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WWE’s second biggest show of the year is this Saturday, something that’s easy to forget amid Vince McMahon’s tumultuous return to WWE. The show will determine the WrestleMania main event, and kicks off pro wrestling’s biggest three months of the year.
Thus far we know five matches that’ll take place on the show. First, there are the two Royal Rumble matches themselves: one for the men, one for the women. On the men’s side, strong possibilities include Cody Rhodes and Dwayne « The Rock » Johnson, who’s long been rumored to be wrestling Roman Reigns at WrestleMania. There shortlist is more hazy on the women’s side, where it’s a truly open field.
Speaking of Reigns, he’ll be defending his WWE Universal Championship titles against Kevin Owens. It’s the pair’s third title match at the Royal Rumble: They first clashed in 2017, when Owens retained his Universal Championship, and then again in 2021 in the infancy of Reigns’ historic title run. It should be a fun match.
More fun, for sure, than Bray Wyatt’s return bout, against LA Knight. People clamored for Wyatt to return to the company, but we’ll see how long that excitement lasts considering the goofy storylines his mystical character engenders. Wyatt and Knight will clash in a « lights out » match at the Rumble — a first-of-its-kind bout which is hilariously sponsored by Mountain Dew.
