Episode 2461
Royal Rumble (2024)
Sun, 2024-Jan-28 07:35 UTC
Length - 4:01
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The 2024 Royal Rumble was a professional wrestling event produced by WWE. It was the 37th annual Royal Rumble event and took place on January 27, 2024, at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. The event was broadcast via pay-per-view and livestreaming, and featured wrestlers from WWE's Raw, SmackDown, and NXT brand divisions.
This was 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 event was held without an audience under the ThunderDome setup due to the COVID-19 pandemic that year, this was 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. For the 2024 event, the respective men's and women's winners received a choice of which championship to challenge for at WrestleMania XL. The men's winner could choose to challenge for either Raw's World Heavyweight Championship or SmackDown's Undisputed WWE Universal Championship, while the women's winner had 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 30th entrant. In the men's Royal Rumble, which was contested in the main event, 15th entrant Cody Rhodes won by last eliminating CM Punk, the 27th entrant. This made Rhodes the first wrestler since "Stone Cold" Steve Austin in 1998 to win back-to-back Royal Rumble matches, and fourth overall, after Austin (1997 and 1998), Shawn Michaels (1995 and 1996), and Hulk Hogan (1990 and 1991), and subsequently the 10th wrestler to win two Royal Rumble matches overall.
The event marked the WWE in-ring debut of Jade Cargill, who signed with the company in September 2023. It was also notable for an appearance by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling Knockouts World Champion Jordynne Grace, as well as the returns of Naomi, Liv Morgan, Andrade, and Sami Zayn. This was also CM Punk's first WWE televised match since the 2014 Royal Rumble.
In addition to the two Royal Rumble matches, two other matches were contested on the card, which were for SmackDown championships. In the first, Roman Reigns retained the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship in a fatal four-way match against Randy Orton, LA Knight, and AJ Styles, while Logan Paul defeated Kevin Owens by disqualification to retain the WWE United States Championship.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 07:35 UTC on Sunday, 28 January 2024.
For the full current version of the article, see Royal Rumble (2024) on Wikipedia.
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