WWE's 24th annual Royal Rumble is here and we are Live from Boston! Forget about the Celtics Laker game, the All-Star's in the NHL are over, right here tonight, we're set for officially the biggest Royal Rumble ever! Two factions go into this thing as united groups, Kane's in, the Big Show, King Sheamus and the athletically gifted in Johnny Morrison, Kofi Kingston and 2006 winner Rey Mysterio! Here we go, the Road To WrestleMania begins, 40-person Royal Rumble!
Michael Cole, Jerry 'The King' Lawler and Matt Striker bring us in and we begin with the World Heavyweight Championship match! Edge makes his entrance to a huge reception from the crowd, but then Vickie Guerrero follows out to remind us all that Edge is banned from using his signature finisher the Spear here tonight. Vickie then chants for the Spear, reminding Edge that if he does use it, then he will be Disqualified and Dolph Ziggler will be named new World Champion.
Edge (c) vs. Dolph Ziggler w/ Vickie Guerrero
World Heavyweight Championship
The contest gets under way after official intro's from Tony Chimmel. Edge and Dolph trade between grapples and punches early and the World Champ gets the first near fall after Irish-whipping Dolph hard into the turnbuckles. The commentary trio discuss Edge's move-set, wondering how the ultimate opportunist will cope without the use of the Spear. Edge gets a couple of Two-counts before fighting with Ziggler to the outside and Edge dominates Dolph as he lifts his opponent to have his chest snake-eye over the top of the barricade. Back in the ring Ziggler uses the ring ropes to help him out and he manages to conquer Edge to the canvas with a swinging neckbreaker. Edge's torso then hangs off the apron and Ziggler lays in heavy shots after exiting the ring once more. Back in the ring now the fans chant Edge on as he manages to roll through a sunset flip from Dolph and Edge turns it into a catapult into the corner. The match continues back and forth and Ziggler gets back on top of things, putting a chin-lock on Edge right in the middle of the ring. This past Friday night Dolph Ziggler suffered and RKO, a chokeslam and multiple Spears, but none of that has any effect on him here tonight as he looks to win his first World Title. He sends Edge crashing to ringside before getting him back in the ring and again slowing the pace, wearring the Champion down in the middle of the ring. Edge eventually gets himself up, but then after an Irish-whip, Ziggler and Edge both collide in the middle of the ring with a double attempt at a cross-body. The referee counts toward Ten, but both men get up and after another series the two of them are down again for another Ten-count. The contest goes on as both men beat the count and Edge and Dolph follow with near-falls on one another. Ziggler's in the driver's seat as he attacks with an attempted fame-asser, but Edge turns it into a modified powerbomb and he gets a Two after the cover. Edge goes high risk, but takes some time and Ziggler follows him up the turnbuckles. The two trade blows, as Edge gets the better of Dolph, battering him back into the ring. Edge then measures and dives off for a cross-body, but Ziggler rolls through and he has the cover, One, Two - no, only Two and that was close. Goodness, the WWE Universe is chanting 'Let's Go Ziggler!' as Edge administer's his modified submission move, the Edgecator, but Dolph reaches the bottom rope. After a trade of blows Dolph nails Edge with the fame-asser and gets Two. Edge then gets back into the match and he revreses a Dolph Sleeper into an Impaler DDT. He covers, but Vickie pulls out the referee. Edge and Vickie argue and then down to the ring comes Kelly Kelly to Lou Thesz Press Vickie Guerrero! Edge watches the pound-down at ringside, but then from behind Dolph Ziggler slams Edge down with the Zig-Zag! Dolph takes a second too long to cover and Edge gets his shoulder up to kick out at Two and a half! Dolph sets for a Sleeper and he locks it in. He wears Edge down, but after some time Edge fights out, but in doing so he inadvertently knocks down the referee. Vickie's down, Dolph's down, the ref's down - so Edge measures for a Spear and *BAM* Spear on Ziggler! Edge then hits the canvas, playing possum 'till the ref gets up. Edge then gets up, administers the Unprettier (Kill-Switch, whatever you prefer) and that's it, One, Two, Three!
