IWE Royal Rumble (2024)
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| Royal Rumble (2024) | ||
| Promotional poster featuring various IWE wrestlers | ||
| Promotion | IWE | |
| Brand(s) | Raw SmackDown | |
| Date | January 27, 2024 | |
| City | St. Petersburg, Florida | |
| Venue | Tropicana Field | |
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The 2024 Royal Rumble is a professional wrestling event produced by IWE. It is the 37th annual Royal Rumble event, which will take place on January 27, 2024, at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. The event will be broadcast via pay-per-view and livestreaming, and will feature wrestlers from IWE's Raw, SmackDown, and NXT brand divisions.
This will be the third Royal Rumble held in the Tampa Bay area (following the 1995 and 2021 events), and the second at Tropicana Field. As the 2021 show was held without an audience under the ThunderDome setup due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this will be the first Royal Rumble at Tropicana Field to have live fans in attendance.
The event is based around the Royal Rumble match, and the winner traditionally receives a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania. For the 2024 event, the winners of both the men's and women's matches receive a choice of which championship to challenge for at WrestleMania XL. The men can choose to challenge for either Raw's World Heavyweight Championship or SmackDown's Undisputed IWE Universal Championship, while the women have the choice between Raw's Women's World Championship and SmackDown's IWE Women's Championship.
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[edit] Production
[edit] Background
The Royal Rumble is an annual professional wrestling event produced every January by IWE since 1988. It is one of the promotion's five biggest events of the year, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, Survivor Series, and Money in the Bank, referred to as the "Big Five". The concept of the event is based around 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.
Announced on September 13, 2023, the 37th Royal Rumble is scheduled to be held on Saturday, January 27, 2024, at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida and will feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brands. This will be the second Royal Rumble to be held at Tropicana Field, after the 2021 event, but the first with live fans in attendance as the 2021 event was produced without fans via the IWE ThunderDome due to the COVID-19 pandemic that year. This in turn marks the first Royal Rumble to be held in the Tampa Bay area with fans in attendance since the 1995 event. In addition to airing on pay-per-view worldwide, it will be available to livestream on Peacock in the United States and the IWE Network in most international markets.
The Royal Rumble match generally features 30 wrestlers and the winner traditionally earns a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania. For 2024, the men and women can choose which world championship to challenge for at WrestleMania XL; the men can choose Raw's World Heavyweight Championship or SmackDown's Undisputed IWE Universal Championship, while the women have the choice between Raw's Women's World Championship and SmackDown's IWE Women's Championship.
[edit] Storylines
The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. 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.
[edit] Results
| No. | Results | Stipulation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bayley won by last eliminating Liv Morgan | 30-woman Royal Rumble match for a women's championship match at WrestleMania XL | |
| 2 | Roman Reigns (c) (with Paul Heyman) defeated Kevin Orton, KJ Styles, and LA Knight | Fatal four-way match for the Undisputed IWE Universal Championship | |
| 3 | Logan Paul (c) defeated Kevin Owens by disqualification | Singles match for the IWE United States Championship | |
| 4 | Cody Rhodes won by last eliminating CM Punk | 30-man Royal Rumble match for a world championship match at WrestleMania XL | |
