WWE Royal Rumble 2014 (2014)
January 26, 2014Release Date
WWE Royal Rumble 2014 (2014)
January 26, 2014Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Randy Orton
Randy Orton
John Cena
John Cena
Brock Lesnar
Brock Lesnar
Paul Wight
Big Show
Bryan Danielson
Daniel Bryan
Windham Rotunda
Bray Wyatt
Dave Bautista
Batista
Phil Brooks
CM Punk
Óscar Gutiérrez
Rey Mysterio
Colby Lopez
Seth Rollins
Joe Anoa'i
Roman Reigns
Kevin Dunn
Director
Jonathan Good
Dean Ambrose
Alberto Rodriguez
Alberto Del Rio
Michael Notarile
Writer
Stephen Farrelly
Sheamus
Glenn Jacobs
Kane
Miroslav Barnyashev
Alexander Rusev
Kevin Nash
Kevin Nash
Cody Rhodes
Cody Rhodes
Dustin Runnels
Goldust
Donald Hager Jr.
Jack Swagger
Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah
Kofi Kingston
Ettore Ewen
Big E Langston
Jonathan Fatu Jr.
Jimmy Uso
Joshua Fatu
Jey Uso
Mike Mizanin
The Miz
Aaron Haddad
Damien Sandow
Nick Nemeth
Dolph Ziggler
Ryan Reeves
Ryback
Joseph Ruud
Erick Rowan
Ron Killings
R-Truth
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Release DateJanuary 26, 2014
StatusReleased
Running Time3h
Content RatingPG-13
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The 2014 Royal Rumble was the 27th annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It took place on January 26, 2014, at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first Royal Rumble to be held in the city of Pittsburgh and the first WWE pay-per-view event held in the Consol Energy Center. The Royal Rumble match winner received a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania. For the 2014 event, the winner received a match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania XXX, marking the first Royal Rumble since 2002 where there was only one eligible championship for which the winner could challenge.
The event featured five professional wrestling matches, including one match on the kickoff pre-show. The main event was the titular Royal Rumble, which a returning Batista won by last eliminating Roman Reigns to become a two-time Royal Rumble winner. Other matches saw Randy Orton successfully defending the WWE World Heavyweight Championship against John Cena, Bray Wyatt defeating Daniel Bryan, and Brock Lesnar defeating Big Show. On the kickoff pre-show, Goldust and Cody Rhodes lost the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship to the New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn).
Considered one of the worst Royal Rumble pay-per-views of all time, the event is notable for the overwhelmingly negative audience response to the Orton–Cena and Royal Rumble matches. The fans booed Royal Rumble winner Batista in protest and chanted for Bryan (who was not part of the match) and runner-up Reigns, though the Bryan–Wyatt match was praised. The event marked the final WWE appearance of CM Punk, who abruptly left the company on bad terms the following day and retired from wrestling for the next seven-and-a-half years; he then joined AEW at The First Dance in August 2021, returned to WWE at Survivor Series in November 2023, and competed in his first WWE match in a decade at the Royal Rumble in January 2024.
The event received 467,000 buys, down 8.8% from the 512,000 buys for the previous year's event.