WWE presented the Royal Rumble from the Thunderdome on Sunday evening.
In the pre-show, Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler defeated Asuka and Charlotte Flair to win the Women’s Tag Team Championships. after Lacey Evans hit Charlotte with a mitten.
Drew McIntyre defeated Goldberg to retain the WWE Championship. It took less than 3 minutes. Spears, Jackhammers and Claymores weren’t enough until Goldberg finally hit the cornerback and Drew hit another Claymore to win.
After the fight, Goldberg and Drew shook hands and Goldberg paid his respects.
Sasha Banks defeated Carmella (with Reginald) by surrendering to keep the Smackdown Women’s Championship
Big E and Xavier Woods were backstage. Sami Zayn interrupted them and talked nonsense about Kofi Kingston until Kofi shows up and scares Sami. Kingston said he couldn’t compete, but he wanted to be there because if one of them wins the Rumble, they all win the Rumble.
Bad Bunny performed ‘Booker T’ with Booker on stage. Booker said his catchphrase at the end.
Royal Rumble femenino:
There were several surprises like Jillian Hall, who was joined at one point by Billy Kay, Victoria, Torrie Wilson, Alicia Fox and Naomi (who lasted a long time), Mickey James and Lana returned.
The NXT version of Shotzi Blackheart, Toni Storm, Santana Garrett, Rhea Ripley, Dakota Kai and Ember Moon.
At one point in the match, R Truth came in and Alicia ironed him out to win the championship 24/7. After being eliminated, the Truth has struck it again.
Alexa Bliss didn’t last long when he started transforming, but in the middle of it they pulled him out.
At one point Lana Nia managed to take out Jax.
The four finalists were Natalya, Belair, Ripley and Charlotte. Natalya got close to taking out Ripley, but Belair took out Natalya. Ripley and Belair and they manage to get Charlotte out.
Riple and Bianca then fight until Bianca finally takes her out and wins the Rumble. Bianca was interviewed and she looked very excited to win.
Backstage, Miz and Morrison told Bad Bunny that I should do a song about it because Booker was done. Booker showed up and said, “Tell me you didn’t just say that.” Booker looked at Miz before entering Bad Bunny’s dressing room.
Rosenberg of the comment panel hired Truth to win the 24/7 title.
Roman Reigns (with Paul Heyman) defeated Kevin Owens at Last Man Standing to retain the Universal Championship. They fought everywhere. Roman launched Owens from the Thunderdome monitors on a table, and later Owens launched himself from above on Reigns on another table.
At the end, Owens handcuffs Roman from part of the stage and before the referee counts 10, Roman throws the referee against the structure. Heyman brings a key to free Roman, another umpire arrives and SURPRISE – the key didn’t really work. WWE had to stop counting the referee’s shot as clearly ten seconds had passed, but Heyman was still trying to get Roman out.
Roman finally comes out and shortly afterwards Owens gives the surrender key, who then cannot answer the count of 10 to let Roman win.
Royal Rumble Masculino
Edge and Orton started the fight, catching up with everyone, even on the edge. Edge hit Orton on the leg several times, knocking him out of the fight.
CARLITO ~! He entered # 8 handing out Backstabbers to Nakamura and Ali, later got knocked out by Elias. Other surprises included Kane, Christian, Hurricane, Damien Priest – who looked good and even took out Kane, and the return of Seth Rollins.
When Miz came out, he broke Bad Bunny’s stereo, and it came out then, of course. The distraction allowed Damian Priest to take out Miz and Morrison. Bad Bunny then jumped almost from the third rope over Miz and Morrison.
Ultimately, Edge, Christian, Strowman, and Rollins stay. Between Edge and Christian, they eliminate Strowman, but at the same time Rollins eliminates Christian. Later, Edge eliminates Rollins, but just before he is declared the winner, Orton reappears and RKO’s him, but Edge avoids throwing him to the edge and takes out Orton to let Edge win the Rumble.