WWE makes major announcement for the Royal Rumble weekend
Royal Rumble is among WWE's most anticipated premium live events of the year. The 2025 edition of the show will take place on February 1 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Royal Rumble 2025 will be WWE's first premium live event to air live on Netflix. With the global juggernaut leaving no stone unturned to stack up its first show on the streaming platform scheduled for January 6, the wrestling promotion will likely do the same for one of its most successful annual spectacles.
Earlier Today, the Stamford-based company announced that the go-home edition of Friday Night SmackDown ahead of the premium live event will take place on January 31, 2025, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis as part of Royal Rumble weekend. WWE also revealed that tickets for the blue brand's show will go on sale next week on December 11.
Ex-WWE employee suggests major face-off during the 2025 Men's Royal Rumble Match
16-time World Champion John Cena will return to Monday Night RAW for the Netflix Premiere to kickstart his retirement tour. The Cenation leader is one of the fan favorites to win the Men's Royal Rumble Match in what is expected to be his last appearance at the premier live event.
Speaking about the Rumble at an earlier episode of The Coach & Bro Show, former WWE employee Tommy Carlucci suggested The Rock should be a part of the match and go face-to-face with John Cena. The veteran added that he would book the latter to enter the squared circle before The People's Champion's surprise return, leading to a confrontation between the two:
"I want to see The Rock and Cena at the end of the Royal Rumble. If I was writing the Royal Rumble, I'd make John Cena [come] first... and then pull out the surprise when the Final Boss comes out at like #25. They go face-to-face again... Let's go back to Miami, the two WrestleManias that we built a year apart. It's all come to this - 'It's my last time.' 'I'm the Final Boss.' 'F*** you.' Who's going to win? That's how I'd end that show." [23:30 onwards]
You can check out Tommy Carlucci's comments in the video below:
After their much-talked-about contests at the Show of Shows in 2012 and 2013, John Cena and The Rock came face-to-face during WrestleMania XL Night Two's Main Event. The Final Boss got the better of their exchange before The Undertaker showed up to take him down with a Chokeslam. It will be interesting to see if Cena locks horns with The Rock one final time before hanging his boots at the end of 2025.