Updated card for the WWE Royal Rumble pay-per-view

There are just 12 participants announced for the men’s Royal Rumble match, which likely means that more names will be announced on Monday at the Raw 25th anniversary show. Of course, there will be slots left open for surprise entrants.

There are just 18 names announced for the women’s Royal Rumble match. They are going to add some names from NXT and there will be some names from the past in the match as well. WWE is already teasing some names from the past returning for this match. Click here to read more.

Here is the updated card:

WWE Universal Championship – Triple Threat Match
Brock Lesnar (Champion) vs. Braun Strowman vs. Kane

WWE Championship – Handicap Match
AJ Styles (Champion) vs. Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn

30-Man Royal Rumble Match
Participants announced so far: John Cena, Finn Balor, Randy Orton, Shinsuke Nakamura, Elias, Baron Corbin, “Woken” Matt Hardy, Bray Wyatt, Aiden English, Rusev, Titus O’Neil, Apollo Crews

30-Woman Royal Rumble Match
Asuka, Ruby Riott, Liv Morgan, Sarah Logan, Sasha Banks, Nia Jax, Bayley, Naomi, Natalya, Sonya Deville, Mandy Rose, Mickie James, Tamina Snuka, Lana, Carmella, Becky Lynch, Dana Brooke, Alicia Fox

Raw Tag Team Championship
Seth Rollins and Jason Jordan (Champions) vs. Sheamus and Cesaro

Smackdown Tag Team Championship – 2-out-of-3-Falls Match
The Usos (Champions) vs. Shelton Benjamin and Chad Gable

WWE Cruiserweight Championship
Enzo Amore (Champion) vs. Cedric Alexander

This is just speculation on my part, but I think Dolph Ziggler will be back on Tuesday night to set up a United States Championship match at the Rumble. Perhaps, it could be a ladder match?

The 2018 WWE Royal Rumble will air live on Sunday, January 28 on the WWE Network. It will be a 4-hour show so they will start at 7 pm eastern. The Kickoff show will air at 5 pm eastern on the WWE Network and across their social media platforms. This year’s show will emanate from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, PA.

Check out some of the trending wrestling news stories below:

Related Articles

Stay Connected

1,245,221FansLike
275,360FollowersFollow
150,000SubscribersSubscribe
- Advertisement -