Adam’s Royal Rumble 2021 Results & Review

“Attention all viewers! The first stop to WrestleMania is arriving so we ask that the two people that have their tickets come aboard once the night is over.”

The Royal Rumble starts off in a big way and it’s only going to get bigger going forward. Will we have a new Champion at the end of the night? Will we see massive surprises in the Royal Rumble Matches? It’s the Road to WrestleMania and we will see who will stand as the only one and get a championship opportunity at the Show of Shows.

Ratings:

• Goldberg vs Drew McIntyre (c) for the WWE Championship:  McIntyre wins via Claymore – TITLE DEFENSE!!!! – **
• WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship: Carmella (w/ Reginald)  vs Sasha Banks (c): Sasha wins via Bank Statement: TITLE DEFENSE!!! – ** ¾
• WOMEN’S ROYAL RUMBLE MATCH:  Bianca Belair (#3) wins last eliminating Rhey Ripley (#14) – **** ¼
• Last Man Standing: Kevin Owens vs Roman Reigns(c) for the WWE Universal Championship: Roman Reigns is the Last Man Standing: TITLE DEFENSE!!! – ** ¾
• MEN’S ROYAL RUMBLE MATCH:  Edge (#1) wins last eliminating Randy Orton (#2) – **** ½
  

Results:

Goldberg vs Drew McIntyre

McIntyre basically says screw this and headbutts Goldberg and Spears him outside of the ring to get a slight advantage but Goldberg in normal Goldberg fashion, reverses Drew into the steps and Spears him through the barricade. Goldberg goes in to wait for Drew, gives him a jackhammer and Drew kicks out. Goldberg is in disbelief but regains himself in the corner, setting up for the Spear again. Goldberg rushes to the corner, misses Drew and gets hit with a Claymore after the sidestep. 1.2.3.

Drew retains. Has a moment with Goldberg to which Goldberg said “You passed the test.” And hugs him.

Carmella vs Sasha Banks

Ahem… I’m good now that the bell rang um…

Sasha goes for an early victory with a quick Bank Statement but Carmella rolls out to trash talk with Reginald. Sasha takes early control with the arm but after some hell shenanigans, Carmella takes control back and beats down Banks. After Carmella gets cocky with Banks on the top rope, she Meteoras Mella, taking the control back for the time being but, Sasha is injuring her knee in the process. Carmella takes Banks out of the ring but, Reggie catches her and gets kicked out. Carmella goes full Sasha Banks with a Suicide Dive. Mella makes a comeback after the removal of Reginald. Sasha gets some separation after a Code of Silence and tries to dive on Mella but gets catches her with a superkick and goes for a near fall.

Carmella goes to take her time and pick up Sasha after the pin attempt but Sasha grabs Carmella’s arm and gets her in the Bank Statement for the submission victory.

Big E and Xavier Woods are backstage talking about Woods’ defeats to Retribution thrice. Sami Zayn comes to interferes and questions why they are being an injustice to his views but Kofi comes back to burn him like Ashton Kusher and roast Sami Zayn out of the room.

Women’s Royal Rumble

We start with Bayley and Naomi at 1 and 2. Naomi takes it to Bayley early on and has them going at it for a while until we get…

