Royal Rumble

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Royal Rumble
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WWE Royal Rumble logo
Created by Pat Patterson
Promotion WWE
Brands Raw (2003–2011, 2017–present)
SmackDown (2003–2011, 2017–present)
ECW (2007–2010)
205 Live (2019)
First event 1988
Signature match Royal Rumble match

Royal Rumble is a professional wrestling event, produced annually since 1988 by WWE, the world's largest professional wrestling promotion. It is named after the Royal Rumble match, a modified battle royal in which the participants enter at timed intervals instead of all beginning in the ring at the same time. After the inaugural 1988 event aired as a television special on the USA Network, the Royal Rumble has been broadcast via pay-per-view since the 1989 event and livestreaming since the 2015 event. From 1988 until 2024, it was held in late January, but will be held in early February in 2025. It is one of WWE's five biggest events of the year, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, Survivor Series, and Money in the Bank, referred to as the "Big Five".

Contents

The Royal Rumble match is generally held as the main event of the annual event. There are some exceptions, such as the 1988, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2006, 2013, and 2023 events. In 1988, the main event was a tag team match, while for all the others, it was a men's world championship match. While originally only for men, a women's version of the Royal Rumble match was held as the main event at the 2018 event, which was also the first event to have two Rumble matches on one card. It subsequently became standard to have both a men's and women's Royal Rumble match at the annual event.

History

Event

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] The following year, the event started to be broadcast on pay-per-view (PPV), [3] and thus became one of the "Big Four" annual PPVs, along with WrestleMania, Survivor Series, and SummerSlam, the promotion's then-four biggest shows of the year. [4] [5] From 1993 to 2002, it was considered one of the "Big Five", including King of the Ring, but that PPV event was discontinued after 2002 (although it to returned to PPV in 2024). [6] In August 2021, Money in the Bank became recognized as one of the "Big Five". [7] [8]

In May 2002, the WWF was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) following a lawsuit with the World Wildlife Fund over the "WWF" initialism. [9] In April 2011, the promotion ceased using its full name with the "WWE" abbreviation becoming an orphaned initialism. [10] Also in March 2002, the promotion introduced the brand extension, in which the roster was divided between the Raw and SmackDown brands where wrestlers were exclusively assigned to perform on their respective weekly television shows [11] —ECW became a third brand in 2006. [12] The first brand extension was dissolved in August 2011, [13] but it was reintroduced in July 2016 (other brands, including NXT, NXT UK, and 205 Live, would also be active during this second brand split). [14] The Royal Rumble, along with the other original "Big Four" events, were the only PPVs to never be held exclusively for one brand during either brand split periods. The 2008 Royal Rumble was the first WWE pay-per-view to be available in high-definition. [15] In 2015, the Royal Rumble began to air on WWE's online streaming service, the WWE Network, which launched in February 2014, [16] and in 2022, the event became available on Peacock as the American version of the WWE Network merged under Peacock in March 2021. [17]

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that began affecting the industry in March 2020, WWE had to hold its events behind closed doors. The 2021 event was in turn held in WWE's bio-secure bubble called the WWE ThunderDome, which at the time was hosted at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. [18] [19] WWE resumed live touring in July 2021 and the 2022 event was held at The Dome at America's Center in St. Louis, Missouri. [20]

From its inception in 1988 up through the 2024 event, the Royal Rumble was held annually in late January. On June 24, 2024, WWE announced a partnership with the Indiana Sports Corp which would see the 2025 Royal Rumble, as well as a future WrestleMania and a future SummerSlam, held at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. The date for the 2025 Royal Rumble was announced for February 1, thus marking the first Royal Rumble held outside of January. [21]

Due to the Rumble matches taking up a large amount of time (most Rumble matches last roughly one hour), the Rumble event tends to have a smaller card than most other pay-per-view events, which routinely have six to eight matches per card though with the Royal Rumble expanding to a five-hour show as well as a two-hour kickoff pre-show starting in 2018, the card then mainly featured anywhere from nine to twelve matches with two or three of those matches taking place on the kickoff show. In 2022, however, WWE phased out the pre-shows with the Rumble returning to around six matches on the card and a runtime of around three to four hours. The men's Royal Rumble match is usually located at the top of the card, though there have been exceptions, such as the 1988, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2006, 2013, 2018, and 2023 events. [22] In these cases, 1988's main event was a tag team match, while the others were men's world championship matches, except in 2018. The 2018 Royal Rumble was the first to include a women's Royal Rumble match, which was the main event for that year. It was subsequently the first in which two Rumble matches were contested on one card and it is now standard for the event to include both a men's and women's Rumble match. [23]

Match

The Royal Rumble match is based on the classic battle royal, in which a number of wrestlers (traditionally 30) aim at eliminating their competitors by tossing them over the top rope, with both feet touching the floor. The difference between a Royal Rumble and a standard battle royal is that in a standard battle royal, all participants start the match in the ring at the same time, where in a Royal Rumble match, two participants start and then the rest enter at timed intervals. [24] [25] The winner of the match is the last wrestler remaining after all others have been eliminated. Since the 1993 event, the prize for winning is a world championship match at WrestleMania, with the exception of the 2016 event, where the prize was the WWE Championship (at the time known as the WWE World Heavyweight Championship) as reigning champion Roman Reigns defended the title in the match. [24] [26] According to Hornswoggle, who worked for WWE from 2006 until 2016 and participated in two Rumbles, participants may learn their eliminations by knowing the two wrestlers who are eliminated before them and which wrestlers are entering the Royal Rumble before and after their elimination. [27]

