There are very few WWE events on the calendar that prolong with the stage of excitement because the annual Royal Rumble occasion. Sunday night, it be time to kick off the avenue to WrestleMania because the 2021 Royal Rumble takes heart stage and the handiest in the industry vie for the final spotlight of stressful for a world championship on the grandest stage of all of them. As soon as extra, both the boys’s and ladies’s Royal Rumble fits will be contested on Sunday night with those alternatives up for grabs.
The premier destination of WrestleMania 37 — again taking space over two nights — goes down internal Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on Saturday, April 10 and Sunday, April 11.
This one year’s Royal Rumble occasion takes space on Sunday, Jan. 31 contained in the ThunderDome at Tropicana Area in Tampa. The headline over-the-top-rope fits are almost assured to reveal surprises, but there’ll be a beefy card of motion filling out the remainder of the occasion, in conjunction with some potentially enormous championship bouts. While the cardboard is mute being stuffed out, we have taken a crack at predicting what’s going to take space as WrestleMania 37 season kicks off.
The demonstrate will movement are residing on the WWE Network beginning at 7 p.m. ET following a one-hour kickoff demonstrate beginning at 6 p.m.
2021 WWE Royal Rumble card
Men’s Royal Rumble: Daniel Bryan grew to alter into the principle man to teach he would take share in the Royal Rumble match, and plenty of names might possibly perhaps mute educate in the coming weeks. Obviously, as with every one year, there’ll be plenty of surprise entrants, so we can’t know the final 30-man self-discipline sooner than the occasion. Nonetheless, chances are high you’ll seek files from most of folks who seem continuously on Uncooked and SmackDown to join the self-discipline. One early surprise turn into Edge pronouncing his participation on the final pre-Rumble edition of Uncooked. Contributors: Edge, Dolph Ziggler, Sami Zayn, Mustafa Ali, Jeff Hardy, Cesaro, Otis, Shinsuke Nakamura, Sheamus, AJ Kinds, Jey Uso, John Morrison, The Miz, Bobby Lashley, Daniel Bryan, Colossal E, Randy Orton, Braun Strowman + 12 TBA
Girls folks’s Royal Rumble: For fine the fourth time, the ladies will comprise their opportunity to fabricate a title shot by taking fragment in a Royal Rumble. The first ladies’s Royal Rumble took space in 2018, with Asuka winning the match but failing to defeat Charlotte Aptitude at WrestleMania to steal the Uncooked title. Becky Lynch and Charlotte Aptitude won the following two years, both going on to steal titles at WrestleMania. The Uncooked and SmackDown locker rooms might possibly perhaps mute originate declaring for the Rumble in the coming weeks. Contributors: Nia Jax, Charlotte Aptitude, Bayley, Bianca Belair, Mandy Rose, Dana Brooke, Peyton Royce, Shayna Baszler, Alexa Bliss, Liv Morgan, Ruby Riott, Tamina, Natalya + 17 TBA
Universal Championship — Roman Reigns (c) vs. Kevin Owens (Last Man Standing): Reigns took exclaim with WWE decent Adam Pearce — a ragged 5-time NWA champion — booking a match between Kevin Owens and Jey Uso after Reigns beat Owens in two fits for the universal championship. Reigns and Paul Heyman pulled strings to earn Pearce entered staunch into a gauntlet match to resolve Reigns’ challenger at the Royal Rumble. Uso and Reigns then attacked Shinsuke Nakamura, the final man standing in the match, sooner than placing Pearce on top for the three depend and the victory. The disaster in a roundabout procedure backfired when Pearce signed the contract for a Last Man Standing match easiest to then straight be “injured” whereas walking, straight naming Owens as his replacement at the occasion.
WWE Championship — Drew McIntyre (c) vs. Goldberg: While McIntyre had enthralling storylines with Keith Lee and Sheamus, WWE looks space to drag the space off on one other Goldberg return. McIntyre beat Lee on Legends Night time in an wonderful match, but the post-match 2nd turn into straight interrupted by Goldberg, who issued a priority for Royal Rumble on the premise that McIntyre has no admire for the legends who came sooner than. McIntyre favorite the following week, accusing Goldberg of hanging words in his mouth.
Girls folks’s Designate Crew Championship — Asuka & Charlotte Aptitude (c) vs. Nia Jax & Shayna Baszler: Baszler and Jax weren’t ready to ride away after shedding the titles to Asuka and Aptitude at TLC. The match is also largely a manufactured from a ladies’s impress division that has no other challengers ready for a fundamental pay-per-take a look at title shot. Dana Brooke, Mandy Rose and Lacey Evans comprise all been interested in points with the four ladies in the match and might possibly perhaps perhaps mute play into how the motion plays out.
SmackDown Girls folks’s Championship — Sasha Banks (c) vs. Carmella: Banks and Carmella comprise had points since Carmella attacked the champion in her return to motion. Banks has already survived the priority of Carmella once, but gave her one other opportunity at the title on the condition that she acquired to battle Carmella’s sommelier Reginald in a singles match. Banks defeated Reginald, and as promised, Carmella will now earn her opportunity at the Royal Rumble occasion.