WWE Royal Rumble 17 Coverage: Cena Wins Title, Orton Wins Rumble

January 30, 2017 Patrick Hickey Jr. Professional Wrestling 0

The main show for this year’s Royal Rumble was an enjoyable one with new WWE RAW Tag Team Champions being crowned in Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson, as well as a new WWE World Heavyweight Champion in John Cena and a new Cruiserweight Champion in Neville, but the decision to have Roman Reigns eliminate The Undertaker and Randy Orton win, were awful decisions that ruined the event.

Unless AJ Styles gets the WWE World Heavyweight title back at Elimination Chamber, why would anyone want to see another Cena/Orton match?

Kickoff Matches:

WWE Smackdown Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss, Mickie James and Natalya Neidhart vs. Becky Lynch, Naomi and Nikki Bella: A decent opener as there was plenty of back and forth, but Naomi got the win over Bliss with a Split-Legged Moonsault.

Two Referee Match: WWE RAW Tag Team Champions Sheamus and Cesaro vs. Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson: After one referee got taken out with a Brogue Kick, Gallows and Anderson took out Sheamus with a Magic Killer and Anderson got the win with the Rollup and a handful of tights.

Nia Jax vs. Sasha Banks: A fun encounter with a lot of offense. Although Banks fought hard, Jax won with the Pop-Up Samoan Drop.

Main Show:

WWE RAW Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair vs, Bayley: Flair was bloodied from the mouth early on, but it didn’t stop her as after a Natural Selection on the apron she was able to get the win and remain undefeated in PPV matches.

Roman Reigns vs. WWE Universal Champion Kevin Owens w/United States Champion Chris Jericho (suspended in a shark cage above the ring): Jericho paid dividends by giving Owens a pair of brass knuckles, but Braun Strowman decimated Reigns with a Chokeslam on the announce table and a Running Powerslam through a table, which allowed Owens to win.

Cruiserweight Champion Rich Swann vs. Neville: Swann was in it until Neville hit the Superplex and finished off Neville with the Rings of Saturn.

John Cena vs. WWE World Heavyweight Champion AJ Styles: These two traded strikes, submissions, duplexes and finishers in an awesome match. Cena pulled a ton of moves out of his bag of tricks from the Big Ending to the Figure Four and nearly put Styles away with a top rope Attitude Adjustment. Cena went for the maneuver again, but Styles hit another Styles Clash. However, Styles was unable to go for the pinfall and Cena hit two more AAs for the win.

Royal Rumble Match: Royal Rumble Match: Braun Strowman and Baron Corbin were the beasts early on, but once Lesnar came in he racked up three eliminations and a slew of German Suplexes and a pair of F5s. Goldberg entered at #28 and quickly Speared Lesnar and eliminated him. Goldberg then hit Zayn with a Jackhammer, but was beaten down by Orton and Wyatt but Goldberg Speared them, too. Undertaker entered at #29. After Taker eliminated Corbin, Goldberg eliminated Luke Harper, but Undertaker eliminated Goldberg. Roman Reigns was #30 and after some back and forth, Reigns eliminated The Undertaker.

Reigns, Orton, Wyatt and Jericho were the last four left and Reign quickly eliminated Jericho. After Reigns eliminated Wyatt, Orton ended up winning after he eliminated Reigns.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 13868 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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