Career Threatening Match
- U.S. Champion MVP vs. Ric Flair
Flair cut a promo at the beginning of the match talking about how much he loved wrestling at the Garden.

Pretty slow match to start. At one point MVP hit Flair with a kick to the head and covered Flair and the ref counted three right after Flair had put his foot on the ropes. The ref saw it, and the match continued.

The finish of the match saw Flair submit MVP clean with a figure four leglock.

Winner via submission: Ric Flair

There was a backstage segment with Vince McMahon telling Hornswoggle that he can't trust anyone, including Finlay. Finlay came in and left with Hornswoggle.

Jim Ross welcomed Moke Adamle to the WWE broadcase team and Adamle talked about how he saw Flair wrestle at MSG in the 70s. He then introduced the JBL vs. Chris Jericho match.

Chris Jericho vs. JBL
Jericho entered the ring first, followed by JBL. They brawled early on, with Jericho getting the better of JBL. Jericho put the Wall of Jericho on JBL, but JBL got to the ropes.

JBL later gained control with a series of clotheslines. Nothing special so far in the match and the crowd is a little subdued. JBL continued to dominate and busted Jericho's head up.

The finish of the match saw Jericho hit JBL with a chair for the DQ. Jericho then choked JBL out with a cord. Fans got behind Jericho at this point and chanted "Y2J".

Winner via DQ: JBL

Backstage Ashley went to Maria's dressing room, but Santino Marella came out. Marella said Maria was getting ready for coming out to the ring later and wasn't interested in her "boobie magazine".

A promo for WrestleMania aired.

World Heavyweight Championship Match
- Edge (c) vs. Rey Mysterio
Edge entered the ring first and then Teddy Long wheeled Vickie Guerrero to ringside. Ryder and Hawkins followed and then Teddy Long headed back to the dressing room. Mysterio then came to the ring with a gladiator helmet with small spikes sticking out of it over his mask. Mysterio took the helmet off before the match started.

Mysterio got a surprisingly large amount of boos during the ring introductions, and Edge got about as many cheers as boos when he was introduced. As the match went on, the crowd got more behind Edge and booed Mysterio more with the crowd chanting "Let's Go Edge" several times.

Pretty fast paced early on and the crowd got into it. At own point Hawkins and Ryder tried to interfere when Mysterio was thrown out of the ring, and the referee sent them to the back with the fans booing.

Mysterio at one point hit the 619 and then a splash from the top, but Vickie pulled the referee out of the ring as the ref was going to count three. Mysterio then hit the 619 again, this time catching Vickie who was outside the ring as well. When Mysterio looked to check up on Vickie, Edge hit Mysterio with a spear for the pin.

Winner via pinfall: Edge

After the match Edge attended to Vickie, and Ryder and Hawkins came to ringside to help Vickie to the back.

Backstage Mr. Kennedy mockingly congratulated Ric Flair. Before he could talk much, Shawn Michaels came in and Kennedy then took off. Flair talked about Michaels' impressive performance last year and then Batista and Triple H came in. Triple H said that the best man would win and had a brief staredown with Batista. HBK then threw in a cheap plug for his T-shirt and then HHH and Batista took off. It looks like it will be Kennedy retiring Flair at WrestleMania.

A promo for No Way Out from Las Vegas next month was shown.

Maria came out for the first ever Royal Rumble kiss cam. Ashley came out. She said that she got a call from Hugh Hephner and wanted to see if Maria was interested in posing for Playboy. As she was about to answer, Santino Marella came out. Marella came out and said the answer was no, and then ran down the New York sports teams. Maria asked the crowd if they would be interested in seeing her pose and the crowd cheered. Santino then called someone to the ring who was covered up since New Yorkers wanted to see "the boobies". The person was uncovered and it was Big Dick Johnson to help kill the segment. He started dancing and then Ashley beat him up.

A WrestleMania promo aired with Kelly Kelly and Mae Young.

WWE Championship Match
- Randy Orton (c) vs. Jeff Hardy
As the match started, there were dueling "Let's Go Hardy", "Let's Go Orton" chants.

After several minuted the crowd got pretty quiet when Orton was on the offensive.

The finish saw Orton counter a twist of fate and hit Hardy with an RKO for the clean pin.

