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Royal Rumble (2020)
Promotional poster featuring various WWE wrestlers
PromotionWWE
Brand(s)Raw
SmackDown
DateJanuary 26, 2020
CityHouston, Texas
VenueMinute Maid Park
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Royal Rumble (2020) is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view and WWE Network event produced by WWE for their Raw and SmackDown brands. It will take place on January 26, 2020 at the Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas.[1][2][3] It will be the thirty-third event under the Royal Rumble chronology.

Production

Background

The Royal Rumble is an annual gimmick pay-per-view, produced every January by WWE since 1988. It is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, dubbed the "Big Four".[4] It is named after the Royal Rumble match, a modified battle royal in which the participants enter at timed intervals instead of all beginning in the ring at the same time. Both the men's and women's matches generally feature 30 wrestlers. Traditionally, the winner of the match earns a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania. For 2020, the men and women can choose to challenge for either brand's top championship at WrestleMania 36: the men have their choice between Raw's WWE Championship or SmackDown's Universal Championship, while the women can choose either the Raw Women's Championship or SmackDown Women's Championship. 2020 will be the 33rd event in the Royal Rumble chronology and feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brands.[5][6]

Storylines

The show will include matches that result from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portray heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands,[7][8] while storylines are produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.[9]

At Survivor Series, "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt defeated Daniel Bryan to retain the Universal Championship.[10] On the following SmackDown, after Bryan accepted another rematch for the title at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs, The Fiend appeared and attacked Bryan, ripping out his hair.[11] The Miz, who had been intertwined in the feud, appeared the following week and said that Bryan had not been seen since The Fiend's attack and in turn became Wyatt's opponent in a non-title match at TLC,[12] where Wyatt (as his Firefly Fun House character and not The Fiend) defeated Miz. Following the match, a hooded figure attacked Wyatt and then revealed himself as a returning Bryan, now with a buzz cut and shorter beard.[13] On the following SmackDown, both Bryan and Miz stated their desire to take the Universal Championship from Wyatt due to their respective personal issues with him. They were then interrupted by King Corbin, who felt that he deserved an opportunity for the title due to his victory over Roman Reigns at TLC.[14] On the December 27 episode, Bryan defeated Miz and Corbin in a triple threat match to earn another Universal Championship match against The Fiend at the Royal Rumble.[15]

At TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs, The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane) defeated the team of Raw Women's Champion Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match to retain the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship.[13] In a backstage interview on the following Raw, Lynch stated that she had not been herself the past few months and felt that management had been putting her into tag team matches to protect her from facing Asuka alone and losing. She also stated that she had never defeated Asuka and needed to change that.[16] The following week, Lynch challenged Asuka to a match with her Raw Women's Championship on the line which Asuka accepted.[17] The match was scheduled for the Royal Rumble.[18]

While the WWE Championship is generally defended at every year's Royal Rumble, on the January 6 episode of Raw, it was revealed that there would not be a WWE Championship defense at 2020's event. Instead, as he felt that there was no one on any brand who deserved an opportunity, WWE Champion Brock Lesnar decided to enter himself into the Royal Rumble match as entrant number one. The rules of the match remain the same, despite Lesnar holding one of the two world championships that the winner can challenge for at WrestleMania 36.[19]

At TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs, King Corbin defeated Roman Reigns in the namesake match, thanks to help from Dolph Ziggler and The Revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder).[13] Following his win over Reigns, Corbin was entered into a triple threat match to determine the number one contender for the Universal Championship at the Royal Rumble which took place on the December 27 episode of SmackDown.[14] During that match. Reigns attacked Corbin, costing him the match.[15] The following week, Reigns announced his participation in the Royal Rumble match. Later that night, Reigns teamed with Daniel Bryan to face Corbin and Ziggler which ended in a no-contest. Following the match, Corbin and Ziggler attacked Reigns only for The Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso) to return and aided Reigns by attacking both Corbin and Ziggler.[20] On the January 10, 2020 episode of SmackDown, Corbin stated that Reigns was scared to face him again, hence why Reigns was competing in the Royal Rumble match instead, however, Reigns would eventually challenge Corbin to a rematch at the event which Corbin accepted.[21]

Matches

No.Matches*Stipulations
1Men's Royal Rumble match30-man Royal Rumble match for a world championship match at WrestleMania 36[22]
2Women’s Royal Rumble match30-woman Royal Rumble match for a women's championship match at WrestleMania 36[23]
3"The Fiend" Bray Wyatt (c) vs. Daniel BryanSingles match for the WWE Universal Championship[24]
4Becky Lynch (c) vs. AsukaSingles match for the WWE Raw Women's Championship[25]
5Roman Reigns vs. King CorbinSingles match[26]
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
*Card subject to change

Announced competitors in the Men's Royal Rumble match

13 of the 30 entrants have been announced as of December 19, 2024.

Brand
  – Raw
  – SmackDown
Wrestler[22] Date Notes
Roman Reigns January 3, 2020 Announced on SmackDown
Brock Lesnar (WWE Champion)1 January 6, 2020 Announced on Raw
AJ Styles
Erick Rowan
Randy Orton
Rey Mysterio
Ricochet
Drew McIntyre
Elias January 10, 2020 Announced on SmackDown
King Corbin
Dolph Ziggler
Otis
Tucker
  • 1 – Lesnar will enter the match at #1.

Announced competitors in the Women's Royal Rumble match

3 of the 30 entrants have been announced as of December 19, 2024.

Brand
  – Raw
  – SmackDown
Wrestler[23] Date Notes
Charlotte Flair December 30, 2019 Announced on Raw
Alexa Bliss January 10, 2020 Announced on SmackDown
Nikki Cross

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