Events and winners

#EventDateCityVenueWinnerRef.
MenNo.WomenNo.
1 1988 January 24, 1988 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Copps Coliseum Jim Duggan 13— [28] [29]
2 1989 January 15, 1989 Houston, Texas The Summit Big John Studd 27 [30] [31]
3 1990 January 21, 1990 Orlando, Florida Orlando Arena Hulk Hogan 25 [32] [33]
4 1991 January 19, 1991 Miami, Florida Miami Arena Hulk Hogan 24 [34] [35]
5 1992 January 19, 1992 Albany, New York Knickerbocker Arena Ric Flair 3 [36] [37]
6 1993 January 24, 1993 Sacramento, California ARCO Arena Yokozuna 27 [38] [39]
7 1994 January 22, 1994 Providence, Rhode Island Providence Civic Center Lex Luger 23 [40] [41]
Bret Hart 27
8 1995 January 22, 1995 Tampa, Florida USF Sun Dome Shawn Michaels 1 [42] [43]
9 1996 January 21, 1996 Fresno, California Selland Arena Shawn Michaels 18 [44] [45]
10 1997 January 19, 1997 San Antonio, Texas Alamodome Stone Cold Steve Austin 5 [46] [47]
11 1998 January 18, 1998 San Jose, California San Jose Arena Stone Cold Steve Austin 24 [48] [49] [50]
12 1999 January 24, 1999 Anaheim, California Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim Mr. McMahon 2 [51] [52] [53]
13 2000 January 23, 2000 New York City, New York Madison Square Garden The Rock 24 [54] [55] [56]
14 2001 January 21, 2001 New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans Arena Stone Cold Steve Austin 27 [57] [58] [59]
15 2002 January 20, 2002 Atlanta, Georgia Philips Arena Triple H 22 [60] [61] [62]
16 2003 January 19, 2003 Boston, Massachusetts FleetCenter Brock Lesnar 29 [63] [64]
17 2004 January 25, 2004 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wachovia Center Chris Benoit 1 [65] [66] [67]
18 2005 January 30, 2005 Fresno, California Save Mart Center Batista 28 [68] [69] [70]
19 2006 January 29, 2006 Miami, Florida American Airlines Arena Rey Mysterio 2 [71] [72] [73]
20 2007 January 28, 2007 San Antonio, Texas AT&T Center The Undertaker 30 [74] [75] [76]
21 2008 January 27, 2008 New York City, New York Madison Square Garden John Cena 30 [77] [78] [79]
22 2009 January 25, 2009 Detroit, Michigan Joe Louis Arena Randy Orton 8 [80] [81]
23 2010 January 31, 2010 Atlanta, Georgia Philips Arena Edge 29 [82] [83]
24 2011 January 30, 2011 Boston, Massachusetts TD Garden Alberto Del Rio 38 [84]
25 2012 January 29, 2012 St. Louis, Missouri Scottrade Center Sheamus 22 [85] [86] [87]
26 2013 January 27, 2013 Phoenix, Arizona US Airways Center John Cena 19 [88] [89]
27 2014 January 26, 2014 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Consol Energy Center Batista 28 [90] [91]
28 2015 January 25, 2015 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wells Fargo Center Roman Reigns 19 [92]
29 2016 January 24, 2016 Orlando, Florida Amway Center Triple H 30 [93] [94]
30 2017 January 29, 2017 San Antonio, Texas Alamodome Randy Orton 23 [95]
31 2018 January 28, 2018 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wells Fargo Center Shinsuke Nakamura 14 Asuka 25 [96] [97] [98]
32 2019 January 27, 2019 Phoenix, Arizona Chase Field Seth Rollins 10 Becky Lynch 28 [99]
33 2020 January 26, 2020 Houston, Texas Minute Maid Park Drew McIntyre 16 Charlotte Flair 17 [100]
34 2021 January 31, 2021 St. Petersburg, Florida WWE ThunderDome at Tropicana Field Edge 1 Bianca Belair 3 [101]
35 2022 January 29, 2022 St. Louis, Missouri The Dome at America's Center Brock Lesnar 30 Ronda Rousey 28 [102]
36 2023 January 28, 2023 San Antonio, Texas Alamodome Cody Rhodes 30 Rhea Ripley 1[ citation needed ]
37 2024 January 27, 2024 St. Petersburg, Florida Tropicana Field Cody Rhodes 15 Bayley 3 [103]
38 2025 February 1, 2025 Indianapolis, Indiana Lucas Oil Stadium [104]

Video box set

In March 2007, WWE released a complete DVD box set titled Royal Rumble: The Complete Anthology, which showcases every Royal Rumble event in its entirety, up to the 2007 Royal Rumble. [105]

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