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Royal Rumble (2022)

WWE premium live event

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The 2022 Royal Rumble was a professional wrestling premium live event (PLE) produced by WWE, held for wrestlers from the promotion's main roster brands, Raw and SmackDown. It was the 35th annual Royal Rumble event and took place on Saturday, January 29, 2022, at The Dome at America's Center in St. Louis, Missouri. This was the second Royal Rumble event held in St. Louis, after 2012 at the Scottrade Center.

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The public source identifies “Royal Rumble (2022)” as wWE premium live event. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Royal, Rumble and premium.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Royal, Rumble and premium providing the first useful test.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2022 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Royal Rumble (2022)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.