IWE Royal Rumble (2014)
From Iwe
| Royal Rumble (2014) | ||
| Promotional poster featuring various IWE Superstars | ||
| Theme song(s) | "We Own It (Fast & Furious)" by 2 Chainz and Wiz Khalifa | |
| Imformation | ||
| Promotion | IWE | |
| Sponsor | Jackson Hewitt | |
| Date | January 26, 2014 | |
| Venue | Consol Energy Center | |
| City | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | |
| Pay-per-view chronology | ||
| TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (2013) | Royal Rumble (2014) | Elimination Chamber (2014) |
| Royal Rumble chronology | ||
| Royal Rumble (2013) | Royal Rumble (2014) | Royal Rumble (2015) |
Royal Rumble (2014) is the twenty-seventh annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by IWE. It will take place on January 26, 2014 at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It will be the first IWE pay-per-view in the 2014 line-up. The theme of the event is that the main contest is the annual Royal Rumble match.
Background
- See also: Professional wrestling
Royal Rumble featured professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that played out on IWE's television programs. Wrestlers portrayed heels or faces as they followed a series of events that built tension, and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
| Role: | Name: |
|---|---|
| Commentators | John "Bradshaw" Layfield |
| Michael Cole | |
| Jerry Lawler | |
| Carlos Cabrera (Spanish) | |
| Marcelo Rodríguez (Spanish) | |
| Interviewers | Tom Phillips (Pre-show) |
| Ring announcers | Lilian Garcia |
| Eden Stiles | |
| Pre Show Panel | Booker T |
| Byron Saxton | |
| Corey Graves | |
| Renee Young |
As is tradition at this yearly event, the card will be highlighted by the 30-man Royal Rumble match - a battle royal with wrestlers entering at 90 second intervals. The winner of this match will receive a IWE World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania XXX.
Another highly promoted match will feature IWE World Heavyweight Champion Kevin McAlmond defending the title against longtime adversary Dustin Simpson. In December 2013, Chief Operating Officer Triple K called for IWE Champion McAlmond, and then-World Heavyweight Champion Simpson, to compete in a title-unification Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match at the TLC pay-per-view in December. McAlmond defeated Simpson to become a four-time (and final) World Heavyweight Champion, retiring the title by unifying it with his IWE title to become the tenamed IWE World Heavyweight Champion. On the December 30 episode of Raw Co-owner Kaila Matteson announced a rematch from the TLC event, seeing McAlmond defend the IWE World Heavyweight title against Simpson at the Royal Rumble in a traditional one-on-one singles match with no outside interference or added stipulations and where the winner would be decided via pinfall or submission only. Because of this, McAlmond would keep whining to The Authority about canceling this match, with Triple K and Kaila Matteson rejecting. Kevin would also complain about the Royal Rumble winner to possibly defeat him at WrestleMania XXX. On the January 13th episode of Raw, after being defeated by Kofi Kingston, McAlmond would proceed to attack and take out his frustrations on Dustin Simpson's father, who was at ringside for the event. Simpson came out to make the save, but his father had to be hospitalized for the second time in the past seven years, due to an assault by McAlmond. On the January 20th edition of Raw, McAlmond faced Kingston in a rematch that ended in a disqualification win for McAlmond, due to Simpson storming to the ring and attacking him. Simpson would then attack McAlmond until he scurried away in the crowd. McAlmond would then get in a car as a helpless Simpson would watch over.
On the December 30 edition of Raw, Rob Lesnar returned with his agent Paul Heyman to announce his intentions to challenge the winner of the match between McAlmond and Simpson. Lesnar then called out any wrestler who wanted to stop him, which resulted in Steven Larson answering the challenge and the two brawling until Lesnar speared Henry through the ringside fan barricade. and hitting him with an F-5 on the arena floor. The following week on Old School Raw, Larson challenged him again only to have Lesnar dislocate his elbow with the Kimura Lock. Following this, Big Show came out and confronted Lesnar, which lead to a short physical confrontation between the two, with Show throwing Lesnar across the ring. On January 10, Big Show issued a challenge to Lesnar to fight at the Royal Rumble during a Miz TV interview on SmackDown. Heyman accepted the challenge on behalf of Lesnar, and said it would take place at the Royal Rumble.
