Royal Rumble (2010)

**Royal Rumble (2010)** was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It took place on January 31, 2010 at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. It was the 23rd Royal Rumble event held by WWE.

As always, the Royal Rumble match winner got a match at that year's WrestleMania (in this instance: WrestleMania XXVI) for his choice at either the WWE Championship, the World Heavyweight Championship or the ECW World Championship.

Six professional wrestling matches were on the event's card. The main event was the annual 30-man Royal Rumble match which featured wrestlers from all three brands. Edge, the twenty-ninth person to enter, won the match by last eliminating John Cena, the nineteenth person to enter. The main match on the Raw brand was for the WWE Championship between champion Sheamus and Randy Orton, which Sheamus won by disqualification. The main match on the SmackDown brand was between The Undertaker and Rey Mysterio for the World Heavyweight Championship, which The Undertaker won. The main match on the ECW brand was for the ECW Championship between Christian and Ezekiel Jackson, which Christian won.

## 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**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Gail Kim, Kelly Kelly, Eve Torres, and The Bella Twins (Nikki and Brie Bella) defeated Maryse, Katie Lea Burchill, Jillian Hall, Alicia Fox, and Natalya|10-Diva tag team match|N/A||||||
|Christian (c) defeated Ezekiel Jackson (with William Regal)|Singles match for the ECW Championship|11:49||||||
|The Miz (c) defeated Montel Vontavious Porter|Singles match for the WWE United States Championship|7:30||||||
|Sheamus (c) defeated Randy Orton by disqualification|Singles match for the WWE Championship|11:24||||||
|Mickie James defeated Michelle McCool (c) (with Layla)|Singles match for the WWE Women's Championship|0:20||||||
|The Undertaker (c) defeated Rey Mysterio|Singles match for the World Heavyweight Championship|11:09||||||
|Edge last eliminated John Cena to win|2010 Royal Rumble match|49:24||||||
|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

Red <span style="color:#FFEEEE;">██</span> and "Raw" indicates a Raw superstar, blue <span style="color:#EEEEFF;">██</span> and "SD" indicates a SmackDown superstar, and purple <span style="color:#E7DDEE;">██</span> and "ECW" indicates an ECW superstar.

|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|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Dolph Ziggler|SD||Punk||||||||
||Evan Bourne|Raw||Punk||||||||
||CM Punk|SD||Triple H|10:04|||||||
||JTG|SD||Punk||||||||
||The Great Khali|SD||Phoenix||||||||
||Beth Phoenix|SD||Punk||||||||
||Zack Ryder|ECW||Punk||||||||
||Triple H|Raw|17|Michaels|17:51|||||||
||Drew McIntyre|SD|16|Michaels and Triple H|14:43|||||||
|10|Ted DiBiase|Raw|14|Michaels|12:40|||||||
|11|John Morrison|SD|15|Michaels|11:37|||||||
|12|Kane|SD|11|Triple H||||||||
|13|Cody Rhodes|Raw|13|Michaels||||||||
|14|Montel Vontavious Porter|Raw||Himself||||||||
|15|Carlito|Raw|12|Michaels||||||||
|16|The Miz|Raw||MVP||||||||
|17|Matt Hardy|SD|10|Kane||||||||
|18|Shawn Michaels|Raw|27|Batista|20:45|||||||
|19|John Cena|Raw|29|Edge|22:11|||||||
|20|Shelton Benjamin|ECW|18|Cena||||||||
|21|Yoshi Tatsu|ECW|19|Cena||||||||
|22|The Big Show|Raw|22|R-Truth||||||||
|23|Mark Henry|Raw|21|R-Truth||||||||
|24|Chris Masters|Raw|20|Big Show||||||||
|25|R-Truth|SD|24|Kingston||||||||
|26|Jack Swagger|Raw|23|Kingston||||||||
|27|Kofi Kingston|Raw|25|Cena||||||||
|28|Chris Jericho|SD|26|Edge||||||||
|29|Edge|SD|-|||||||||
|30|Batista|SD|28|Cena||||||||

## Other websites

- Official website

## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: Royal Rumble (2010)
- **image**: Shawn furious.jpg
- **caption**: Shawn Michaels after being eliminated from the Royal Rumble Match
- **tagline**: I Am The One
- **theme**: "Hero (Skillet song), Hero" by Skillet
"Chasing the Grail, Martyr No More" by Fozzy
- **promotion**: WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment
- **brand**: WWE Raw, Raw
SmackDown
ECW (WWE), ECW
- **date**: January 31, 2010
- **attendance**: 16,697
- **venue**: Philips Arena
- **city**: Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
- **lastevent**: TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (2009)
- **nextevent**: Elimination Chamber (2010)
- **event**: Royal Rumble
- **lastevent2**: Royal Rumble (2009)
- **nextevent2**: Royal Rumble (2011)