Royal Rumble (2005)

**Royal Rumble (2005)** was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It took place on January 30, 2005, at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California. It was the 18th Royal Rumble event held by WWE.

## Qualification matches

- Booker T and Charlie Haas defeated Luther Reigns and Mark Jindrak - SmackDown house show, January 9
- Shelton Benjamin defeated Maven - _Raw_, January 10
- Edge defeated Rhyno - _Raw_, January 10
- Scotty 2 Hotty defeated Akio - _SmackDown_, January 18
- John Cena defeated René Duprée - _SmackDown_, January 18
- Rey Mysterio defeated Chavo Guerrero - _SmackDown_, January 18
- Viscera defeated Tajiri in a battle royal - _Raw_, January 24
- Batista defeated Rob Conway and Sylvain Grenier in a handicap match - _Raw_, January 24
- Muhammad Hassan defeated Val Venis - _Raw_, January 24
- Kane defeated Gene Snitsky and Maven in a triple threat match - _Raw_, January 24
- Paul London defeated Funaki, Shannon Moore, and Spike Dudley in a fatal four-way match - _SmackDown_, January 25

### Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations

- – Raw
- – SmackDown!
- – Winner

|Draw|Entrant|Brand|Order eliminated|Eliminated by|Time|Eliminations||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Eddie Guerrero|SmackDown!|11|Edge|28:11|3||
||Chris Benoit|Raw|25|Batista & Ric Flair|47:26|2||
||Daniel Puder|rowspan="2"|SmackDown!||Hardcore Holly|04:09|0|
||Hardcore Holly||Chris Benoit & Eddie Guerrero|01:59|1|||
||The Hurricane|Raw||Eddie Guerrero|01:04|0||
||Kenzo Suzuki|SmackDown!||Rey Mysterio|03:31|0||
||Edge|Raw|28|Batista & John Cena|40:19|5||
||Rey Mysterio|SmackDown!|27|Edge|38:25|2||
||Shelton Benjamin|Raw|10|Edge|14:35|1||
|10|Booker T|SmackDown!||Rey Mysterio & Eddie Guerrero|10:42|3||
|11|Chris Jericho|Raw|21|Batista|28:22|2||
|12|Luther Reigns|SmackDown!||Booker T|07:13|1||
|13|Muhammad Hassan|Raw||Booker T, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho, Edge, Luther Reigns & Shelton Benjamin|00:54|0||
|14|Orlando Jordan|rowspan="4"|SmackDown!||Booker T|03:36|0|
|15|Scotty 2 Hotty||Unable to compete|N/A|0|||
|16|Charlie Haas|13|Shawn Michaels|06:20|0|||
|17|René Duprée|16|Chris Jericho|11:32|0|||
|18|Simon Dean|rowspan="2"|Raw|12|Shawn Michaels|00:20|0|
|19|Shawn Michaels|15|Kurt Angle|04:56|3|||
|20|Kurt Angle|SmackDown!|14|Shawn Michaels|00:37|1||
|21|Jonathan Coachman|Raw|23|Ric Flair|13:48|0||
|22|Mark Jindrak|SmackDown!|19|Kane|08:15|0||
|23|Viscera|Raw|17|John Cena|03:00|0||
|24|Paul London|rowspan="2"|SmackDown!|18|Gene Snitsky|03:15|0|
|25|John Cena|29|Batista|15:28|3|||
|26|Gene Snitsky|rowspan="2"|Raw|20|Batista|03:38|1|
|27|Kane|22|John Cena|03:54|1|||
|**28**|**Batista**|**Raw**|****|****|**10:54**|**6**||
|29|Christian|rowspan="2"|Raw|24|Batista|02:09|0|
|30|Ric Flair|26|Edge|01:58|2|||

## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: Royal Rumble (2005)
- **tagline**: All the rumbling, minus the dancing and singing
- **promotion**: WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment
- **brand**: WWE Raw, Raw
SmackDown!
- **date**: January 30, 2005
- **venue**: Save Mart Center
- **city**: Fresno, California
- **attendance**: 12,000
- **lastevent**: New Year's Revolution (2005)
- **nextevent**: No Way Out (2005)
- **event**: Royal Rumble
- **lastevent2**: Royal Rumble (2004)
- **nextevent2**: Royal Rumble (2006)