Royal Rumble 2015

Royal Rumble 2015 is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE which will take place on January 25, 2015 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It will be the 28th annual Royal Rumble event. It was announced at the October 10, 2014 SmackDown taping that the 2015 Royal Rumble will be getting an upgrade. WWE announced that the show will feature forty men instead of the usual thirty. This is only the second time in history that the match has had this many competitors; the last time was 2011 when Alberto Del Rio won.

Background
Royal Rumble will feature professional wrestling matches that involved wrestlers from pre-existing feuds, plots, and storylines that played out on WWE's primary television programs. Wrestlers portrayed villains or heroes as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

Matches

 * Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
 * (c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match.

Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations
A new entrant came out approximately every 90 seconds.

DVD release

 * Vison.jpg [ Royal Rumble 2015 on DVD]