{"id":586551,"date":"2026-08-08T01:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586551\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:34:18","slug":"becky-lynch-finn-balor-announce-wwe-raw-is-heading-to-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586551\/","title":{"rendered":"Becky Lynch &#038; Finn Balor Announce WWE Raw Is Heading To Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                             &#13;<br \/>\n                                                    &#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/intro-1786112005.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/2232355\/wwe-raw-becky-lynch-finn-balor-dublin-ireland-january-25-2027\/\" data-post-id=\"2232355\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-slide-title=\"Becky Lynch &amp; Finn Balor Announce WWE Raw Is Heading To Ireland: \" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"Becky Lynch staring into the camera\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    Harmony Gerber\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The road to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/2230325\/wwe-royal-rumble-arizona-2027-tko-multi-year-partnership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the 2027 Royal Rumble<\/a> will take WWE and its superstars overseas, with one of the stops centered in Dublin, Ireland. Ireland&#8217;s own Becky Lynch and Finn Balor broke the news on Friday morning during their international media rounds, noting that the January 25 show will mark a first in WWE history.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;For the first time ever, Monday Night Raw will be in the 3Arena on the 25 of January,&#8221; Lynch, a Dublin native, confirmed on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IRISHWRESTLING8\/status\/2085653942466203999?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Ireland AM.&#8221;<\/a> &#8220;Can&#8217;t believe it. It&#8217;s amazing. As a kid, we would have never dreamed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Balor, who hails from Bray, County Wicklow, echoed Lynch&#8217;s sentiments. For him specifically, performing on &#8220;WWE Raw&#8221; in his home country would create a full-circle moment.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;For me, Raw is as important as a PLE,&#8221; he said on &#8220;Off The Ball.&#8221; &#8220;Every Monday is just as important as every PLE. The scale of the show is the exact same. It&#8217;s all the same production levels, it&#8217;s all the same obviously storylines, but there&#8217;s no corners cut. And I think I said before, the Belfast Raw was absolutely spectacular. The geography of it, having went to the Point Theatre as a kid to watch Shawn Michaels, obviously going back to now the 3Arena, it&#8217;s special, man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be special!&#8221;<br \/>WWE Raw is coming to the 3 Arena this January!<br \/>Irish WWE superstars Becky Lynch and Finn B\u00e1lor explain to Will O&#8217;Callaghan what it means to them! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9hDT77ZvN1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/9hDT77ZvN1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Off The Ball (@offtheball) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/offtheball\/status\/2085701244908089521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As Balor alluded to, WWE&#8217;s trip to Northern Ireland in January 2026 brought forth an opportunity for him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/2079799\/wwe-raw-cm-punk-finn-balor-ireland-retains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">challenge CM Punk for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship on &#8220;Raw.<\/a>&#8221; The former Judgment Day member fell short in his quest, then later moved to the &#8220;WWE SmackDown&#8221; brand.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Harmony Gerber\/Getty Images The road to the 2027&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-586551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}