WWE Royal Rumble 2025 is over – and what night it was. A completely stacked field, a properly brutal scale match and an unexpected winner who managed to hurt everyone. What more would you like?
With the two rumbles in books, we now know the first pieces of the Wrestlemania 41 puzzle. But the chaotic event on Saturday also left us many new questions that must answer. Here are six of the biggest.
Can I really do it?
You must give creatives of WWE a little credit on this one: nobody – literally person – had Jey USO as a potential winner. But can he really go to the end now and become world champion?
Just in case you have a doubt before last night, WWE clearly has a lot of confidence in USO. Investing as much in a babyface only to stumble in Wrestlemania would be a risky decision, to say the least. Based on this, you expect to see USO leaving Las Vegas in April with gold around its size.
Then you remember who he will face. Gunther is not only reserved as one of the most dominant champions in history, he is also the man who got closer to Cody Rhodes in 2024. And he just appreciated a decisive victory on USO in San Antonio.
We may see an angle where USO recognizes its oppressed status before working to find this inner force which will allow it to avenge this defeat – except that it would be a carbon copy of what we had with Sami Zayn last year . Whatever happens, WWE creatives have work to do with this distance.
Will Cena bounce?
Some of us have guessed that Cena winning the rumble would prove an too easy option for a year -long retirement tour. Indeed, it turned out to be correct, with “Big Match John” forced to settle for second place.
If you caught the press conference after the show, you heard Cena say that he planned to compete in the Mars elimination chamber. By listening to his short monologue, it was clear that WWE intends that the course of retirement is a longer story of the triumph of adversity.
This means that we can probably expect “Big Match John” to break again in Toronto. A 17th world title remains inevitable – that, I believe firmly – but there will still be some obstacles before.
Where was Jade Cargill?
I have no secrets to be one of those who assumed that a return from Jade Cargill was a quasi-certainty to the rumble. But in the end, the former champion of the tag team was visible with her absence.
Is everything between WWE and Cargill? The angle of attack behind the scenes has taken a back seat in recent weeks. Meanwhile, the comments on Saturday referred to Bianca Belair and Naomi as champions of the Tag-Team team, without any mention of Cargill’s background frame. This is the tag team of the year in 2024 of the year.
Of course, everything should not be in shoes in the rumble and we may see that the script will return instead in a future episode of “WWE Smackdown”. But the more this interruption continues, more foreign than it begins to seem.
How will Sami turn?
The fact of making Sami Zayn appear in the universal championship match between Cody Rhodes and the best time of Zayn, Kevin Owens, was still going to perform. But her appearance was much more discreet than she was, letting us guess where her loyalty are.
Will Zayn try to make sense of his closest ally, acting as the peacemaker – or at least try to – as he did with the line? Or will he end up buying the “Kevin is reason” in the whole of the crusade, and thus opposing Rhodes? Right now, we can only guess.
Although we also have the fact that Karrion Kross has spent the last few weeks pour poison into Zayn’s ear – raising the possibility that Sami turns his best friend in front of Wrestlemania.
Where then for novel?
Since Roman Reigns declared the victory over Solo Sikoa, wild speculation did not fail to know who could prove to be his next big adversary in simple. The rumble on Saturday dropped some attractive clues on this front, but stopped below something decisive.
Having Reigns Clash with Seth Rollins was always going to be Catnip for Fantasy Bookers, but we also had the long -awaited Stardedowns with Drew McIntyre and Jacob Fatu too. And let’s not neglect who finally eliminated the former universal champion: a certain punk CM.
Needless to say, all these options would be the pure box office at Wrestlemania 41.
Jordynne thanks to NXT?
Intelligent fans had attracted to the news that “the mastodon” officially went to WWE. And it is fair to say that its apparition in rumble has not disappointed, giving us the most impressive place in the women’s match.
However, it is impossible to ignore that the possible elimination of Grace did not come to the hands of one of the main talents of alignment, but rather from the champion NXT Giulia. Could the former Knockout Champion TNA therefore be on the way to the development brand?
Given Grace’s experience, it would be a surprise. But that would at least open the possibility of a meeting with several lanes between Grace, Giulia, Stephanie Vaquer and Zaria – a match that would again increase the bar for the female division.