Our WWE Royal Rumble results for tonight include #DIY defending the WWE Tag Team Championship against Motor City Machine Guns, Kevin Owens challenging Cody Rhodes for the Undisputed WWE Championship in a ladder match, the Men’s and Women’s Royal Rumble Matches, and more! Here’s our review and grades for tonight’s show, live from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.
WWE Royal Rumble Card:
- Men’s Royal Rumble Match
- Women’s Royal Rumble Match
- Undisputed WWE Championship Ladder Match: Cody Rhodes vs. Kevin Owens
- WWE Tag Team Championship 2 Out Of 3 Falls Match: #DIY (c) vs. Motor City Machine Guns
WWE Royal Rumble Results:
Stephanie McMahon opens the show and thanks the crowd for making this the biggest Royal Rumble ever!
Women’s Royal Rumble Match
Entrant #1: IYO SKY
Entrant #2: Liv Morgan
Sky and Morgan trade shots. Sky avoids Morgan’s attack with a series of backflips. SKY misses a springboard dropkick. Morgan almost hits Oblivion, but Sky dumps her out to the apron. Sky and Morgan battle out on the apron as the bell rings for the next entrant.
Entrant #3: Roxanne Perez
Perez lands a combo DDT, Russian leg sweep combo on SKY and Morgan. Morgan lands a codebreaker on Perez.
Entrant #4: Lyra Valkyria
Valkyria has a wardrobe malfunction and needs powder.
Entrant #5: Chelsea Green
Green takes her sweet time getting to the ring. Green gets in the ring and b*tch slaps Sky and Perez. Everyone jumps Green.
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Entrant #6: B-Fab
B-Fab lands a flurry of kicks. Suplex neckbreaker by B-Fab. Everyone brawls.
Entrant #7: Ivy Nile
Nile German suplexes Green and Perez at the same.
Entrant #8: Zoey Stark
Stark lands a series of suplexes. Diving neck breaker off the second rope by Stark to Green.
Entrant #9: Lash Legend
Legend hits the ring and bull hammers everyone. Legend walks Perez around the ring with a suplex. Green dumps B-Fab over the top.
B-Fab has been eliminated
Entrant #10: Bianca Belair
Belair lands a crossbody into the ring. More brawling. Belair does four backflips to avoid charging superstars. Belair suplexes Legend.
Entrant #11: Shayna Baszler
Baszler and Stark try to eliminate Valkyria, but she manages to take both women out with a top rope dropkick. While Valkyria is celebrating, Nile tosses Valkyria over the top.
Lyra Valkyria has been eliminated
Entrant #12: Bayley
Perez and Bayley tear into each other. Bayley sends Perez into the corner. Bayley has a faceoff with former friend SKY. Baszler and Stark break it up by attacking both women.
Entrant #13: Sonya Deville
Deville spears Morgan. Green tries to suck up to Deville. Deville drops Green with Deville’s Advocate. Deville, Stark, and Baszler beat down the field. Green rolls under the bottom rope to avoid getting beaten down.
Entrant #14: Maxxine Dupri
PFC surrounds Dupri. Nile steps in front of them and wants the first crack at Dupri. Dupri elbows Nile in the face and lands a suplex. Dupri lands the reverse caterpillar. Nile attacks Dupri. Dupri dumps Nile.
Ivy Nile has been eliminated
PFC dumps Dupri.
Maxxine Dupri has been eliminated
Entrant #15: Naomi
Naomi lands a heat seeker on Stark before she enters the ring. PFC stomps Naomi. Naomi, SKY, and Belair land their finishes on each member of PFC. All of PFC is dumped at the same time.
Shayna Baszler, Zoey Stark, and Sonya Deville have been eliminated
Entrant #16: Jaida Parker
Parker clears the ring. Green dumps Legend.
Lash Legend has been eliminated
Entrant #17: Piper Niven
Green stands behind Niven. Niven brawls with Belair and Naomi. Niven crushes both women with a low crossbody. Niven tries to save Green, who has been dropped on the apron by Naomi. Niven accidentally knocks Green to the floor.
Chelsea Green has been eliminated
Entrant #18: Natalya
Natalya lands a discus lariat. Parker blasts Perez with Hypnotic.
Entrant #19: Jordynne Grace
Grace suplexes everyone and tosses Parker over the top.
Jaida Parker has been eliminated
Naomi and Grace hug. Belair snatches Grace by the hair, looks at Naomi like she has 67 heads, and tosses Grace over the top. Grace lands on the apron.
Entrant #20: Michin
Entrant #21: Alexa Bliss
Bliss has a staredown with Bayley. Bliss lands a flurry of offense on Bayley.