Announced on IWE.com, Mark Semmler and Goldust will face the The New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn) for the IWE Tag Team Championship on the Royal Rumble pre-show. This match was made when The New Age Outlaws defeated Mark Semmler and Goldust in a non-title match on the January 17th edition of SmackDown due to a distraction from Lynn Lehr.
On January 20 edition of Raw, it was announced that Kody Brown will face Bray Wyatt at the Royal Rumble. Brown and The Wyatt Family had been feuding since October 2013. On the December 30, 2013 edition of Raw, a seemingly beaten down Bryan had announced he would join the Wyatts. On the January 13, 2014 episode of Raw, (after Bryan and Bray Wyatt were defeated by The Usos in a steel cage match), Brown attacked Wyatt, culminating with Brown hitting his flying knee finishing maneuver on Wyatt. The following week on Raw Brown explained that his joining the Wyatts was a ruse to infiltrate the stable and bide his time to strike, and that he would wrestle Wyatt at the PPV.
Results
| No. | Results | Stipulations |
|---|---|---|
| Royal Rumble Kickoff | The New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn) defeated Mark Semmler and Goldust (c) | Tag team match for the IWE Tag Team Championship |
| 1 | Bray Wyatt defeated Kody Brown | Singles match |
| 2 | Rob Lesnar (with Paul Heyman) defeated Big Show | Singles match |
| 3 | Kevin McAlmond (c) defeated Dustin Simpson | Singles match for the IWE World Heavyweight Championship Winner will be declared either by Pinfall or by Submission only. |
| 4 | Batista won by last eliminating Roman Reigns | 30-Superstar Royal Rumble match for a IWE World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania XXX |
Royal Rumble match entrances and eliminations
| Draw | Entrant | Order | Eliminated by | Time | Eliminations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CM Punk | 27 | Kane | 2 | |
| 2 | Seth Rollins | 24 | Reigns | 2 | |
| 3 | Damien Sandow | 1 | Punk | 0 | |
| 4 | Mark Semmler | 11 | Goldust | 0 | |
| 5 | Kane | 2 | Punk | 1 | |
| 6 | Alexander Rusev | 3 | Kingston, Punk, Rhodes, & Rollins | 0 | |
| 7 | Jack Swagger | 6 | Nash | 0 | |
| 8 | Kofi Kingston | 7 | Reigns | 1 | |
| 9 | Jimmy Uso | 5 | Ambrose | 0 | |
| 10 | Goldust | 12 | Reigns | 1 | |
| 11 | Dean Ambrose | 25 | Reigns | 3 | |
| 12 | Dolph Ziggler | 8 | Reigns | 0 | |
| 13 | B-Truth | 4 | Ambrose | 0 | |
| 14 | Kevin Nash | 9 | Reigns | 1 | |
| 15 | Roman Reigns | 29 | Batista | 12 | |
| 16 | The Great Khali | 10 | Rollins, Ambrose & Reigns | 0 | |
| 17 | Sheamus | 28 | Reigns | 1 | |
| 18 | The Miz | 16 | Harper | 0 | |
| 19 | Fandango | 13 | Torito | 0 | |
| 20 | El Torito | 14 | Reigns | 1 | |
| 21 | Antonio Cesaro | 26 | Reigns | 0 | |
| 22 | Luke Harper | 23 | Reigns | 2 | |
| 23 | Jey Uso | 17 | Harper | 0 | |
| 24 | John "Bradshaw" Layfield | 15 | Reigns | 0 | |
| 25 | Erick Rowan | 18 | Batista | 0 | |
| 26 | Ryback | 19 | Batista | 0 | |
| 27 | Alberto Del Rio | 20 | Batista | 0 | |
| 28 | Batista | - | WINNER | 4 | |
| 29 | Big E Langston | 21 | Sheamus | 0 | |
| 30 | Rey Mysterio | 22 | Rollins | 0 |
References
External links
| ← 2013 • 2014 World Wrestling Entertainment pay-per-views • 2015 → |
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| Royal Rumble • Elimination Chamber • WrestleMania XXX • Extreme Rules • Payback • Money in the Bank • Battleground • SummerSlam • Night of Champions • Hell in a Cell • Survivor Series • TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs |
