5 surprising moments from WWE Royal Rumble 2021
Bianca Belair got her big moment at the Royal Rumble.
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WWE Royal Rumble was a wonderful pay-per-view to begin the wrestling year. The show was filled with some great matches, truly fun Royal Rumble matches, and some very surprising Rumble winners. WWE is off to a great start to 2021. Here is hoping that WWE can continue this momentum into WrestleMania season. It is the road to Tampa, part two.
As we are still trying to figure out why Randy Orton failed to win the Royal Rumble after nearly an hour rest, we should all try to distract ourselves as we present the list of the top five most surprising moments of WWE Royal Rumble 2021:
Xavier Woods Wants an Intergender Match With Retribution s Reckoning
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WIth Kofi Kingston still unable to compete, Xavier Woods has been locked in a feud with Retribution by himself over the past month. He s currently 2-2 against faction members, losing to T-Bar and Mace but picking up wins against Slapjack and, most recently, Mustafa Ali. He appeared on Raw Talk following this week s show with Kingston and demanded the tiebreaker be against Reckoning (Mia Yim), the only woman in the group.
Intergender matches are incredibly rare in WWE, though Woods pointed out that Sasha Banks just had one with Reginald on SmackDown.
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Sunday s Royal Rumble pay-per-view officially put WWE on the Road to WrestleMania 37 on April 10-11 in Tampa, Florida.
The show featured only one title change, with Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler regaining the Women s Tag Team Championships from Asuka and Charlotte Flair.
We also saw Bianca Belair and Edge win the women s and men s Royal Rumble matches, respectively, to earn title shots on The Grandest Stage of Them All. But neither has declared which champion they will challenge yet.
Drew McIntyre is still the WWE champion and Roman Reigns still has a vice-like grip on the universal belt. Unless the company changes plans suddenly, they will likely be the titleholders when Mania rolls around.
Edge Wins the 2021 WWE Men s Royal Rumble From The No. 1 Spot
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WWE Backstage the night before, Edge and Randy Orton kicked off the match as the first two entrants. The two brawled before Orton could even hit the ring, and Edge eventually planted him on the commentary table by countering an RKO with an Edgecution. Orton was then helped to the back after limping with a leg injury.
A third of the way through the match Mustafa Ali kept his rivalry with The New Day going by eliminating Xavier Woods. This sent Big E into a rage and he promptly threw Ali out of the ring with just one arm.