Riyadh in Saudi Arabia hosted Royal Rumble 2026, and it was a banger. From a first-time winner to a heartbreak and to a former champion headlining WrestleMania, WWE’s first pay-per-view of the year was a showstopper. Let’s check out the results.

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The 39th edition of the WWE Royal Rumble takes place at the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as part of Riyadh Season, on January 31 this year. Let’s check who the favourites are to win the men’s Royal Rumble 2026.

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WWE uses Pay-Per View (PPV) and Premium Live Events (PLE) as platforms to tell storylines and let the grandest in-ring rivalries unfold in front of packed crowds. Check out who has won the most PLE matches in history.

From John Cena to Roman Reigns, check out top 5 WWE superstars with most PLE wins

While Roman main evented the Mania for the record 10th time in history, Punk was involved in his first ever, with the crowd in attendance cheering for him. Sports

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Triple H said he understands the magnitude of a singles match involving any two of them, but he looked at the bigger picture of putting these three together. Sports, WWE

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This Friday Night SmackDown is the first one since WrestleMania 39, and as per the latest reports, tension seems to rise within The Bloodline. While the Tribal Chief Roman Reigns is not scheduled to appear on the blue brand this time, his cousins and the former Tag-Team champions – The Usos are likely to have a segment involving the wise man Paul Heyman.

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Main-eventing at the grandest stage in sports entertainment for the seventh time in his career, the Tribal Chief Roman Reigns defeated the American Nightmare Cody Rhodes for the WWE Universal title on night 2 of WrestleMania 39 in LA, Hollywood.

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Life, taxes, death and The Undertaker’s WrestleMania streak – all these things never seemed like ending. But in Taker’s case, it did, much to everyone’s shock at the Grandest stage of all.

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The Phenom, the Deadman – also widely known as The Undertaker, is one of the greatest servants of pro-wrestling. One of WWE’s own, The Undertaker, who recently sat down with Ariel Helwani on BT Sport opened about various topics, including whom he thinks should dethrone Roman Reigns for the WWE Universal Championship.

WWE: The Undertaker breaks silence on who he thinks should dethrone Roman Reigns for Universal title

It's fair to say The Bloodline has hogged most of the limelight since its formation in 2022. The faction of the WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns, Tag Team champions The Usos and the newly-inducted Solo Sikoa has made this a talking point in the pro-wrestling world.

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WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns defeated Sami Zayn at a live event in Toronto on Saturday, and not only this, he attacked the unconscious Sami following the win as well leaving him down and out.

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WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns will defend his title against the winner of the Men’s Royal Rumble Cody Rhodes in the main event of WrestleMania 39. As we are closing in the gap for the Showcase of Immortals at Hollywood this year, the hype for this particular match is growing with each passing day.

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WWE recently released the official poster of WrestleMania 39 that will take place in Hollywood on April 1st and 2nd this year. The Road to WrestleMania has begun and fans can’t wait to watch their favourite superstars wrestle at the grandest stage of them all.

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Dutch Mantell, the retired American professional wrestler, opened up on Roman Reigns defeating Sami Zayn at the Elimination Chamber. He feels WWE made the right choice by having Sami Zayn lose in Montreal as WWE has made Roman as their top guy over the last three years and it would not have made much sense for Zayn to emerge on top of him.

Dutch Mantell reacts to Roman Reigns defeating Sami Zayn to retain Undisputed WWE Universal C'ship

WWE’s plans of going ahead with Roman Reigns vs Cody Rhodes for the main event at WrestleMania 39 could be up for a shake-up. While the creative is trying harder than before to keep the hype for this match going, there is one obstacle that could hamper their plans going forward.

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Regardless of whether anyone likes or dislikes Roman Reigns, no one can change the fact that he has held his coveted WWE Universal Heavyweight title for more than 900 days.

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The storyline surrounding the Bloodline and Sami Zayn is the top thing going around in the WWE at the moment. The formation of perhaps the most-talked about faction in this industry’s history had made headlines for all good, bad and ugly reasons.

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WWE superstar Sami Zayn needs no introduction as he has made himself a stalwart in the arena. The wrestler also has millions of fans and the growing list now has another name added - Teddy Long.

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WWE Elimination Chamber lived up to the hype. The second WWE live event of the year was held in Montreal, Canada with the hometown boy Sami Zayn headlining the main event against Tribal Chief Roman Reigns.

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The founder and chairman of WWE, Vince McMahon returned to the company in January this year months after announcing his retirement following the investigation into his sexual misconduct at work involving a few female superstars.

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Ahead of his much-awaited match against Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 39, WWE Superstar Cody Rhodes shared his game plan. The two superstars are set to lock horns at the event to fight for the coveted Undisputed WWE Universal Championship.

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The American Nightmare Cody Rhodes won the 2023 Royal Rumble and challenged the Tribal Chief Roman Reigns for a WWE Undisputed Championship match in the main event of WrestleMania 39.

WWE: Cody Rhodes teases a new match at WrestleMania 39, praises potential future title winner

Following a memorable 2023 Royal Rumble where the returning Cody Rhodes and Rhea Ripley won their respective rumble matches and earned a chance to main event WrestleMania 39, former WWE legend Kurt Angle comes up with his sets of predictions in regards to their matches.

WWE: Kurt Angle predicts either of Cody Rhodes or Rhea Ripley will win the title at WrestleMania 39

In what is deemed as one of the better Royal Rumble in many years, the one in San Antonio, Texas on Sunday lived up to the hype. For the first time the event began with the 30-man Royal Rumble followed up with the 'Pitch Black' match between LA Knight and Bray Wyatt, the 30-woman Royal Rumble and finally ended with the most-exciting segment of the night in the Universal title match between Roman Reigns and Kevin Owens.

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