Royal Rumble (2014)

Royal Rumble (2014) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) show made by WWE. It took place on January 26, 2014 at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the twenty-seventh Royal Rumble event held by WWE and the first to be held in Pittsburgh.

Royal Rumble (2014)
Information
Promotion	WWE
Date	January 26, 2014
Attendance	15,715[1]
Venue	Consol Energy Center
City	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pay-per-view chronology
TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (2013) Royal Rumble (2014) Elimination Chamber (2014)
Royal Rumble chronology
Royal Rumble (2013) Royal Rumble (2014) Royal Rumble (2015)

Five matches happened at the event. The most important match was the Royal Rumble match. Batista won it by last eliminating Roman Reigns. In the match, Reigns eliminated twelve men, which broke Kane's record for most eliminations in a Royal Rumble match. Alexander Rusev also made his WWE main roster debut in the match.

The match is also known for being CM Punk's last wrestling match before he walked out of WWE.^[2] Punk later returned to wrestling at AEW's The First Dance in August 2021,^[3] and finally made his return to WWE at Survivor Series: WarGames two years later in November.^[4]

Results

No.	Results	Stipulations	Times
1P	New Age Outlaws (Billy Gunn and Road Dogg) defeated Cody Rhodes and Goldust (c) by pinfall	Tag team match for the WWE Tag Team Championship[5]	6:58
2	Bray Wyatt (with Luke Harper and Erick Rowan) defeated Daniel Bryan by pinfall	Singles match[6]	21:35
3	Brock Lesnar (with Paul Heyman) defeated Big Show by pinfall	Singles match[7]	2:02
4	Randy Orton (c) defeated John Cena by pinfall	Singles match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship[8]	20:54
5	Batista won by last eliminating Roman Reigns	30-man Royal Rumble match for a WWE World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania XXX[9]	55:08
(c) – is the champion(s) going into the match P – This match took place on the pre-show

Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations

  – NXT
  – Winner

No.	Entrant	Order	Eliminated by	Time	Eliminations
1	CM Punk	27	Kane	49:12	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		33:41	3
12	Dolph Ziggler	8		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	The Shield (Reigns, Rollins, 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	01:49	1
21	Antonio Cesaro	24		16:57	0
22	Luke Harper	23		15:21	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		04:01	0
27	Alberto Del Rio	20		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

^ Kane was already eliminated when he returned to eliminate CM Punk later in the match.

References

1. Godzuk, Jack. "Rumblings of Discontent". pittsburghsportsreport.com. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
2. "WWE NEWS: C.M. Punk no longer on the roster; Punk speaks". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
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