Royal Rumble (2014) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE and presented by Jackson Hewitt which took place on January 26, 2014 at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the twenty-seventh annual Royal Rumble, the first to be held in the city of Pittsburgh and the first WWE pay-per-view in 2014.

The event featured four professional wrestling matches and one pre-show match, two of which were for championships. The main event was the Royal Rumble match, a battle royal in which wrestlers enter the ring at regular intervals. Batista won by last eliminating Roman Reigns to become a two-time Royal Rumble winner. Elsewhere on the event's card, Randy Orton successfully defended the WWE World Heavyweight Championship against John Cena, while The New Age Outlaws defeated Goldust and Cody Rhodes to become the new WWE Tag Team Champions.

The event is known for the overwhelmingly negative crowd response during the Orton-Cena title match, as well as towards the end of (and after) the Royal Rumble match, when the fans booed the Rumble winner Batista and repeatedly chanted for Daniel Bryan (who had competed earlier in the night and was not involved in the main event). Fans worldwide (including retired wrestler Mick Foley) voiced their displeasure over social media, and the event was covered by many major news outlets as one of the worst Royal Rumble pay-per-views. However, the bout between Daniel Bryan and Bray Wyatt was highly praised by fans and critics. The event also marked the final wrestling appearance of CM Punk, who walked out on WWE the next day despite still being under contract and subsequently signed a contract to compete in the UFC.

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