2025 Royal Rumble Review! Jey Uso Is The Main Event!

The show that makes every wrestling fan around the world’s excitement grow in anticipation for the Road to WrestleMania, the Royal Rumble. Going into the 2025 event so much was expected and anticipated and the show as one for the books, littered with surprise returns, amazing matches and an ending nobody saw coming, here is our review.

Women’s Royal Rumble Match:

Iyo Sky and Liv Morgan was a smart pairing to start the match, Roxanne Perez with the Ironman performance at 67 minutes shows how highly regarded she is, surely sooner rather than later she’ll be on RAW or SmackDown. Chelsea Green was easily the most over person in the match early on with everyone getting booed for jumping her, the incredible surprise was the return of Alexa Bliss. Having been away from WWE for two years and so much uncertainty that’s she would ever come back it arguably delivered the biggest pop of the whole show, plus her ring jacket tribute to Bray Wyatt’s “The Fiend” was a beautiful sentiment, not only was she great addition I=to the match but the news she’s back full-time is amazing and much needed for the women’s division. Jordynne Grace now with WWE full-time put up an impressive showing surely there’s big things on the horizon for her, Nikki Bella making her comeback to the ring at No.30 was nice to see and it appears she may be back in the WWE fold in some way, of course the story of the match was Charlotte Flair coming back after a year out with serious knee injuries, as everyone suspected going in she won the Rumble becoming only 2-time winner of the Women’s Rumble. It was telegraphed from the promos going in that she would, now the question of who she challenges, most seem to think it’ll be against Tiffany Stratton as a battle of old vs new, but also knowing the history between Charlotte and Rhea Ripley that’s an easy sell for a main match a WrestleMania, Tim will tell.

Rating: 3.75/5

IMG Credit: USA Today

WWE Tag Team Championship: D.I.Y vs MCMG: Best 2 Out Of 3 Falls

Great to finally see the Tag Team titles defended on a PLE, crowd seemed a bit quiet for this, likely fatigue from the Women’s Rumble which is understandable. Clever trick play from Gargano to win the 1st fall, MCMG fighting underneath, great sequences between all four men near the end, the end with the Street Profits seemingly turning heel, but at least in a tweeter role attacking both teams there, maybe setting up a 3-way match between these three teams somewhere down the line.

Match Rating 3.5/5

Undisputed WWE Championship: Cody Rhodes vs Kevin Owens: Ladder Match

A brilliant match, insane ladder bumps from both of them, the fisherman’s onto the bridge, KO fighting throughout like a maniac was beautiful chaos, Cody showing glimpses of his more heeling persona near the end, the final Alabama Slam onto the ladder looked insane, Owens legit twisted in half, incredible showing front both of them, also Sami Zayn ended up ringside but didn’t get involved at all, not stopping Cody climbing at the end which maybe leads to Owens/Zayn maybe at Mania, and also does Cody keep leaning into the more aggressive side of himself en route to WrestleMania? We’ll see.

Match Rating: 4.5/5

IMG Credit: solowrestling.com

Men’s Royal Rumble:

Very differently placed to the Women’s match, much quicker eliminations, Rey and Penta was a brilliant way to start to give Penta a showcase for viewers seeing him for the first time, fun at the start seeing Gable fighting against all his enemies in the luchadors, the cameo from iShowSpeed was actually funny, one of the best celebrity cameos in WWE for many years, his selling that spear from Bron Breakker was perfect, Joe Hendry’s appearance was great to see and amazing to see the reception that he got, Jacob Fatu came in like a wrecking machine, wiping everything out at warp speed, the sequence of John Cena, Roman Reigns staredown immediately followed by CM Punk who was then immediately joined by Seth Rollins, as we approached the finale of the men’s Rumble, the sight of so many stars like Uso, Cena, Punk, Reigns, Rollins, Zayn, Styles, McIntyre in the ring at the same time was a sight to behold. Also the fact there was minimal surprise apperances from legends and NXT superstars shows the depth the rosters have now and the faith of WWE in their current crop of talent. Rollins and Reigns face-to-face was so amazing for what it was, their blind hatred of each other ended up costing both of them as Punk eliminated both of them, only for Punk to gloat and then immediately be eliminated himself by Logan Paul. It was such a cool twist with himself being eliminated and the brawl between all three of those stars afterwards felt so real and done so well, the double stomp from Rollins to Reigns onto the steps really felt like Seth teasing a heel run which woulds pivot a Rollins-Reigns feud for WrestleMania. The ending between Cena and Uso, my word, nobody saw Jey Uso winning the Rumble, but it’s really heartwarming to have a genuine surprise that took us all aback.

Match Rating: 4.5/5

IMG Credit: Wrestling Inc.

Overall Thoughts:

A fun show with great matches, the conclusion of the Men’s Rumble seemed very divisive. I was also super surprised and shocked but I think it’s brilliant, I’m super happy to see someone who’s got over on their own merit a full-time undercard guy who’s worked his way up being chosen over the more established stars, all the others were so focused on their own rivalries they weren’t focused on winning the Rumble itself, Jey was which is how he won, also all the others don’t need a Rumble win to get to their Mania match whereas I feel this really legitimises Jey in the fans’ minds. For people who think Jey doesn’t fell like he should’ve won, for decades, fans enjoyed seeing people who organically get over with the fans on their own and get immensely frustrated and them being held back under old WWE management and then left floundering, so now they’ve seen the most over person in WWE for the past year and they’ve given him the ball, shows faith that if you do get over you will get the chance to go all the way. The aftermath means everything now, Jey MUST beat Gunther at WrestleMania for this to be worth it, Jay has been close too many times against Priest, Gunther and Roman over the last 2 years, he needs to finally win the big one, hopefully he does. The angles during the Men’s Rumble also makes Elimination Chamber so exciting, imagine the likes of Cena, Punk, Reigns, Rollins etc, all in the same Chamber match with the match against Cody for the WWE Championship on the line, it’s going to be fun on the Road to WrestleMania.

Overall Rating: 4/5