Royal Rumble 2016

Royal Rumble 2016
The official Royal Rumble 2016 poster Details Promotion WWE Date January 26th, 2016 Venue Amway Center City Orlando, Florida
Pay-per-view chronology
TLC 2015	Royal Rumble 2016	Fastlane 2016
Royal Rumble 2016 chronology
2015	Royal Rumble 2016	[2017]]

The 2016 Royal Rumble was the 29th annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It took place on January 24, 2016, at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida. The event was also the fifth Royal Rumble pay-per-view to be held in the state of Florida, after the 1990, 1991, 1995, and 2006 events, the second to be held in Orlando (after 1990), and WWE's first pay-per-view event to be held at the Amway Center.

Traditionally since 1993, the Royal Rumble match winner receives 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 and as the number one entrant. This was the main event match, which was won by Brock Lesnar, who entered the Rumble at Number 30 eliminating Dean Ambrose before lastly eliminating Roman Reigns to win the championship. This would be his second royal rumble win in his entire career. This was only the second time that a Royal Rumble winner won the world championship for winning the eponymous match, after the 1992 event, where the vacant title was the prize, however, it was the first in which the reigning champion defended the title in the match.

Six other matches were contested at the event, including one on the Kickoff pre-show. The event was notable for the WWE pay-per-view debut of longtime Total Nonstop Action Wrestling mainstay AJ Styles as the third entrant in the Royal Rumble match. This was also the last Royal Rumble event to be held before the reintroduction of the brand extension in July.

Results

No.	Results	Stipulations
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match