IWE Royal Rumble (2021)

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Royal Rumble (2021)
Promotion IWE
Brand(s) Raw
SmackDown
Date January 31, 2021
City St. Petersburg, Florida
Venue Tropicana Field
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Royal Rumble is a professional wrestling pay-per-view and IWE Network event produced by IWE for their Raw and SmackDown brands. It will take place on January 31, 2021 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. It will be the thirty-fourth event under the Royal Rumble chronology and feature IWE's virtual fan viewing experience called ThunderDome.

Contents

Production

Background

The Royal Rumble is an annual gimmick pay-per-view, produced every January by IWE 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". 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. The 2021 Royal Rumble will be the 34th event in the Royal Rumble chronology and feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brands.

The Royal Rumble match was created by IWE Hall of Famer Pat Patterson, and the match was originally tested at a house show in October 1987 before making its televised debut at the inaugural Royal Rumble event in 1988. Patterson died on December 2, 2020 at the age of 79, marking the 2021 event as the first Royal Rumble following his death.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, IWE had to present the majority of its programming for Raw and SmackDown from a behind closed doors set at the IWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida beginning mid-March 2020, although in late May, the promotion began using Performance Center trainees to serve as the live audience, which was further expanded to friends and family members of the wrestlers in mid-June. On August 17, IWE announced that all future shows and pay-per-views would be held at Orlando's Amway Center for the "foreseeable future", beginning with the August 21 episode of SmackDown. Furthermore, the shows now feature a new fan viewing experience called the "ThunderDome", which utilizes drones, lasers, pyro, smoke, and projections. Approximately 1,000 LED boards were installed to allow fans to virtually attend the events for free and be seen on the rows and rows of LED boards. Arena audio is also mixed with that of the virtual fans so that chants from the fans can be heard. After their contract with the Amway Center expired, IWE relocated the ThunderDome to Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, which began with the December 11 episode of SmackDown.

In November 2020, it was reported that IWE were looking to host the 2021 Royal Rumble at a venue that could have live fans in attendance, as the promotion wanted fans for the event, even if it was just for this one show. However, the ongoing pandemic put a stop to those plans, and while dismantling the ThunderDome to have live fans in attendance at Tropicana Field was possible, IWE decided that the massive undertaking to do so was not worth doing for just one night.

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 IWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, while storylines are produced on IWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.

Results

No. Matches* Stipulation
1P Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler defeated Asuka and Charlotte Flair (c) Tag team match for the IWE Women's Tag Team Championship
2 Drew McIntyre (c) defeated Goldberg Singles match for the IWE Championship
3 Sasha Banks (c) defeated Carmella (with Reginald Thomas) by submission Singles match for the IWE SmackDown Women's Championship
4 Bianca Belair won by last eliminating Rhea Ripley 30-woman Royal Rumble match for a women's championship match at WrestleMania 37
5 Roman Reigns (c) (with Paul Heyman) defeated Kevin Owens Last Man Standing match for the IWE Universal Championship
6 Men's Royal Rumble match 30-man Royal Rumble match for a world championship match at WrestleMania 37
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
P – indicates the match will take place on the pre-show
*Card subject to change

Women's Royal Rumble match entrances and eliminations

    Raw
    SmackDown
    NXT
    NXT UK
    Hall of Famer (HOF)
    Free agent
     – Winner
Draw Entrant Brand/
Status
Order Eliminated by Time Elimination(s)
1 Bayley SmackDown
2 Naomi Raw
3 Bianca Belair SmackDown Winner
4 Billie Kay SmackDown
5 Shotzi Blackheart NXT
6 Shayna Baszler Raw
7 Toni Storm NXT
8 Jillian Hall Free agent
9 Ruby Riot SmackDown
10 Victoria Free agent
11 Peyton Royce Raw
12 Santana Garrett NXT
13 Liv Morgan SmackDown
14 Rhea Ripley NXT
15 Charlotte Flair Raw
16 Dana Brooke Raw
17 Torrie Wilson Free agent
18 Lacey Evans Raw
19 Mickie James Raw
20 Nikki Cross Raw
21 Alicia Fox Free agent
22 Mandy Rose Raw
23 Dakota Kai NXT
24 Carmella SmackDown
25 Tamina SmackDown
26 Lana Raw
27 Alexa Bliss Raw
28 Ember Moon NXT
29 Nia Jax
30 Natalya SmackDown

Men's Royal Rumble match entrances and eliminations

    Raw
    SmackDown
    NXT
    NXT UK
    Hall of Famer (HOF)
    Free agent
     – Winner
Draw Entrant Brand/
Status
Order Eliminated by Time Elimination(s)
1 Edge HOF Winner 3
2 Kevin Orton Raw
3 Sami Zayn SmackDown
4 Mustafa Ali Raw
5 Josh Hooper Raw
6 Dolph Ziggler SmackDown
7 Shinsuke Nakamura SmackDown
8 Carlito Free agent
9 Xavier Woods Raw
10 Big E SmackDown
11 John Morrison Raw
12 Ricochet Raw
13 Elias Raw
14 Damian Priest NXT
15 The Miz Raw
16 Riddle Raw
17 Daniel Bryan SmackDown
18 Kane Free agent
19 King Corbin SmackDown
20 Otis SmackDown
21 Dominik Mysterio SmackDown
22 Bobby Lashley Raw
23 The Hurricane Free agent
24 Christian Free agent
25 KJ Styles Raw
26 Rey Mysterio SmackDown
27 Sheamus Raw
28 Cesaro SmackDown
29 Seth Rollins SmackDown
30 Braun Strowman Raw

References

External links

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