The 2025 Royal Rumble was a night of surprises, returns, and big WrestleMania developments. Charlotte Flair won the Women’s Royal Rumble match, earning a championship opportunity at WrestleMania 41.
In the main event, Jey Uso last eliminated John Cena to punch his ticket to WrestleMania. Also, Cody Rhodes retained his Undisputed WWE Title over Kevin Owens in a brutal ladder match.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted that this show was the most-watched Royal Rumble and PLE in WWE’s history.
Meltzer said, “This was the most-watched Royal Rumble around the world in history and actually the most-watched WWE pay-per-view event ever in history. The Rumble because there were a lot more viewers on Netflix than there were via whether it was pay-per-view in the old days or television after the pay-per-view or local streaming services that bought the network or the network or whatever, so more people watched this royal rumble than watched any night of WrestleMania ever, let alone every Royal Rumble ever. So that record will be broken at WrestleMania, but it was, in fact, the all-time record.
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