Winner and Still World Heavyweight Champion: Edge!
Backstage The Miz stands with Alex Riley and they tell Josh Matthews and the WWE Universe that Miz's going to beat Randy Orton tonight, because "I'm The Miz, and I'm Awesome."
Randy Orton vs. The Miz (c) w/ Alex Riley
WWE Championship match
The bell rings as Striker and King talk strategy and Michael Cole kisses Miz's metaphorical hiney (that's ass for all you non-PG). Orton grounds Miz early and stomps on the WWE Champ, choking him under the bottom rope and then catapulting him throat-first on the underside of the cable. Orton covers for a Two and then picks Miz up to coninue his dominance, all the while keeping an eye on Alex Riley at ringside. Orton stomps into the mid-section before picking Miz up and whipping him against the ropes, but Miz grabs the referee and A-Ry meanwhile climbs the apron to get a piece of The Viper. Miz then takes over and although Orton gets some offense, he's too eager to storm toward the corner and Miz side-steps to pursue further dominace. Miz and Alex Riley then perform tag-team work to wear down Randy Orton and the referee never sees any of it. Miz soon has Orton in the middle of the ring, but Orton fights out to get up and go against the ropes, but Miz kitchen sinks him and then continues with stomping. The same sequence happens again, but this time Miz catches Orton with a back-elbow and Orton goes down again. Miz then gets Orton's torso to hang off the edge of the apron and Miz exits the ring to punish The Viper from ringside, lifting his knee high into the hanging body of Orton. Back in the ring Miz gets a Two on the cover and then the match goes on with both men succesfully countering one another and then Miz hits a standing big boot right to the chin of Orton and somehow Orton is able to kick out after Two. Miz then goes high risk and it doesn't work as Orton jolts the top rope and Miz lands on his Mizter's. Orton then climbs and administer's an excellent top rope superplex and he then covers, but only gets a Two. After some time on the canvas both superstars get up to exchange 'Yay!' 'Boo!' punches from one another. Just as Orton gets some momentum though, Miz decks him to ringside and again the double-team comes into play as Miz grabs the referee's attention and Riley stomps over and over on Orton at ringside. Miz exits the ring and rams Orton spine-first into the barride before throwing him back in the ring and achieving a series of near-falls. Cole and King argue Miz's credentials, but King points out that Orton could have had this match done with by now if Miz didn't have a chihuahua at ringside. Back outside the ring again Miz catapults Orton head-first into the ring-post. Miz gets back in the ring as the ref counts toward Ten and The Viper gets back in the ring on Eight, and he's on fire now, taking it to Miz in the ring with two hard clotheslines and then Orton's textbook scoop-powerslam. Orton then drops a knee on Miz's face before covering for a Two. Alex Riley provides another distraction and this allows Miz to get back into it. He administer's his backbreaker into a neckbreaker and he covers, but for only Two. The contest continues and Miz evades an RKO to attempt a Skull-Crushing Finale, but no, Orton hits an Angle Slam and gets a Two. After that Miz escapes the ring and grabs his Title, looking to exit, but Orton cuts him off with a hard clothesline right to the mat at ringside. Orton then scares off Riley, but again it's a distraction and Miz decks Orton to get a Two in the ring. Orton takes over and hits his suspension DDT, Miz's legs hanging from the middle rope and *BAM* it connects and Randy then sets up for RKO. Wait, down the ramp come CM Punk's new Nexus, minus CM Punk. The referee gets out of the ring to stop them as they approach the ring. Meanwhile Alex Riley tries to get at Orton from behind, but Orton counter's, grabs Riley and launches him over the top rope, over the referee and all over the New Nexus! Orton setting the house on fire as he folows up with an RKO on Miz, but wait, CM Punk, out of nowhere comes in to GTS Orton and *BAM* he connects and Orton is out cold. Punk drags Miz over Orton and the referee counts!
