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Revision as of 02:34, 28 January 2024
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 Promotional poster featuring various WWE wrestlers | |||
| Promotion | WWE | ||
| Brand(s) | Raw SmackDown NXT | ||
| Date | January 27, 2024 | ||
| City | St. Petersburg, Florida | ||
| Venue | Tropicana Field | ||
| WWE Network event chronology | |||
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The 2024 Royal Rumble is an ongoing professional wrestling event produced by WWE. It is the 37th annual Royal Rumble event, which takes place on January 27, 2024, at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. The event is broadcast via pay-per-view and livestreaming, and features wrestlers from WWE's Raw, SmackDown, and NXT brand divisions.
This is the third Royal Rumble held in the Tampa Bay area (following the 1995 and 2021 events), and the second at Tropicana Field. As the 2021 show was held without an audience under the ThunderDome setup due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this is the first Royal Rumble at Tropicana Field to have live fans in attendance.
The event is based around the Royal Rumble match, and the winner traditionally receives a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania. The 2024 event is the seventh to feature both a men's and women's Rumble match, and the respective winners receive a choice of which championship to challenge for at WrestleMania XL. The men's winner can choose to challenge for either Raw's World Heavyweight Championship or SmackDown's Undisputed WWE Universal Championship, while the women's winner has the choice between Raw's Women's World Championship and SmackDown's WWE Women's Championship. In the women's Royal Rumble, Bayley, the third entrant, won by last eliminating Liv Morgan, the thirtieth entrant.
The event marked the in-ring debut of Jade Cargill since signing with the WWE. The event was also notable for the returns of Naomi and Liv Morgan in the Women's Rumble Match.
Production
Background
The Royal Rumble is an annual professional wrestling scripted event produced every January by WWE since 1988. It is one of the promotion's five biggest events of the year, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, Survivor Series, and Money in the Bank, referred to as the "Big Five".[1][2] The concept of the event is based around 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.[3][4]
Announced on September 13, 2023, the 37th Royal Rumble is scheduled to be held on Saturday, January 27, 2024, at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida and will feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions.[5] This will be the second Royal Rumble to be held at Tropicana Field after the 2021 event, but the first with live fans in attendance as the 2021 event was produced without fans via the WWE ThunderDome due to the COVID-19 pandemic that year.[6] This in turn marks the first Royal Rumble to be held in the Tampa Bay area with fans in attendance since the 1995 event. In addition to airing on pay-per-view worldwide, it will be available to livestream on Peacock in the United States and the WWE Network in most international markets.[5] Tickets went on sale on October 20, 2023, with premium hospitality packages also available.[7]
The Royal Rumble match generally features 30 wrestlers and the winner traditionally earns a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania. For 2024, the men and women can choose which world championship to challenge for at WrestleMania XL; the men can choose Raw's World Heavyweight Championship or SmackDown's Undisputed WWE Universal Championship, while the women have the choice between Raw's Women's World Championship and SmackDown's WWE Women's Championship.[3][4]
Storylines
The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands,[8][9] while storylines are performed on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.[10]
Before he went on hiatus in May 2022 due to a back injury, Randy Orton had been feuding with The Bloodline (Roman Reigns, Jey Uso, and Jimmy Uso).[11] The following year at Crown Jewel in November 2023, Reigns defeated LA Knight to retain the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship after interference from the Bloodline.[12] On the following episode of SmackDown, Knight stated that he was not done with the Bloodline until he defeated Reigns for the title.[13] Orton then returned at Survivor Series: WarGames later that same month,[14] and on the December 1 episode of SmackDown, he signed with the SmackDown brand after fending off an attack by the Bloodline (which had since added Solo Sikoa, while Jey had left the group and the SmackDown brand earlier that summer), vowing to get revenge.[15] Two weeks later, the returning AJ Styles helped Knight and Orton fend off the Bloodline before attacking Knight.[16] The following week, Styles explained that he attacked Knight for taking his spot in a tag team match at Fastlane in October 2023. After Orton interrupted and said that he also wanted a title match against Reigns, SmackDown General Manager Nick Aldis announced that Orton, Styles, and Knight would compete in a triple threat match at SmackDown: New Year's Revolution on January 5, 2024, where the winner would face Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship at the Royal Rumble.[17] However, the match ended in a no contest after the Bloodline attacked all three competitors. As a result, Aldis announced that Reigns would instead defend his championship in a fatal four-way match against Orton, Knight, and Styles at the Royal Rumble.[18]
At Crown Jewel on November 4, 2023, Logan Paul won his first WWE title, the United States Championship.[12] Paul made his first appearance as champion on the December 1 episode of SmackDown where he announced that his first challenger would be determined by a 8-man tournament.[15] The tournament was won by Kevin Owens at SmackDown: New Year's Revolution on January 5, 2024, thus earning him a match against Paul for the title at the Royal Rumble.[18]
Event
| Role: | Name: |
|---|---|
| English commentators | Michael Cole |
| Corey Graves | |
| Pat McAfee | |
| Spanish commentators | Marcelo Rodriguez |
| Jerry Soto | |
| Ring announcers | Mike Rome (SmackDown/Men's Royal Rumble match) |
| Samantha Irvin (Raw/Women's Royal Rumble match) | |
| Referees | Danilo Anfibio |
| Jessika Carr | |
| Eddie Orengo | |
| Interviewer | Kayla Braxton |
| Pre-show panel | Jackie Redmond |
| Peter Rosenberg | |
| Booker T | |
| Wade Barrett |
Preliminary matches
Main event
Results
| No. | Matches* | Stipulations | Times[23] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bayley won by last eliminating Liv Morgan | 30-woman Royal Rumble match for a women's championship match at WrestleMania XL[19] | 1:05:00 | ||||
| 2 | Roman Reigns (c) (with Paul Heyman) vs. Randy Orton vs. AJ Styles vs. LA Knight | Fatal four-way match for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship[20] | — | ||||
| 3 | Logan Paul (c) vs. Kevin Owens | Singles match for the WWE United States Championship[21] | — | ||||
| 4 | Men’s Royal Rumble match | 30-man Royal Rumble match for a world championship match at WrestleMania XL[22] | — | ||||
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Announced competitors
Men's Royal Rumble match
21 out of the 30 entrants have been announced as of 27 January 2024[update].
