The shock and the fear that WWE Royal Rumble can provide was fully exposed on Saturday evening while Jey Usto and Charlotte Flair won their respective matches to win shots in Wrestlemania.
The USO’s victory in the Royal Rumble’s Royal match amazed the world of professional struggle when he eliminated John Cena to win. He arrived in Uso, Cena and Logan Paul at the very end of the match, and USO and Cena gave the fans in Indianapolis an amazing upheaval that was summed up at the very end.
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Jey USO pushed John Cena from the ring on Saturday, February 1, 2025, during the WWE Royal Rumble at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. (Grace Smith / Indystar / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
The match marked Cena’s return to the action in the ring for the first time since he participated in a tag team match in April 2024. He was breathtaking at A moment of Royal Rumble when he looked at Roman Reigns and CM Cm and CM Punk before Seth Rollins entered the match.
Rollins, Reigns and Punk were each was eliminated at the same time. Rollins then broke and went after Reigns and Punk before going to the back. Each of the three men seemed to be dissatisfied with each other, signaling a jumper route to Wrestlemania.
Jey USO celebrates victory on Saturday, February 1, 2025, during WWE Royal Rumble at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. (Grace Smith / Indystar / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
Flair returned to a WWE ring almost 14 months after having torn his LCA, MCL and the meniscus in December 2023. She was one of the last participants. She eliminated NXT Roxanne Perez’s star to win the match.
Where the rumble of men was filled with large superstars which were to be part of the competition, the rumble of women had a handful of surprising yields. Jordynne Grace made her first appearance in The Rumble as a WWE star – last year, she was still with TNA fight when she competed. Alexa Bliss has probably received the biggest pop of the night when she was coming back for the first time since 2023. WWE Trish Stratus and Nikki Bella legends also returned to the match.
In the end, Flair won the victory.
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Charlotte Flair celebrated the victory on Saturday February 1, 2025, during the Royal Rumble of WWE in Indianapolis. (Grace Smith / Indystar / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
Uso and Flair will now have to decide who they want to continue. Cody Rhodes is the undisputed WWE champion and Gunther is the world heavyweight champion. Tiffany Stratton has the WWE Women’s Championship and Rhea Ripley is the women’s world champion.
Rhodes was able to return his championship in a scale match against Kevin Owens.
The match presented wild movements while the two competitors have made their way through several scales. In the end, Rhodes put Owens in an Alabama slam through a scale that was perched between the ring deck and the advertiser table. He took a difficult fall before Rhodes rose the scale in the ring and obtained the two title belts that were suspended above.
The fourth match included Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa keep their team titles in a 2 -fall match against Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley. The profits from the street, Monttez Ford and Angelo Dawkins, interfered in the match and allowed Gargano and Ciampa to keep the titles.
Ford and Dawkins left the eyebrow ring because it appeared that they turned to the titles.
Cody Rhodes famous after beating Kevin Owens for the undeniable WWE championship match at WWE Royal Rumble on February 1, 2025. (Joe Camporeale-Imagn images)
The road to Wrestlemania is from here. The next Premium Live event is the elimination chamber on March 1 in Toronto.