Winner and Still WWE Champion: The Miz.
We're shown an advert for next month's pay-per-view; the Elimination Chamber, Live, Sunday February 20th.
Backstage Daniel Bryan stands with girlfriend Gail Kim and he tells Josh Matthews that it would be great to win the Royal Rumble match. Brie and Nikki Bella enter the scene and they soon trade words with Gail. This leads to a scrap and then there's chaos between the girl's backstage.
The Royal Rumble match:
Winner goes to a Championship match in the main event at WrestleMania!
Entrant number 1: CM Punk. Punk begins against a member of The Corre, but who? they all come to the ring and pummel CM Punk. Out come David Otunga and the rest of the New Nexus and a faction vs. faction brawl breaks out before the match even starts! *BLEEP* *BLEEP* The RAW General Manager doesn't want any of this and he demands that all members of The Corre and The Nexus return to the locker room immediately. Failure to comply will result in disqualification and the only person permitted to be in the ring right now is CM Punk. Nexus and The Corre all leave and then out comes Entrant number 2: Daniel Bryan - and now the bell rings. Punk and Bryan tangle back and forth as the crowd have decided to split their support. Entrant number 3: Justin Gabriel. Gabriel comes out to deck Punk and attempt a 450 Splash, but he misses and Daniel Bryan then eliminates the South African. Entrant number 4: Zack Ryder. Ryder gets booed like hell and he comes in to lay the stomps into both Daniel Bryan and CM Punk. Ryder focusses on Punk and Daniel Bryan then gets up to take it to him and Bryan then eliminates his second superstar of the night, Zack Ryder is outta here. Entrant number 5: William Regal. Perhaps one of the best to never have held the WWE Title, Regal a former King Of The Ring comes in to lay into Punk with a knee trembler. He goes to pick up Punk, but then Daniel Bryan tustles with Regal and he soon decks both Regal and Punk to the canvas. Entrant number 6: Ted DiBiase w/ Maryse. DiBiase comes in to try and eliminate CM Punk. Meanwhile Daniel Bryan lays in heavy kicks to the chest of William Regal who's on his knees in the middle of the ring. Bryan then tries to heave Ted over the top rope but can't do it and then out comes Entrant number 7: John Morrison. What happens next has never ever happened in a Royal Rumble; Morrison comes in to typically go high risk with his plethora of moves, taking everyone in his sights down, but then we have William Regal shove him off the apron and Morrison clutches the barricade - and his feet don't touch the floor! He clmibs to balance, then walk along the barricade, meanwhile William Regal gets eliminated and Morrison leaps from the barricade, to the steel stairs and kicks Regal in the head before walking back into the ring. Amazing par-core action from John Morrison. Entrant number 8: Yoshi Tatsu. In the ring we have CM Punk spending most of his time by a bottom turnbuckle. Daniel Bryan and Ted DiBiase often exchange and then Entrant number 9: Husky Harris comes out. He gets into the ring to automatically defend CM Ppunk and he does a good job of fending Bryan and Morrison away from Punk's corner. Entrant number 10: Chavo Guerrero. Chavo does well as he exchanges with CM Punk and eventually he administer's the Three Amigo's to Daniel Bryan. Entrant number 11: Mark Henry comes out though and elimaintes Chavo right away and soon out goes Yoshi Tatsu aswell. CM Punk and Husky Harris then team up to bring Henry to his knees. Entrant number 12: JTG enters and he trafes fists woth Husky Harris. Meanwhile Ted DiBiase is trying to throw Morrison over the corner. Husky Harris, Daniel Bryan and JTG are in a three-way tangle but then out comes Entrant number 13: Michael McGillicutty and he takes JTG away from Harris to eventually elevate him to the apron