It took long enough for it to get here, but the 2017 Royal Rumble match is officially underway.
This year’s lineup is stacked! The 2017 Royal Rumble match itself features major contenders such as Goldberg, Brock Lesnar, The Undertaker, Big Show, Braun Strowman and many more Superstars. Raw and SmackDown Live’s major championships will also be up for grabs – Kevin Owens will face off with Roman Reigns for the WWE Universal Championship, plus AJ Styles will take on John Cena for the WWE World Championship. WWE’s other major championships will be up for grabs during an evening that will definitely be unforgettable.
So let’s get into all the results and highlights that occurred during the 2017 Royal Rumble.
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Sasha Banks vs. Nia Jax
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Winner: Nia Jax!
Highlights: Sasha ran right at Nia, but Nia used her overwhelming strength to toy with her. Sasha used punches, kicks and a body splash off the top rope to weaken Nia, but it did nothing to stop her. Nia laid out Sasha with a Body Avalanche and stood over her prone body. When the match got back underway, Sasha tried her hardest to fully lock in the Banks Statement when she got it halfway locked in. Nia threw her away and laid in a devastating hammer strike to Sasha’s injured knee. Nia locked in a Stretch Muffle submission on Sasha to damage her limb even more. Sasha found herself laid up in the ring corner. She dodged a shoulder charge from Nia and then landed some nice kicks to Nia’s prone head. Sasha took to the top rope to land her double knees on Nia, but it did nothing at all to faze her. Nia got the win soon after by crushing her with a Pop-Up Samoan Drop.
Cesaro and Sheamus (c) vs. Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson (WWE Raw Tag Team Championship; Two Referees are Assigned to the Match)
Winners: The New Raw Tag Team Champions, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson!
Highlights: Cesaro quickly dropkicked and suplexed Anderson as soon as the bell rang. Anderson recovered and looked for Gallows to get in a cheap blow, but the 2nd ref on the outside stopped that from happening. Cesaro and Sheamus capitalized on a now weaker Anderson with tandem offense. Anderson got back into the fight after landing a stiff kick to Cesaro in the corner. Gallows got tagged in, but he soon got beat down by a flying Cesaro European Uppercut, a double suplex and a running knee drop. Frequent tags between both Cesaro and Sheamus led to nasty uppercuts coming Gallows’ way. Gallows shook off all that damage and launched Cesaro up into the air for a backdrop. Cesaro looked to fight back, but Gallows cracked both him and Sheamus with a stiff side kick to gain the advantage.
When the match returned, Gallows still had Cesaro under control until he got lifted up high into the air with a Deadlift Suplex. Cesaro ended up getting the hot tag to Sheamus, who went on a tear as he pulled out his best moves on Gallows. After a nice bit of offense, Sheamus and Cesaro landed another bit double team move on Gallows. Gallows sprung back to life and tagged in Anderson. Anderson landed a flying boot to Sheamus and almost stole the win with a rope-assisted pin on Cesaro (the 2nd ref stopped this from happening). Anderson and Cesaro kept going back and forth with offense until Cesaro landed a 619/Flying Body Splash combo. Cesaro signaled for the Big Swing, but Anderson countered him. Both men fought tooth and nail afterwards, but Cesaro got dropped hard with a Spinebuster.
Madness ensued when Sheamus pushed Cesaro into landing a Tornado DDT on Gallows. Sheamus accidentally landed his Brogue Kick on the 1st ref, which caused the 2nd ref to take over. Cesaro used his Big Swing and Sharpshooter combo on Anderson, but Gallows made the save. Anderson and Gallows landed their Magic Killer on Sheamus after he was cracked by a wicked boot. Cesaro ended up getting rolled up by Anderson for the win after he shoved Gallows over the top rope.
Alexa Bliss, Mickie James and Natalya vs. Becky Lynch, Naomi and Nikki Bella
Winners: Becky Lynch, Naomi and Nikki Bella!