• #3: Bianca Belair
  Belair goes to attack Bayley and try to eliminate her early, using her strength and athletic ability to take Bayley out until she turns and attacks Naomi and now…
• #4: Billie Kay
  Naomi and Bianca now take care of Bayley in the corner as Billie goes to the announce table with headshots in her hand and joins them on commentary as Bayley nearly eliminates Bianca. As Bayley takes care of the other two…
• #5: Shotzi Blackheart
  Billie runs over to get Shotzi to be her teammate until he gets shot with the tank as Shotzi fights the others in the ring, running wild. As we get our ring filled up…
• #6: Shayna Baszler
  The new tag title champion tries to come to ring again as Billie tries to get her alliance with someone but Baszler… isn’t having it. Baszler goes to take care of business as we still have all women in the ring…
• #7: Toni Storm
  Billie recruits… doesn’t work. Toni taking care of business and fighting everyone off until Shayna eliminates Shotzi from the rumble…
• #8: Jillian Hall
  Well there is our first surprise and Billie joins her and getting Jillie and Billie and doing well…
• #9: Ruby Riott
  Ruby rushes in and as Billie and Jillian take care of Naomi in the corner, Ruby has a fight with Toni Storm and stopping Ruby’s early surge until Billie Kay saves Riott from Toni’s attacks. Billie and Jillian Hall are helping Ruby for the time being…
• #10: Victoria
  And before we had Bianca Belair, there was Victoria as the OG EST of WWE. Taking it to Naomi as we have more fights going on in the ring…
• #11: Peyton Royce
  Peyton goes and takes it to Ruby Riott, almost eliminating her as we get the IIconic reunion until Ruby Riott comes back and Widow’s Peaks Bayley as Victoria shows her how it’s actually done…
• #12: Santana Garrett
  Goes to take it to Ruby and Toni as the ring fills up more and more and another near elimination for Ruby Riott and now Bianca Belair gets a near elimination too…
• #13: Liv Morgan
  Liv comes in quickly and saves Ruby right away from near elimination and getting the Riott Squad to team up and eliminate Jillian Hall as Billie Kay finishes it and gets eliminated by the Riott Squad…
• #14: Rhea Ripley
  And if there was a time to clear the ring… this is probably the time as the Nightmare Returns, eliminating Toni Storm (I guess that wraps up that rivalry) and Victoria gets eliminated by Shayna Baszler with a hanging Kirafuda. Rhea takes it to Santana Garrett and gets her eliminated after she tries to save herself for so long…
• #15: Charlotte Flair
  Huh… 14 and 15 being last years… eh whatever. We get it WWE. Charlotte surprisingly goes after Rhea. Peyton was about to be eliminated but Ruby Riott until Bayley slides under and does Apron Powerbomb to Ruby to eliminate her…
• #16: Dana Brooke
  Dana goes to take out a lot of superstars with a Senton and give some breaks as the fights go on. Liv nearly eliminated by Bayley but Peyton Royce finishes off Liv Morgan with a Superkick…
• #17: Torrie Wilson
  As we hear King shouting that Torrie comes back, Torrie comes in quick and fights everyone. Dana tries to eliminate Rhea but Rhea catches her and powerbombs dana Brooke out and take Dana out of the Rumble…
• #18: Lacey Evans
  Well… Charlotte sees who it is and sees it’s her robe from early tonight. Naomi tries to take it to Charlotte but she just smacks her away and attacks Lacey right away, taking it to the outside as they both go under the bottom rope. Charlotte eliminates Peyton because you don’t mess with someone who is pissed off and Baszler eliminates Peyton and Bianca eliminates Bayley…
• #19: Mickie James
  Mickie goes to fight Charlotte right away as we still have 7 people in the ring…
• #20: Nikki Cross
  I guess new music for Nikki and she takes out Naomi for now (Waiting for Alexa) as she takes the fight to a lot of competitors…
• #21: Alicia Fox
  I swear… King is going to need a new pair of jeans as Alicia comes out but… Truth comes out too. Being chased out with the 24/7 championship…
  NEW 24/7 CHAMPION: ALICIA FOX
  
• #22: Mandy Rose
  I guess… Alicia can get rolled up and pinned for the title along with surviving elimination as Mandy tosses her out and Truth rolls her up…
  NEW 24/7 CHAMPION: R-TRUTH!
  
• #23: Dakota Kai
  Dakota goes for Rhea right away as she just takes it to Rhea as we get more near eliminations. Lacey gives a Women’s Right to take Mickie James out of the ring…
• #24: Carmella
  Mella tries to regain herself from the Women’s Championship match as she rehydrates. Rhea goes and eliminates Dakota and Mandy Rose as Carmella takes her time to get in until Nikki Cross comes to eliminate her. Carmella goes to eliminate Nikki instead and Reggie saves Carmella a lot…
• #25: Tamina
  Reginald gets super kicked by Tamina and Mella gets eliminated from the rumble as tamina and Rhea fight in the center of the ring as Bianca tries to eliminate Naomi from the ring. Naomi’s feet didn’t touch as Lacey knocks Bianca down and pulls her hair to reenter…
• #26: Lana
  It’s Lana Day!!!! …oh are we not allowed to do this? I mean Baszler is still in but… TRIES TO ELIMINATE RHEA RIPLEY?! Wow. Sound idea but no eliminations for now…
• #27: Alexa Bliss
  Aww she’s so sweet. She wouldn’t hurt a fly right? Oh God, everyone is dismantling her now and… the smile… is now gone. Harley Quinn comes out and by Harley Quinn, I mean Rhea Ripley in her Harley gear eliminates Alexa Bliss right away…
• #28: Ember Moon
  Ember takes it to everyone in the rumble and hits a good amount of Eclipses, back over and over…
• #29: Nia Jax
   Nia and Baszler go and start cleaning house. Baszler gets rid of Lacey and Ember Moon. Nia goes for Naomi and the Tag Champions stand tall. Nia and Tamina havea small Samoa Family moment before she turns on Tamina and the champs eliminate Tamina before… ATTACKING EACH OTHER! Rhea gets involved with Baszler as Nia turns and eliminates Shayna Baszler! As Nia says she had to do it, Lana tries to get a measure of revenge. Nia bull rushes Lana and eliminates herself as Lana pulls the ropes…
• #30 Natalya
  She gets attacked by the Tag Champs and they come back in to dismantle Lana some more and leave shortly to bring Natalya in the ring.

