IWE Royal Rumble (2017)

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Royal Rumble (2017)
Promotional poster featuring various IWE superstars
Taglines(s)	Remember the Rumble
Theme song(s)	"Blow Your Mind" by Ohana Bam
Information
Promotion	IWE
Brand(s)	Raw SmackDown
Date	January 29, 2017
Venue	Alamodome
City	San Antonio, Texas
IWE Network chronology
NXT TakeOver: San Antonio	Royal Rumble (2017)	Elimination Chamber (2017)
Royal Rumble chronology
Royal Rumble (2016)	Royal Rumble (2017)

Royal Rumble (2017) is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event and IWE Network event produced by IWE for the Raw and SmackDown] brand. It will take place on January 29, 2017, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. This will be the thirtieth event under the Royal Rumble chronology. The event is also the second Royal Rumble to be held in the Alamodome, after 1997, and the fourth to be held in the state of Texas (1989, 1997 and 2007). The event will be the first Royal Rumble event to be four hours in length.

Contents 1 Background 2 Matches 2.1 Royal Rumble match participants 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

Background

See also: Professional wrestling

The card will include matches resulting from scripted storylines and have results predetermined by IWE on the Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live brands. Storylines are produced on IWE's weekly television show, Raw and SmackDown Live.

As is tradition, the card will be highlighted by the 30-man Royal Rumble match where the winner will receive a world championship match at WrestleMania 33 for either Raw's IWE Universal Championship or SmackDown's IWE Championship. After defeating Rob Lesnar at Survivor Series in his first match in 12 years, Goldberg declared himself the first entrant in the Royal Rumble match on the November 21 episode of Raw. The following week, Paul Heyman commented that he and Lesnar had been humiliated by Goldberg, whom they had underestimated, and that Lesnar would also compete in the Royal Rumble as Lesnar "has something to prove". On the January 2, 2017 episode of Raw, The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) announced their participation in the match. Later, Goldberg appeared on the first edition of The Kevin Owens Show in regards to the match, where Khris Jericho and Braun Strowman also announced their participation. On the January 3, 2017 episode of SmackDown Live, Baron Corbin announced his participation in the match.

At Roadblock: End of the Line on December 18, 2016, Kevin Owens retained the IWE Universal Championship against United States Champion Roman Reigns after Khris Jericho hit a Codebreaker on Owens, giving Owens the win by disqualification. After the match, Jericho, who lost to Seth Rollins earlier that night, revealed that it was his plan so that Owens would win and retain the title and Owens hugged and thanked Jericho before Reigns and Rollins took their revenge by delivering two Double Powerbombs on Jericho and Owens through broadcast tables, respectively. The following night on Raw, Owens and Jericho celebrated Owens' win, stating their friendship is even stronger now. Raw General Manager Mick Foley then came out and announced that Reigns would get a rematch against Owens for the Universal Championship at the Royal Rumble, and Jericho would be suspended above the ring inside of a shark proof cage, ensuring that Jericho would not interfere in the match. Foley threatened that if Jericho does not enter the cage, he will be fired. Both were then put into a tag team match against Reigns and Rollins. The latter two won by disqualification after Braun Strowman came out and attacked Reigns, followed by Rollins.

At Roadblock: End of the Line, Charlotte Flair defeated Sasha Banks in overtime of a 30-minute Iron Man match to win her fourth Raw Women's Championship, as well as ending their long feud. The following Raw, Charlotte declared herself to be the greatest female wrestler of all time, but was then interrupted by Bayley, who reminded Charlotte that she was 2–0 against her. Bayley then pinned Charlotte in an impromptu non-title match. However, replays showed that Charlotte had her shoulder up before the three count. The following week, Charlotte revealed that she worked with her and WWE's lawyers and Bayley's win the previous week was revoked, but Charlotte allowed Bayley to face her in another non-title match, but this time with Dana Brooke as guest referee. Bayley lost after a fast three count by Dana. On the January 2, 2017 episode, Bayley defeated Nia Jax due to a distraction by Sasha to become the number one contender for the Raw Women's Championship at the Royal Rumble.

Matches

No.	Matches	Stipulations
1	2017 Royal Rumble Match	30-man Royal Rumble match for a world championship match at WrestleMania 33
2	Kevin Owens (c) vs. Roman Reigns	Singles match for the IWE Universal Championship; Khris Jericho will be suspended above the ring inside a shark cage
3	KJ Styles (c) vs. Dustin Simpson	Singles match for the IWE Championship
4	Charlotte Flair (c) vs. Bayley	Singles match for the IWE Raw Women's Championship
5	Rich Swann (c) vs. Neville	Singles match for the IWE Cruiserweight Championship
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

Royal Rumble match participants

     – Raw

     – SmackDown

     – Unassigned

Participants	Participation declared
Goldberg	November 21
Rob Lesnar	November 28, 2016
Big E	January 2, 2017
Kofi Kingston
Xavier Woods
Khris Jericho
Braun Strowman
Baron Corbin	January 3, 2017
Seth Rollins	January 9, 2017
The Undertaker	January 9, 2017
Dean Ambrose	January 10, 2017
The Miz
Dolph Ziggler

See also

• List of IWE Network events
• List of IWE pay-per-view events

References

External links

← 2016 • 2017 IWE Network events • 2018 →
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