Royal Rumble (2016)

The 2016 Royal Rumble was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was the 29th annual Royal Rumble event and took place on January 24, 2016, at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida. This was the fifth Royal Rumble event to be held in the U.S. state of Florida, after the 1990, 1991, 1995, and 2006 events, and the second in Orlando (after 1990), and it was WWE's first PPV and livestreaming event to be held at the Amway Center. The event was based around the men's Royal Rumble match, a modified 30-man battle royal in which the participants enter at timed intervals instead of all beginning in the ring at the same time. Since 1993, the winner had received a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania. For the 2016 event, however, Roman Reigns was scheduled to defend the WWE World Heavyweight Championship in the 2016 Royal Rumble match as the number one entrant. This was the main event, which was won by the returning Triple H, who eliminated Reigns before lastly eliminating Dean Ambrose to win the championship. This was Triple H's second Royal Rumble win, after 2002, making him the sixth multi-time winner, and he became the third person to win the match as the number 30 entrant. This was only the second time that a Royal Rumble winner won a world championship for winning the eponymous match, after the 1992 event where the vacant title was the prize, however, it was the first and only time in which the reigning champion defended the title in the match. Five other matches were contested at the event, including one on the Kickoff pre-show. The event was notable for the WWE PPV and livestreaming event debut of longtime Total Nonstop Action Wrestling mainstay AJ...