Royal Rumble (2016) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It took place on January 24, 2016, at Amway Center in Orlando, Florida.[1] It was the 29th event in the Royal Rumble chronology. This was the fifth Royal Rumble to be held in the state of Florida (1990, 1991, 1995, and 2006) and the first pay-per-view event at Amway Center since it opened in 2010. This was the second Royal Rumble match that was contested for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, as the first was in 1992. This was the first match in which the defending champion was in the Rumble, as the Rumble in 1992 was for the championship when it was vacant.
Six matches were contested at the event, with one match contested on the pre-show. In the main event, the returning Triple H won the Royal Rumble match by eliminating Dean Ambrose to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, becoming the third person to win from entrant number 30 and the first since John Cena in 2008. The defending champion Roman Reigns was also eliminated by Triple H. The Royal Rumble match was also notable for the WWE pay-per-view debut of AJ Styles,[2][3][4] who made his first WWE appearance in 2002.
0 comments:
Post a Comment