The shock and awe the WWE Royal Rumble can present was on full show Saturday evening as Jey Uso and Charlotte Aptitude received their respective matches to earn title photographs at WrestleMania.
Uso’s win within the males’s Royal Rumble match shocked the professional wrestling world as he eradicated John Cena to win. It got here right down to Uso, Cena and Logan Paul on the very finish of the match, and Uso and Cena gave followers in Indianapolis a shocking upset that got here right down to the very finish.
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Jey Uso pushes John Cena off the ring on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, in the course of the WWE Royal Rumble at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. (Grace Smith/IndyStar/USA As we speak Community through Imagn Pictures)
The match marked Cena’s return to in-ring motion for the primary time since he competed in a six-man tag-team match in April 2024. He had a wide ranging second at one level within the Royal Rumble as he stared down Roman Reigns and CM Punk earlier than Seth Rollins entered the match.
Rollins, Reigns and Punk had been every eradicated across the similar time. Rollins then snapped and went after each Reigns and Punk earlier than he went to the again. Every of the three males seemed to be sad with one another, signaling a bumpy street to WrestleMania.
Jey Uso celebrates profitable on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, in the course of the WWE Royal Rumble at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. (Grace Smith/IndyStar/USA As we speak Community through Imagn Pictures)
Aptitude returned to a WWE ring almost 14 months after tearing her ACL, MCL and meniscus in December 2023. She was one of many last entrants. She eradicated NXT star Roxanne Perez to win the match.
The place the boys’s Rumble was stuffed with big-time superstars who had been anticipated to be within the competitors, the ladies’s Rumble featured a handful of unusual returns. Jordynne Grace made her first look within the Rumble as a WWE star – final 12 months she was nonetheless with TNA Wrestling when she competed. Alexa Bliss doubtless acquired the largest pop of the evening as she returned for the primary time since 2023. WWE legends Trish Stratus and Nikki Bella additionally got here again for the match.
Ultimately, it was Aptitude who picked up the victory.
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Charlotte Aptitude celebrates profitable Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, in the course of the WWE Royal Rumble in Indianapolis. (Grace Smith/IndyStar/USA As we speak Community through Imagn Pictures)
Uso and Aptitude will now must resolve whose championship they wish to go after. Cody Rhodes is the Undisputed WWE Champion and Gunther is the World Heavyweight Champion. Tiffany Stratton owns the WWE Girls’s Championship and Rhea Ripley is the Girls’s World Champion.
Rhodes was capable of return his championship in a ladder match towards Kevin Owens.
The match featured some wild strikes as each rivals made their approach by means of a number of ladders. Ultimately, Rhodes put Owens in an Alabama slam by means of a ladder that was perched between the ring apron and the announcers’ desk. He took a tough-looking fall earlier than Rhodes climbed the ladder within the ring and obtained the 2 title belts that had been hanging above.
The fourth match featured Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa retain their tag-team titles in a 2 of three falls match towards Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley. The Avenue Earnings, Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins, interfered within the match and allowed Gargano and Ciampa to retain the titles.
Ford and Dawkins left the ring scowling because it appeared they set their sights on the titles.
Cody Rhodes celebrates after defeating Kevin Owens for the WWE Undisputed Championship match in the course of the WWE Royal Rumble on Feb. 1, 2025. (Joe Camporeale-Imagn Pictures)
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The street to WrestleMania is jumpstarted from right here. The following premium stay occasion is the Elimination Chamber on March 1 in Toronto.
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