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'{{Cleanup-jargon|date=June 2009}} {{Infobox Wrestling event |name=Royal Rumble (2009) |image=30068_PPV_RR_aff_ban_300x450.jpg |caption=Promotional poster featuring various [[List of World Wrestling Entertainment employees|WWE Superstars]] |theme="[[Let It Rock (Kevin Rudolf song)|Let It Rock]]" by [[Kevin Rudolf]] featuring [[Lil Wayne]]<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.wwe.com/shows/royalrumble/history/2009/|title=WWE Royal Rumble|publisher=[[World Wrestling Entertainment]]|accessdate= 2009-01-09| quote=Special thanks to Kevin Rudolf, whose "Let it Rock" is the official theme of the Royal Rumble. The track is off his Cash Money Records debut, In the City, which is available now.}}</ref> |promotion=[[World Wrestling Entertainment]] |date=January 25, 2009 |attendance=16,685 |venue=[[Joe Louis Arena]] |city=[[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]] |lastevent=[[Armageddon (2008)]] |nextevent=[[No Way Out (2009)]] |event=[[Royal Rumble]] |lastevent2=[[Royal Rumble (2008)]] |nextevent2=[[Royal Rumble (2010)]] }} '''Royal Rumble (2009)''', a [[professional wrestling]] [[pay-per-view]] (PPV) event produced by [[World Wrestling Entertainment]] (WWE), took place on January 25, 2009, at the [[Joe Louis Arena]] in [[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.wwe.com/schedules/events/eventdetail/?id=8111896|title=WWE Royal Rumble event details| publisher=[[World Wrestling Entertainment]]| accessdate=2009-01-03}}</ref> The 22nd event produced under the "[[Royal Rumble]]" name, it featured wrestlers from the [[WWE Raw|Raw]], [[WWE Friday Night SmackDown|SmackDown]], and [[ECW on Syfy|ECW]] [[WWE Brand Extension|brands]]. The [[card (sports)|card]] of the event featured five [[professional wrestling match types|matches]]. The [[Card (sports)#Main event|main event]], the annual 30-man [[Royal Rumble#Match|Royal Rumble match]], starred wrestlers from all the three WWE brands. [[Randy Orton]], the eighth entrant, won the match by last eliminating [[Triple H]], the seventh entrant. As a tradition, Orton received a [[World Heavyweight Championship (professional wrestling)|World Championship]] match at [[WrestleMania XXV]] of his choice for the [[WWE Championship|WWE]], [[World Heavyweight Championship (WWE)|World Heavyweight]], or [[ECW Championship]]. For the third straight year, there was an uneven distribution of participants in the Royal Rumble match among the brands (with fifteen from Raw, ten from SmackDown, four from ECW, and one special guest entrant). The predominant match on the ''SmackDown'' brand consisted of a [[Professional wrestling match types#No Disqualification match|No Disqualification match]] between [[Jeff Hardy]] and [[Adam Copeland|Edge]] for Hardy's WWE Championship. Edge won with pinfall after Jeff's brother, [[Matt Hardy]], interfered in the match and hit Jeff with a [[Folding chair|steel chair]]. The primary match on the ''Raw'' brand featured [[John Cena]] defending the World Heavyweight Championship against [[John Layfield|John "Bradshaw" Layfield]] (JBL): Cena won by pinfall after performing an [[Powerslam#Fireman's carry powerslam|Attitude Adjustment]]. The [[Card (sports)#Undercard|undercard]] consisted of [[Jake Hager|Jack Swagger]] versus Matt Hardy for the ECW Championship and [[Beth Phoenix]] versus [[Melina Perez|Melina]] for the [[WWE Women's Championship]]. The event had 450,000 PPV buys, down on the [[Royal Rumble (2008)|Royal Rumble 2008]] figure of 533,000 buys.