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The year-old delivered once again ahead of the finish as McMahon and Miz continued to play out a storyline that has been a ton more fun than it has any right to be. McMahon teased an early dive off the top rope and onto the announce tables but held back when Cesaro saved Sheamus. Later on, he attempted a Coast to Coast on both heels but was caught by Cesaro into a swing that McMahon later reversed into a triangle choke.

The finishing sequence began when Sheamus accidentally hit his partner with a Brogue Kick. Miz followed with a Skull-Crushing Finale to knock Sheamus out of the ring, and McMahon stunned the crowd with a perfect Shooting Star Press from the top rope for the pin. Grade: B. Raw Women's Championship -- Ronda Rousey c def. Sasha Banks via pinfall to retain the title: The in-ring chemistry between the two left anyone who had looked at this as a potential dream match once Rousey signed with WWE one year ago feel validated.

The only shame in this matter was that they were given just shy of only 14 minutes to work. The intensity between the two was palpable and the action crisp in a match that featured constant reversals and counters. Banks hit the move of the match with a textbook superplex that could only get two. Later, Rousey intercepted a suicide dive attempt and put Banks into an armbar on the floor.

Banks, who applied a variety of her own armbars to wear down Rousey, applied her Banks Statement finisher late using the her wrist band as a way of cheating to choke Rousey and went on to switch the submission attempt into a fujiwara armbar.

But Rousey channeled her inner Hulk Hogan and John Cena by powering out by reversing and standing up before hitting a Piper's Pit slam with a bridge for the pin. After the match, Rousey held Banks' hand as the two made up before Rousey held the ropes open for her.

But Banks continued to pause and look increasingly angry as she walked away from the ring. SashaBanksWWE with the reminder Becky Lynch wins the Women's Royal Rumble: WWE delivered the booking fans had hoped to see thanks to Lynch's late addition to the match after Lana was badly limping and unable to make it to the ring.

The problem was how long it took to get to the finish in an excruciatingly long match over 71 minutes that didn't have the reveals or action to fill even a third of that time. The extended finishing sequence -- featuring a final five of Lynch, Flair, Carmella, Bayley and Nia Jax -- may have been the most egregious when it comes to inefficiently wasting time until Lynch ducked a Flair big boot in the closing seconds and backdropped her to the apron before kicking her to the floor for the victory.

The second women's match of its kind in WWE history failed to produce a single true surprise entrant with the exception of Lynch's predictable appearance after she lost a title match earlier in the evening by submission against Asuka. Former WWE superstar Hornswoggle may have been the closest thing when he appeared from under the ring to chase away Zelina Vega, who entered at No. Io Shirai hit the spot of the match with an asai moonsault from the top rope onto the Riott Squad outside. Meanwhile, Naomi and NXT superstar Kacy Catanzaro -- a former American Ninja Warrior champion -- completed essentially the same Kofi Kingston save by walking on their hands outside to avoid elimination although Catanzaro creatively climbed up the outside of the ring post.

Mighty KacyCatanzaro! Lana, who came out at No. Lynch came out to plead with WWE agent and countryman Fit Finlay, who eventually gave in to her demands to enter the match.

Lynch went on to suffer storyline knee injury outside the ring thanks to Nia Jax, whom she had just eliminated. Flair attacked the knee with chop blocks but was unable to put Lynch away.

Grade: C. AJ Styles via pinfall to retain the title: Raise your hand if you saw that one coming? An already methodical title rematch that was heavy on holds and short on fireworks saw the surprise return Erick Rowan, who was dressed in flannel similar to Bryan and stood ominously at ringside late in the match.

After Styles ducked and enziguri attempt and Bryan accidentally took out the referee, Bryan was hit with the Styles Clash. Lana was scheduled to enter the match at number 28 but still suffered from her injury from the pre-show.

Becky Lynch appeared and was allowed to take Lana's spot. In the climax, a returning Rowan appeared. Bryan then accidentally performed an enzuigiri on the referee. Bryan then pinned Styles to retain the title. The main event was the man Royal Rumble match for a world championship match at WrestleMania Jax became the fourth woman to enter a men's Royal Rumble match, the first person to compete in both the men's and women's Royal Rumble matches in the same night, and the first to score eliminations in both matches.

In the end, Seth Rollins won the match by last eliminating Braun Strowman. After retaining, women's Royal Rumble match winner Becky Lynch made her entrance and confronted Rousey. Seth Rollins celebrated his Royal Rumble match victory. Triple H then came out and congratulated him, but said that Rollins needed to choose which champion he wanted to face at WrestleMania 35 by the end of the night. Later, Rollins confronted Brock Lesnar. After an ensuing brawl, Rollins chose to face Lesnar and goes on to beat him for the Universal Championship at WrestleMania.

On the following SmackDown , Becky Lynch addressed how everything had changed for her since with the women's Royal Rumble match. Charlotte Flair then came out and congratulated Lynch and stated that Lynch won, but was never in the match in the first place, and that Lynch would not be where she was at if it were not for Flair. An ensuing brawl broke out between Flair and Lynch until referees separated them. As compensation for not being able to compete in the men's Royal Rumble match, R-Truth was granted a United States Championship match against new champion Shinsuke Nakamura.

Truth defeated Nakamura to win the title, which led to Rusev coming out and declaring that Truth was not worthy of the title. Rusev then challenged Truth for the title, but was also defeated. WWE kicks off with one of its biggest events of the year — the annual Royal Rumble. This year's Rumble will take place on Sunday, Jan. The show marks the start of WrestleMania season for the company, the busiest and typically most exciting time of its calendar year for the promotion as they build toward the annual extravaganza.

For the second consecutive year, the Royal Rumble will include both a men's and women's Royal Rumble match with 30 participants in each bout and the last person standing earning a championship match at WrestleMania 35 in April.