WWE Royal Rumble 2026

The 2026 Royal Rumble, also promoted as Royal Rumble: Riyadh, is an upcoming professional wrestling event produced by WWE. It will be the 39th annual Royal Rumble. It will take place in January 2026 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, marking the second Royal Rumble to take place in Saudi Arabia after the Greatest Royal Rumble in 2018. The event will air via pay-per-view (PPV) and live streaming and feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The event is based around the Royal Rumble match, and the winner traditionally receives a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania. For the 2026 event, the men's and women's winners receive a choice of which championship to challenge for at WrestleMania 42. The men's winner can choose to challenge for either Raw's World Heavyweight Championship or SmackDown's Undisputed WWE Championship, while the women have the choice between Raw's Women's World Championship and SmackDown's WWE Women's Championship.