Claim: Rey Mysterio won the 2006 Royal Rumble in January 2006.

Royal Rumble -LRB- 2006 -RRB- was the nineteenth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view -LRB- PPV -RRB- event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment -LRB- WWE -RRB- . It was presented by Sony Computer Entertainment 's The Con . It took place on January 29 , 2006 , in the American Airlines Arena in Miami , Florida and featured 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 22 -RRB- for his choice at either the WWE Championship or the World Heavyweight Championship .   Six professional wrestling matches were featured on the event 's supercard , a scheduling of more than one main event . The main feature of the event was the 30-man Royal Rumble match , which featured wrestlers from both brands . Rey Mysterio , the second entrant , won the match by last eliminating Randy Orton , the thirtieth entrant . The primary match on the SmackDown ! brand was Kurt Angle versus Mark Henry for the World Heavyweight Championship , which Angle won after pinning Henry with a roll-up . The predominant match on the Raw brand was Edge versus John Cena for the WWE Championship , which Cena won after forcing Edge to submit to the STFU .