{"id":418317,"date":"2026-01-20T08:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/418317\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T08:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:18:08","slug":"top-names-declare-for-royal-rumble-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/418317\/","title":{"rendered":"Top names declare for Royal Rumble matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We are less than two weeks away from Royal Rumble, scheduled for Sat., Jan. 31, 2026 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and going into this week\u2019s episode of Monday Night Raw just one wrestler had officially declared for either the men\u2019s or women\u2019s match. That changed in a major way this week, with top names in both divisions making clear they will be trying to book their ticket to a championship match WrestleMania 42 via the 30-wrestler over-the-top-rope battle royal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On the men\u2019s side, GUNTHER, Jey Uso, Rey Mysterio, Penta, and Dragon Lee all declared for the match. Jey is attempting to go back-to-back. That gives us six of the 30 names.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Over on the women\u2019s side, the top of the division all made their intentions clear with nearly all the big names confirming they are in: Rhea Ripley, Iyo Sky, Liv Morgan, Roxanne Perez, Raquel Rodriguez, Bayley, Lyra Valkyria, and Asuka. That gives us eight of the 30 names.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Plenty of room left for surprises but there is still time for other wrestlers to declare as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Like how the matches are shaping up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are less than two weeks away from Royal Rumble, scheduled for Sat., Jan. 31, 2026 in Riyadh,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,4366,199973,8316],"class_list":{"0":"post-418317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-wwe","10":"tag-wwe-royal-rumble","11":"tag-wwe-raw"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}