GWF Royal Rumble (2015)
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| Royal Rumble (2015) | ||
| Information | ||
| Promotion | Global Wrestling Federation | |
| Date | January 25, 2015 | |
| Venue | Tokyo Dome | |
| City | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Pay-per-view chronology | ||
| Flatline (2014) | Royal Rumble (2015) | Chaos Theory (2015) |
| Royal Rumble chronology | ||
| Royal Rumble (2014) | Royal Rumble (2015) | |
Royal Rumble (2015) was a efed pay-per-view produced by the Global Wrestling Federation. It was held on January 25, 2015 at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan.
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[edit] Background
Royal Rumble will feature professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that play out on GWF's television programs. Wrestlers portray heels or faces as they followed a series of events that build tension, and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.
[edit] Matches
| # | Matches | Stipulations | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Shield (Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins) (c) defeated The Wyatt Family (Luke Harper and Erick Rowan) | Tag team match for the GWF Tag Team Championship | |
| 2 | Dolph Ziggler defeated Goldust (c), Rusev and Seth Rollins | Fatal 4-way match for the GWF Intercontinental Championship | |
| 3 | Finlay (c) defeated Randy Orton | Hell in a Cell match for the GWF World Heavyweight Championship | |
| 4 | Snitsky won the Royal Rumble match* | 30-Man Royal Rumble match for a GWF World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania XVI | |
| 5 | Damien Sandow defeated Finlay (c) | Singles match for the GWF World Heavyweight Championship This was Sandow's Money in the Bank cash-in match | |
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
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[edit] Royal Rumble match entrances and eliminations
A new entrant came out approximately every 90 seconds.
| Number | Draw | Order | Eliminated by | Eliminations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Damien Sandow | 28 | Unable to continue[Note 2][1] | 5 |
| 2 | Bray Wyatt | 8 | Snitsky | 2 |
| 3 | Cesaro | 2 | Sandow | 1 |
| 4 | Chuck Taylor | 10 | Neville | 2 |
| 5 | Big Show | 1 | Wyatt, Taylor, Cesaro and Sandow | 0 |
| 6 | William Regal | 5 | Rusev | 0 |
| 7 | Adrian Neville | 13 | Barrett | 1 |
| 8 | Luke Harper | 12 | Ziggler | 0 |
| 9 | CM Punk | 3 | Rusev | 0 |
| 10 | Goldust | 4 | Rusev | 0 |
| 11 | Rusev | 6 | Angle | 3 |
| 12 | Dolph Ziggler | 26 | Maddox and Taylor[Note 1][2] | 6 |
| 13 | Violent J | 29 | Snitsky | 3 |
| 14 | Tommy Dreamer | 8 | Ziggler | 0 |
| 15 | Brad Maddox | 9 | Snitsky | 1 |
| 16 | Seth Rollins | 24 | Violent J | 1 |
| 17 | Kurt Angle | 7 | Wyatt | 1 |
| 18 | Erick Rowan | 11 | Reigns, Ambrose, Rollins, Violent J and 2 Dope | 0 |
| 19 | Shaggy 2 Dope | 14 | Hardy | 1 |
| 20 | Snitsky | 4 | ||
| 21 | Roman Reigns | 23 | Snitsky | 2 |
| 22 | Shinsuke Nakamura | 20 | Sandow and Violent J | 0 |
| 23 | Titus O'Neil | 27 | Sandow | 0 |
| 24 | Bad News Barrett | 18 | Ziggler | 1 |
| 25 | Jeff Hardy | 15 | Violent J | 1 |
| 26 | Darren Young | 16 | Sandow | 0 |
| 27 | Hiroshi Tanahashi | 19 | Ziggler | 0 |
| 28 | Drew McIntyre | 25 | Ziggler | 0 |
| 29 | Brock Lesnar | 21 | Reigns | 0 |
| 30 | Dean Ambrose | 22 | Ziggler | 1 |
^ Brad Maddox and Chuck Taylor were already eliminated from the match when they eliminated Ziggler.
^ Sandow was unable to continue in the match.
