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The 2018 Royal Rumble was the 31st annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions .
On March 5, 2018, WWE and the Saudi General Sports Authority advertised a live event titled the Greatest Royal Rumble to be held on April 27, 2018, at the King Abdullah International Stadium, part of the King Abdullah Sports City, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The 2018 Royal Rumble PPV was the first to include a women's Royal Rumble match, [10] contested under the same rules as the men's match, including having 30 participants. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] "Stone Cold" Steve Austin holds the record for most Royal Rumble match wins with three [ 8 ]
The event was held at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida.. 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". [1]
The event aired exclusively on the WWE Network and took place on January 27, 2018, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as part of that year's Royal Rumble weekend. Five matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Andrade "Cien" Almas defeated Johnny Gargano to retain the NXT Championship.
On April 16, 2018, Kanellis was moved to the Raw brand as part of the Superstar Shake-up. [94] [95] At the Greatest Royal Rumble on April 28, Kanellis competed in the 50-man Royal Rumble match, but was quickly eliminated by Mark Henry after only three seconds. [96] During his time on Raw, he did not win a match on their weekly show. [97]
Also in early 2018, WWE began a 10-year strategic multiplatform partnership with the General Sports Authority in support of Saudi Vision 2030, Saudi Arabia's social and economic reform program. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The first PPV and WWE Network event under this partnership, the Greatest Royal Rumble , was held at the King Abdullah Sports City 's King ...
No Holds Barred: The Match/The Movie was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). The program aired on December 27, 1989, and consisted of the film No Holds Barred in its entirety, followed by a match previously recorded at a Wrestling Challenge taping on December 12 at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.