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Royal Rumble (2012)
Promotional poster featuring Santino Marella.
PromotionWWE
DateJanuary 29, 2012
CitySt. Louis, Missouri
VenueScottrade Center
Attendance18,121
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Royal Rumble (2012) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE, which took place on January 29, 2012 at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri.[2][3] It was the 25th annual Royal Rumble event.[3]

Background

See also: Professional wrestling

Royal Rumble featured professional wrestling matches which involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that played out on WWE's television programs. Wrestlers portrayed villains or heroes as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[4]

The main event from Raw featured CM Punk defending his WWE Championship against Dolph Ziggler. On the December 26, 2011 episode of Raw, Punk was put into a gauntlet match by Interim Raw General Manager John Laurinaitis,[5] with the stiplulation that if either one of Jack Swagger, Ziggler, or Mark Henry defeated Punk, they would receive a championship match against the latter the next week.[5] Ziggler won the match after Punk was distracted by Laurinaitis throwing out Vickie Guerrero and Swagger from ringside. The next week, during the title match, Punk was counted out as a result of another intervention from Laurinaitis. However, since titles cannot change hands via countout, Punk retained the championship.[6] After the match, Laurinaitis announced that Punk would defend his championship against Ziggler in a rematch at the Royal Rumble, with himself acting as the special guest referee. Then on the January 9, 2012 edition of Raw, Punk faced Swagger in a singles match, Laurinaitis added a stipulation that if Swagger lost, he and Vickie Guerrero would be banned from ringside at the pay-per-view; Punk won the match, and thus, Guerrero and Swagger are banned from ringside during the championship match. Additionally, a week later on the January 16 episode of Raw, in a segment with Mick Foley, Laurinaitis revealed that he was using this opportunity to cost Punk his title for disrespecting him.

Another match heading into the Royal Rumble from Raw featured John Cena against Kane. Upon returning to the WWE on the December 12 edition of Raw, after an absence of nearly four months, Kane interrupted Cena's match against Mark Henry, and though it was ironically Henry who put him out of action, he bypassed him and attacked Cena, chokeslamming him before revealing his new mask. While demanding an explanation for these events the next week on Raw, Cena was again attacked by Kane, who revealed in the next several weeks of his desire to have Cena "embrace the hate" (his current on-screen character and t-shirt promoting otherwise) within caused by the anti-Cena crowd who continued to boo him. When Cena dismissed any intentions of doing so, Kane not only continued his attacks on Cena, but began to direct his attention to his close friend Zack Ryder, assaulting him as well, to the point of injuring him (kayfabe), ultimately leading to Ryder losing his United States Championship to Jack Swagger on the January 16, 2012 episode of Raw, under orders from John Laurinaitis. The same night, Laurinaitis put Cena in a one-on-one match against Kane at the Royal Rumble, in addition to booking Cena in a match against Swagger. Before the match even officially started, Cena started to attack Swagger aggressively to avenge Ryder's loss, prompting Kane to appear on the TitanTron and congratulate him to have started "embracing his hate". On the January 23 episode of Raw, during a Falls Count Anywhere match (in which Lauranaitis had prevented Cena from interfering, on the pretext of never granting Ryder a rematch for the United States Championship if he did so), Kane chokeslammed Ryder through the entrance stage, incapacitating him. As Ryder was stretchered and taken away in an ambulance, Eve Torres (Ryder's storyline girlfriend) blamed Cena for Ryder's injuries, leading to Cena knocking the microphone out of interviewer Josh Mathews' hand in frustration, and donning a very aggressive look in response to this entire situation[7].

The main event from SmackDown involved Daniel Bryan defending his World Heavyweight Championship in a Triple Threat Steel Cage match against Big Show and Mark Henry. In December 2011, at TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs, after Big Show defeated Henry in a Chairs match to win the World Heavyweight Championship for the first time, Bryan immediately cashed in his Money in the Bank contract to defeat Big Show, after a post-match attack on the latter by Henry. Using his rematch clause, Big Show faced off against Bryan on SmackDown, only for the champion to agitate Henry at ringside, who pushed Bryan, thus ending up losing via disqualification but retaining his title. The following week on SmackDown, Bryan defended his title against Big Show again, this time in a No Disqualification, No Count-Out match, which ended in a no contest, when Big Show accidently ran into and injured Bryan's storyline girlfriend, AJ. The next week on SmackDown, Henry finally enacted his rematch clause against Bryan in a lumberjack match; however, that match also ended up as a no contest, when the lumberjacks became too hostile because of how Bryan had agitated them, and the post-match scenario erupted into a large brawl involving nearly everyone. This forced SmackDown's General Manager Theodore Long to officially book Bryan, Big Show and Henry in a Triple Threat Steel Cage match for the World Heavyweight Championship at the Royal Rumble.[8]

As per tradition, the event was highlighted by the over-the-top-rope elimination Royal Rumble match, which featured the traditional thirty entrants, a year after having a forty man field, the largest in the history of the event. The winner would receive his choice of either a World Heavyweight or a WWE Championship match at WrestleMania XXVIII.[9]

