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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]
The 2025 Royal Rumble will be held Saturday, Feb. 1, beginning at 3 p.m. ET. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Royal Rumble winners history: Full list of who won WWE event Show comments
22-man Royal Rumble 3 House show March 16, 1988 Hartford, Connecticut: Hartford Civic Center: Rick Rude [116] [117] 22-man Royal Rumble 4 House show January 17, 1994 New York City, New York: Madison Square Garden: Owen Hart [118] 30-man Royal Rumble 5 House show May 9, 1994 Osaka, Japan: Castle Hall: The Undertaker [118] 18-man Royal Rumble 6 ...
At Royal Rumble on 27 January 2013, McIntyre competed in the 30-man Royal Rumble match, but was eliminated by Chris Jericho. [70] On 12 April episode of SmackDown, in an attempt to make a name for themselves, 3MB tried to attack Triple H, but were attacked themselves by The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns). [71]
At Royal Rumble on January 24, 2016, The Miz competed in the 2016 Royal Rumble match, entering at number 25 and lasting nearly 9 minutes before being eliminated by Roman Reigns. [195] On April 3, at WrestleMania 32, The Miz wrestled in a seven-man ladder match for the Intercontinental Championship, which was won by Zack Ryder. [196]
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)
At the Royal Rumble on January 28, Edge competed in the 30-man Royal Rumble match where he lasted the longest in the match with a time of 44 minutes, eliminating 5 men and making it to the final 4 in the match before getting eliminated by Shawn Michaels. With Triple H out of action, the team continued their on-screen rivalry with remaining DX ...