Royal Rumble (2026)

The 2026 Royal Rumble, also promoted as Royal Rumble: Riyadh (Arabic: رويال رامبل, romanized: ruyal rambil), was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by the American company WWE. It was the 39th annual Royal Rumble and took place on Saturday, January 31, 2026, at Riyadh Season Stadium, a purpose-built temporary outdoor stadium in the King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as part of the 2025–2026 Riyadh Season. The event featured wrestlers from the Raw, SmackDown, and NXT brand divisions, along with special appearances of wrestlers from WWE's Mexican sister promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide.

This was the first traditional Royal Rumble to take place outside of North America, the 14th event WWE held in Saudi Arabia as part of its 10-year partnership in support of Saudi Vision 2030, the second to feature a Royal Rumble match after the Greatest Royal Rumble in April 2018, which was a non-traditional 50-man match, and the first of WWE's "Big Five" events to take place in the country. It was the first Royal Rumble to livestream on the ESPN app in the United States.

The event is based around the Royal Rumble match, and the winner traditionally receives a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania. The men's winner could choose to challenge for Raw's World Heavyweight Championship or SmackDown's Undisputed WWE Championship, while the women had the choice between Raw's Women's World Championship and SmackDown's WWE Women's Championship at WrestleMania 42. The women's match, which was the opening bout, was won by Raw's Liv Morgan, while the men's match, which was the main event, was won by SmackDown's Roman Reigns, marking his second Royal Rumble victory, after 2015, and making him the 12th overall two-time winner.

In addition to the two Royal Rumble matches, two other matches were contested on the main card, as well as two dark matches before the event. In the other two televised matches, Gunther defeated AJ Styles by technical submission in a Career Threatening match, forcing Styles to retire, while Drew McIntyre defeated Sami Zayn to retain SmackDown's Undisputed WWE Championship. The event also saw the debut of Royce Keys, formerly known as Powerhouse Hobbs in All Elite Wrestling, as well as the returns of Brie Bella, Tiffany Stratton, and Chad Gable, the latter as the original El Grande Americano.