8 Booking Steps For The Undertaker's WWE Return
3. Chaos At The Royal Rumble
AJ Styles and Dean Ambrose wrestle a tough, gruelling match for the WWE World Championship, and Ambrose comes out on top. Putting Styles away with Dirty Deeds, Ambrose regains the title he lost at Backlash, and AJ is disconsolate.
Afterwards, John Cena cuts a traditional pre-Rumble promo, and states that it’s a “shame” he won’t get to face Styles for the belt should he win the Rumble itself. John enters the match in the late 20s, and hits the ring like a house of fire. Baron Corbin, Big E, and a couple of other expendable midcarders fall by his hand, and Cena dominates.
It doesn’t last, however. The deposed AJ Styles crashes the party after the 29th entrant arrives, and starts taking-out his frustrations on Cena, who has downed everyone else in the ring. He dumps Cena with a Styles Clash, but just as he does so, the countdown hits one.
The gong hits.
San Antonio goes nuts.
Taker is the Rumble’s 30th entrant, and AJ is about to get his comeuppance. Taker scoops AJ up and plants him with a Tombstone Piledriver after the necessary theatrics. The Rumble is in the palm of his hands, but as he boots Styles out of the ring, The Undertaker gets more than he’s bargained for.
An opportunistic Cena scurries up behind The Deadman, bundling him over the top rope, and eliminating him from the match. Taker’s furious, but there’s little he can do. John’s eliminated by a Raw superstar (who wins the match) in the fallout, and as the Rumble goes off the air, Cena and The Undertaker brawl to the back.