Promotional poster featuring.DateJanuary 27, 2013CityVenueAttendance15,103(s)Finally.Pay-per-view chronology← PreviousNext →chronology← PreviousNext →Royal Rumble (2013) was the twenty-sixth annual (PPV) produced. It took place on January 27, 2013 at the in.Five matches were contested at the event, including one on the Pre-Show. In the main event, defeated for the, recapturing the title for the first time since 2002, and ending Punk's long reign at 434 days. Won the titular Royal Rumble match, making him the seventh multiple Rumble winner. In another prominent match, defeated to retain his.

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Also on the card, retained the against in a Last Man Standing match, and (Daniel Bryan and Kane) retained the against Team Rhodes Scholars ( and ). Contents.Production Background The is an annual pay-per-view, produced every January by since 1988. It is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with, and, dubbed the 'Big Four'. It is named after the, a modified in which the participants enter at timed intervals instead of all beginning in the ring at the same time.

The match generally features 30 wrestlers. Traditionally, the winner of the match earns a match at that year's WrestleMania. For 2013, the winner could choose to challenge for either the or at. 2013 was the twenty-sixth event in the Royal Rumble chronology, and was the last to feature the World Heavyweight Championship, as well as the last time it was a choice for the winner of the titular match, as the title was unified with the WWE Championship at December's event. Storylines The card consisted of five matches, including one on the Pre-Show.

The matches resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed, or to build tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers, with storylines produced on their weekly television shows,. Lost the WWE Championship to, ending his reign at 434 days.On July 23, 2012, during, announced that he would challenge for the at the Royal Rumble.

Later that night, reigning champion, and each stated that they'd face The Rock as defending champion; later that night, Punk turned, attacking and laying out The Rock. Punk defended the championship for the rest of the year, while on December 23, 2012, The Rock to Punk that he was ready for the Royal Rumble. On the January 7 episode of Raw, Punk retained the WWE Championship against in a after interfered.

They also did during Punk's defence against Ryback and John Cena back at; this win secured Punk as the one who would defend against The Rock. On the January 21 episode of Raw while speaking about beating Punk at the Rumble, The Shield assaulted The Rock.

After the assault, announced that if The Shield interfered in the match, Punk will be stripped of his title.began a feud with after humiliating Del Rio's personal ring announcer, sarcastically picking him to fight Show for the during 'Champion's Choice Night' on the 2013 episode of Raw, leading to a disqualification win for Big Show after Del Rio interfered. On the January 11, 2013 episode of SmackDown, Del Rio defeated Show in a Last Man Standing match for the championship. Three days later on Raw, Show announced that he would invoke his rematch clause at the pay-per-view. The week after, he made the match a Last Man Standing Match.Event Other on-screen personnel Role:Name:EnglishPre-show commentators(Pre-show)Spanish commentatorsDarrick Moore (Pre-show)Pre-show The Royal Rumble Pre-Show match featured reigning defending his title against. During the match, Miz attempted a diving attack and injured his leg.

Shortly after, Cesaro won after landing the Neutralizer.Preliminary matches As the PPV portion of the show began, a backstage segment was shown with wishing good luck in his match. He then gave a pair of his signature sunglasses.The opening match on the PPV telecast (and second on the card overall) featured reigning Alberto Del Rio defending his title against in a. After Del Rio managed to beat the count after being chokeslammed through a table from an elevated position on the entrance stage, he managed to win when he locked in the Cross Armbreaker while Rodriguez Show's legs to the bottom rope. Show was unable to free himself in time and was counted out.Next, reigning ( and ) defended their titles against Team Rhodes Scholars ( and ). The match ended when Bryan applied the No! Lock on Sandow, forcing him to submit. John Cena won the 2013 Royal Rumble match.After that was the annual.

(as per the 'Beat The Clock' stipulations from Raw) chose to enter first, followed by the surprise return of at #2. Another surprise entry, returned at #8, and spent most of his time battling with his half brother (entrant #3), who eventually eliminated him. Entered at #11, trying to become the fourth man to win back-to-back Rumbles, joining ('90-'91), ('95-'96), and ('97-'98). (the #4 entrant) provided a highlight, for when he was about to be eliminated, he jumped onto the back of recently eliminated, who put him on the Spanish announce table. Kingston made it back onto the apron using 's chair like a pogo stick, but was quickly eliminated by Rhodes before reentering the ring. Following this, made a surprise appearance at #17, only to be immediately eliminated by Ziggler.

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Entered at #19, quickly eliminating Rhodes and #10 entrant. Daniel Bryan (#21) and Kane (#24) teamed up to eliminate #23, but Bryan then eliminated Kane. When #22 sent Bryan over the top rope, Kane caught him, only to drop him on the floor, eliminating him from the match. Later, tournament winner (and #16 entrant) managed to eliminate (#18), leading to Barrett eliminating him and perform the Bull Hammer on Dallas, despite having already been eliminated. Entered at #30 and eliminated three wrestlers in quick fashion. Ziggler finally eliminated Jericho after nearly 48 minutes.

The final four consisted of Ziggler, Sheamus, Cena and Ryback. Sheamus eliminated Ziggler (who lasted nearly 50 minutes) and tried to execute the Broque Kick on Ryback, but Ryback managed to eliminate him. After a few minutes of going back and forth, Cena then eliminated Ryback to win the Rumble, making him the fourth wrestler to win multiple Rumble matches (as he won the match in 2008 as well).Main event match The main event and fifth match on the card featured reigning defending his title against. During the match, Rock attempted to perform a Rock Bottom through the Spanish announce table on Punk, but the table collapsed beneath them. Rock performed a Rock Bottom outside the ring, but Punk kicked out of a pin attempt. When Rock attempted a People's Elbow, the arena went dark and Rock was attacked by an unknown entity, believed by the commentators to be. When the lights came back, the assailant(s) were nowhere to be found, and Rock had been driven through the English announce table, allowing Punk to get the winning pin.

As he celebrated with the title, WWE Chairman came out and reminded Punk that if the Shield interfered (which while McMahon said he couldn't see it, he knew enough to realize what had happened) he would strip him of the title. Before he could however, the Rock said he wanted to take the title from Punk and told McMahon to instead restart the match. McMahon did so, and Rock won the match with a followed by the, winning the WWE Championship for the eighth time and ending Punk's historic reign at 434 days.Aftermath CM Punk, livid that his reign had ended, invoked his rematch clause at, but The Rock defeated him and retained the championship.

Punk then challenged Cena for his contendership, which Cena accepted and defeated Punk. Punk later went to WrestleMania to try to end 's. After Elimination Chamber, The Rock retired the spinner and bling belt (which was Cena's design for the championship and used by the company for the past eight years) and unveiled a new belt to represent the WWE Championship.The following night on Raw, John Cena announced that he would challenge the reigning WWE Champion with his winning the Royal Rumble match. With The Rock retaining the championship, this would set up a rematch between The Rock and Cena from. Cena would go on to win the match and the championship, making him a record 11-time WWE Champion.Reception The event garnered 512,000 pay-per-view buys, the highest in four years. Results No.ResultsStipulationsTimes1 P(c) defeatedfor the07:372(c) (with ) defeatedfor the16:583( and ) (c) defeated Team Rhodes Scholars ( and ) by submissionfor the09:254won by last eliminating30-man for a world championship match at55:055defeated (c) (with )for theHad interfered, Punk would have been stripped of the title23:20. January 31, 2013.

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