Highlights: Nikki and Natalya immediately went to blows after Natalya mocked Nikki’s husband. Natalya decided to quickly call in Alexa. Both her and Nikki exchanged holds, but Nikki got he best of her. After tagging in Naomi, her and Nikki dropped Bliss with a double dropkick. Soon after that, the babyface trio all suplexed their rivals. Following that, the heel trio got caught with a splash over the top rope. Once the match got back under control, Lynch could be seen using her line of comeback offense to ground Natalya. After taking plenty of damage, Natalya left the ring but she got caught with a Lynch flying elbow. Mickie got all over Lynch by flinging her right into the barricade. Natalya got back to her feet and suplexed Lynch for extra damage. Back in the ring, Natalya locked Lynch in a painful submission hold. Lynch escaped and almost got the hot tag, but Natalya stuffed her back into the heels corner.
Mickie and Alexa stuffed Lynch with boots and tandem offense. Alexa stayed on top of Lynch for a while before tagging Natalya back in. Natalya’s taunting almost got her pinned, but she quickly recovered and clotheslined Lynch back down to the mat. Natalya kept beating down Lynch and even knocked Naomi off the ring apron. Alexa managed to get tagged in, but Lynch fought both her and Natalya off. Natalya escaped to the outside and caused Nikki to trip off the ring apron. Lynch managed to fend off Alexa and tag in a now healed Naomi. Naomi went on a spree of offense on Alexa. Lynch took down Mickie with an Exploder Suplex and Nikki dropped Natalya with a Spear. Naomi got the win for her team with a Split-Legged Moonsault on Alexa.
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Rich Swann (c) vs. Neville (WWE Cruiserweight Championship)
Winner: And the new WWE Cruiserweight Champion, Neville!
Highlights: Both Cruiserweights quickly locked in an very stiff and intense manner. Both men employed their agile flips to hop over each other, but Rich got the better of it by dropkicking Neville and landing a plancha on him to the outside. Neville soon recovered and turned the tables of Rich by striking him and slamming him down hard back in the ring. Neville got to the top rope and then landed a Shotgun Dropkick right through Rich’s chest. Neville picked up Rich for something big, but Rich almost rolled Neville up in a surprise pin. Neville escaped and continued his beating of Rich by landing a Snap Suplex on him. Neville then landed a nice Elbow Strike on Rich while he was trapped in the corner. Neville soon locked on a submission hold on Rich right in the middle of the ring.
Neville released the hold and decided to drop a quick knee on Rich’s throat. Rich soon got locked into another tight submission hold. Rich suffered for a few moments before he made his escape, but he was unable to make a comeback. Neville grabbed ahold of Rich while he was on the outside and forced him into the security barrier over and over. Back inside the squared circle, Neville looked to land another top rope maneuver. But he flew right into Rich’s quick Superkick counter. Rich began pulling out all of his biggest moves on Neville during his exciting comeback sequence. Once Rich got ahold of Neville again, he stuffed him with grounded punches and a side kick. Rich reached into his unique repertoire once more to land some high-impact moves, but it didn’t finish off Neville just yet.
Rich found himself on the top rope again, but Neville struck him before he could pull off something magnificent. Neville flipped off the top rope after some back and forth brawling between him and Rich. Back on the mat, Neville landed a nice Superkick of his own on Rich and then looked to land a Deadlift German Suplex. But Rich responded with his devastating kick finisher and looked to get the winning pin. Neville managed to get his foot on the ropes to break up the pin, though. Rich went to the top rope to land another big splash, but Neville brought him back down to the mat with a Superplex. Neville then locked in his submission finisher and finally forced Rich to tap out.
Charlotte Flair (c) vs. Bayley (WWE Raw Women’s Championship)
Winner: And still the WWE Raw Women’s Champion, Charlotte!
Highlights: Charlotte went right into “WOO!” mode as soon as this title match got underway. Charlotte dominated Bayley during the match’s opening moments and even forced her right through the middle ropes. Both women soon got into a shoving match. Charlotte got shoved to the outside, got caught by Bayley by getting her slammed into the mat and then got caught with a mid-rope plancha on the outside. Charlotte couldn’t even catch a breather after all this as Bayley threw herself from the top rope right on her. The action continued on the outside when Charlotte recovered by using the ring apron and steel steps to incapacitate Bayley.
