injury in the 6-man Hell in a Cell match, he would resign as Commissioner.
Since 1993, the winner of the annual Royal Rumble match at the January event of the same name has won the opportunity to fight for a world championship at WrestleMania. [34] Alberto Del Rio won the match in 2011 and challenged Edge for the World Heavyweight Championship. [35] [36] This led to a series of assaults from Del Rio to Edge in the ...
The 2006 Royal Rumble was the 19th annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment . It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown! brand divisions. The event took place on January 29, 2006, in the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida.