{"id":120242,"date":"2023-09-13T20:10:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T00:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=120242"},"modified":"2023-09-13T20:10:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T00:10:57","slug":"royal-rumble-2024-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2023\/09\/13\/royal-rumble-2024-location\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Announce 2024 Royal Rumble Set To Take Place In Tampa Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>WWE<\/strong><\/em> has announced that the <em><strong>2024 Royal Rumble<\/strong><\/em> will take place in Tampa Bay, Florida. The <em>Royal Rumble<\/em> event will take place on Saturday, January 27 from Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. The episode of <strong><em>Raw<\/em><\/strong> set to take place on Monday, January 29 will do so from Amalie Arena in Tampa. The <em><strong>2021 Royal Rumble<\/strong><\/em> emanated from Tropicana Field but had no fans in attendance due to the pandemic hence marking this the first <em>Royal Rumble<\/em> to visit the Tampa Bay area since the 1995 edition.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the <em>WWE<\/em>&#8216;s first major decision since the <em><strong>Endeavor<\/strong><\/em> merger was finalized, which now sees the <em>WWE<\/em> being a part of <em><strong>TKO Group Holdings<\/strong><\/em>. The athletes confirmed and expected to be in attendance include WWE World Heavyweight Champion <strong>Seth &#8216;Freakin&#8217; Rollins<\/strong>, WWE Women&#8217;s World Champion <strong>Rhea Ripley<\/strong>, Intercontinental Champion <strong>Gunther<\/strong>, WWE Women&#8217;s Champion <strong>Iyo Sky<\/strong>, United States Champion <strong>Rey Mysterio<\/strong>, Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions <strong>Damian Priest and Finn B\u00e1lor<\/strong>, <strong>Cody Rhodes<\/strong>, <strong>Bianca Belair<\/strong>, <strong>LA Knight<\/strong> and more.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tampa Bay is set to host the 37th <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RoyalRumble?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RoyalRumble<\/a> on Jan. 27, 2024!<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lH23Yq2gro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/lH23Yq2gro<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1701961741171556825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Tampa Bay To Host 2024 Royal Rumble<\/h2>\n<p>Here are the details from the press release:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>STAMFORD, Conn., September 13, 2023\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 WWE<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), in conjunction with the Tampa Bay Rays, Visit St. Pete\/Clearwater and the Tampa Bay Sports Commission, today announced that Tampa Bay will host the 37<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Royal Rumble\u00a0in 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>WWE will head to town for an entire weekend of events across St. Petersburg, Clearwater and Tampa, Fla., highlighted by the\u00a0Royal Rumble\u00a0on Saturday, January 27 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. Two days later,\u00a0Monday Night Raw\u00a0will emanate from Amalie Arena in Tampa on January 29. This marks the first time that\u00a0Royal Rumble\u00a0will be held in Tampa Bay in front of fans since 1995.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTampa Bay has long been a terrific market for WWE,\u201d said WWE Executive Vice President of Live Events John Porco. \u201cThanks to our partners at the Tampa Bay Rays, Visit St. Pete\/Clearwater and the Tampa Bay Sports Commission, we look forward to a fantastic schedule of events in January.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe are excited to welcome WWE back to Tropicana Field for the 2024 Royal Rumble,\u201d said Tampa Bay Rays President Matt Silverman. \u201cThe Royal Rumble will provide first-class sports entertainment to both those seeing the action in person and watching as part of a worldwide television audience. This event will bring visitors from around the globe to experience the beauty of our area and all it has to offer.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAs a leader in event production and promotion, we are thrilled to collaborate with WWE to bring Royal Rumble to our destination,\u201d Caleb Peterson, Visit St. Pete\/Clearwater Senior Business Development Manager. \u201cWe look forward to welcoming all of the WWE fans to our community, a community that will certainly match their energy and enthusiasm for sports entertainment. A special thank you to our community partners &#8211; the Tampa Bay Rays, City of St. Petersburg, and Tampa Bay Sports Commission &#8211; for their role in creating this unique opportunity for our destination.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTeam Tampa Bay loved hosting WrestleMania 37 two years ago and we\u2019re now beyond excited to have the opportunity to collaborate again with our longtime friends at WWE,\u201d said Rob Higgins, Tampa Bay Sports Commission Executive Director. \u201cRoyal Rumble Weekend in January of 2024 will be a phenomenal regional effort that spans Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties including both Tropicana Field and Amalie Arena. Together, we\u2019re focused on making sure that WWE Universe is treated to a weekend that\u2019s filled with memories that last a lifetime.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Royal Rumble\u00a0will be headlined by the 30-man and 30-woman\u00a0Royal Rumble\u00a0matches, with the winners of both receiving a Championship match opportunity at\u00a0WrestleMania 40.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The announcement comes on the heels of this year\u2019s record-setting\u00a0Royal Rumble\u00a0which took place in San Antonio, Texas. The event became WWE\u2019s highest-grossing and most-viewed\u00a0Royal Rumble\u00a0in company history and set an all-time gate record at more than $7.7 million, far surpassing the previous\u00a0Royal Rumble\u00a0high in 2017 by more than 50 percent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>More information on the ticket on-sale will be announced in the coming weeks. To learn more about registering for pre-sale opportunities, please visit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwe.com\/royalrumble-2024-presale\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.wwe.com\/royalrumble-2024-presale<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/h3>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Stay tuned to the\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can check out an almost unlimited array of WWE content on the\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/watch.wwe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">WWE Network<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Peacock<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWE has announced that the 2024 Royal Rumble will take place in Tampa Bay, Florida. The Royal Rumble event will take place on Saturday, January 27 from Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. The episode of Raw set to take place on Monday, January 29 will do so from Amalie Arena in Tampa. 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