Royal Rumble 2004
Details
Promotion	World Wrestling Entertainment
Brand (s)	RAW SmackDown!
Date	January 25, 2004
Venue	Wachovia Center
City	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Attendance	17,289
Pay-per-view chronology
Armageddon 2003	Royal Rumble 2004	No Way Out 2004

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Results

• Sunday Night HEAT match Match: Victoria (w/Steven Richards) defeated Molly Holly (4:56)
  • Victoria pinned Holly after a Widow's Peak.
• Ric Flair and Batista defeated The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and D-Von) in a Tables Match to retain the World Tag Team Championship (4:23)
  • Batista eliminated D-Von after a spinebuster through a table.
• Rey Mysterio defeated Jamie Noble (w/Nidia) to retain the WWE Cruiserweight Championship (3:12)
  • Mysterio pinned Noble after a Droppin' The Dime.
• Eddie Guerrero defeated Chavo Guerrero (w/Chavo Guerrero, Sr.) (8:03)
  • Eddie pinned Chavo after a Frog Splash.
  • After the match, Eddie assaulted both Chavo and Chavo Sr.
• Brock Lesnar defeated Hardcore Holly to retain the WWE Championship (6:30)
  • Lesnar pinned Holly after an F-5.
• World Heavyweight Champion Triple H fought Shawn Michaels to a double count-out in a Last Man Standing match (22:46)
  • Both men were counted-out after they hit their finishers on each other (Triple H hit the Pedigree on Michaels, and Michaels hit a Sweet Chin Music on Triple H) and fell unconscious, Triple H retained the title.
• Chris Benoit won the 2004 Royal Rumble (1:01:30)
  • Chris Benoit and The Big Show were the final two participants. Benoit, Chris Jericho, Kurt Angle, John Cena and Rob Van Dam all ganged up on Big Show, trying to eliminate him. However, each wrestler was eliminated one-by-one by Big Show until it went down to the final two. Big Show tried to press-slam Benoit over the top rope but Benoit countered with a standing guillotine choke, pulling Big Show over the top rope as Benoit hung onto the ropes for the win.

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Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations

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Other on-screen talent

Promotional poster of Royal Rumble 2004, featuring John Cena

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Royal Rumble qualification matches

• John Cena and Chris Benoit defeated Nunzio, Chuck Palumbo and Johnny Stamboli in a Royal Rumble simulation on SmackDown!
• Tajiri defeated Billy Kidman on SmackDown!
• Bradshaw defeated Akio and Sakoda in a triple threat match on SmackDown!
• Matt Morgan defeated Orlando Jordan on Velocity
• Rikishi defeated Scotty 2 Hotty on SmackDown!
• A-Train defeated Shannon Moore on Velocity
• The World's Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas) defeated the Basham Brothers (Doug and Danny Basham) on SmackDown!
• Rico defeated Tommy Dreamer on Sunday Night HEAT
• Nunzio defeated Chuck Palumbo and Johnny Stamboli in a Triple Threat match on SmackDown!
  • In the storyline, all three were supposed to be in the Rumble until they failed to beat Chris Benoit, thus Paul Heyman would only allow one of them to enter.

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Trivia

• Chris Benoit became the second person to win the Royal Rumble with the #1 draw. The first was Shawn Michaels in 1995.
• Chris Benoit is the first former ECW superstar to win the Royal Rumble
• Benoit also broke Bob Backlund's previous record from 1993 of the longest person to last in the Rumble.
• Benoit was the first person to make use of a "contract loophole", enabling the Royal Rumble winner to change brands and challenge their champion of choice. Benoit defected to RAW the following night and challenged Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship, making him the first Royal Rumble winner in years to challenge for a championship at WrestleMania that is not the WWE Championship.
• During the Royal Rumble, the famous gong from The Undertaker's theme song played at #13. Kane, thinking Undertaker was killed off at Survivor Series 2003 got worried and ended up being eliminated by Booker T. Angry over his elimination, Kane beat up the real 13th participant Spike Dudley so that he couldn't make it to the ring.
• Test was set to enter at #21 but was found beaten up. Found by Steve Austin, he ordered another wrestler to enter the Rumble in Test's place. That wrestler turned out to be Mick Foley who immediately came out and eliminated Orton. The two then had a brawl leading to the back.

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References

• twnpnews.com - Royal Rumble
• hoofco-inc.com - Royal Rumble '04 review

External links

• Official 2004 Royal Rumble website