After a chaotic few weeks on SmackDown between Roman Reigns and Kevin Owens, it all came down to a Last Man Standing Match at the Royal Rumble for the Universal Championship. Adam Pearce successfully got Owens into this spot after some contract shenanigans, and now it was time for Owens to do his [.]
Royal Rumble Live Results: Edge Wins 2021 Men s Royal Rumble
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The 34th annual WWE Royal Rumble took place Sunday night inside the WWE ThunderDome. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this marked the first time the event has taken with no live fans in attendance. But between an intense WWE Championship match between Drew McIntyre and Goldberg, an over the top championship match between Kevin Owens and Roman Reigns and two Rumble matches full of surprise returns, WWE fans got the most bang for their buck when it comes to a Network subscription.
Men s Royal Rumble Live Updates
Edge kicks off the Men’s Royal Rumble as the first entrant, and as a way to capitalize on their rivalry thus far, Randy Orton enters second. Edge rushes out to attack Orton before the match even officially begins. The two of them continue to fight on the outside of the ring as Sami Zayn enters at 3. He holds off for a moment before attacking Edge. He starts working with Orton to wear down
Edge Reflects on Winning the 2021 WWE Men s Royal Rumble
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Edge became the third man in WWE history on Sunday night to start as the No. 1 entrant in the Men s Royal Rumble and successfully win the 30-man match. The Rated-R Superstar announced his involvement in the Rumble a week prior, confirming his return from a tricep injury that had kept him on the shelf since last year s Backlash pay-per-view. He only needed to eliminate three of his opponents to win the match, including a last-second reversal that sent Randy Orton (who started at No. 2 but sat out most of the match with a fake leg injury) tumbling out of the ring.
Sitting ringside as the SmackDown Women’s Champion at the first-ever Women’s Royal Rumble, Charlotte never expected to see so much excitement coming from every angle that night. In her interview this week on WWE’s
The Bump, she admits that she was very upset she wasn’t able to be part of history that night as an entrant in the Rumble.
“When Asuka won, I was sitting at ringside with the SmackDown Women’s Championship. As much as I was excited for the women, I was so jealous. Like, I wanted to be in there,” Charlotte admitted. “It was the first time that the women from the past, I guess, made a comeback…I wondered what I would’ve been like against them.
Monday Night Raw to see how the situation unfolds.
In a recent interview with Alex McCarthy of
TalkSport, The Queen explained that her focusing on her own success meant that she lost track of her father s exploits and the company s creative plans for him. She also admitted that she never envisioned this happening at all. Yeah, I didn t see that coming, to be honest! I think I ve been so focused on building my own legacy, adding and protecting my father s legacy, as well as our relationship on-screen coming full circle since 2015, that was really out of left-field for me. Charlotte seemed to find the storyline amusing during the interview, but her character on WWE television has been less than thrilled about it. She and Evans have been feuding on the red brand s weekly show, with The Queen upset at the fact her father cost her a victory in favor of his new love interest.