Royal Rumble (2017)

The 2017 Royal Rumble was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was the 30th annual Royal Rumble and took place on January 29, 2017, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. This was the fourth Royal Rumble to be held in the state of Texas, after the 1989 (Houston), 1997 (at the same venue), and 2007 (also in San Antonio) events.

Traditionally, the Royal Rumble match winner receives a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania. However, due to the brand split that was reintroduced in July 2016, the winner received a match for their respective brand's world championship at WrestleMania 33, either Raw's WWE Universal Championship or SmackDown's WWE Championship. The main event was the 2017 Royal Rumble match, which was won by SmackDown's Randy Orton, who last eliminated Raw's Roman Reigns. This made Orton the seventh multiple Royal Rumble winner.

Seven other matches were contested at the event, including three on the Kickoff pre-show. One of the more notable matches saw John Cena defeat AJ Styles to capture his record 13th WWE Championship and his 16th overall world championship, tying Ric Flair's official record. Also on the undercard, Kevin Owens retained the WWE Universal Championship against Roman Reigns in a no disqualification match, Charlotte Flair retained the Raw Women's Championship against Bayley, and Neville defeated Rich Swann to win the WWE Cruiserweight Championship.

It was also the last time that only the men's Royal Rumble match took place as the women's Royal Rumble match was introduced the following year.