Royal Rumble 2016 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by WWE. It took place on January 24, 2016 at Amway Center in Orlando, Florida. It was the 29th event under the Royal Rumble chronology and the first WWE pay-per-view of 2016. This was the fifth Royal Rumble to be held in the state of Florida after the 1990, 1991, 1995 and 2006 editions. It was the second Royal Rumble in Orlando since 1990 and the first pay-per-view event at Amway Center since it opened in 2010.
Paul Lévesque
Joe Anoa'i
Jonathan Good
Brock Lesnar
Allen Jones
Chris Irvine
Stephen Farrelly
Glenn Jacobs
Adam Scherr
Rebecca Quin
Ashley Fliehr
Kevin Steen
Emanuel Rodriguez
Alberto Rodriguez
Miroslav Barnyashev
Jonathan Fatu Jr.
Joshua Fatu
Ettore Ewen
Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah
Mattias Clement
Windham Rotunda
Paul Wight
Dustin Runnels
Joe Hennig
Ryan Reeves
Thaddeus Bullard
Ron Killings
Jon Huber
Mike Mizanin
Nick Nemeth
Benjamin Satterly
Rami Sebei
Joseph Ruud
Mark Henry
Donald Hager Jr.
Cody Rhodes
Austin Watson
Richard Fliehr
Mercedes Varnado
Mark LoMonaco
Devon Hughes
Ryan Parmeter
Eric Thompson
Aaron Haddad
Fred Rosser