Royal Rumble (2016) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV)
event produced by WWE. It took place on January 24, 2016, at Amway
Center in Orlando, Florida.[1] It was the 29th event in the Royal Rumble
chronology. This was the fifth Royal Rumble to be held in the state of
Florida (1990, 1991, 1995, and 2006) and the first pay-per-view event at
Amway Center since it opened in 2010. This was the second Royal Rumble
match that was contested for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, as
the first was in 1992. This was the first match in which the defending
champion was in the Rumble, as the Rumble in 1992 was for the
championship when it was vacant.
Six matches were contested at the event, with one match contested on the
pre-show. In the main event, the returning Triple H won the Royal
Rumble match by eliminating Dean Ambrose to win the WWE World
Heavyweight Championship, becoming the third person to win from entrant
number 30 and the first since John Cena in 2008. The defending champion
Roman Reigns was also eliminated by Triple H. The Royal Rumble match was
also notable for the WWE pay-per-view debut of AJ Styles,[2][3][4] who
made his first WWE appearance in 2002.
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