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Revision as of 04:06, 30 January 2012
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 Promotional poster featuring Santino Marella. | |||
| Promotion | WWE | ||
| Date | January 29, 2012 | ||
| City | St. Louis, Missouri | ||
| Venue | Scottrade Center | ||
| Pay-per-view chronology | |||
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| Royal Rumble chronology | |||
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Royal Rumble (2012) is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE, which is taking place on January 29, 2012 at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri.[2][3] It is the 25th annual Royal Rumble event.[3] Currently, there are four official matches announced for the event's card.
Background
Royal Rumble features professional wrestling matches which involves different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that play out on WWE's television programs. Wrestlers portray villains or heroes as they follow a series of events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.[4]
The main event from Raw will feature CM Punk defending his WWE Championship against Dolph Ziggler. On the December 26, 2011 episode of Raw, Punk was put into a gauntlet match by Interim Raw General Manager John Laurinaitis,[5] with the stiplulation that if either one of Jack Swagger, Ziggler, or Mark Henry defeated Punk, they would receive a championship match against the latter the next week.[5] Ziggler won the match after Punk was distracted by Laurinaitis throwing out Vickie Guerrero and Swagger from ringside. The next week, during the title match, Punk was counted out as a result of another intervention from Laurinaitis. However, since titles cannot change hands via countout, Punk retained the championship.[6] After the match, Laurinaitis announced that Punk would defend his championship against Ziggler in a rematch at the Royal Rumble, with himself acting as the special guest referee. Then on the January 9, 2012 edition of Raw, Punk faced Swagger in a singles match, Laurinaitis added a stipulation that if Swagger lost, he and Vickie Guerrero would be banned from ringside at the pay-per-view; Punk won the match, and thus, Guerrero and Swagger are banned from ringside during the championship match. Additionally, a week later on the January 16 episode of Raw, in a segment with Mick Foley, Laurinaitis revealed that he is using this opportunity to cost Punk his title for disrespecting him.
Another match heading into the Royal Rumble from Raw features John Cena against Kane. Upon returning to the WWE on the December 12 edition of Raw, after a near four month long absence, Kane interrupted Cena's match against Mark Henry, and though it was ironically Henry who put him out of action, he bypassed him and attacked Cena, chokeslamming him before revealing his new mask. While demanding an explanation for these events the next week on Raw, Cena was again attacked by Kane, who revealed in the next several weeks of his desire to have Cena "embrace the hate" (his current on-screen character and t-shirt promoting otherwise) within caused by the anti-Cena crowd who continues to boo him. When Cena dismissed any intentions of doing so, Kane not only continued his attacks on Cena, but began to direct his attention to his close friend Zack Ryder, assaulting him as well, to the point of injuring him (kayfabe), ultimately leading to Ryder losing his United States Championship to Jack Swagger on the January 16, 2012 episode of Raw, under orders from John Laurinaitis. The same night, Laurinaitis put Cena in a one-on-one match against Kane at the Royal Rumble, in addition to booking Cena in a match against Swagger. Before the match even officially started, Cena started to attack Swagger aggressively to avenge Ryder's loss, prompting Kane to appear on the TitanTron and congratulate him to have started "embracing his hate". On the January 23 episode of Raw, during a Falls Count Anywhere match (in which Lauranaitis had prevented Cena from interfering, on the pretext of never granting Ryder a rematch for the United States Championship if he did so), Kane chokeslammed Ryder through the entrance stage, incapacitating him. As Ryder was stretchered and taken away in an ambulance, Eve Torres (Ryder's storyline girlfriend) blamed Cena for Ryder's injuries, leading to Cena knocking the microphone out of interviewer Josh Mathews' hand in frustration, and donning a very aggressive look in response to this entire situation[7].
The main event from SmackDown involves Daniel Bryan defending his World Heavyweight Championship in a Triple Threat Steel Cage match against Big Show and Mark Henry. In December 2011, at TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs, after Big Show defeated Henry in a Chairs match to win the World Heavyweight Championship for the first time, Bryan immediately cashed-in his Money in the Bank contract to defeat Big Show, after a post-match attack on the latter by Henry. Using his rematch clause, Big Show faced off against Bryan on SmackDown, only for the champion to agitate Henry at ringside, who pushed Bryan, thus ending up losing via disqualification but retaining his title. The following week on SmackDown, Bryan defended his title against Big Show again, this time in a No Disqualification, No Count-Out match, which ended in a no contest, when Big Show accidently ran into and injured Bryan's storyline girlfriend, AJ. The next week on SmackDown, Henry finally enacted his rematch clause against Bryan in a lumberjack match; however, that match also ended up as a no contest, when the lumberjacks became too hostile because of how Bryan had agitated them, and the post-match scenario erupted into a large brawl involving nearly everyone. This forced SmackDown's General Manager Theodore Long to officially book Bryan, Big Show and Henry in a Triple Threat Steel Cage match for the World Heavyweight Championship at the Royal Rumble.[8]
