The Highway to WrestleMania 40 kicks off on Saturday on the 2024 Royal Rumble. One male and one feminine celebrity will punch their tickets to the 12 months’s greatest occasion by profitable their respective 30-superstar matches.
The lads’s Rumble is wealthy with storylines. Cody Rhodes is decided to complete his story by avenging his WrestleMania 39 loss to Roman Reigns. CM Punk shockingly returned to WWE final 12 months to finish a long-denied dream of headlining WrestleMania. Intercontinental champion Gunther had a record-setting run finally 12 months’s Rumble and just lately known as out world heavyweight champ Seth Rollins. Drew McIntyre is on fireplace and will disrupt issues. Most just lately, Paul Heyman motivated Jimmy Uso to play spoiler.
There aren’t as many intertwining plots within the girls’s Rumble however which means anybody can step up and shock the world. Bayley is a robust candidate contemplating the success of her Harm CTRL cohorts. Becky Lynch is all the time a dependable WrestleMania headliner. Nia Jax has been unexpectedly efficient since returning to the corporate as a shock entrant final 12 months. Talking of shock entrants, perhaps an unannounced celebrity will steal the entire thing.
Past the pair of Rumble matches are a pair of championship matches scheduled for Saturday evening. The most important sees Roman Reigns look to increase his unbelievable run as undisputed common champion towards three high superstars in LA Knight, AJ Kinds and Randy Orton. Every man believed that he had earned the suitable to problem Reigns with a private gripe towards the champion over the previous couple of years. When no clear choice could possibly be made, in addition to interference from The Bloodline stopping a transparent contender from rising, SmackDown normal supervisor Nick Aldis determined that Reigns must defend his crown towards all three males.
Beneath is how one can catch all of the motion on Saturday evening.
Watch 2024 WWE Royal Rumble
Date: Jan. 27
Location: Tropicana Area — St. Petersburg
Begin time: 8 p.m. ET (7 p.m. ET kickoff present)
Watch stay:Â Peacock
2024 WWE Royal Rumble match card
- Males’s Royal Rumble match: Cody Rhodes vs. CM Punk vs. Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Bobby Lashley vs. Drew McIntyre vs. Gunther vs. Chad Gable vs. Otis vs. Akira Tozawa vs. Kofi Kingston vs. Damian Priest vs. Santos Escobar vs. R-Fact vs. Carlito vs. Grayson Waller vs. Austin Principle vs. Jimmy Uso vs. 13 unannounced entrants
- Ladies’s Royal Rumble match: Confirmed entrants. Bayley vs. Nia Jax vs. Becky Lynch vs. Bianca Belair vs. Maxxine Dupri vs. Ivy Nile vs. Alba Fyre vs. Shotzi vs. Zelina Vega vs. Michin vs. 20 unannounced entrants
- Undisputed WWE common championship — Roman Reigns (c) vs. Randy Orton vs. LA Knight vs. AJ Kinds
- United States championship — Logan Paul (c) vs. Kevin Owens