Back inside the ring, Charlotte got the upper hand on Bayley by striking her and using a Release Norther Lights Suplex. With Bayley locked in her grasp during a submission hold, the crowd chanted hard for her to recover. Charlotte broke her own hold and chose to punish her challenger with more strikes instead. Those strikes included strikes in the corner, of course. Bayley got back into the fight by looking for quick pins, but Charlotte countered back with a neckbreaker/Big Boot combo. Charlotte wrapped her legs around Bayley and tortured her with another submission hold. Bayley tried to escape by using a pinning attempt, but Charlotte escaped and punished her even more. Charlotte taunted Bayley far too much and forced her to grow even more enraged. Both women ended up clotheslining each other down to the mat.
When they both got back to their feet, Charlotte responded with a great number of chops. Bayley shook them all off and began using her unorthodox offense. Bayley made her way to the top rope and actually landed a slick “Macho Man” Elbow Drop. Bayley looked to land another big move, but Charlotte cut her off and managed to lock in her Figure Four Leglock. Bayley dealt with the pain from this submission hold and turned it around on Charlotte, but Charlotte rolled her back in order to lock in her Figure Eight variation. Charlotte signaled for her beautiful Moonsault, went airborne to land it and instead got caught by Bayley’s knees. Bayley got fired up and began beating down the title holder in the corner. Charlotte then got pushed to the top rope by Bayley, but Charlotte pushed her right over the top rope. While Bayley tried to recover on the ring apron, Charlotte laid her out with a Natural Selection on that very same part of the ring.
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AJ Styles (c) vs. John Cena (WWE Championship)
Winner: And the new WWE Champion, John Cena!
Highlights: As soon as the bell rang, the crowd went nuts with competing chants for both Superstars. AJ and John got into a feeling out process that ended with John quickly clotheslining AJ. John kept beating down AJ by throwing him right into the corner, but AJ got back at the challenger by cutting him with strikes and two big flying knee drops. AJ even used John’s own hand wave taunt, but it did nothing but anger John and cause him to throw AJ into the air for a back body drop. John looked to land an early AA, but AJ flipped out of it to land a kick to John’s leg and an Enzuguri to his head. AJ took a moment to look at his dirty work and then continue to beat John down even more. Out of nowhere, John got right into his signature comeback offense. When John went for his back suplex, AJ countered it by flipping around into a Hurricanrana. AJ then followed that up with a running elbow strike.
AJ looked to land more big moves, but Cena knocked him back and landed his full array of comeback moves. John was unable to land his Five Knuckle Shuffle since AJ grabbed ahold of his leg and launched right into his German Suplex/Faceplant combo. AJ looked to have the match in hand, but John recovered again and clocked AJ with a clothesline. After some more back and forth action, both men ended up on the top rope. AJ slipped underneath John, pulled him on his back and landed a Argentine Backbreaker slam. AJ looked to land his Phenomenal Elbow next, but John dodged him and actually landed an AA. John couldn’t get the 1-2-3 off of this move just yet.
AJ slowly got back to his feet while John revved himself up. When AJ turned around, he got his clock cleaned with another nasty clothesline. John went for another one, but AJ ducked underneath it and countered with a Pele. AJ then got catapulted over the top rope, but he responded in kind with his Phenomenal Elbow. This didn’t finish Cena, though! AJ began booting John in the stomach, but a missed kick from him ended with John picking up AJ on his shoulders and dropping him gut first. When both men finally got back on the two feet, they engaged in a game of dueling strikes. John almost got in another AA, but AJ slipped out and locked in a Calf Crusher. John suffered for a while before he escaped and got in his STF on AJ.
