After making his return, John Cena would make the bold move to announce himself as the #1 Contender for the WWE Title, citing that being John Cena entitles him to a shot at the gold. Since returning to SmackDown LIVE last month, John Cena has a new attitude when it comes to AJ Styles and the WWE Championship. In their intense rivalry that started last year, there’s no arguing that AJ Styles and John Cena had some absolutely incredible matches in 2016, but this personal rivalry will be taken to a whole new level at the Royal Rumble when these two go one-on-one with the WWE Championship on the line.

In what is arguably the biggest and most unpredictable Royal Rumble Match in history, the likes of two-time former World Champion Goldberg, 2003 Royal Rumble Match winner “The Beast” Brock Lesnar, “The World’s Largest Athlete” Big Show, “The Monster Among Men” Braun Strowman, “The Lone Wolf” Baron Corbin, Intercontinental Champion Dean Ambrose, United States Champion Chris Jericho, The Wyatt Family, The New Day, The Miz, Dolph Ziggler, Rusev, Sami Zayn, and the legendary “Phenom” The Undertaker! With such a stacked Royal Rumble Match, not to mention the jaw-dropping surprise entrants that have become a staple of the Royal Rumble Match, who will survive the over-the-top rope melee to earn themselves a guaranteed shot at either the WWE Championship or the WWE Universal Championship at WrestleMania? Throughout its near three decade existence, the annual Royal Rumble Match has been won by a who’s who of Superstars including Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Bret “Hitman” Hart, Shawn Michaels, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, Triple H, Brock Lesnar, The Undertaker, Batista, and John Cena and, of the 25 different Superstars to win the Royal Rumble Match, the majority of Rumble winners have went on to win a World Title at that year’s WrestleMania and the 30 Superstars in this year’s Royal Rumble Match will be looking to do just that. The Road to WrestleMania starts with the Royal Rumble and the 30th annual WWE Royal Rumble came to you, live on pay-per-view and the WWE Network, from the Alamodome in San Antonio, TX for the first time in twenty years.

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