As per tradition, the event will be highlighted by the over-the-top-rope elimination Royal Rumble match, which will feature the traditional thirty entrants, a year after having a forty man field, the largest in the history of the event. The winner will receive his choice of either a World Heavyweight or a WWE Championship match at WrestleMania XXVIII.[9]
Matches
| # | Match | Stipulations | Time[10] |
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| Dark | Yoshi Tatsu defeated Heath Slater | Singles match[11] | 4:00[12] |
| 1 | Daniel Bryan (c) defeated Mark Henry and Big Show | Triple Threat Steel Cage match for the World Heavyweight Championship[13] | 9:08 |
| 2 | Beth Phoenix, Natalya, and The Bella Twins defeated Kelly Kelly, Eve, Alicia Fox, and Tamina | 8-Diva Tag Team | 5:29 |
| 3 | John Cena fought Kane to a double countout | Singles match[14] | 10:56 |
| 4 | Brodus Clay defeated Drew McIntyre | Singles match | 1:05 |
| 5 | CM Punk (c) defeated Dolph Ziggler | Singles match for the WWE Championship with John Laurinaitis as special guest referee. Vickie Guerrero and Jack Swagger are banned from ringside.[15] | 14:32 |
| 6 | Sheamus won the 30-Man Royal Rumble Match, last eliminating Chris Jericho | Winner receives his choice of a WWE Championship or World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania XXVIII[16] | 54:54 |
(c) – refers to the champion heading into the match
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Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations
Red ██ and "Raw" indicates a Raw wrestler, blue ██ and "SD" indicates a SmackDown wrestler, gold ██ indicates a WWE Diva, and beige ██ and "Legend" indicates a special guest entrant[17]
| Draw | Entrant | Brand | Order | Eliminated by | Time |
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| 1 | The Miz | Raw | 24 | Big Show | |
| 2 | Alex Riley | Raw | 1 | The Miz | |
| 3 | R Truth | Raw | 2 | The Miz | |
| 4 | Cody Rhodes | SD | 25 | Big Show | |
| 5 | Justin Gabriel | SD | 4 | Mick Foley | |
| 6 | Primo | Raw | 3 | Mick Foley | |
| 7 | Mick Foley | Raw | 8 | Cody Rhodes | |
| 8 | Ricardo Rodriguez | Raw | 5 | Santino | |
| 9 | Santino Marella | Raw | 7 | Cody Rhodes | |
| 10 | Epico | Raw | 6 | Mick Foley | |
| 11 | Kofi Kingston | Raw | 18 | Sheamus | |
| 12 | Jerry Lawler | Legend | 9 | Cody Rhodes | |
| 13 | Ezekiel Jackson | SD | 12 | The Great Khali | |
| 14 | Jinder Mahal | SD | 11 | The Great Khali | |
| 15 | The Great Khali | Legend | 14 | Cody Rhodes | |
| 16 | Hunico | SD | 16 | Kharma | |
| 17 | Booker T | Legend | 10 | Cody Rhodes | |
| 18 | Dolph Ziggler | Raw | 26 | Big Show | |
| 19 | Jim Duggan | Legend | 13 | Cody Rhodes | |
| 20 | Michael Cole | Legend | 15 | Booker T and Jerry Lawler | |
| 21 | Kharma | Diva | 17 | Dolph Ziggler | |
| 22 | Sheamus | SD | - | WINNER | |
| 23 | Road Dogg | Legend | 19 | Wade Barrett | |
| 24 | Jey Uso | SD | 20 | Randy Orton | |
| 25 | Jack Swagger | Raw | 23 | Big Show | |
| 26 | Wade Barrett | SD | 21 | Randy Orton | |
| 27 | David Otunga | Raw | 22 | Chris Jericho | |
| 28 | Randy Orton | SD | 28 | Chris Jericho | |
| 29 | Chris Jericho | Raw | 29 | Sheamus | |
| 30 | Big Show | SD | 27 | Randy Orton |
References
- ^ WWE Music Group Tweet on Twitter
- ^ "WWE presents Royal Rumble, 01-29-2012". WWE. 2011-12-11. Retrieved 2011-12-11.
- ^ a b "Scottrade Center Events: WWE Royal Rumble". Scottrade Center. 2011-12-11. Retrieved 2011-12-11.
- ^ "WWE Corporate – Live & Televised Entertainment". WWE. Retrieved 2011-12-29.
- ^ a b Murphy, Ryan (December 26, 2011). "WWE Raw SuperShow results: Kane rises to hate". WWE. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
- ^ Medalis, Kara A. (January 2, 2012). "WWE Raw SuperShow results: Kane's hateful torment continues". WWE. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
- ^ http://www.wwe.com/shows/royalrumble/2012/john-cena-kane
- ^ http://www.wwe.com/shows/royalrumble/2012/Bryan-Big-Show-Henry-Royal-Rumble-Match-Preview
- ^ http://www.wwe.com/shows/royalrumble/2012/royal-rumble-match
- ^ Caldwell, James. "Caldwell's WWE Royal Rumble report 1/29: Ongoing "virtual time" coverage of live PPV - Rumble match, Punk-Ziggler, Cena-Kane, steel cage". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
- ^ "WWE News: 2012 Royal Rumble dark match result". Prowrestling.net. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
- ^ Tucker, Benjamin. "WWE News: Royal Rumble PPV - Dark Match result, pre-PPV notes from St. Louis". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
- ^ Alex Giannini (January 20, 2012). "World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan vs. Big Show vs. Mark Henry (Triple Threat Steel Cage Match)". WWE. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
- ^ John Clapp (January 16, 2012). "John Cena vs. Kane". WWE. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
- ^ "WWE Champion CM Punk vs. Dolph Ziggler (Special Guest Referee John Laurinaitis)". WWE. January 2, 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
- ^ Zach Linder (December 20, 2011). "30-Man Royal Rumble Match". WWE. Retrieved 2011-12-21.
- ^ "2011 Royal Rumble Statistics and Eliminations". World Wrestling Entertainment. Retrieved 2011-01-31.