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Ups & Downs - WWE Royal Rumble 2026 Review

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🗓️ 1 February 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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0:00.0

So the Royal Rumble is done, it's over, you're never going to get it again, and there's two reasons I love the Royal Rumble.

0:04.4

One, you either get a really good Rumble, everybody's happy and they do the dance of joy, or two, something happens that people do not like, and they go absolutely crazy. I would say this one is somewhere in the middle, but yes, I am going to talk to you about it today, and if you want to call it a review and a breakdown, you certainly can. Isn't life great? Also, just want to shout out Norton as well,

0:23.5

and again, you can click. Isn't life great?

0:21.3

Also, just want to shout out Norton as well. And again, you can click a link in the description down there or click the QR code on the screen. They're going to give you a VPN. We're just going to keep you safe when you go online. And if you go abroad, you can watch your content your way, which is important because is your content and you want to do things your way. I think that's what Franks O'Narche was telling about.

0:37.9

And basically, if you do that deal,

0:39.4

it's going to be like £2.15 in the

0:40.8

United States of America every single month. I tell you, that's a good deal. So thank you very

0:48.1

much, Norton. We appreciate that. Remember, go and consume things the way you want to consume them,

0:53.4

including pizza. That's important in your mouth. Nowhere else, Raw Rumble. Also, as you know, at Rural Rumble time the phone comes out. Otherwise, I forget things and people get mad at me, which is perfectly fine, but this is where we can stay the course. So, I have thrown a lot of notes in here as well. As far as I've got, here is every single person in the Women's Royal Rumble,

1:12.1

in the order, kind of, I miss one that they arrived in.

1:15.0

But Charlotte Flair, Lexerblis, Keanu-Janes, Lola Vice, Niagara-Jax, Nyjax, Ivy Nowe, Jordan Grace, Becky Lynch, Sol Rooka, Candice, Thorey, Roxanne Dupree, Natalia, not Natalia Natalia Natty, please do forgive me.

1:24.9

Liv Morgan, Lash Legends, Linda Vega, Raquel, Chelsea Green, Julia, Eoskeye, Ussi, Ria, Ria Ripley, Kairi, Cairie, Bailey, then it was Kairi, so I got that one wrong, and now I pushed the button and screwed up my notes. Breed-Bella, and yes, we're going to talk about her entrance music. Do I even say Nikki Bella? I do not know, and Tiffany Stratton was in at number 30, which makes sense, because at least that was a surprise. That's a little interesting part of both these Royal Rumbles. There weren't a lot of mega super duper-whooper surprises. Anyway, let's go back to the start and cover the important stories because Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss were one and two and then they decided to pretend to throw the other person out of the Royal Rumble. Now, this was totally fine because later on, Alexa Bliss and Niallax were tangling on the ring apron, and Charlotte was like, oh, hi, I can eliminate Naya, but because she ran with her so much force, even though she accidentally missed Alex Bliss, don't worry about it, she eliminated Nyjaxx and her friend. Alexa Bliss looked at Charlotte

2:18.0

and Charlotte and she. I'm so sorry, but what she? We do not know. I am going to give that bit and up. Like it was something to write home about, not that my parents would care anyway, but we said that they should do something between these guys. They did do it. Of course, they're going to fight at WrestleMania. And that's what you should do at the Royal Rumble. there should be subtext and sub-stories, and we got it.

2:36.9

I do also have a down though because I just felt like this women's Royal Rumble took a little bit long to find its flow, mostly because for some reason, WWE decided nobody just throw anybody out, okay? We want at least 10, 12, maybe 15 entrants before we start clearing the ring, So if we see any eliminations, we're going to get really mad. It's a bit like the contentious issue that people still have with the Ironman match. If you do go to a draw, it's like when we sat down to watch a bunch of falls and we hoped it was going to end five to four or something like that. And instead, we got nothing. It kind of felt like it was the same here. Now, worry because in the second half i thought it picked up massively but i get it if you were a little bit unenthused through the first half i get it giving it down of course we also had becky lynch throwing out maxine dupre when she also tried to eliminate natty and natty was doubly mad because one she wanted wanted to kill Maxine and two, Becky Lynch

3:24.2

said trying to throw her out the ring when of course she flipped reversed it and Becky Lynch went out instead. So it kind of feels like Becky Lynch versus Natty's going to be for the IC title. Although I don't get why Natty didn't throw out Maxine because surely Natty needs to go through Maxine before she gets to Becky because that's the feud. Unless we're going do a triple threat match, which I do not think we should do, because I kind of feel like

3:43.6

Becky Lynch and Maxine Dupree is done. But that was another subplot we did have. Moving on. Eventually, the Judgment Day were in there as well. That is Raquel, Liv Morgan and Roxanne Press. And at one point, Liv Morgan and Roxanne Perez were helping each other and going, woo-hoo, hey, we're so good.

3:58.3

But later on, what did Liv Morgan do? She stole Raquel Rodriguez teetering on the edge,

4:02.7

and not only did she eliminate her, which was a good pop, but she then laughed in Raquel Rodriguez's

4:08.0

direction. Now, I get it if you're saying, oh my gosh, the judge would have broken up.

4:12.0

But this is what Dominic Mysterio did for Finn Ballot like a year or so ago, and they're still together. I think this just will be the planting of seeds, and of course we're going to talk about Liv Morgan a little bit. So I am going to give that and up, that's the kind of thing you should do. It would be great if you got to Roar. We just jumped right in because the Judgment Day's been around forever, but at least it's there. It hadn't been there. It would have been stupid. Also, Roxanne Perez had been thrown up by that point sucks to be there.

4:33.5

Shout out and Chelsea Green and Alba fire as well and actually it was Chelsea and Alba's arrival that turned all this around because Chelsea tried to salute her way into the Judgment Day and the Judgment Day were like, nope, we're not going to be accepting you. Chelsea is just damn hilarious, man. Also at one point she got thrown out, but Alba Fy had turned into a footstool in order to stop her being eliminated. I'm just going to give it an up. It is goofy wrestling for life. If you have watched Unreal Season 2, Michael Hayes at one point goes, well Chelsea Green just isn't a star. Are you a madman? She was the best thing in this for a rumble just want to have a good time just

5:05.3

wants you to have a good time she was so damn entertaining as was alber fire we need to do more

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