With The Rock vs. CM Punk for the WWE championship headlining alongside the Royal Rumble match itself, you would think that pay-per-view would do bonkers business at the box office. And you would be wrong on that, and WWE isn't happy about it.
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In a members only post, f4wonline.com have released the pay-per-view buy numbers for the 2012 WWE Royal Rumble. As usual, it did solid business with the domestic vs. international breakdown being 272,000 domestic buys and 166,000 buys for the rest of the world.
