Royal Rumble (2014)
Royal Rumble (2014) was a wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) made by WWE. It happened on January 26, 2014. It was performed at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the twenty-seventh time a Royal Rumble was held and the first to be held in Pittsburgh.
Five matches were performed at the event. The most important match was the Royal Rumble match. Batista won it by last eliminating Roman Reigns and Roman eliminate 12 men which broke Kane's record for most eliminations in one match from 2001. Alexander Rusev also wrestled in WWE for the first time in the Royal Rumble match.
Results[change | change source]
- On the pre-show, the New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn) beat Cody Rhodes and Goldust (champions) in Tag team match for the WWE Tag Team Championship
- Daniel Bryan beat Bray Wyatt
- Brock Lesnar (with Paul Heyman) beat Big Show
- Randy Orton (champion) beat John Cena for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship
- Batista won the Royal Rumble for a WWE World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania XXX by last eliminating Roman Reigns
Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations[change | change source]
| Draw | Entrants | Order | Eliminated by | Time | Eliminations |
| 1 | CM Punk | 27 | Kane (Kane was already eliminated when he returned to eliminate Punk later in the match) | 49:11 | 3 |
| 2 | Seth Rollins | 25 | Roman Reigns | 48:37 | 3 |
| 3 | Damien Sandow | 1 | CM Punk | 02:17 | 0 |
| 4 | Cody Rhodes | 11 | Goldust | 21:01 | 1 |
| 5 | Kane | 2 | CM Punk | 01:10 | 1 |
| 6 | Alexander Rusev | 3 | CM Punk, Cody Rhodes, Kofi Kingston and Seth Rollins | 07:06 | 0 |
| 7 | Jack Swagger | 6 | Kevin Nash | 12:24 | 0 |
| 8 | Kofi Kingston | 7 | Roman Reigns | 12:42 | 1 |
| 9 | Jimmy Uso | 5 | Dean Ambrose | 07:53 | 0 |
| 10 | Goldust | 12 | Roman Reigns | 12:00 | 1 |
| 11 | Dean Ambrose | 26 | Roman Reigns | 33:41 | 3 |
| 12 | Dolph Ziggler | 8 | Roman Reigns | 06:09 | 0 |
| 13 | R-Truth | 4 | Dean Ambrose | 00:28 | 0 |
| 14 | Kevin Nash | 9 | Roman Reigns | 02:36 | 1 |
| 15 | Roman Reigns | 29 | Batista | 33:51 | 12 |
| 16 | The Great Khali | 10 | Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose | 00:24 | 0 |
| 17 | Sheamus | 28 | Roman Reigns | 28:22 | 1 |
| 18 | The Miz | 16 | Luke Harper | 12:09 | 0 |
| 19 | Fandango | 13 | El Torito | 03:02 | 0 |
| 20 | El Torito | 14 | Roman Reigns | 01:41 | 1 |
| 21 | Antonio Cesaro | 24 | Roman Reigns | 16:57 | 0 |
| 22 | Luke Harper | 23 | Roman Reigns | 15:22 | 2 |
| 23 | Jey Uso | 17 | Luke Harper | 04:32 | 0 |
| 24 | John ''Bradshaw'' Layfield | 15 | Roman Reigns | 00:49 | 0 |
| 25 | Erick Rowan | 18 | Batista | 05:05 | 0 |
| 26 | Ryback | 19 | Batista | 04:01 | 0 |
| 27 | Alberto Del Rio | 20 | Batista | 03:00 | 0 |
| 28 | Batista | - | WINNER | 14:34 | 4 |
| 29 | Big E Langston | 21 | Sheamus | 02:49 | 0 |
| 30 | Rey Mysterio | 22 | Seth Rollins | 02:10 | 0 |