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 yr’s largest occasion by profitable their respective 30-superstar matches.
The lads’s Rumble is wealthy with storylines. Cody Rhodes is set to complete his story by avenging his WrestleMania 39 loss to Roman Reigns. CM Punk shockingly returned to WWE final yr to finish a long-denied dream of headlining WrestleMania. Intercontinental champion Gunther had a record-setting run finally yr’s Rumble and just lately referred to as out world heavyweight champ Seth Rollins. Drew McIntyre is on hearth and will disrupt issues. Most just lately, Paul Heyman motivated Jimmy Uso to play spoiler.
There aren’t as many intertwining plots within the ladies’s Rumble however meaning anybody can step up and shock the world. Bayley is a powerful 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 yr. 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 largest sees Roman Reigns look to increase his unimaginable run as undisputed common champion in opposition to three high superstars in LA Knight, AJ Kinds and Randy Orton. Every man believed that he had earned the correct to problem Reigns with a private gripe in opposition to the champion over the previous couple of years. When no clear resolution may very well be made, in addition to interference from The Bloodline stopping a transparent contender from rising, SmackDown common supervisor Nick Aldis determined that Reigns must defend his crown in opposition to 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 Subject — St. Petersburg
Begin time: 8 p.m. ET (7 p.m. ET kickoff present)
Watch stay: 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-Reality vs. Carlito vs. Grayson Waller vs. Austin Concept vs. Jimmy Uso vs. 13 unannounced entrants
- Girls’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
