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Royal Rumble 2006 was the nineteenth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event from World Wrestling Entertainment. It took place on January 29, 2006 in the AmericanAirlines Arena located in Miami, Florida. The event had an ancient Roman theme, similar to WrestleMania IX based on the advertisement for the event portraying Vince McMahon as Julius Caesar along with his family.

Results

  • Interpromotional - Rey Mysterio (SmackDown!) won the 2006 Royal Rumble
    • Rey Mysterio and Randy Orton were the last two participants. Mysterio reverses Orton's toss attempt into a head scissors takedown over the top rope to win the Royal Rumble. (1:02:12)

  • SmackDown! brand - World Heavyweight Championship match: Kurt Angle (c) def. Mark Henry (w/Daivari)
    • Kurt Angle won by pinfall following a drop-toe hold onto an exposed turnbuckle, followed by a roll up to retain the World Heavyweight Championship. (9:29)
      • The Undertaker appeared from the back right after the match, causing "lightning" to strike the ring and make it collapse. He then moved his hands across his waist to signify that he wants to challenge Kurt Angle for the World Heavyweight Championship.

Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations

Red ██ indicates a RAW superstar, blue ██ indicates a SmackDown! superstar. A new entrant came out approximately every 90 seconds.

Entrant Eliminated Time
1 Triple H 28 by Rey Mysterio 1:00:12
2 Rey Mysterio - WINNER 1:02:12
3 Simon Dean 1 by Rey Mysterio and Triple H 1:11
4 Psicosis 2 by Rey Mysterio 1:32
5 Ric Flair 3 by Triple H 1:36
6 Big Show 7 by Triple H (simultaneously with Kane) 9:32
7 Jonathan Coachman 4 by Big Show 0:44
8 Lashley 6 by Big Show and Kane 4:42
9 Kane 8 by Triple H (simultaneously with Big Show) 3:58
10 Sylvan 5 by Lashley 0:40
11 Carlito 26 by Rob Van Dam 38:47
12 Chris Benoit 17 by Randy Orton 30:48
13 Booker T 9 by Chris Benoit 0:38
14 Joey Mercury 22 by Shawn Michaels 29:30
15 Tatanka 12 by Joey Mercury and Johnny Nitro 14:37
16 Johnny Nitro 23 by Shawn Michaels 25:56
17 Trevor Murdoch 13 by Shawn Michaels 13:57
18 Eugene 15 by Chris Benoit 16:44
19 Road Warrior Animal 10 by Rob Van Dam 3:00
20 Rob Van Dam 27 by Rey Mysterio 24:07
21 Orlando Jordan 21 by Randy Orton 16:25
22 Chavo Guerrero 11 by Triple H 1:15
23 Matt Hardy 14 by Viscera 7:55
24 Super Crazy 16 by Rey Mysterio 7:58
25 Shawn Michaels 25 by Shane McMahon (not a participant of the match) 13:09
26 Chris Masters 19 by Carlito 7:29
27 Viscera 18 by Carlito and Chris Masters 5:43
28 Shelton Benjamin 24 by Shawn Michaels 7:07
29 Goldust 20 by Rob Van Dam 3:23
30 Randy Orton 29 by Rey Mysterio 13:13

Other on-screen talent

Commentators
Spanish Commentators
Referees
Interviewers
Other

Royal Rumble qualification matches

Trivia

  • Lilian Garcia was interrupted when she began announcing the Royal Rumble by the Spirit Squad, who inadvertently helped Jonathan Coachman win his way into the Rumble the previous week on RAW.
  • Rey Mysterio broke the record for lasting the longest in a Royal Rumble match by lasting 1:02:15. The previous record was 1:01:34, made by Chris Benoit at the 2004 Royal Rumble. Mysterio also became the first superstar in WWE history under 200 pounds to ever win the Royal Rumble, as well as the first masked superstar to win. Mysterio was the second person to win the Royal Rumble match starting from #2, the first being Vince McMahon. Even though both men won, they would surrender or lose their title opportunities. McMahon surrender to Austin, Mysterio to Randy Orton. However, Mysterio regain his shot later.
  • Glen Jacobs (Issac Yankem, DDS, Fake Diesel, Kane) made his tenth appearance in a Royal Rumble match, tying the record for most Royal Rumble appearances with Solofa Fatu (Fatu, The Sultan, Rikishi). It also marked his eighth consecutive appearance in the Royal Rumble as Kane, breaking the previous record of seven consecutive appearances held by himself, Owen Hart and Rick Martel.
  • This was the first Royal Rumble event since 1998 where the Royal Rumble match itself was not the final match on the card.
  • Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler did commentary for the Rumble match for the first time since 1999.
  • During the Rumble match, Shane McMahon came in and eliminated Shawn Michaels after being distracted by Vince McMahon. This marked the second consecutive year that Michaels was eliminated by somebody other than a qualified participant. In 2005, he was eliminated by Kurt Angle after eliminating Angle earlier.
  • In the Royal Rumble match, one of the announcers said that Rob Van Dam made his Royal Rumble debut in 2003 and lasted over a half-hour. However, that is not true because Rob Van Dam made his Royal Rumble debut in 2002.
  • Ten years after his first Royal Rumble in 1996 at #1, Triple H was once again in the #1 entry slot.
  • On the February 5 edition of SmackDown!, Randy Orton forced Rey Mysterio into putting his WrestleMania title shot on the line at No Way Out 2006. Orton won, but on the February 24 edition of SmackDown!, Theodore Long announced that Rey was back in, and that it would be a Triple Threat match.
  • Ironically, the last 3 contestants in the Royal Rumble went on to challenge their brand's champion for the title at WrestleMania 22. Triple H took on John Cena for the WWE Championship and both Randy Orton and Rey Mysterio took on Kurt Angle for the World Heavyweight Championship in a Triple Threat Match. Mysterio was the only successful one. A similar situation occurred the previous year, when the last two participants, Batista and John Cena, would go on to face the World Heavyweight Champion and WWE Champion, respectively.
  • With John Cena defeating Edge to regain the WWE Championship, the 2006 edition of the Royal Rumble was the first time since the 1999 Royal Rumble that the WWE Championship changed hands
  • The Kurt Angle/Mark Henry match marked the first time that two former Olympians battled for a world title in WWE.
  • 10 wrestlers made their first appearance in the Royal Rumble match: Psicosis, Bobby Lashley, Sylvan, Carlito, Joey Mercury, Johnny Nitro, Trevor Murdoch, Eugene, Super Crazy, and Chris Masters.
  • Even though Rey Mysterio, the winner of the Royal Rumble match, still wrestled for the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 22, his match was not the main event (last match) of the card.

References

External links

Royal Rumble | Royal Rumble 2006

 

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