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.