| Wrestler[24] | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Cody Rhodes | November 27, 2023 | Announced on Raw |
| CM Punk | December 11, 2023 | |
| Shinsuke Nakamura | January 4, 2024 | Announced on WWE 2024 Preview Special |
| Bobby Lashley | January 5, 2024 | Announced on SmackDown: New Year's Revolution |
| Drew McIntyre | January 8, 2024 | Announced on Raw |
| Gunther | January 15, 2024 | |
| Chad Gable | January 20, 2024 | Announced on WWE's YouTube |
| Otis | ||
| Akira Tozawa | ||
| Kofi Kingston | January 22, 2024 | Announced on Raw |
| Damian Priest | ||
| Santos Escobar | January 26, 2024 | Announced on SmackDown |
| R-Truth | January 26, 2024 | Announced on SmackDown |
| Carlito | January 26, 2024 | Announced on WWE's YouTube |
| Grayson Waller | ||
| Austin Theory | ||
| Jimmy Uso | Announced on SmackDown | |
| "Dirty" Dominik Mysterio | January 27, 2024 | Announced on WWE's X |
| Finn Bálor | ||
| JD McDonagh | ||
| Ivar | Announced on WWE's YouTube |
Women's Royal Rumble match entrances and eliminations
| Draw | Entrant | Brand/Status | Order | Eliminated by | Time | Elimination(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Natalya | Raw | 3 | Tegan Nox | 0 | |
| 2 | Naomi | Unaffiliated | 25 | Jade Cargill | 1:02:10 | 2 |
| 3 | Bayley | SmackDown | — | Winner | 1:03:03 | 7 |
| 4 | Candice LeRae | Raw | 2 | Bayley, Asuka, & Kairi Sane | 0 | |
| 5 | Jordynne Grace | TNA | 7 | Bianca Belair | 0 | |
| 6 | Indi Hartwell | Raw | 1 | Bayley | 0 | |
| 7 | Asuka | SmackDown | 6 | Katana Chance & Kayden Carter | 2 | |
| 8 | Ivy Nile | Raw | 10 | Nia Jax | 0 | |
| 9 | Katana Chance | Raw | 13 | Nia Jax | 1 | |
| 10 | Bianca Belair | SmackDown | 26 | Bayley | 1 | |
| 11 | Kairi Sane | SmackDown | 5 | Asuka | 1 | |
| 12 | Tegan Nox | Raw | 4 | Bayley | 1 | |
| 13 | Kayden Carter | Raw | 8 | Piper Niven | 1 | |
| 14 | Chelsea Green | Raw | 14 | Becky Lynch | 0 | |
| 15 | Piper Niven | Raw | 12 | Nia Jax | 1 | |
| 16 | Xia Li | Raw | 9 | Nia Jax | 0 | |
| 17 | Zelina Vega | SmackDown | 17 | Shayna Baszler & Zoey Stark | 0 | |
| 18 | Maxxine Dupri | Raw | 11 | Bayley | 0 | |
| 19 | Nia Jax | Raw | 21 | Jade Cargill | 8 | |
| 20 | Shotzi | SmackDown | 20 | Nia Jax | 0 | |
| 21 | Becky Lynch | Raw | 24 | Naomi | 1 | |
| 22 | Alba Fyre | SmackDown | 16 | Naomi | 0 | |
| 23 | Shayna Baszler | Raw | 18 | Nia Jax | 1 | |
| 24 | Valhalla | Raw | 15 | Nia Jax | 00:05 | 0 |
| 25 | Michin | SmackDown | 19 | Nia Jax | 0 | |
| 26 | Zoey Stark | Raw | 22 | Liv Morgan | 1 | |
| 27 | Roxanne Perez | NXT | 23 | Tiffany Stratton | 0 | |
| 28 | Jade Cargill | Unaffiliated | 28 | Liv Morgan | 2 | |
| 29 | Tiffany Stratton | NXT | 27 | Bayley | 1 | |
| 30 | Liv Morgan | Raw | 29 | Bayley | 2 |
WWE United States Championship #1 Contender Tournament
| First round SmackDown December 8–15, 2023 | Semifinals SmackDown December 15, 2023 (aired December 22) | Final SmackDown: New Year's Revolution January 5, 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Dragon Lee | 9:09[25] | |||||||||||||
| Santos Escobar | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Santos Escobar | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Bobby Lashley | 8:44[17] | |||||||||||||
| Bobby Lashley | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Karrion Kross | 9:46[25] | |||||||||||||
| Santos Escobar | 16:35[18] | |||||||||||||
| Kevin Owens | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Carmelo Hayes | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Grayson Waller | 10:23[16] | |||||||||||||
| Carmelo Hayes | 10:04[17] | |||||||||||||
| Kevin Owens | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Austin Theory | 13:32[16] | |||||||||||||
| Kevin Owens | Pin | |||||||||||||
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