We have everyone in the ring…

Natalya attacks Lana after consoling her and eliminates her. Flair, Neidhart, Belair, Ripley the Final Four.

Natalya tries to eliminate Belair and focuses on Ripley after, getting eliminated by Belair herself. Ripley and Belair are taking it to Charlotte and makes it a slug fight shortly after with Charlotte and Rhea. Rhea and Bianca go and eliminate Charlotte. Rhea and Bianca are the last two and after some cheekiness of the two, they come back in the ring and both nearly eliminating the other until they come in and go for the double hair spot to knock each other down. Near elimination after near elimination until Bianca clotheslines Rhea over the rope and wins the Women’s Royal Rumble!

We get some fun after with some backstage fun and review of the day and… Peter Rosenburg attacks R-Truth and um… NEW 24/7 CHAMPION! PETER ROSENBERG. I agree with Corey Graves. David Arquette has been redeemed for the WCW Championship. We need us some McAfee now. That would be more entertaining than Rosenberg.

Kevin Owens vs Roman Reigns

As always in Owens’ fashion, Hockey fighting starts the match and after some dodging of finishers, each men hit old moves, Roman with a Superman Punch to take Kevin down and Kevin gets up to do a Pop-UP Powerbomb for Roman to get knocked down. They go to the outside and another big move from Roman with a Spear to take Owens to a seven before grabbing the steps and taking it to Owens. After more attacks with the step and knocking Owens down and gets a five count. Owens turns it around and uses the ThunderDome LED Boards and Steel Steps to try to get Roman down. After more fighting in the “crowd”, Roman is down for five until Owens takes out Roman’s legs with a chair before Reigns gets up and gives Kevin a taste of his own medicine. Owens gets up and stuns Roman though and goes to take him off the higher level as Roman reverses and Superman Punches KO to throw him through the tables below as Owens gets up at the count of nine before limping to the backstage area.

As the ref asks if Kevin Owens wants to continue, Reigns comes in with a Golf Cart and lays Owens out. After more fighting, Roman goes to insult Owens by lifting his head up and talking to Kevin Owens’ relatives and incites Owens to take Roman out with a powerbomb and frog splash to go through a table. Roman just barely makes it to nine as he stands up and now limps and is dazed. Kevin Owens uses more weapons in the back to make sure Reigns is down as he notices something from WCW’s playbook. Owens gets on top of a forklift and does a Senton through the table. Reigns somehow beats the count at nine but stumbles back from that.

They come back from the backstage area and Roman gets dragged out and stirs himself up to nine again before Kevin Owens tries another Pop-Up Powerbomb before Reigns catches KO with a Superman Punch for distance and a spear through the LED Board. Kevin Owens gets to nine after that but Owens rolls off the platform and stands up staggering, burning his arm on a spotlight as he regains his composure.  Reigns talks more and gets into a fist fight with Owens until Owens stuns Roman and uses the handcuff Roman was going to use to keep Roman down. As the ref counts in front of Roman, Roman grabs the referee and tosses him into a post nearby and stop the count. Reigns beats down Owens as Heyman goes over to unlock him. Reigns goes to put KO into a guillotine choke and Kevin Owens is down for the ten count.