Winner via pinfall: Orton

Tazz and Joey Styles introduced a video package covering some stats for the Rumble.

Michael Buffer opened the Rumble explaining the rules of the event and finished with his "Let's Get Ready To Rumble" slogan. All three announce teams were annoucing this match.

30 Man Royal Rumble
The two men who finished the Royal Rumble last year entered first as The Undertaker, who entered at #30 last year, drew #1. Shawn Michaels drew #2.

After 90 seconds of fast paced action, Santino Marella entered the ring at #3. HBK quickly hit Marella with the superkick and Undertaker dumped Marella over the top.

The Great Khali entered at #4. Khali immediately hit Taker with a chop and took him down while HBK was still down. Crowd started a loud chant of "You Can't Wrestle". Shortly thereafter, Taker jumped Khali over and it's back to HBK and Undertaker.

Hardcore Holly enters at #5. John Morrison enters at #6, so we have Holly, Morrison, HBK and Undertaker all in the ring. Tommy Dreamer came in at #7 to a big pop and loud "ECW" chants. Loud "Tommy Dreamer" chants, and he's had the loudest ovation of anyone so far tonight.

Batista comes in at #8 and takes down everyone, and Batista and Undertaker are left standing before Dreamer interferes. Batista then eliminated Dreamer. Hornswoggle comes in at #9 and goes under the ring. Chuck Palumbo comes in at #10, Hornswoggle remains under the ring. Jamie Knoble comes in at #11 and immediately starts fighting with Palumbo. Palumbo then eliminated Knoble.

CM Punk comes in at #12 to a huge response. Shortly after entering, Punk eliminated Palumbo. Cody Rhodes enters at #13.

Umaga enters at #14 and almost immediately eliminates Hardcore Holly. Snitsky enters at #15 and The Miz entered at #16. Miz immediately started going after Punk. Shelton Benjamin is in at #17. Shawn Michaels quickly eliminated Benjamin with a superkick. Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka was a surprise entrant at #18. Superfly moved a little better here than I've seen lately. JR noted that Michaels and Undertajer have been in the match for over 25 minutes.

Another surprise entrant at #19 as Roddy Piper came in heavier than ever to a huge ovation. He immediately went after Snuka, reliving their feud from 1984. Kane came in at #20. He eliminated Piper and Snuka. Carlito came in at #21. And for those keeping score, Hornswoggle is still under the ring.

Mick Foley came in at #22. Huge response for Foley. The crowd, which was dead for the undercard matches has come alive for the Rumble. Mr. Kennedy then came in at #23, also to a big response. Big Daddy V came in at #24.

Undertaker eliminated Snitsky, HBK then eliminated Michaels, and then Michaels was thrown out by Mr. Kennedy. Mark Henry then came in at #25. Undertaker decimated Snitsky on the outside. Hornswoggle then came out from under the ring and helped eliminate the Miz who was hanging onto the top rope. Chavo Guerrero came in at #26. Kane eliminated Morrison. Mark Henry drug Hornswoggle in the ring, and then Finlay ran in to protect him. Finlay and Hornswoggle then left the ringside area even though Horsnwoggle was never technically eliminated.

Jim Ross then noted that Finlay was disqualified for jumping the gun and entering the ring early. Elijah Burke then came in at #28. Chavo eliminated Punk.

Triple H came in at #29 and eliminated Cody Rhodes. He then eliminated Big Daddy V, Mick Foley and Elijah Burke who got tied up with Foley on the way out. He then hit a pedigree on Umaga.

Huge shock as John Cena then came in at #30 to a huge response! Cena threw out Carlito, Henry, Chavo and stood face to face with Triple H. Triple H was shocked to see Cena. They started going back and forth. Batista eliminated Kennedy and Umaga. Triple H and Batista eliminated Kane.

It's now down to Cena, HHH and Batista.

After a few minutes of action, HHH eliminated Batista and we're down to Cena and HHH. They both pointed to the WrestleMania sign and the crowd was on fire.

Surprisingly the crowd already turned on Cena and they chanted "Yay!" when Triple H would hit Cena, and "Boo" when it was the other way around. Cena hit the five knuckle shuffle, went for the FU but both guys hit each other with a double clothesline. Cena got Triple H in a FU and dumped Triple H to shockingly win the Royal Rumble!

Winner: John Cena