Here Are The Full Results And Surprise Entrants For The 2024 Men’s Royal Rumble

WWE closed the 2024 Royal Rumble by determining which competitor will challenge Roman Reigns or Seth Rollins at WrestleMania XL in Philadelphia. When the dust settled, Cody Rhodes officially gave himself a chance to finish his story, as he threw CM Punk over the top rope and secured his second consecutive win in the Rumble.

The match started with Jey and Jimmy Uso drawing 1 and 2, before Grayson Waller came out at 3 and held an impromptu episode of The Grayson Waller Effect. After eating a superkick from Jey, Waller and Jimmy Uso teamed up on the former member of The Bloodline before the first big surprise of the men’s match, the return of Andrade.

WWE kept the surprise returns in the men’s Rumble to a minimum through the first two-thirds of a match, but at 22, Pat McAfee entered the ring after spending the night alongside Michael Cole and Corey Graves on commentary. Unfortunately for McAfee, he immediately left the match after seeing that Omos and Bron Breakker in the ring.

In maybe the funniest moment of the night, R-Truth entered the match, but acted like he was instead in a tag team match. He stood on the apron while Dominik Mysterio was in a sleeper hold from Gunther, but once he got “tagged in,” he attacked Gunther and started to give him John Cena’s Five Knuckle Shuffle. It did not go especially well for him after that, but it was very, very funny.

At 27, CM Punk made his highly-anticipated return to the Royal Rumble on the 10-year anniversary of his original departure from the company and quickly eliminated Dominik Mysterio.

The match closed with Gunther, Drew McIntyre, CM Punk, and Cody Rhodes in the ring. McIntyre was the first go, as he delivered Claymore Kicks to everyone but got tossed over the top rope by Punk. Gunther then got hot, giving Punk a powerbomb before trying to throw out Rhodes. But his efforts were unsuccessful, as Rhodes was dropped onto the apron but kept on a headlock, eventually pulling Gunther over the rope and onto the floor.

With only Punk and Rhodes remaining, the two exchanged blows in the center of the ring. Rhodes was eventually able to get the upper hand, but Punk caught him and gave him a trio of German suplexes. After hitting him with a running bulldog, Punk signaled that it was time to hit Rhodes with a GTS and picked him up onto his shoulders. Rhodes was able to reverse this and land a sequence of blows before a Bionic Elbow, only for Punk to then reverse an attempted Cross Rhodes.

Punk went for the GTS once again, but Rhodes countered and finally hit a Cross Rhodes. As he picked him up and tried to get him out of the ring, however, Punk was able to get him up and nail a GTS. Punk got Rhodes up onto his shoulders again and tried to dump him over the top rope, only for Rhodes to land on the apron and roll back into the ring. A pedigree by Punk led to some trash talk towards, as he said, “Dusty’s kid,” and another attempt at a GTS.

But Rhodes was able to wiggle his way off and threw Punk over the top rope to officially go back-to-back in the Royal Rumble. As the night came to an end, Rhodes stood on the turnbuckle and appeared to pick which champion he’ll face off against at WrestleMania, as he pointed directly to the box that held Roman Reigns.

Order Entered

1. Jey Uso
2. Jimmy Uso
3. Grayson Waller
4. Andrade
5. Carmelo Hayes
6. Shinsuke Nakamura
7. Santos Escobar
8. Karrion Kross
9. Dominik Mysterio
10. Carlito
11. Bobby Lashley
12. Ludwig Kaiser
13. Austin Theory
14. Finn Balor
15. Cody Rhodes
16. Bronson Reed
17. Kofi Kingston
18. Gunther
19. Ivar
20. Bron Breakker
21. Omos
22. Pat McAfee
23. JD McDonagh
24. R-Truth
25. The Miz
26. Damian Priest
27. CM Punk
28. Ricochet
29. Drew McIntyre
30. Sami Zayn

Order Eliminated

1. Grayson Waller
2. Santos Escobar
3. Carlito
4. Karrion Kross
5. Bobby Lashley
6. Carmelo Hayes
7. Austin Theory
8. Andrade
9. Shinsuke Nakamura
10. Ludwig Kaiser
11. Kofi Kingston
12. Jimmy Uso
13. Finn Balor
14. Bronson Reed
15. Ivar
16. Pat McAfee
17. Omos
18. Bron Breakker
19. JD McDonagh
20. R-Truth
21. Dominik Mysterio
22. The Miz
23. Jey Uso
24. Ricochet
25. Damian Priest
26. Sami Zayn
27. Drew McIntyre
28. Gunther
29. CM Punk