Royal Rumble 2025 LIVE: Date, UK start time, fight card, competitors and how to watch first major WWE event on Netflix
The 2025 Royal Rumble is tonight and it is going to be the first major WWE event to be broadcast live on Netflix. This will be the 38th annual Rumble and it will kick off the new year with a lot of the biggest stars featuring in the legendary over-the-top-rope action. Rhodes is the undisputed WWE champion heading into 2025Getty As usual, it will see 30 men and 30 women enter the ring one at a time, fighting to avoid being thrown out and be the last competitor standing. On top of that, there are also set to be some incredible matches. Cody Rhodes will be aiming to remain the undisputed WWE champion when he takes on Kevin Owens in a ladder match. Royal Rumble 2025: Date and how to follow This year’s Royal Rumble will take place on Saturday, February 1. Things are expected to get started at around 6pm local time which is 11pm in the UK. The event is expected to last up to four hours, meaning it could continue until around 2am UK time. It will be held at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The event will be broadcast live on Netflix for the first time ever as part of their historic £4billion 10-year deal. Fans in the UK who already have a Netflix subscription be able to watch the action live for no extra cost while others can sign up for £4.99 or more here. talkSPORT.com will also keep you up to date with all the latest build-up and reaction. Owens meets Rhodes for the Undisputed WWE title at Royal RumbleWWE Royal Rumble 2025: Fight card More to follow 30-man Royal Rumble match – John Cena vs. CM Punk vs. Seth Rollins vs. Roman Reigns vs. Drew McIntyre vs. Sami Zayn vs. Jey Uso vs. Rey Mysterio vs. LA Knight vs. Logan Paul vs. Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Penta vs. Chad Gable vs. Bron Breakker vs. Carmelo Hayes vs. TBA 30-woman Royal Rumble match – Charlotte Flair vs. Bayley vs. Nia Jax vs. Bianca Belair vs. Naomi vs. Liv Morgan vs. Raquel Rodriguez vs. Iyo Sky vs. Lyra Valkyria vs. Ivy Nile vs. TBA Cody Rhodes vs Kevin Owens – ladder match for Undisputed WWE Championship DIY (Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa) vs Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) – for WWE Tag Team Championship After a lengthy build-up, John Cena’s final stretch in WWE begins on SaturdayWWE Royal Rumble 2025: What has been said? Dominik Mysterio has revealed that the whole WWE roster are excited about the move to Netflix. He said: “Morale is high. We’re all super excited to to be able to just be on Netflix, because a lot of a lot of us have families. “I have family in Mexico. Judgment Day has family in Ireland and stuff because of Finn and JD. “So, our families struggled to to be able to see us because they have to watch it on Fox Sports or I don’t know what they have to watch it on in Ireland, but it’s always different channels here and there. “So the fact that you can just tune in whether it’s 8 PM or 5 PM West coast, East coast time, as long as you figure it out overseas and you have Netflix, you can watch it. So the fact that you can watch it all around the world at any point in time, even if you missed an episode last week, you can just go on there and click it and they have it all there. “So that’s huge for us, we’re in over a hundred something million homes, right? So that’s insane. That’s a whole different viewership for us. We’re used to just people tuning in on USA and seeing Monday Night Raw. “But now it’s like whoever clicks on Netflix, you’re going to see, whether it’s Cody Rhodes or Bianca [Belair] or Roman [Reigns], Liv [Liv Morgan], myself, like you’re going to see wrestling on there. It’s really cool to see because it’s going to catch your attention and people are going to click on to see Monday Night Raw.”
The 2025 Royal Rumble is tonight and it is going to be the first major WWE event to be broadcast live on Netflix.
This will be the 38th annual Rumble and it will kick off the new year with a lot of the biggest stars featuring in the legendary over-the-top-rope action.
As usual, it will see 30 men and 30 women enter the ring one at a time, fighting to avoid being thrown out and be the last competitor standing.
On top of that, there are also set to be some incredible matches.
Cody Rhodes will be aiming to remain the undisputed WWE champion when he takes on Kevin Owens in a ladder match.
Royal Rumble 2025: Date and how to follow
This year’s Royal Rumble will take place on Saturday, February 1.
Things are expected to get started at around 6pm local time which is 11pm in the UK.
The event is expected to last up to four hours, meaning it could continue until around 2am UK time.
It will be held at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
The event will be broadcast live on Netflix for the first time ever as part of their historic £4billion 10-year deal.
Fans in the UK who already have a Netflix subscription be able to watch the action live for no extra cost while others can sign up for £4.99 or more here.
talkSPORT.com will also keep you up to date with all the latest build-up and reaction.
Royal Rumble 2025: Fight card
More to follow
- 30-man Royal Rumble match – John Cena vs. CM Punk vs. Seth Rollins vs. Roman Reigns vs. Drew McIntyre vs. Sami Zayn vs. Jey Uso vs. Rey Mysterio vs. LA Knight vs. Logan Paul vs. Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Penta vs. Chad Gable vs. Bron Breakker vs. Carmelo Hayes vs. TBA
- 30-woman Royal Rumble match – Charlotte Flair vs. Bayley vs. Nia Jax vs. Bianca Belair vs. Naomi vs. Liv Morgan vs. Raquel Rodriguez vs. Iyo Sky vs. Lyra Valkyria vs. Ivy Nile vs. TBA
- Cody Rhodes vs Kevin Owens – ladder match for Undisputed WWE Championship
- DIY (Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa) vs Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) – for WWE Tag Team Championship
Royal Rumble 2025: What has been said?
Dominik Mysterio has revealed that the whole WWE roster are excited about the move to Netflix.
He said: “Morale is high. We’re all super excited to to be able to just be on Netflix, because a lot of a lot of us have families.
“I have family in Mexico. Judgment Day has family in Ireland and stuff because of Finn and JD.
“So, our families struggled to to be able to see us because they have to watch it on Fox Sports or I don’t know what they have to watch it on in Ireland, but it’s always different channels here and there.
“So the fact that you can just tune in whether it’s 8 PM or 5 PM West coast, East coast time, as long as you figure it out overseas and you have Netflix, you can watch it. So the fact that you can watch it all around the world at any point in time, even if you missed an episode last week, you can just go on there and click it and they have it all there.
“So that’s huge for us, we’re in over a hundred something million homes, right? So that’s insane. That’s a whole different viewership for us. We’re used to just people tuning in on USA and seeing Monday Night Raw.
“But now it’s like whoever clicks on Netflix, you’re going to see, whether it’s Cody Rhodes or Bianca [Belair] or Roman [Reigns], Liv [Liv Morgan], myself, like you’re going to see wrestling on there. It’s really cool to see because it’s going to catch your attention and people are going to click on to see Monday Night Raw.”