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The 2020 Royal Rumble was a professional wrestling event produced by WWE. It was the 33rd annual Royal Rumble and took place on January 26, 2020, at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas. The event aired via pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming and featured wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions.
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]
At Survivor Series, Ziggler and Roode won a 10-team Interbrand Tag Team Battle Royal. [6] In the following weeks, they aligned themselves with King Corbin during his feud against Roman Reigns. [7] On January 26, 2020, at the Royal Rumble, Roode entered the Royal Rumble match at number 4, but was eliminated by Brock Lesnar.
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 ...
Rated-RKO was a villainous professional wrestling tag team in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) consisting of Edge and Randy Orton, with Lita as their manager for a short while. The team's name was created by combining Edge's nickname, "The Rated-R Superstar", [ 1 ] with Orton's initials, RKO, which is also the name of his finishing move .
At the Royal Rumble on January 26, 2020, Blackheart entered her first Royal Rumble match at #26 before being eliminated by Baszler. [20] On the June 17 episode of NXT, Blackheart and Tegan Nox challenged Bayley and Sasha Banks for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship, which they were unsuccessful in winning. [21]
A third Super ShowDown, and subsequently the fifth event in the Saudi Arabian partnership, was officially announced during the 2020 Royal Rumble. It was scheduled to be held at the Mohammed Abdu Arena on the Boulevard in Riyadh on February 27, 2020, and feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. [4]