Men’s Royal Rumble:

We start things off the same way we enjoyed last year, Edge and Orton. Rated RKO. Edge wastes no time and attacks Randy from the beginning at the ramp and dragging him to the ring as the bell finally rings. Randy tries to separate himself from Edge but Edge gives chase and beats down Orton outside of the ring. Edge tosses Orton into the steels and knocks him into the barricades and announce table as he punches at Randy…

• #3: Sami Zayn
  Orton goes to get separation and get back in the ring as Sami Zayn shoulder blocks Edge in the knee and beat Edge down, getting a two on one started, damaging his legs and arm from his past injuries…
• #4: Mustafa Ali
  Zayn and Orton stand to stop him at first but they go after Edge again, taking the Hall of famer out, akin to what he said on Legend’s Night the beginning of the year…
• #5: Jeff Hardy
  I wonder if he is going after Edge for all the yea—Oh wow, Edge has help. I guess they made up from the Ladder spot from Mania 17. Hardy tries to take the heels out and down as Zayn talks some smack to Hardy as Orton mindtricks him and RKOs Zayn then Ali until he gets hit with a Spear from Edge, the two going to the outside of the ring. Edge attempts to put Rarndy through the table turns into an RKO attempt. Edge hits Edge-O-Cution on the table and starts the fight with a steel chair…
• #6: Dolph Ziggler
  As Dolph comes down and eliminates Jeff Hardy, refs separate Edge and Orton, getting Edge back in to fight them. Dolph goes to Zig-Zag Edge and lives to fight longer…
• #7: Shinsuke Nakamura
  Dolph gets fired up and goes for Shinsuke off the bat as Nakamura fights off Zayn and Ziggler. Referees take Orton to the back (not eliminated though) because of Edge’s attacks…
• #8: Carlito
  AYEEEEEE WE GOT HIM! CARLITO RETURNS TO THE RUMBLE! Shinsuke takes his apple and tries to bite the apple. I guess Shinsuke doesn’t know that’s not cool because Carlito hits the backstabber and takes it to everyone in the ring…
• #9: Xavier Woods
  Woods runs in and jumps Mustafa Ali for the beat downs these past few weeks and we get some more people in. Only Hardy eliminated…
• #10: Big E
  Big E coming in and dismantling Sami Zayn and taking Mustafa Ali down as Woods comes in and helps Big E take down Big E, hitting the Midnight Hour and eliminating Sami Zayn and targeting Mustafa Ali…
• #11: John Morrison
  Morrison gets in and starts fighting Edge as Woods keeps fighting Ali, nearly eliminating him. Ziggler nearly eliminates Woods. Both Ali and Woods on the outside on the apron as Ali eliminates Woods and Big E, chokes Ali out of the ring…
• #12 Ricochet
  Laughing at Ali as he walks back as Ali takes to the sky and takes out the competition, starting a good fight with Edge with the aerial offense but Morrison coming in to show him who did it first as we have a Lucha Underground Champion rematch between them…
• #13: Elias
  Elias comes in and outpowers Ricochet and Morrison before fighting Carlito. After a little scuffle, Elias takes out the legend and does the most uncool thing and eliminate Carlito from the rumble…
• #14: Damian Priest
  Priest comes in and takes out Elias and Ricochet in the middle of the ring, focusing in on Morrison with his agility in his Rumble debut. He moves in and eliminates Elias from the Rumble as Edge and Priest size each other up…
• #15: The Miz
  Well Morrison doesn’t have to worry anymore now that Miz is here but… notices Bad Bunny’s DJ setup after their little spat with him backstage and destroys the set before M&M fight off people. As Bad Bunny comes out to distract Miz and Morrison. Damien Priest actually comes up and eliminates the two as Bad Bunny does a slightly better crossbody than Snoop Dogg…
• #16: Riddle
  Riddle goes and thinks its NXT again because Damien Priest gets attacked by Riddle and Nakamura and Riddle have a slug fest of their own…
• #17: Daniel Bryan
  Comes in like a bat out of hell and gets Priest and Nakamura with running corner dropkicks as Edge and Riddle are about to be eliminated next but escapes…
• #18: Kane
  Kane increasing his record of Rumble Entries as he takes it to people in the ring with Chokeslams from Hell and an elimination to Ziggler and Ricochet for eliminations number 44 and 45 as Daniel Bryan sees Kane and wants a hug for Team Hell No. They hug but Kane has been here for a while… Chokeslam to you too. Priest and Kane get a stare down as the big men fight each other and Priest eliminates him…
• #19: King Corbin
  More big men come in and Corbin takes it to Riddle and Bryan then finally eliminating Shinsuke Nakamura shortly after…
• #20: Otis
  OH HE HUNGRY AND WANTS TO GET THINGS GOING! Scooping and slamming Priest, Corbin and Big E with ease with a nice little “Oh yeah!” and hitting the caterpillar on Priest. Otis looks like he’s going for a Vader Bomb but Corbin goes in and eliminates Otis from the rumble…
• #21: Dominik Mysterio
  He has a removable hood now! Thank the Lord! He goes to fight off Corbin and Corbin gets an early advantage until he uses Corbin’s momentum against him and eliminates the King with a Head Scissor…
• #22: Bobby Lashley
  Well Riddle sees his opponent later on for Lashley’s US Title before Lashley rushes in and eliminates Dominik and Damian. The staredown between the US and IC Champions is palpable as they goes back and forth before Riddle gets his in against Lashley…
• #23: Hurricane Helms
  I mean… he came in before but… we can’t get Gregory or Sugar Shane? Okay… Trying to chokeslam Big E and Lashley but… He really can fly because he’s eliminated from the rumble…
• #24: Christian
  Oh cool Christian… OH WAIT CHRISTIAN!!!!!!!!
  Lashley eliminated from the Rumble from everyone in the ring. Christian hits the Unprettier to Big E as Edge and Christian coming back and beating down EVERYONE in the ring…
• #25 AJ Styles
  AJ comes in and fights Edge and Christian. Measuring for the Phenomenal Forearm but Edge ducks it and hits the Spear to AJ as more fighting ensues around the ring…
• #26: Rey Mysterio
  Sadly, no Dominik but we get a new endorcement. Omos comes in to save AJ and actually REACHES IN AND PALMS BIG E OUT OF THE RUMBLE MATCH FROM THE FLOOR! So AJ is looking good right now…
• #27: Sheamus
  Sheamus comes in and dismantles everyone in the ring, Brouge Kicks and Irish Curse galore as the ring is getting more and more fatigued. Rey goes for a 619 but Omos catches Rey and manhandles him out…
• #28: Cesaro
  Cesaro rushes in European Uppercuts for everyone in the ring except for the Bar. Sheamus instead gets a Giant Swing and nearly eliminated. Cesaro rushes in and goes for another swing on Daniel Bryan…
• #29: Seth Rollins
  Yeah but Riddle is in the ring? Will he get eliminated before Seth comes in? Maybe even eliminate him himself. But Claudio Casignoli takes on Tyler Bla—Cesaro takes on Seth Rollins as we await… number… 30…
• #30: Braun Strowman
  Braun comes in and dismantles everyone, nearly eliminating AJ Styles but Omos catching him again as Strowman eliminates Sheamus, AJ and Cesaro. Edge and Christian come in a double spear Strowman so all men are down and all men are in the rumble.