<ref name="Buyrate"> {{cite paper|title=WWE Reports 2009 First Quarter Results|publisher=[[World Wrestling Entertainment]]|date=2009-05-07|url= http://corporate.wwe.com/documents/PressReleaseQ109050609FINAL_000.pdf|format=PDF|accessdate=2009-05-07}} </ref> {| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" style="font-size:100%; text-align:left;" !style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Draw !style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Entrant !style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Brand !style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Order !style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Eliminated by !style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Time |- |-style="background: #FFEEEE;" |{{sort|01|1}} |[[Rey Mysterio, Jr.|Rey Mysterio]] |Raw |20 |Big Show |49:24 |-style="background: #E7DDEE;" |{{sort|02|2}} |[[John Hennigan|John Morrison]] |ECW |{{sort|06|6}} |Triple H |19:32 |-style="background: #EEEEFF;" |{{sort|03|3}} |[[Carly Colón|Carlito]] |SD |{{sort|03|3}} |Kozlov |{{sort|06:11|6:11}} |-style="background: #EEEEFF;" |{{sort|04|4}} |[[Montel Vontavious Porter]] |SD |{{sort|02|2}} |Kozlov ||{{sort|03:52|3:52}} |-style="background: #EEEEFF;" |{{sort|05|5}} |[[The Great Khali]] |SD |{{sort|01|1}} |Kozlov |{{sort|01:30|1:30}} |-style="background: #EEEEFF;" |{{sort|06|6}} |[[Oleg Prudius|Vladimir Kozlov]] |SD |{{sort|04|4}} |Triple H |{{sort|02:40|2:40}} |-style="background: #EEEEFF;" |{{sort|07|7}} |[[Triple H]] |SD |29 |Orton |49:55 |-style="background: #FFCCCC;" |{{sort|08|8}} |[[Randy Orton]] |Raw |{{sort|30|—}} |'''Winner''' |48:27 |-style="background: #FFEEEE;" |{{sort|09|9}} |[[Jayson Paul|JTG]] |Raw |{{sort|07|7}} |Undertaker |11:59 |-style="background: #FFEEEE;" |10 |[[Ted DiBiase, Jr.|Ted DiBiase]] |Raw |27 |Triple H |45:11 |-style="background: #FFEEEE;" |11 |[[Chris Jericho]] |Raw |23 |Undertaker |37:17 |-style="background: #FFEEEE;" |12 |[[Mike Knox]] |Raw |19 |Big Show |32:42 |-style="background: #E7DDEE;" |13 |[[Mike Mizanin|The Miz]] |ECW |{{sort|05|5}} |Triple H |{{sort|01:18|1:18}} |-style="background: #E7DDEE;" |14 |[[Dave Finlay|Finlay]] |ECW |21 |Kane |29:59 |-style="background: #FFEEEE;" |15 |[[Cody Rhodes]] |Raw |28 |Triple H |37:01 |-style="background: #EEEEFF;" |16 |[[The Undertaker]] |SD |26 |Big Show{{note|show}} |32:29 |-style="background: #FFEEEE;" |17 |[[Dustin Rhodes|Goldust]] |Raw |{{sort|08|8}} |Rhodes |{{sort|01:11|1:11}} |-style="background: #FFEEEE;" |18 |[[CM Punk]] |Raw |18 |Big Show |22:29 |-style="background: #E7DDEE;" |19 |[[Mark Henry]] |ECW |{{sort|09|9}} |Mysterio |{{sort|03:14|3:14}} |-style="background: #EEEEFF;" |20 |[[Shelton Benjamin]] |SD |10 |Undertaker |{{sort|04:17|4:17}} |-style="background: #FFEEEE;" |21 |[[Darren Matthews|William Regal]] |Raw |11 |Punk |{{sort|04:23|4:23}} |-style="background: #FFEEEE;" |22 |[[Kofi Kingston]] |Raw |12 |Kendrick |{{sort|06:58|6:58}} |-style="background: #FFEEEE;" |23 |[[Glenn Jacobs|Kane]] |Raw |24 |Rhodes, DiBiase and Orton |18:21 |-style="background: #EEEEFF;" |24 |[[Ron Killings|R-Truth]] |SD |17 |Big Show |12:06 |- |25 |[[Rob Van Dam]] |— |22 |Jericho |13:56 |-style="background: #EEEEFF;" |26 |The [[Brian Kendrick]] |SD |13 |Triple H |{{sort|00:15|0:15}} |-style="background: #FFEEEE;" |27 |[[Nick Nemeth|Dolph Ziggler]] |Raw |14 |Kane |{{sort|00:21|0:21}} |-style="background: #FFEEEE;" |28 |[[Santino Marella]] |Raw |15 |Kane |{{sort|00:01|0:01}} |-style="background: #FFEEEE;" |29 |[[Jim Duggan]] |Raw |16 |Big Show |{{sort|02:50|2:50}} |-style="background: #EEEEFF;" |30 |[[Paul Wight|The Big Show]] |SD |25 |Orton |{{sort|09:32|9:32}} |} {{note|show}}Randy Orton had already eliminated The Big Show prior to his eliminating The Undertaker. ==See also== {{portal|professional wrestling|break=yes}} * [[List of WWE pay-per-view events]] ==References== {{reflist|2}} ==External links== *[http://www.wwe.com/shows/royalrumble/history/2009/ Official Royal Rumble 2009 website] {{WWEPPV|Royal Rumble}} [[Category:2009 in professional wrestling]] [[Category:Royal Rumble]] [[bg:Royal Rumble (2009)]] [[es:Royal Rumble (2009)]] [[fr:Royal Rumble 2009]] [[pl:Royal Rumble (2009)]] [[pt:Royal Rumble (2009)]] [[simple:Royal Rumble (2009)]] [[th:รอยัลรัมเบิล (2009)]]'