AJ remained locked in John’s hold for a while himself, but he escaped and looked to pin his opponent. AJ then locked John in an STF of his own! This didn’t last too long though as John escaped and almost landed another AA. After a series of counters, John shocked the crowd by locking AJ in a Figure Four Leglock. AJ screamed and writhed in pain before he countered by locking an armbar on John. John suffered for a few moments himself before he deadlifted AJ and Powerbombed him back to the mat. John came off the top rope with a Flying Legdrop, but AJ caught him in midair with a Powerbomb that quickly got followed up with a Styles Clash. Cena still managed to survive! AJ looked to land his Springboard 450 Splash, but he landed right on John’s knees. John then pulled out a shocking Code Red slam on AJ!
John looked for something even bigger to land while AJ was in a daze, but AJ quickly dropped John with a neckbreaker across his knee. AJ signaled for another Styles Clash, but John tripped AJ up and catapulted him into the corner ring pad. Once AJ turned back around, John grabbed ahold of him and landed a unique neckbreaker-like maneuver. John then did the unthinkable – land a devastating top rope AA! AJ still hung on for dear life by escaping a proceeding pin attempt. John went for yet another AA, but AJ dropped John with another crushing Styles Clash. AJ was unable to pin him, which caused John to get back to his feet and finally defeat AJ with two nasty AA’s.
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Kevin Owens (c) vs. Roman Reigns (No Disqualification Match for the WWE Universal Championship; Chris Jericho Will be Suspended in a Shark Cage Above the Ring)
Winner: And still the WWE Universal Champion, Kevin Owens!
Highlights: Before Jericho got locked in the cage, he and Kevin jumped all over Roman with punches and kicks. Roman quickly got back into fighting mode, beat down both men and soon forced Y2J into his temporary home for the evening. As soon as the bell rang, Kevin began his assault on the title challenger. Roman shook off all those strikes and took the fight right into the crowd as he battered Kevin with strikes. Roman even slammed Kevin into the Japanese Announcer’s Table! Back by the ring, Kevin fought back hard by throwing Roman into the steel steps. Kevin soon set up a number of steel chairs. Roman managed to take down Kevin with some strikes of his own, but he soon found himself on the receiving end of a Cannonball Splash into the security barrier.
Kevin used a separate steel chair as a battering ram to injure Roman’s gut. Then, Kevin ended up on the ring apron and looked to slam Roman into his castle of steel chairs. Roman fought back valiantly and looked to throw Kevin into his own concoction. After failing to do so, Roman hopped back into the ring to land some of his signature moves on the current title holder. Roman took a trip to the outside afterwards to recover a table. While Roman was distracted by the setup of that table, Kevin landed a sick Backstabber on him. Kevin pushed the table to the outside and looked to land another Cannonball Splash after using Roman’s signature taunt. Of course, this pissed off Roman and caused him to counter with a big boot and a Sitdown Powerbomb. Kevin crawled to the outside, but he got cracked with Roman’s Drive-By sliding dropkick.
Roman set up the table he recovered from before, but Kevin Superkicked him repeatedly to weaken him. Kevin then pulled off a nice Frog Splash that crashed right through Roman while he was laid atop the table. Roman looked even weaker than before, which caused Kevin to capitalize by battering him with a steel chair. Kevin looked to throw Roman into a chair set between the ring apron, but Roman got back into 2nd gear and began responding back with his own offense. But Kevin caught him off guard with another Superkick, which led to Roman getting thrown into the set up steel chair. Y2J gave his best bud some aid by throwing down a pair of brass knuckles. Kevin almost lost them after Roman tried to take they away, but Kevin shook him off and ended up landing a nice Superman Punch with the Brass Knuckles still on.
Kevin looked to Powerbomb Roman onto a steel chair, but Roman got him up instead for a Samoan Drop on that very same chair. Roman made a play for another table, which he managed to set up in the ring corner. Kevin almost rolled Roman up, but he escaped and responded right after with a Superman Punch. Roman signaled for a Spear, but Kevin landed a knee counter followed by a Stone Cold Stunner out of nowhere! In the corner, Kevin tapped into Austin’s offense even more by using his mudhole stomp on Roman. This got followed up by another Cannonball Splash. Kevin then picked up Roman for his bog move through his steel chair structure set up on the outside. The crowd looked on in awe and watched as Kevin failed, leading to Roman landing another Superman Punch. This caused Kevin to catapult through his steel chair setup.
