The Royal Rumble PPV for the year 2024 is in the books and the Road to WrestleMania is officially on. It was a 4 match PPV but the show went on for 4 hours. The 2 Royal Rumble Matches took up most of the time and there were 2 championship matches. It was a very good show with some great surprises and worthy winners. The next PPV will be the Elimination Chamber in Perth Australia where more than 60,000 WWE fans will be in attendance.
Let’s look at the Results from the Royal Rumble 2024
Bayley wins the Women’s Royal Rumble Match
The first match on the show was the Women’s Royal Rumble Match and this was the best match on the show. This year the 30 women that were in the Rumble were all current wrestlers and no legends were used for these spots. At number 2 in the match, Naomi made her return to WWE and the crowd gave her a great reaction. At number 3 was Bayley who was the favorite to win the match. At number 5, a shocking surprise in Jordynne Grace entered the match as the TNA Knockouts Champion. The match was going well and at number 10 was Bianca Belair. The match changed at number 19 when Nia Jax entered the match and she started throwing people over the top rope and at number 21 was Becky Lynch. The funniest moment took place at number 24 when R Truth tried to enter the Royal Rumble but was thrown out by Nia Jax. The match again changed at number 28 as Jade Cargill made her WWE Debut and she single handedly eliminated Nia Jax. Naomi was in the match for 62 minutes and 18 seconds. Bayley won the Women’s Royal Rumble Match by being in for 63 minutes and 3 seconds.
Roman Reigns beat Randy Orton, AJ Styles and LA Knight to retain the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship
The next match in the show was the WWE Championship match that was the fatal four way between the top WWE superstars of SmackDown. This match being number 2 on the card surprised a lot of people. This was a great match as was expected with superstars of that caliber. This was a match where all the 3 challengers went after Roman Reigns but he always had a way out. There were many false finishes in the match. However Solo Sikoa again interfered in the match and Roman Reigns won the match and retained his championship.
Logan Paul beat Kevin Owens by DQ for United States Championship
The next match was the United States Championship match between Logan Paul vs Kevin Owens for the United States Championship. This was yet another very good match and Logan Paul continued to show the fans that he was getting better. This was a 15 minute match and Kevin Owens helped Logan Paul to a memorable match. This was the match that was supposed to be clean but Kevin Owens made a big mistake as he hit Logan Paul with the brass knuckles but forgot to take them out of his hand. He was DQed and Logan Paul retained his championship.
Cody Rhodes wins the Men’s Royal Rumble Match
The last match on the show was the Men’s Royal Rumble Match. The number 1 was Jey Uso and the number 2 in the Royal Rumble was Jimmy Uso. This was the perfect start but then at number 4 it was the return of Andrade to WWE after 3.5 years. At number 5 was Carmelo Hayes from NXT and he had a great showing. Dominik Mysterio was number 9 in the Royal Rumble Match and he was in there for 33 minutes. At number 15 was Cody Rhodes and he was looking to go back to back. The fans were excited for Cody Rhodes. At number 18 was Gunther and he was in the match for 30 minutes. At number 20 was Bron Breakker and he was in the spot that was there for Brock Lesnar. The match was going along and at 27 was CM Punk. He was in the match for 21 minutes and the final 2 were CM Punk and Cody Rhodes. Cody Rhodes won his second Royal Rumble Match.
