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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.
Orton is also a two-time Royal Rumble match winner (2009 [26] and 2017) and has headlined multiple WWE pay-per-view events, including WrestleMania 25 [27] and WrestleMania XXX. [28] Following his match at the 2021 Survivor Series, he broke Kane's record for wrestling the most PPV matches in WWE history. [29]
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]
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 ...
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.
No Way Out 2009 was the final No Way Out held until June 2012. In September 2009, WWE ran a poll on their website to decide a new name for No Way Out. Elimination Chamber was chosen as the new name for the February 2010 event, but WWE in turn decided to end the No Way Out chronology with Elimination Chamber becoming the new February PPV.
YouTube star Logan Paul also appeared, ... Meanwhile, the winner of the 2024 Men’s Royal Rumble Match, successfully scoring a World Title match at WrestleMania, was Cody Rhodes.
Randy Orton won the Royal Rumble for a second time, the first was in 2009. The main event was the traditional 30-man Royal Rumble match with the winner earning a world championship match at WrestleMania 33. Big Cass and Chris Jericho began the match as the first and second entrants, respectively.