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Royal Rumble (2015) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It took place on January 25, 2015 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the twenty-eighth annual Royal Rumble event and the first to air on the WWE Network. Like the previous year's event, it was marked by an extremely negative audience reaction to the main Royal Rumble match, which was won by Roman Reigns. WWE was criticized for failing to please fans for the second Royal Rumble event in a row. However, the WWE World Heavyweight Championship triple threat match between Brock Lesnar, John Cena and Seth Rollins received widespread acclaim from fans and critics alike. The event received 145,000 buys (excluding WWE Network views), down from the previous year's 467,000 buys. == Background == Royal Rumble featured professional wrestling matches that involved wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines that played out on WWE television. Wrestlers portrayed heroes or villains as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. As is tradition at this yearly event, the card was highlighted by the 30-man Royal Rumble match, where this year's winner received a WWE World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania 31. At the TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs event, Roman Reigns returned and announced himself as the first entrant in the Royal Rumble match. On the December 29 episode of ''Raw'', Daniel Bryan announced his participation in the match. On the January 6 episode of ''Main Event'', WWE United States Champion Rusev announced his participation in the match. On the January 9 episode of ''SmackDown'', Bray Wyatt and WWE Intercontinental Champion Bad News Barrett announced their participation in the match. On the January 12 episode of ''Raw'', Dean Ambrose announced his participation in the match. On the January 13 episode of ''Main Event'', Gold and Stardust announced their participation in the match. On the January 15 episode of ''SmackDown'', Big Show and Kane announced their participation in the match. On the January 19 edition of ''Raw'', R-Truth, The Miz and Damien Mizdow announced their participation in the match. On the January 22 edition of ''SmackDown'', Dolph Ziggler defeated Bad News Barrett, Luke Harper defeated Erick Rowan, and Ryback defeated Rusev by countout to qualify for the match. That same night, Daniel Bryan defeated Kane to retain his spot in the match. At SummerSlam, Brock Lesnar defeated John Cena to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. At TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs, Cena defeated Rollins in a Tables match to retain his #1 contender status. Later in the event, it was announced that Cena will face Lesnar for the title at Royal Rumble. On the January 5, 2015 episode of ''Raw'', Rollins was added to the match as a reward for bringing back The Authority after coaxing Cena on the previous episode, making the match a Triple Threat and the poster is changed. On the January 19 edition of ''Raw'', Triple H forced Cena to compete in a 3-on-1 handicap match to not only secure his spot in the Triple Threat match, but also win Erick Rowan, Dolph Ziggler, and Ryback their jobs back after the latter three had been previously fired by the Authority for siding with Cena at Survivor Series. With the help of Sting, who previously assisted Team Cena at Survivor Series, Cena won the match, and afterwards, Lesnar came down to the ring and attacked Rollins, Big Show, and Kane, hitting an ''F-5'' on each of the latter two as a measure of revenge for getting a ''Curb Stomp'' by Rollins during the contract signing for the championship match one week earlier.〔 On the December 29 episode of ''Raw'', The Usos defeated The Miz and Damien Mizdow to win the WWE Tag Team Championship.〔 On the January 15 episode of ''SmackDown'', it was announced that the Usos would defend the titles against Miz and Mizdow at the pay per view.〔 On the January 5 episode of ''Raw'', Paige came out and helped Natalya to defeat Nikki Bella.〔 On the January 6 episode of ''Main Event'', Natalya came out and helped Paige to defeat Nikki Bella.〔 On the January 12 episode of ''Raw'', Brie Bella defeated Paige due to distraction by Tyson Kidd.〔 On the January 15 episode of ''SmackDown'', Natalya defeated Nikki via submission.〔 On the January 19 edition of ''Raw'', after Paige and Natalya defeated Summer Rae and Alicia Fox, it was announced that The Bella Twins (Brie and Nikki) would face Paige and Natalya in a tag team match at the event.〔 On the January 5 episode of ''Raw'', Cesaro and Tyson Kidd attacked Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods, which let Adam Rose to defeat Big E.〔 On the January 19, episode of ''Raw'', Big E and Kofi defeated Cesaro and Kidd. Later in the night, it was announced that The New Day would face Cesaro, Kidd and Rose in a Six-man tag team elimination match on the Royal Rumble Kickoff Show.〔 On January 25, it was changed to a tag team match with Cesaro and Kidd accompanied by Rose versus Big E and Kingston with Woods due to Woods being unable to compete. On the December 29 episode of ''Raw'', The Ascension (Konnor and Viktor) made their WWE debut.〔 Over the next few weeks, the duo would easily defeat local preliminary wrestlers and compare themselves to famous tag teams, like The Road Warriors. On the January 19 episode of ''Raw'', the Ascension were confronted and attacked by the New World Order, the APA and the New Age Outlaws (Billy Gunn and Road Dogg) after the Ascension interfered in the nWo reunion segment. Later in the night, it was announced that the Ascension would face the New Age Outlaws at the event.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Royal Rumble (2015)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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