WWE: Royal Rumble to take place in Texas on January 29, 2017
Rumble returns to Alamodome for first time in 20 years
Monday 3 October 2016 10:55, UK
The 2017 Royal Rumble will take place at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas on Sunday, January 29, WWE has confirmed.
The Alamodome last held WWE's annual January event in 1997, when "Stone Cold" Steve Austin won the 30-man Royal Rumble Match and Shawn Michaels beat Sycho Sid to claim the WWE Title.
The winner of the 2017 Royal Rumble Match - which will feature both Raw and Smackdown Superstars - will earn a championship opportunity at WrestleMania 33 on April 2.
Next year's Royal Rumble will be the 30th in the event's history - "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan winning the inaugural Rumble Match in Ontario, Canada in 1988 by lastly eliminating One Man Gang.
Austin has won a record three Rumble Matches, while Michaels, Hulk Hogan, Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Batista and John Cena have won the bout twice.
Triple H's second triumph came this year, with The Game dispatching Dean Ambrose over the top rope to claim Roman Reigns' WWE Title.
"A return 20 years in the making... January 29, 2017 the #RoyalRumble returns to San Antonio @Alamodome. You never know who will show up..." tweeted Triple H about next year's Rumble.
AJ Styles, who made his WWE debut at the 2016 Royal Rumble in Orlando, wrote: "I will never forget the feeling entering last year's#RoyalRumble..but the @Alamodome will be special. It'll be loud. It'll be #phenomenal."
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