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Plus, whatever they’re tethered together with can become a dangerous weapon in the right hands. The ‘Strap Match’ stipulation means they’ll be tethered together, so there’s really no escape. This year, Danial Bryan takes on champion Bray Wyatt (competing under his supernatural “The Fiend” persona) in a Strap Match for the biggest prize in the WWE today – the Universal Championship.
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What else is on the card? Irish wrestling Becky Lynch won last year’s women’s Royal Rumble, dumping out Charlotte Flair to be declared the winner (Photo: WWE.com)Īside from the men’s and women’s Royal Rumble matches, the event features a full undercard of match ups to keep you entertained before the main event. Then there’s the fact that with the staggered entrants every 90 seconds, the match is guaranteed to last at least around 45 minutes.Įvery year, wrestling fans strap themselves in for not one but two epic showdowns, since both the men’s and women’s rosters get their own Rumble matches. That means established superstars like John Cena have taken on relative unknowns from WWE’s NXT ranks in Royal Rumble matches, and surprise debutantes like AJ Styles have been welcomed with rapturous cheers. That opens the door for exciting surprise entrants, which in the past have ranged from old favourites who haven’t been seen for years, to fresh new stars making their debut in front of WWE fans for the first time. The match is made all the more exciting by the fact that – alongside the grand prize at the end of it all – not all of the entrants are announced by WWE beforehand. Winning the Royal Rumble holds such importance to the victor, because it allows them to challenge a current champion of their choosing just a couple of months later in the main event match at WrestleMania. This goes on until just one competitor is left standing – they are then declared the winner. The only way to have someone removed from the match is to throw them over the top rope, with both of their feet touching the floor outside. There are no pinfall or submission eliminations. Two start off at the beginning, just as they would any other wrestling match, but after an interval of five minutes, more wrestlers get added to the fight – one every 90 seconds. The wrestling equivalent of ‘The Floor is Lava’, competitors hold on for dear life at last year’s Royal Rumble event (Photo: WWE.com) Instead of just two competitors, a total of 30 will enter the Royal Rumble match – there have been as many as 40 or even 50 entrants in previous such matches.