Entrant #22: Zelina Vega
Vega takes Niven out with a tornado DDT. Vega hits a Code Red on Grace off the top!
Entrant #23: Candice LeRae
Entrant #24: Stephanie Vaquer
Vaquer lands a springboard dropkick on her way into the ring. Vaquer obliterates Bayley with a vicious dragon screw.
Entrant #25: Trish Stratus
Stratus lands a double Stratusfaction. Niven runs over Stratus.
Entrant #26: Liv Morgan’s Bodyguard
Morgan hits a codebreaker that knocks Natalya off the apron.
Natalya has been eliminated
Morgan does the same to Bliss.
Alexa Bliss has been eliminated
Entrant #27: Charlotte Flair
Flair chops the hell out of everyone in the ring. Flair boots Michin off the apron.
Michin has been eliminated
Vaquer and Grace hold Flair up in a suplex. Flair reverses it into a double DDT. Flair tosses Niven over the top.
Piper Niven has been eliminated
Entrant #28: Giulia
Giulia knees Grace in the face, sending her out of the ring.
Jordynne Grace has been eliminated
The NXT women and the WWE Women left in the match pair off and engage in a WWE vs. NXT brawl.
Entrant #29: Nia Jax
Jax pulls Vega off the apron.
Zelina Vega has been eliminated
Jax and Stratus go nose-to-nose. LeRae tries to save Jax and gets tossed by Stratus.
Candice LeRae has been eliminated
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Status sends Jax flying with a rana. Jax tries to dump Stratus. LeRae pulls Stratus off the apron.
Trish Stratus has been eliminated
Entrant #30: Nikki Bella
Everyone attacks Jax. Jax tosses the pile away. Nia Jax dumped out Belair, Sky, Vaquer, Naomi, Morgan, and her bodyguard at the same time…
A BUNCH OF PEOPLE have been eliminated
Perez, Flair, and Giulia all fight on the apron. Perez sends Giulia into the ring post, knocking her to the floor.
Giulia has been eliminated
Bella dumps Bayley
Bayley has been eliminated
Jax dumps Bella.
The final three are Nia Jax, Roxanne, Perez, and Charlotte Flair. Flair and Perez dump Jax.
Nia Jax has been eliminated
Flair boots Perez off the apron.
Roxanne Perez has been eliminated
Winner- Charlotte Flair
Grade: B
This match was a lot of fun. Tons of great spots that furthered multiple storylines and started a few as well. The winner was a bit anti-climactic, but it’s Charlotte. Charlotte’s gonna Charlotte. Let’s just be happy that she wasn’t number 30.
WWE Tag Team Championship 2 Out Of 3 Falls Match: #DIY (c) vs. Motor City Machine Guns
Sabin and Shelley are in control early. Shelley holds the ropes while Sabin lands a dive. Ciampa surprises Sabin with a Willow’s Bell. Gargano and Ciampa work over Sabin. Ciampa gets a blind tag and blasts Shelley with a running knee to the face. Ciampa pins Shelley.
#DIY- 1| MCMG-0
Ciampa and Gargano work over Shelley. Sabin and Shelley eventually land Skull and Bones for the pin.
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#DIY- 1| MCMG-1
Gargano takes out Shelley with a dive. Back in the ring, Ciampa hits Project Ciampa. Sabin somehow kicks out. Shelley suplexes Gargano into Ciampa, who is stuck in a tree of woe. Diving dropkick by Shelley. Powerbomb/Sliced bread #2 combo by Sabin and Shelley. Gargano breaks up the pin. Gargano accidentally kicks Ciampa. Sabin and Shelley set up their finish. Someone in a hood hops up on the apron. Angelo Dawkins appears and knocks Shelley off the top with a crutch. Ciampa and Gargano Meet in the Middle on Shelley for the win.
#DIY- 2| MCMG-1
Winners- #DIY
After the match, the man in the hood is revealed to be Montez Ford. Ford and Dawkins beatdown and already bloody Ciampa and Gargano.
Grade: B-
This was one for the nerds, and it delivered. If you love quality in-ring action, this is a match you’ll want to check out. The Street Profits finally doing a proper heel turn put this segment over the top. This is exactly what they were missing: not just an edge, but an actual reason for having an edge.
Undisputed WWE Championship Ladder Match: Cody Rhodes vs. Kevin Owens
Rhodes lands a flurry of punches. Owens tries to escape out of the ring. Rhodes tries to suplex Owens on a ladder out on the floor. Owens counters and suplexes Rhodes on it instead. Owens chokes Rhodes with a broken piece of the ladder. Rhodes and Owens fight into the crowd. The fight ends up back by the ring. Owens hip-tosses Rhodes on a ladder. Owens tries to climb the ladder, but Rhodes pulls him down. Rhodes tosses Owens into the ladder. Owens beat Rhodes with a step ladder. Owens and Rhdoes trade shots with the tiny ladder.
