Live Royal Rumble Discussion Thread - Saturday February 1st 2025

[Smart Marx]

I’m not going to claim that Jey Uso winning was a terrible call. Jey is over and he’s earned his flowers. But, that being said if he was gonna win the royal rumble maybe don’t have him lose to Gunther only a week or two ago.

 

[Smart Marx]

I can’t say I’m too excited about Jey Uso winning the royal rumble but I’m not mad about it like I am about Charlotte winning the other one so it is what it is. The one thing that gives me solace though that really makes me OK with it overall is that I’m fairly certain Jey is gonna challenge Gunther again, which still gives me a chance to see CM punk get the WWE title shot with Cody in the main event.

 

[Smart Marx]

Fun show overall. Well done royal rumble in the main. And the ladder match was fucking incredible. Might not have liked the Royal rumble winners, but I can’t complain about the show itself. It was a good time.

 

[Smart Marx]

Michael Cole lost his voice in the closing minutes of this show.

 

[Smart Marx]

I’m happy for Jey though. A couple years ago the idea of him either winning the Royal rumble or a title match at wrestlemania probably felt like something that was never gonna be on his bucket list.

 

[Lethal]

hot take - Rumble should be 2 nights. the 1 hour is a slug fest and exhausts the crowd.

 

[Cwalker]

Think that will be the move starting next year.

One each night

 

[Storm Trooper]

My girl did it. She manifested her destiny. Nikki had been saying she wanted to get back in that ring and here she is…

I can already guess there were people being stupid about this in the chat earlier, but Nikki’s earned this legend appearance.

Yep. Hell the Women's Rumble chat was enough to make me leave for the night.

Seamus was believing until Fatu had to ruin the party.

You hate to see it.

Sheamus asking Fatu why he's angry all the time and saying I was enjoying that was probably my favorite moment of the rumble match.

They were so enamored with the Braun match that they’re gonna run it back and actually let this man eliminate Fatu? What a waste of Fatu’s exit spot.

Setting up Braun/Fatu gimmick match at Mania. Braun needed one thing to get the upper hand in to extend the feud and this is the best thing they could to to do that.

You know Cena is not my favorite, but you eliminated Fatu before he can mix it up with Cena in the ring? And then Cena just eliminates brawn as soon as he gets in wasting braun tossing out fatu only a couple seconds before that?

Fatu vs. Cena will happen, but in a match, not a Rumble spot.

I’m sorry. I don’t understand.

Punk was so honed in on Roman and Seth he momentarily was distracted. They could turn around and use that to set up a match with Logan Paul for later on down the road (not Mania as Punk is gonna get Cody or Roman).

 

[JakeYourBooty]

Wait people were shitting on Nikki Bella being back? After the shit she went through with her ex? For shame

 

[JakeYourBooty]

 

[Chris]

 

[Jimmy King]

Wait people were shitting on Nikki Bella being back? After the shit she went through with her ex? For shame

I love Nikki Bella, I was super happy to see her back.

 

[Chris]

Royal Rumble generates largest single-night event gate in WWE history

WWE®, part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), today announced that Royal Rumble® 2025, which emanated from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Saturday, became the most-successful and highest-grossing Royal Rumble event in company history.

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Royal Rumble 2025 generates largest gate for any single-night event in WWE history​

WWE®, part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), today announced that Royal Rumble® 2025, which emanated from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Saturday, became the most-successful and highest-grossing Royal Rumble event in company history.

Highlights include:

• GATE: Royal Rumble 2025 generated the largest gate for any single-night event in WWE history. Saturday’s PLE, which drew 70,342 fans to Lucas Oil Stadium, is only behind WrestleMania® 40 Saturday & Sunday for any single-night gate.
• VIEWERSHIP: Royal Rumble 2025 set the event’s all-time viewership record, up nearly 14 percent domestically, distributed on Peacock, from last year’s record-setting audience. International viewing numbers are up even higher year-over-year with Royal Rumble shifting to Netflix globally.
• MERCHANDISE: In partnership with Fanatics, merchandise sales were up more than 95 percent versus the previous Royal Rumble record set last year in 2024, making Royal Rumble 2025 the highest-grossing non-WrestleMania event of all-time.
• SPONSORSHIP: Sponsorship revenue was up 94 percent versus the previous record set in 2024. Royal Rumble featured 14 total partners, with 100 percent of the matches sponsored.
• SOCIAL: Royal Rumble 2025 set a record for the most social video views in Royal Rumble history. WWE Superstar Bron Breakker spearing popular streamer IShowSpeed became the most-viewed Royal Rumble social post of all-time, generating more than 300,000,000 social views in less than 24 hours.

Royal Rumble 2025 marked the first Premium Live Event to take place in Indianapolis as part of a first-of-its-kind partnership struck last year with Indiana Sports Corp that will see WWE’s three largest stadium events – WrestleMania, SummerSlam® and Royal Rumble – take place in Indianapolis.

The record-breaking event was highlighted by WWE Superstars Charlotte Flair and Jey Uso winning the Royal Rumble matches to earn world title bouts at WrestleMania.

 

[JakeYourBooty]

and Nikki worked hard to actually be pretty good in the ring before she left

 

[Crocker]

Think that will be the move starting next year.

One each night

I think they would have announced that once they announced it was in Saudi.


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