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

• 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

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