Claim: Brock Lesnar won a fight.

Royal Rumble -LRB- 2003 -RRB- was the sixteenth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view -LRB- PPV -RRB- event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment -LRB- WWE -RRB- . It took place on January 19 , 2003 , at the Fleet Center in Boston , Massachusetts , was the first Royal Rumble produced under the WWE name and employed talent from the Raw and SmackDown ! brands . As has been customary since 1993 , the Royal Rumble match winner received a match at that year 's WrestleMania , -LRB- in this instance : WrestleMania XIX -RRB- for his brand 's World title , either the WWE Championship or the World Heavyweight Championship .   The main event was the annual 30-man Royal Rumble match , which included wrestlers from both brands . Brock Lesnar , the twenty-ninth entrant , won the match by last eliminating The Undertaker , the thirtieth entrant . The primary match on the Raw brand was Triple H versus Scott Steiner for the World Heavyweight Championship , which Steiner won by disqualification resulting in Triple H retaining the championship . The most prominent for the SmackDown ! brand was between Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit for the WWE Championship , which Angle won by making Benoit submit to the Ankle Lock . The undercard also included a Royal Rumble qualification match between Brock Lesnar and The Big Show , which Lesnar won ; he would then go on to win the Rumble match later that night .