A side suplex by Owens on a ladder to Rhodes. Rhodes tries to climb. As Rhodes gets his hands on the titles, Owens moves the ladder. Rhodes dangles. Owens hits a powerbomb. Rhodes surprises Owens with a suplex on a ladder. Rhodes breaks off a bottom-rung of a ladder and wacks Owens with it. Owens mocks Rhode’s father with a flip, flop, and fly, but he capped it off with a ladder shot instead of a bionic elbow. Owens tries to powerbomb Rhodes on the point of a ladder. Rhodes counters with a blackbody drop on the ladder.
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Rhodes climbs the ladder. Owens plucks Rhodes off the ladder and powerbomb him on another ladder. Owens hits a fisherman’s buster off the top onto a ladder! Both men are down. The referee calls for the medical staff. SmackDown GM Nick Aldis and other officials check on both men. Sami Zayn also comes to ringside. Owens gets to his feet and picks up Rhodes for a Stunner. Rhodes reverses it into Crossroads. Rhodes slams Owens’ head into the commentary desk repeatedly.
Owens is busted open. Zayn watches on as Rhodes unloads on Owens. Rhodes stands on the commentary desk. Owens low blows Rhodes and sets up a package piledriver on a ladder bridged between the ring and the commentary desk. Rhodes reverses it into an Alabama Slam through the ladder. Owens lands on his head, and that ladder snaps in half. That was GROSS. Rhodes climbs the ladder and pulls down the championship for the win.
Winner- Cody Rhodes
Grade: A
That ladder match was terrific. Rhodes and Owens tried to kill each other tonight. This writer isn’t 100’5 sure Owens isn’t dead after that Alabama slam through the ladder. Owens was wearing a crimson mask by the end of this, and that’s precisely how this should end. Owens had everything that happened tonight coming.
Men’s Royal Rumble Match
Entrant #1: Rey Mysterio
Entrant #2: Penta
Penta and Mysterio shake hands. Penta does his Zero fear taunt. Mysterio does a mocking 619 taunt. Mysterio tries to send Penta out to the floor with a rana. Penta’s feet seem to touch the floor, but it’s close. Mysterio tries to move into the corner and gets kicked in the head.
Entrant #3: Chad Gable
Mysterio and Penta double team Gable.
Entrant #4: Carmelo Hayes
Hayes sends Penta flying with a head-scissor facebuster. Hayes destroys Mysterio with a slingshot DDT.
Entrant #5: Santos Escobar
Escobar hits a 619 on Mysterio. Escobar lands a Mexican destroyer on Penta. Gable tosses all four men to the apron, but none of them hit the floor. Everyone superkicks Gable at the same time.
Entrant #6: Otis
Otis chokeslams Escobar. Otis tries the Catapilar, but Gable locks in an ankle lock. Gable German suplexes Otis.
Entrant #6: Bron Breakker
Breakker Spears Hates and tosses him over the top.
Carmelo Hayes has been eliminated
Gable goes up top. Breakker sends Gable flying with a Breakkenstiener.
Entrant #7: Tozawa
As Tozawa is making his entrance, Hayes blasts him in the back of the head. Adam Pearce checks on Tozawa. Tozawa is helped to the back. Triple H says they need a replacement and tells Youtuber IShowSPeed to take Tozawa’s place. Speed does….
Entrant #8: IShowSpeed
Speed helps Breakker eliminate Otis.
Otis has been eliminated
Speed dances around the ring. Breakker cuts Speed in half with a Spear and press slams him over the top. Otis catches Speed and tosses him over. The commentaruy desk.
ISHowSpeed has been eliminated
Entrant #9: Sheamus
Entrant #10: Jimmy Uso
Entrant #11: Andrade
Andrade blasts Gable with a running knee strike in the corner.
Entrant #12: Jacob Fatu
Fatu clears the ring. Penta and Fatu square off. Fatu Samoan drops Penta and Mysterio at the same time. Fatu tosses Gable, Mysterio, and Andrade.
Chad Gable, Rey Mysterio, and Andrade have been eliminated
Entrant #13: Ludwig Kaiser
Kaiser is slow to get. in the ring. When he finally does, Penta tosses him out.
Ludwig Kaiser has been eliminated
Entrant #14: The Miz
Entrant #15: TNA Champion Joe Hendry
Hendry hits his finish on The Miz as Sheamus claps along. Fatu obliterates Hendry with a crossbody block. Sheamus yells at Fatu because he was enjoying that.
