Royal Rumble 2019: Rating every match on the main card

#7 30-Man Royal Rumble Match

Winner: Seth Rollins

Rating: 4.25/5

Seth Rollins after winning the Men's Royal Rumble match

Elias and Jeff Jarrett started the match and Jarrett was eliminated quickly after being struck with Elias’ guitar. This time, WWE relied solely on its in-house talent rather than nostalgia by including superstars from NXT and NXT: UK. The NXT superstars performed quite well.

WWE brought in the storylines from RAW and Smackdown, and included them in this match which was amazing to watch. For example, Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins brawling with each other, Mustafa Ali eliminating Samoa Joe, and Ziggler eliminating Drew McIntyre.

You can’t talk about the Royal Rumble match without talking about Kofi Kingston, who did his usual spots not once, but twice.

There were a couple of shock eliminations but none more shocking than when Bobby Lashley was eliminated within 15 seconds. He got upset and slammed Seth Rollins through the announcers’ table.

Things really got interesting after the 30th entrant was supposed to enter the match. We all knew that R-Truth would be the 30th entrant, but no one could’ve predicted that Nia Jax would ambush R-Truth out of nowhere and take his place.

As soon as she stepped in the ring, she attacked everyone and even eliminated Mustafa Ali. Nia Jax had a proper stare down with Randy Orton and even dodged the RKO. How many women can say they did that? Zero!

It took three men - Rey Mysterio, Dolph Ziggler, and Randy Orton - to finally eliminate Jax. Nia Jax was hit with a superkick, 619 and a RKO before being chucked over the top rope.

The match came down to Ziggler, Andrade, Strowman, and Rollins. As expected, three of them tried to gang up on Braun but in vain as he (Strowman) eliminated both Andrade and Ziggler before being eliminated by Rollins after a curb stomp on the apron. Seth Rollins won the match and punched his ticket to WrestleMania.