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The 2008 Royal Rumble was the 21st 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 27, 2008, at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York.
The episode comprised interviews of various WWE wrestlers, a weather report from John "Bradshaw" Layfield, plus a re-airing of the WWE Championship triple threat match and the Royal Rumble match from the night before. [52] [53] King of the Ring: April 27, 2015 () Green Bay, Wisconsin: Resch Center: 3.76/1.2 share [54]
On New Year's Eve, Triple H was scheduled to face Ric Flair in which Flair's win or retire ultimatum was still active. Regal announced that if Triple H lost the match in any way, he would not participate in the Royal Rumble match at the 2008 Royal Rumble. This was to give Triple H a reason to want to win the match rather than avoid ending the ...
The event was held at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas.. The Royal Rumble is an annual professional wrestling 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, dubbed the "Big Four". [2]
A match between the two was then booked for the Royal Rumble. [27] Royal Rumble Qualification Matches. Booker T and Charlie Haas defeated Luther Reigns and Mark Jindrak - Smackdown house show, January 9; Shelton Benjamin defeated Maven - Raw, January 10; Edge defeated Rhyno - Raw, January 10; Scotty 2 Hotty defeated Akio - Smackdown, January 18
The Royal Rumble match generally features 30 wrestlers and the winner traditionally earns a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] For 2007, the winner could choose to challenge for either Raw's WWE Championship , SmackDown!'s World Heavyweight Championship , or the ECW World Championship at WrestleMania 23 .
At the Royal Rumble, Edge retained the title after his on-screen lover, SmackDown general manager Vickie Guerrero, interfered by receiving an attack for Edge by Mysterio. [11] On the February 1 episode of SmackDown, Theodore Long, who was acting as the General Manager due to Guerrero's scripted injury, assigned a rematch between the two at No ...
The 2011 event was the 24th event in the Royal Rumble chronology and was scheduled to be held on January 30, 2011, at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. It featured wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brands. [1] The Royal Rumble match generally features 30 wrestlers, but for 2011, the match was instead scheduled to have 40 participants.