Royal Rumble (2019)

Royal Rumble (2019) was a professional wrestling show made by WWE that happened at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona on January 27, 2019 and could be watched on the WWE Network and pay-per-view.^[1] Happening after NXT TakeOver: Phoenix and before Worlds Collide, it was the thirty-second Royal Rumble show. WWE has said that 48,193 people were in Chase Field to watch the show, but wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer said that this is not true and that only a little more than 40,000 people were there.^[2] Golden Crisp was the sponsor of the show.^[3]

Ten matches happened at the show, including three on the pre-show. The last match was the men's Royal Rumble match and it was won by Seth Rollins. Becky Lynch won the women's Royal Rumble match, but lost the first match which was against Asuka for the SmackDown Women's Championship. In other important matches, Brock Lesnar kept the Universal Championship by beating Finn Bálor, Daniel Bryan kept the WWE Championship by beating AJ Styles, and Ronda Rousey kept the Raw Women's Championship by beating Sasha Banks.