and dropkick him out the Royal Rumble. McGillicutty and Harris then again fend off attacker's from CM Punk and it seems that Punk's Nexus strategy is working so far. Ted DiBiase is eliminated by Harris and McGillicutty and then out comes Entrant number 14: Chris Masters and the Masterpiece comes in to almost elimate CM Punk. Entrant number 15: David Otunga enters and meanwhile out goes twenty-minute-man Daniel Bryan. Three of CM Punk's new Nexus are in and they then team up under Punk's guidance to eliminate John Morrison and then the lot of them eliminate Mark Henry. Entrant number 16: Tyler Reks comes out and he suffers the same fate as the New Nexus eliminate him straight away. Entrant number 17: Vladimir Kozlov, one half of the WWE Tag Team Champions enters and he uses his head-butting arsenal to take it to anyone in sight, but it doesn't work. Nexus team up once more and Kozlov is out. This pattern continues as the crowd count down the next particpant, Entrant number 18: R-Truth, and after making a mockery of Truth, Nexus eliminate him and we wait for Entrant number 19: The GREAT KHALI w/ Runjin Singh. CM Punk looks on in shock as The Great Khali makes his in-ring return. Khali thwarts off Nexus and eliminates Husky Harris. Otunga and McGillicutty are down and Khali goes to target CM Punk, but then out comes Entrant number 20: Mason Ryan. Ryan enters to eliminate Khali! Holy hell and Nexus then celebrate and wait for Entrant number 21: BOOKER T! Booker T. enters the ring to a huge roar from the fans and he is not afraid of Nexus. He lays into all of them, after a Mason Ryan attack, side-kick to the head followed by a Scissor-kick on Otunga and then a Book-End on McGillicutty followed by a huge Spin-a-roony! Booker and Punk then tangle, but Mason Ryan enters the scene again and out goes Booker T. Entrant number 22: John Cena! The fans go nuts as Booker goes out and Cena comes in. Cena storms to the ring to take it full speed to Nexus and he eliminates Mason Ryan and then out go McGillicutty and Otunga as well! It's Cena vs. Punk! Cena vs. Punk in the Royal Rumble match and the two exchange back and forth, Cena almost getting in an AA, Punk almost hitting a GTS and then both men go down with a double clothesline. Entrant number 23: Hornswoggle! The little man comes out to a cheer, but then his excitement is taken down a notch as CM Punk takes him down in the ring. Cena soon gets up though and administer's an Attitude Adjustment to eliminate the leader of the New Nexus out the Royal Rumble! Cena and Hornswoggle then work together to eliminate Entrant number 24: Tyson Kidd, with Hornswoggler performing an AA on Tyson before Cena throws Kidd out. Entrant number 25: Heath 'Wendy' Slater enters and Hornswoggle puts on a Stunner, a Five-Knuckle Shuffle and a Tad-Pole Splash before Cena throws Wendy out. Entrant number 26: Kofi Kingston comes out and he faces off against John Cena. Friendships are out the window as the two of them eye the WrestleMania logo and Hornswoggle watches on as Kofi and John goe back and forth before Entrant number 27: Jack Swagger comes out to clothesline Kofi down and then Vader-bomb both Cena and Kingston. Swagger gorilla pounds his chest as he Vader's Cena again. He then eyes Hornswoggle, but Kingston's up and Kofi and Hornswoggle team up to double Boom-Drop Swagg. Entrant number 28: Sheamus. King Sheamus to be exact and he comes in to lay out everyone except Hornswoggle. Hornswoggle though valiantly steps up to him, but Sheamus shoves him down. Hornswoggles gets up and tunes up the band to Sweet Chin the shin of King Sheamus. Cena comes into play and sets Sheamus and Hornswoggle up for a Tad-Pole Splash. Before they can complete the sequence though, Swagger takes Cena away from the play and Sheamus gets up to Brogue Kick Hornsowggle out the Royal Rumble. Entrant number 29: Rey Mysterio comes in to 6-1-9 the All-American American and Swagger's out the Rumble. Entrant number 30: Wade Barrett comes out and he and Cena go back and forth as the comms remind us of the torture Wade Barrett's Nexus put Cena through last year. Entrant number 31: Dolph Ziggler comes out and he and Wade Barrett almost eliminate John Cena. Entrant number 32... DIESEL! 