Matches

# Match Stipulations Time[10]
Dark Yoshi Tatsu defeated Heath Slater [11] Singles match 4:00[12]
1 Daniel Bryan (c) defeated Mark Henry and Big Show [13] Triple Threat Steel Cage match for the World Heavyweight Championship 9:08
2 The Divas of Doom (Beth Phoenix and Natalya) and The Bella Twins defeated Kelly Kelly, Eve Torres, Alicia Fox, and Tamina[14] Eight-Diva tag team match 5:29
3 John Cena fought Kane to a double countout[15] Singles match 10:56
4 Brodus Clay (with Cameron and Naomi) defeated Drew McIntyre[16] Singles match 1:05
5 CM Punk (c) defeated Dolph Ziggler[17] Singles match for the WWE Championship with John Laurinaitis as special guest referee. Vickie Guerrero and Jack Swagger were banned from ringside. 14:32
6 Sheamus won the 30-Man Royal Rumble match, last eliminating Chris Jericho[18] Winner receives his choice of a WWE Championship or World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania XXVIII 54:54
(c) – refers to the champion heading into the match

Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations

Red ██ and "Raw" indicates a Raw wrestler, blue ██ and "SD" indicates a SmackDown wrestler, and beige ██ and "Legend" indicates a special guest entrant[19]

Draw Entrant Brand Order Eliminated by Time
1 The Miz Raw 25 Big Show 45:40
2 Alex Riley Raw 1 Miz 1:15
3 R-Truth Raw 2 Miz 4:58
4 Cody Rhodes SD 24 Big Show 41:57
5 Justin Gabriel SD 4 Foley and Rodriguez 6:11
6 Primo Raw 3 Foley 1:56
7 Mick Foley Legend 8 Rhodes 6:32
8 Ricardo Rodriguez Raw 5 Marella 2:18
9 Santino Marella Raw 7 Rhodes 2:30
10 Epico Raw 6 Foley 0:11
11 Kofi Kingston Raw 18 Sheamus 17:57
12 Jerry Lawler Raw 9 Rhodes 0:43
13 Ezekiel Jackson SD 11 Khali 3:46
14 Jinder Mahal SD 10 Khali 1:18
15 The Great Khali SD 14 Rhodes and Ziggler 7:31
16 Hunico SD 16 Kharma 9:03
17 Booker T SD 13 Rhodes and Ziggler 4:42
18 Dolph Ziggler Raw 26 Big Show 19:48
19 Jim Duggan Legend 12 Rhodes 0:57
20 Michael Cole Raw 15 Booker T and Lawler 1:24
21 Kharma Raw 17 Ziggler 1:00
22 Sheamus SD - WINNER 22:20
23 Road Dogg Legend 19 Barrett 4:56
24 Jey Uso SD 20 Orton 7:03
25 Jack Swagger Raw 23 Big Show 7:59
26 Wade Barrett SD 21 Orton 3:55
27 David Otunga Raw 22 Jericho 3:15
28 Randy Orton SD 28 Jericho 5:46
29 Chris Jericho Raw 29 Sheamus 11:34
30 Big Show SD 27 Orton 1:52

References

  1. ^ WWE Music Group Tweet on Twitter
  2. ^ "WWE presents Royal Rumble, 01-29-2012". WWE. 2011-12-11. Retrieved 2011-12-11.
  3. ^ a b "Scottrade Center Events: WWE Royal Rumble". Scottrade Center. 2011-12-11. Retrieved 2011-12-11.
  4. ^ "WWE Corporate – Live & Televised Entertainment". WWE. Retrieved 2011-12-29.
  5. ^ a b Murphy, Ryan (December 26, 2011). "WWE Raw SuperShow results: Kane rises to hate". WWE. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
  6. ^ Medalis, Kara A. (January 2, 2012). "WWE Raw SuperShow results: Kane's hateful torment continues". WWE. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
  7. ^ http://www.wwe.com/shows/royalrumble/2012/john-cena-kane
  8. ^ http://www.wwe.com/shows/royalrumble/2012/Bryan-Big-Show-Henry-Royal-Rumble-Match-Preview
  9. ^ http://www.wwe.com/shows/royalrumble/2012/royal-rumble-match
  10. ^ Caldwell, James. "Caldwell's WWE Royal Rumble report 1/29: Ongoing "virtual time" coverage of live PPV - Rumble match, Punk-Ziggler, Cena-Kane, steel cage". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
  11. ^ "WWE News: 2012 Royal Rumble dark match result". Prowrestling.net. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
  12. ^ Tucker, Benjamin. "WWE News: Royal Rumble PPV - Dark Match result, pre-PPV notes from St. Louis". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
  13. ^ Bobby Melok (January 30, 2012). "World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan def. Big Show and Mark Henry (Triple Threat Steel Cage Match)". WWE. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
  14. ^ Matthew Artus (January 30, 2012). "Divas Champion Beth Phoenix, Natalya & The Bella Twins def. Eve, Kelly Kelly, Alicia Fox & Tamina". WWE. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
  15. ^ Mitch Passero (January 30, 2012). "John Cena vs. Kane (Double Count-Out)". WWE. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
  16. ^ Anthony Benigno (January 30, 2012). "Brodus Clay def. Drew McIntyre". WWE. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
  17. ^ Kevin Powers (January 30, 2012). "WWE Champion CM Punk def. Dolph Ziggler (Special Guest Referee John Laurinaitis)". WWE. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
  18. ^ Ryan Murphy (January 30, 2012). "Sheamus won the 30-Man Royal Rumble Match". WWE. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
  19. ^ Ryan Murphy (January 30, 2012). list of Rumble participants "Sheamus won the 30-Man Royal Rumble Match". WWE. Retrieved January 30, 2012. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)

See also

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