Royal Rumble 2014 2014-01-26

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Royal Rumble 2014

Date
Sun 26th January 2014 (UTC)

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19:00:00 UTC

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WWE

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2014

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Royal Rumble (2014) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE and presented by Jackson Hewitt which took place on January 26, 2014 at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the twenty-seventh annual Royal Rumble and the first WWE pay-per-view in 2014.

As is tradition at this yearly event, the card was highlighted by the 30-man Royal Rumble match - a battle royal with wrestlers entering at 90 second intervals. 20 wrestlers were officially advertised for the match where the winner would receive a WWE World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania XXX. On the final episode of Raw before the Rumble on January 20, Batista returned to WWE after an absence of nearly four years, and the Rumble was scheduled to be his first return match. On the same episode, Director of Operations Kane announced that CM Punk would be the first entrant in the match. The remaining 18 wrestlers advertised were Alberto Del Rio, Rey Mysterio, Tag Team Champions Goldust and Cody Rhodes; Intercontinental Champion Big E Langston, Kofi Kingston, The Miz, R-Truth, Xavier Woods (who eventually did not participate), Fandango, United States Champion Dean Ambrose and his Shield team-mates Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns; The Wyatt Family's Luke Harper and Erick Rowan; Damien Sandow and The Usos (Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso); Bad News Barrett was originally advertised but later removed from advertisements.

Another highly promoted match featured WWE World Heavyweight Champion Randy Orton defending the title against long-time adversary John Cena. At the TLC pay-per-view in December 2013, WWE Champion Orton defeated World Heavyweight Champion Cena to unify the titles and become the first WWE World Heavyweight Champion. On the December 30 episode of Raw, Cena was awarded a rematch for the title against Orton at the Rumble, with the match stipulation of a traditional one-on-one singles match, except that it could be won by pinfall or submission only. On the January 13 episode of Raw, Orton suffered an upset loss to Kofi Kingston and took out his frustrations by attacking Cena's father, who was attending the event at ringside.

On the January 6 episode of Raw, Brock Lesnar fended off an attack by Mark Henry and was then attacked by Big Show. On the January 10 episode of SmackDown, Big Show issued a challenge to Lesnar, with Lesnar's manager Paul Heyman accepting on behalf of Lesnar and scheduling the match for the Royal Rumble event.

Announced on WWE.com, Goldust and Cody Rhodes faced The New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn) for the WWE Tag Team Championship on the Royal Rumble Kickoff Show preceding the pay-per-view. This match was made when The New Age Outlaws defeated Cody Rhodes and Goldust in a non-title match on the January 17 episode of SmackDown due to a distraction from Vickie Guerrero.

On January 20 episode of Raw, it was announced that Daniel Bryan would face Bray Wyatt at the Royal Rumble. Bryan and The Wyatt Family had been feuding since October 2013. On the December 30, 2013 episode of Raw, a seemingly beaten-down Bryan announced he would join the Wyatt Family. However, on the January 13, 2014 episode of Raw (after Bryan and Bray Wyatt were defeated by The Usos in a steel cage match), Bryan betrayed Wyatt and attacked him, culminating with Bryan hitting his flying knee finishing maneuver on Wyatt. The following week on Raw Bryan explained that his joining the Wyatts was a ruse to infiltrate the stable and bide his time to strike, and that he would wrestle Wyatt at the Royal Rumble event.

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Result List

Result Description
Singles Match
Bray Wyatt (w/Erick Rowan & Luke Harper) defeats Daniel Bryan (21:35)

Singles Match
Brock Lesnar (w/Paul Heyman) defeats The Big Show (2:02)

WWE World Heavyweight Title Match
Randy Orton (c) defeats John Cena (20:54)

Royal Rumble Match
Batista defeats Alberto Del Rio and Alexander Rusev and Antonio Cesaro and Big E. Langston and CM Punk and Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow and Dean Ambrose and Dolph Ziggler and El Torito and Erick Rowan and Fandango and Goldust and Jack Swagger and Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso and John Bradshaw Layfield and Kane and Kevin Nash and Kofi Kingston and Luke Harper and R-Truth and Rey Mysterio and Roman Reigns and Ryback and Seth Rollins and Sheamus and The Great Khali and The Miz (55:05)
- CM Punk eliminated Damien Sandow
- CM Punk eliminated Kane
- CM Punk, Cody Rhodes, Kofi Kingston & Seth Rollins eliminated Alexander Rusev
- Dean Ambrose eliminated R-Truth
- Dean Ambrose eliminated Jimmy Uso
- Kevin Nash eliminated Jack Swagger
- Roman Reigns eliminated Kofi Kingston
- Roman Reigns eliminated Dolph Ziggler
- Roman Reigns eliminated Kevin Nash
- Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns & Seth Rollins eliminated The Great Khali
- Goldust eliminated Cody Rhodes
- Roman Reigns eliminated Goldust
- El Torito eliminated Fandango
- Roman Reigns eliminated El Torito
- Roman Reigns eliminated John Bradshaw Layfield
- Luke Harper eliminated The Miz
- Luke Harper eliminieren Jey Uso
- Batista eliminated Erick Rowan
- Batista eliminated Ryback
- Batista eliminated Alberto Del Rio
- Sheamus eliminated Big E. Langston
- Seth Rollins eliminated Rey Mysterio
- Roman Reigns eliminated Luke Harper
- Roman Reigns eliminated Antonio Cesaro
- Roman Reigns eliminated Seth Rollins
- Roman Reigns eliminated Dean Ambrose
- Kane eliminated CM Punk
- Roman Reigns eliminated Sheamus
- Batista eliminated Roman Reigns

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