Royal Rumble was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE that took place on January 26, 2014 at the CONSOL Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the 27th annual Royal Rumble event. It was the first WWE pay-per-view in the 2014 pay-per-view line-up. It was the first WWE pay-per-view event in Pittsburgh since the 2009 Bragging Rights, and the first pay-per-view event at Consol Energy Center since it opened in 2010.