6-foot-11 300plus pounds and Big Daddy Cool enters to the loudest reception of the night and Diesel enters to get himself a piece of everyone, especially Sheamus. The crowd chant 'Let's Go Diesel!' as Entrant number 33: Drew McIntyre comes out and he and Sheamus team up on Diesel and soon Rey Mysterio nails Diesel with a 6-1-9. Entrant number 34: Alex Riley w/ The Miz and Miz joins commentary and Diesel is eliminated by Wade Barrett. Riley, McIntyre and Sheamus team up on Sheamus and then out comes Entrant number 35: Big Show. Show has a bit of a face to face with Diesel as he exits (so cool :-P ) and then Show gets into the ring to take it to the oncoming Sheamus and McIntyre and Show then eliminates Ziggler. Entrant number 36: Ezekiel Jackson enters as Drew McIntyre is eliminated by Show and Jackson comes in to eliminate Big Show. Where is Alex Riley? Hmm, weird, but anyway, impressive from Jackson as Entrant number 37: Santino Marella comes out and he's tossed under the bottom rope. Entrant number 38: Alberto Del-Rio comes out and by the time his entrance is over, out comes Entrant number 39: Randy Orton and he tosses Alberto into the ring. RKO's him, ducks a Brogue Kick, RKO's Sheamus, RKO's Kofi and elimiantes him, then tosses Sheamus out the ring too and while Mysterio, Del-Rio, Barrett and Jackson are down we have a face-off between Randy Orton and John Cena. Then out comes Entrant number 40: Kane! Kane enters to drop Cena, deck Orton and then he escapes a Jackson body slam to pull the top rope down and send Jackson out the ring. Kane then takes it to Wade Barrett before thumping Orton and then targetting Rey Mysterio and Rey's the man to eliminate Kane and Barrett follows up quick to eliminate the master of the 6-1-9. We're down to our final four (in the ring) and Wade Barrett has Cena on the apron, but Cena manages to get himself back in the ring. Orton has Del-Rio down in the corner and then again there's a face-off between Orton and Cena. They trade blows this time and evade each other's main moves until Wade Barrett and Alberto Del-Rio get involved again, this time Barrett on Orton and Del-Rio focusses on Cena, but soon Cena hits him with an Attitude Adjustment. Wait, Alex Riley shows up and Cena decks him right off the apron, now Riley is eliminated, but then Miz, Miz enters the ring and topples Cena over the top rope and all the ref sees is Cena sat on the mat at ringside, John Cena is officially elimated. Now we're down to three. Orton, Barrett and Del-Rio tustle to and fro with the two latter innitially teaming up against Orton. The Viper though fights out, scoop-powerslam on Barrett, backbreaker on Del-Rio and Orton then sets up for an RKO on Del-Rio. On comes Barrett, but Orton sees him coming and tosses Barrett over the top rope. Del-Rio's up and goodness, he grabs Orton from behind and Del-Rio eliminates Randy Orton! Holy hell, has Del-Rio won?! No, Santino Marella is back in, (remember he went under the bottom rope) and Marella comes in to Cobra Del-Rio! The fans can't believe it as Santino marches to throws out Del-Rio, but it's moot, a back body drop and Santino's out. Alberto Del-Rio is the winner of the 2011 Royal Rumble!
Winner and on his way to a WrestleMania main event Title shot: Alberto Del-Rio!
Del-Rio and his announcer celebrate as the fireworks go off and we've come to a check-point on the Road To WrestleMania. Good night folks.
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