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
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[edit] Women's Royal Rumble match entrances and eliminations
- – Raw
- – SmackDown
- – NXT
- – Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
- – Unbranded
- – Winner
| Draw | Entrant | Brand/Status | Order | Eliminated by | Time | Elimination(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Natalya | Raw | ||||
| 2 | Naomi | Unaffiliated | ||||
| 3 | Bayley | Raw | ||||
| 4 | Candice Lare | Raw | ||||
| 5 | Jordynne Grace | TNA | ||||
| 6 | Indi Hartwell | Raw | ||||
| 7 | Auska | SmackDown | ||||
| 8 | Ivy Nile | Raw | ||||
| 9 | Katana Chance | Raw | ||||
| 10 | Bianca Belair | SmackDown | ||||
| 11 | Kairi Zane | SmackDown | ||||
| 12 | Tegan Nox | Raw | ||||
| 13 | Kayden Carter | SmackDown | ||||
| 14 | Chelsea Green | Raw | ||||
| 15 | Piper Niven | Raw | ||||
| 16 | Xia Li | SmackDown | ||||
| 17 | Zelina Vega | SmackDown | ||||
| 18 | Mazixxine Dupri | Raw | ||||
| 19 | Nia Jax | Raw | ||||
| 20 | Shotzi | SmackDown | ||||
| 21 | Becky Lynch | Raw | ||||
| 22 | Alba Fyre | SmackDown | ||||
| 23 | Shayna Bazler | Raw | ||||
| 24 | Valhalla | Raw | ||||
| 25 | Mia Yim | SmackDown | ||||
| 26 | Zoey Stark | Raw | ||||
| 27 | Roxanne Perez | NXT | ||||
| 28 | Jade Cargill | Unaffiliated | ||||
| 29 | Tiffany Straton | NXT | ||||
| 30 | Liv Morgan | Raw |
[edit] Men's Royal Rumble match entrances and eliminations
- – Raw
- – SmackDown
- – NXT
- – Hall of Famer (HOF)
- – Unbranded
- – Winner
| Draw | Entrant | Brand/Status | Order | Eliminated by | Time | Elimination(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jey Uso | Raw | ||||
| 2 | Jimmy Uso | SmackDown | ||||
| 3 | Grayson Waller | SmackDown | ||||
| 4 | Andrade | Unbranded | ||||
| 5 | Carmello Hayes | NXT | ||||
| 6 | Shinsuke Nakamura | Raw | ||||
| 7 | Santos Escobar | SmackDown | ||||
| 8 | Karrion Kross | SmackDown | ||||
| 9 | Dominik Mysterio | Raw | ||||
| 10 | Carlito | SmackDown | ||||
| 11 | Bobby Lashley | SmackDown | ||||
| 12 | Ludwig Kaiser | Raw | ||||
| 13 | Austin Theory | SmackDown | ||||
| 14 | Finn Balor | Raw | ||||
| 15 | Cody Rhodes | Raw | ||||
| 16 | Bronson Reed | Raw | ||||
| 17 | Kofi Kingston | Raw | ||||
| 18 | Gunther | Raw | ||||
| 19 | Ivar | Raw | ||||
| 20 | Bron Breakker | NXT | ||||
| 21 | Omos | Unbranded | ||||
| 22 | Pat McAfee | Unbranded | ||||
| 23 | JD McDonagh | Raw | ||||
| 24 | R-Truth | Raw | ||||
| 25 | The Miz | Raw | ||||
| 26 | Damian Priest | Raw | ||||
| 27 | CM Punk | Raw | ||||
| 28 | Ricochet | Raw | ||||
| 29 | Drew McIntyre | Raw | ||||
| 30 | Sami Zayn | Raw |
[edit] IWE United States Championship #1 Contender Tournament
- This section is transcluded from List of IWE tournaments.
| First round SmackDown December 8–15, 2023 | Semifinals SmackDown December 15, 2023 (aired December 22) | Final SmackDown: New Year's Revolution January 5, 2024 | |||||||||||
| Dragon Lee | 9:09 | ||||||||||||
| Santos Escobar | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Santos Escobar | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Bobby Lashley | 8:44 | ||||||||||||
| Bobby Lashley | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Karrion Kross | 9:46 | ||||||||||||
| Santos Escobar | 16:35 | ||||||||||||
| Kevin Owens | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Carmelo Hayes | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Grayson Waller | 10:23 | ||||||||||||
| Carmelo Hayes | 10:04 | ||||||||||||
| Kevin Owens | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Austin Theory | 13:32 | ||||||||||||
| Kevin Owens | Pin | ||||||||||||
[edit] References
[edit] External links
| ← 2023 • 2024 IWE Network events | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IWE | Royal Rumble • Elimination Chamber: Perth • WrestleMania XL • Backlash France • King and Queen of the Ring • Clash at the Castle: Scotland • Money in the Bank • SummerSlam • Bash in Berlin • Bad Blood • Crown Jewel • Survivor Series: WarGames | |||
| NXT | Vengeance Day • Stand & Deliver • Battleground • Heatwave • No Mercy • Halloween Havoc | |||
