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Announced on September 30, 2016, the 2017 event was the 30th Royal Rumble and was scheduled to be held on January 29, 2017, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, marking the second Royal Rumble to be held at this venue after the 1997 event, and the fourth to be held in the state of Texas, after the 1989, 1997, and 2007 events.
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]
Some WWF/WWE games which share a name but were produced for different platforms are considered separate, especially if they were released years apart. For example, the SNES game WWF Royal Rumble is completely different from the Dreamcast game entitled WWF Royal Rumble released years later. MicroLeague Wrestling [1987] (Amiga, Commodore 64) [10]
The Royal Rumble match traditionally involves 30 wrestlers and usually lasts an hour (the 2011 edition had a 40-man field). The Greatest Royal Rumble (the only edition to have a 50-man field) [ 5 ] was the longest, lasting one hour and 17 minutes of a five-hour pay-per-view event while the first televised Rumble match in 1988 involved only 20 ...
Royal Rumble January 29, 2017: San Antonio, Texas: Alamodome: 52,020 30-man Royal Rumble match [73] FMW: 5th Anniversary Show May 5, 1994: Kawasaki, Japan: Kawasaki Stadium: 52,000 Atsushi Onita vs. Genichiro Tenryu in an Exploding Barbed Wire Cage Deathmatch [74] NJPW: Wrestling World 2001 January 4, 2001: Tokyo, Japan: Tokyo Dome: 52,000
Royal Rumble is an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event, produced every January by WWE since 1988. The event's main featured match is a battle royal -type match, also titled the Royal Rumble.
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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)