Roman left the ring to clear off every announce table on the outside. He took the chance to punish Kevin even more by Powerbombing him right through the middle one. Back in the ring, Roman looked to land another Spear. All of a sudden, Braun Strowman attacked Roman by chokeslamming him on an announce table and slamming him through a table. Kevin slid over Roman’s now destroyed body and grabbed the cheap victory.
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2017 Royal Rumble Match (30-Man Royal Rumble Match for a World Championship Match at WrestleMania 33)
Winner: Randy Orton!
Highlights: Big Cass entered at #1 with Enzo in tow for some live mic antics. Y2J then made his entrance at #2. Both men sized each other up before Y2J proceeded to slap the big man. This pissed off Cass, which led into Y2J being the receiving end of a continued assault. Kalisto showed up at #3. Kalisto went full speed ahead as he used a Springboard Dropkick on Y2J and a Springboard Enzuguri on Cass. Kalisto was a slippery lil’ devil as he and Cass got into it, but Cass finally dropped the luchador with a big boot. Mojo Rawley then appeared at #4. As soon as he got into the ring, he floored Kalisto and Y2J with offense. Him and Cass got into a pretty tense exchange while the other two men were down. Y2J and Mojo tried to eliminate Cass, but their attempt failed.
Jack Gallagher sprung up at #5. He used his classy umbrella to lay out several men, but Y2J got fed up with his BS and slammed him to the mat. Y2J went into full taunt mode, but this mistake led to Jack using his umbrella to low blow Y2J and have some more fun at his expense. The match continued and led into Mark Henry showing up at #6. Mark dominated everyone in the ring and showed love to the hometown crowd. After getting thrown through the middle rope, Jack tried to catch Mark with an umbrella strike from the top rope. Mark caught him and quickly eliminated him. Braun Strowman arrived at #7. He wasted no time taking down everyone in his way. He eliminated Mojo, but turned right around into a big boot from Cass. Braun got back to his feet though and dodged another big boot, which led to him shoving Cass over the top rope. Braun then sent Kalisto for a ride by flinging him over the rope onto Cass and Mojo. After some big man brawling, Braun got rid of Mark as well. Y2J decided to take refuge outside the ring after he slid underneath the rope to escape.
Sami Zayn entered at #8. Sami fought valiantly, but Braun cut his offense off at every turn. Big Show showed up at #9 to lock horns with another giant. Both behemoths locked eyes and began brawling. Big Show looked good at first, but Braun took him down with a nasty clothesline. Big Show got back to his feet and chokeslammed Braun, then turned his attention to Y2J by clocking him with a stiff punch. Braun and Show kept fighting until Braun flung him over the top rope. At #10 came the perfect 10, Tye Dillinger! Sami and Tye worked together to beat down Braun while the crowd chanted for Tye. Braun landed a double suplex on both men and then came James Ellsworth at #11 with Carmella by his side. Braun almost found himself gone after Sami and Tye almost double teamed him over the rope. Braun destroyed them both and looked to face off with #12, Dean Ambrose.
Dean tricked James into entering the ring, which led to Braun making quick work of him by catapulting him over the top rope. Braun looked stronger than ever. but the three men opposing him made a solid attempt at weakening him. Baron Corbin arrived at #13 and joined the other men in the ring to beat down Braun. Braun powered out of their team up and sent Tye over the top rope. Back in the ring, Braun got taken down by Sami, Dean and Baron’s biggest moves. Baron then shocked the crowd by forcing Braun over the top rope. Dean laid in a nice Dirty Deeds on Baron soon after. Kofi came out at #14. All four men in the ring went to war with each other and tried to force one another over the top rope. #15 turned out to be The Miz. As soon as he entered the ring, he landed his Skull Crushing Finale on Sami. Dean dropped Kofi with his Rebound Lariat, Miz used Daniel Bryan’s repeated kicks on Baron in the corner and Baron escaped and landed his Deep Six Nine on Kofi. Kofi pulled off a crazy feat afterward by sitting atop the ring post and hopping right over Baron and landing his Trouble in Paradise. At #16 came Sheamus, who pulled out all the stops to take down everyone in the ring.