Entrant #16: Roman Reigns
Reigns Spears Miz, Sheamus, and Hendry and tosses all of them.
Miz, Sheamus, and Hendry have been eliminated
Breakker and Reigns go nose-to-nose. Both men hit the ropes for Spears, but Breakker cuts Reigns in half. Breakker tries to toss Reigns, but Reigns reverses it and sends him out instead.
Bron Breakker has been eliminated
Jimmy tries to help Reigns up, but Fatu superkicks him and sends him over the top.
Jimmy Uso has been eliminated
Reigns and Fatu trade shots. Reigns Spears Fatu.
Entrant #17: Drew McIntyre
McIntyre and Fatu stomp Reigns.
Entrant #18: Finn Bálor
Entrant #19: Shinsuke Nakamrua
Penta leaps off of Bálor’s back and hits a Mexican Destroyer on Fatu. Penta tries another destroy, but Bálor dumps Penta.
Penta has been eliminated
Entrant #20: Jey Uso
Uso sends Nakamura over the top.
Shinsuke Nakamura has been eliminated
Entrant #21: AJ Styles
Styles lands a flurry of strikes on the field. Fatu and Styles trade shots. Styles n. ils Fatu with a Pele kick. Fatu responds with a high-angle back body drop.
Entrant #22: Braun Strowman
Strowman goes straight for Fatu. After trading shots, Strowman launches Fatu over the top.
Jacob Fatu has been eliminated
Entrant #23: John Cena
Cena tosess out Strowman and Bálor.
Finna Bálor and Braun Strowman have been eliminated
Reigns Spears McIntyre.
Entrant #24: CM Punk
Punk, Cena, and Reigns circle each other. Before they fight, the next entrant is up.
Entrant #25: Seth “Freakin” Rollins
Entrant #26: Dominik Mysterio
Everyone brawls. Dominik enters the ring with a splash to Cena. Dominik tries to suplex Reigns. Reigns counters with a suplex of his own.
Entrant #27: Sami Zayn
Entrant #28: Damian Priest
Priest tosses out Dominik.
Dominik Mysterio has been eliminated
Entrant #29: LA Knight
Jey tries to superkick McIntyre but accidentally hits Zayn, sending him over the top.
Sami Zayn has been eliminated
Entrant #30: Logan Paul
Priest dumps McIntyre.
Drew McIntyre has been eliminated
Knight pushes Paul off the apron, but Paul leaps to the commentary desk. Knight clotheslines Priest over the top.
Damian Priest has been eliminated
Styles back drops Knight over the top.
LA Knight has been eliminated
Styles goes up top. Paul pushes Styles to the floor.
AJ Styles has been eliminated
Punk drops Paul with the GTS. Rollins stomps Cena and Punk. Rollins drops Jey with a Pedigree. Rollins and Reigns are the last two standing. Rollins and Reigns trade punches. Rollins and Reigns take turns trying to throw each other over the top. While Reing and Rollins are tied up in the ropes, Punk dumps them both over the top.
Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins have been eliminated
While Punk gloats, Paul dumps Punk from behind.
CM Punk has been eliminated
Punk, Reigns, and Rollins argue outside the ring. Rollins leaps off the steps and double foot stomps Reigns. Punk and Rollins fight. After the fight is broken up, Rollins runs back and Stomps Reigns again on the stairs!
Cena clotheslines Paul over the top.
Logan Paul has been eliminated
Cena and Jey are the final two men in the Royal Rumble. Both men trade strikes. Cena fires up but ends up eating a Spear. Jey and Cena trade shots on the apron. Jey trips Cena, and Cena falls to the floor. Cena is SHOCKED. So is Jey.
John Cena has been eliminated
Winner- Jey Uso
Grade: B
The Men’s Royal Rumble started off hot, lulled in the middle, and picked up at the end. The finish of this match was a genuine shock. Jey Uso winning was not on this writer’s bingo card, but in hindsight, it makes perfect sense. Jey is the most over person in WWE at this point. The question is, now, do you put the world title on Jey?
WWE Royal Rumble Review:
This was solid but not great PLE. People will most likely complain about the lack of surprises in the men’s Royal Rumble, but the clear counter is that the surprise finish trumps any surprise entrant they could come up with, short of the ghost of André the Giant that would have been better than the surprise finish. The women’s Rumble was better than the men’s (which seems to be a trend) this year due to the lack of lulls in the women’s match. Owens and Rhodes attempted to murder each other, which was so entertaining this writer is about to watch it again. What do you all think happens next? Let us know what you think in the comments.
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