10 Fascinating WWE Royal Rumble 2020 Facts

10. Minute Maid Park's Wrestling Debut

The venue and setup of the 2020 Royal Rumble PPV worked absolutely brilliantly, with baseball stadium Minute Maid Park standing out as one of the more visually unique Rumble locales.

Away from the sight of 42,715 fans staggered across Minute Maid Park's four levels, it just looked so damn cool to see wrestlers making their way out of the stadium's dugouts as they made their way to the ring.

While so many other venues have housed the Royal Rumble PPV several different times, the case of Minute Maid Park is a tad different. To be precise, The 2020 Royal Rumble was the first ever wrestling show to take place at the home of the Houston Astros since the stadium was formally opened in 2000.

Given how the wrestling world has had to reassess itself due to the ongoing global pandemic that's been raging on for a year now, the 2020 Royal Rumble show currently stands as the one and only wrestling event to take place at Minute Maid Park.

Once the world gets back to some sort of normalcy, you'd have to imagine that WWE would be extremely keen to house another event at this phenomenal venue.

Authored by Andrew Pollard

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Posted On: 31st Jan 2021

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