Bryan and Riddle take shots at each other as the first ones up and Daniel wins his brawl as Edge comes in and tries to fight Bryan, getting a knee in and nearly eliminating Edge. Christian comes in and fights for a bit until he gets a dropkick in his face. Riddle and Daniel have a technical matchup in the ring after and takes down Riddle with a diving dropkick. Rollins on the outside comes in and takes Daniel Bryan out of the rumble match. OHHHHH AND NOW RIDDLE AND ROLLINS AT IT. MA GET THE CAMERA! Riddle jumps over and Rollins stomps him out of the rumble. Rollins tries to recruit Braun to his side but he refuses as E&C try to take out Braun after but taking a beatdown of their own. Braun and Christian get eliminated from behind as Seth comes in to do it. Seth gets thrown over by Edge so Edge wins?

Nope Randy returns, RKO time! RKO out of nowhere and goes to toss Edge out but Edge reverses it and takes Orton out of the Royal Rumble! January 31^st must be Edge’s lucky number on Royal Rumbles for his second Rumble win!

Overall Score: 7.5/10

Well we have Bianca coming in to win it like most of us thought, we have another Hall of Famer and/or Candian winning from #1 on the men’s side with Edge… I know the Women’s Tag Titles switched hands but that was preshow and even WWE themselves don’t really count the preshow majority of the time as the show. I can say I am pleased with the matches. The WWE Title Match was every typical Goldberg match so we aren’t too shocked there and if the referee didn’t stop the count in the Universal Championship match for that critical botch, it would have looked a lot better but… at least the Rumble matches didn’t disappoint! That’s what actually matters! The Road to WrestleMania has begun and we have Edge and Bianca as our first to guarantees in WrestleMania 37 at Raymond James Stadium. Who knows what will happen for the next few weeks on RAW, SmackDown and even NXT with their involvement. Will Damien Priest, Shotzi, Santana along with others get called up? Well that’s why we have shows for the next few weeks so stay tuned to see what goes on for WrestleMania plans to unfold.