Royal Rumble (2006)

**Royal Rumble (2006)** was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It took place on January 29, 2006 at the American Airlines Arena, in Miami, Florida. It was the 19th Royal Rumble event held by WWE and was sponsored by Sony Entertainment and The Con.

## Qualification matches

- Chavo Guerrero  defeated Rob Conway – _Raw_, January 9
- Shelton Benjamin defeated Val Venis – _Raw_, January 9
- Kane defeated Snitsky – _Raw_, January 9
- Sylvan defeated Scotty 2 Hotty – _WWE Velocity_, January 15 (aired January 21)
- Trevor Murdoch defeated Antonio – _WWE Heat_, January 16 (aired January 20)
- Viscera defeated Lance Cade, Gregory Helms and Tyson Tomko in a Battle Royal match – _WWE Heat_, January 16 (aired January 20)
- Jonathan Coachman defeated Jerry Lawler – _Raw_, January 23
- The Mexicools (Psicosis and Super Crazy) defeated The Dicks (Chad and James) and The Full Blooded Italians (Nunzio and Vito) in a Triple Threat tag team match – _SmackDown!_, January 24 (aired January 27)

## Results

|style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|**No.**|style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|**Results**|style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|**Stipulations**|style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|**Times**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Finlay defeated Brian Kendrick|Singles match|02:07||||||
|Gregory Helms defeated Kid Kash (c), Funaki, Jamie Noble, Nunzio and Paul London|6-Way Cruiserweight match for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship|07:40||||||
|Mickie James defeated Ashley|Singles match with WWE Women's Champion Trish Stratus as Special Guest Referee|07:44||||||
|The Boogeyman defeated John "Bradshaw" Layfield (with Jillian Hall)|Singles match|01:54||||||
|Rey Mysterio won by last eliminating Randy Orton|2006 Royal Rumble match|1:02:12||||||
|John Cena defeated Edge (c) (with Lita)|Singles match for the WWE Championship|14:02||||||
|Kurt Angle (c) defeated Mark Henry (with Daivari)|Singles match for the World Heavyweight Championship|09:29||||||
|colspan="4" align="center"|(c) – is the champion(s) going into the match **D** – This match was a dark match|||||||

### Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations

|style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Draw|style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Entrant|style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Brand|style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Order|style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Eliminated by|style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Time|style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Eliminations|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Triple H|Raw|28|Mysterio|60:09|5||||||||
|****|**Rey Mysterio**|**SD!**|****|****|**62:12**|**6**||||||||
||Simon Dean|rowspan="2"|SD!||Mysterio and Triple H|00:45|0|||||||
||Psicosis||Mysterio|01:15|0|||||||||
||Ric Flair|rowspan="3"|Raw||rowspan="2"|Triple H|01:20|0||||||
||Big Show||09:02|2||||||||||
||Jonathan Coachman||Big Show|00:30|0|||||||||
||Bobby Lashley|SD!||Big Show & Kane|04:17|1||||||||
||Kane|Raw||Triple H|03:33|1||||||||
|10|Sylvan|SD!||Lashley|00:18|0||||||||
|11|Carlito|Raw|26|Van Dam|38:29|2||||||||
|12|Chris Benoit|rowspan="5"|SD!|17|Orton|30:31|2|||||||
|13|Booker T||Benoit|00:18|0|||||||||
|14|Joey Mercury|22|Nitro|29:14|1|||||||||
|15|Tatanka|12|Mercury & Nitro|14:09|0|||||||||
|16|Johnny Nitro|23|Michaels|25:45|2|||||||||
|17|Trevor Murdoch|rowspan="2"|Raw|13|Michaels|13:41|0|||||||
|18|Eugene|15|Benoit|16:25|0|||||||||
|19||SD!|10|Van Dam|02:49|0||||||||
|20|Rob Van Dam|Raw|27|Mysterio|23:52|3||||||||
|21|Orlando Jordan|SD!|21|Orton|16:09|0||||||||
|22|Chavo Guerrero|Raw|11|Triple H|00:59|0||||||||
|23|Matt Hardy|rowspan="2"|SD!|14|Viscera|07:42|0|||||||
|24|Super Crazy|16|Mysterio|07:40|0|||||||||
|25|Shawn Michaels|rowspan="5"|Raw|25|Shane McMahon|12:55|3|||||||
|26|Chris Masters|19|Carlito|07:01|1|||||||||
|27|Viscera|18|Carlito & Masters|05:20|1|||||||||
|28|Shelton Benjamin|24|Michaels|06:51|0|||||||||
|29|Goldust|20|Van Dam|03:09|0|||||||||
|30|Randy Orton|SD!|29|Mysterio|13:04|2||||||||

## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: Royal Rumble (2006)
- **promotion**: WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment
- **brand**: WWE Raw, Raw
WWE SmackDown, SmackDown!
- **date**: January 29, 2006
- **venue**: American Airlines Arena
- **city**: Miami, Florida
- **attendance**: 16,000
- **lastevent**: New Year's Revolution (2006)
- **nextevent**: No Way Out (2006)
- **event**: Royal Rumble
- **lastevent2**: Royal Rumble (2005)
- **nextevent2**: Royal Rumble (2007)