#17 turned out to be Big E, who belted out his usual pre-match promo. He locked in The Miz in his Abominable Stretch and smacked his ass for extra measure. Of course, Kofi and Big E entered into an alliance against the other Superstars. The action kept going at a heated pace until Rusev entered at #18. Rusev clashed with a ring full of men while he wore a face mask for his broken nose. At #19, we got Cesaro. As soon as he got in, he gave The Miz, Sami and Dean repeated Big Swings. Even Kofi and Big E went for a ride. He almost did the same to his tag team partner, but was interrupted by a Superkick from Rusev. Xavier Woods came out at #20. Him, Big E and Kofi pulled off their tandem offense on Sheamus as soon as Xavier entered the ring. The Miz got a piece of that same offense soon after. Bray Wyatt showed up at #21 as the fireflies in the crowd celebrated his arrival. He used a Uranage Slam to take down Miz and soon began taking down anyone else in his path.
#22 gave us Apollo Crews, who managed to land some beautiful dropkicks and other high-flying moves on Bray and a few other men. The whole New Day got eliminated by Sheamus and Cesaro! But when Sheamus looked to get rid of his own partner, Y2J got rid of the both of them. Sheamus and Cesaro then began arguing on the outside. At #23 came Randy Orton, who handed out an RKO to Baron and Rusev. Sami made the mistake of coming off the top rope and landing right in another RKO. Him and Bray then got locked into their unusual alliance. #24 ended up being Dolph Ziggler, who went on a Superkick frenzy. He soon landed a double DDT as well and began beating down the rest of the opposition. Luke Harper showed up at #25. He soon got rid of Apollo Crews and set his sights right on Randy. Bray looked to ease the tensions between them, but Luke decided to take them both out. Luke almost landed Sister Abigail on Bray, but Randy saved him with a RKO to Luke at the very last moment.
Brock Lesnar finally made his arrival at #26! As soon as he got in, he got rid of Dolph and Dean, Suplex City came to town, of course. Brock then F5’d both Baron and Randy. #27 gave us Enzo Amore. He ran straight ahead into “The Beast,” who clocked Enzo with a Lariat and quickly eliminated him. Brock then went right back to his Suplex City ways. #28 turned out to be Goldberg! Him and Brock stared each other down before going to blows. Goldberg quickly Speared Brock and eliminated him in mere seconds! Goldberg entered into domination mode as he struck his prey with more Spears and a Jackhammer to Sami. #29 gave us The Undertaker! Taker showed up as the lights came back on and almost chokeslammed Goldberg. Goldberg got rid of Rusev, while Taker eliminated Baron. Goldberg repeated his elimination feat by getting rid of Luke, but then Taker shocked the world by getting rid of Goldberg! Taker then went Chokeslam crazy by taking out Miz and Sami.
The final entrant turned out to be Roman Reigns. Taker and Roman engaged in a tense staredown right in the middle of the ring as the crowd looked on. Both men then began throwing bombs at each other repeatedly. Roman landed a Superman Punch on Taker, but it did nothing to weaken him. Taker countered a 2nd Superman Punch, chokeslammed Roman ad then eliminated Miz and Sami. Taker turned his attention to Y2J by gifting him with a Chokeslam as well. Then Roman caught Taker off guard by throwing him over the top rope. The final four were set – Roman Reigns, Chris Jericho, Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton. Y2J got eliminated after catching a Superman Punch while he stood on the top rope. Bray and Randy then turned their attention to Roman. Randy landed his Apron DDT on Roman and looked to help Bray land an RKO. But Roman slipped out of it and got rid of Bray. Roman’s Spear attempt led to failure as he jumped right into an RKO followed by his elimination!
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Non-Match Moments/Highlights
Come back and join us for the results and highlights from WWE Elimination Chamber 2017 on February 12, 2017!
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