The Royal Rumble, 2026 is tomorrow. So you know what we do, my friends. We sit down and we go through

all the latest rumours that are out there, which of course when it comes to the Rumble,

it's mostly the question of who is going to be a surprise at the Ruralist of Rumbles. However,

at the same time, we do have everything with Gunther and AJ Stars and Drew McIntyre and

Samu Zaylor. That seems quite straightforward. And don't buy into this idea, there's not going to be any surprises, because you can't sneak people into Saudi Arabia. I don't know who started that. That is not the case. Why would that be the case? Just because you hear something, just take a step back and think about it for just one second. Right, everybody calmed down? Good. Let's get into the rumors. So what we're going to do is we are going to go

through a list of names R out there and we are going to determine with the rating out of 10

how we'd like to the hour to appear in the Royal Rumble and we're going to start big. Christopher Jericho, I'm going to whack a 10 on it. Actually, no I'm not. I'm going to whack a nine on it only because I've got a feeling that maybe just maybe, because we all now expect Chris Jericho at the Royal Rumble,

WWE may hold it off to Monday Night Raw instead, and you could argue he'd get even bigger reaction in the set that would be an indoor building, and assume it's in an indoor building, where of course the Royal Rumble is a Pete Elliott pay-per-view, that's an outside building, and sometimes sound goes up, so if you do want to megap, you do it inside.

The same time, he should probably be in the Royal Rumble. I think you want to make this Royal Rumble as Star Stunders as possible, which it already is. Sometimes they'll have to get the Roman Rains in it, and Cody Rhodes is in it, and everybody else is in it. I don't know why just stopped doing names there. But they're the two biggest, and sometimes you don't get the quote-unquote faces the company in the same Royal Rumble, also comes down to the winner as well,

but we'll get to the winners at the end because that ties into the rumours too. It's not true, it ties into betting odds and remember they always change last minute. And then I also been rumoured to be in the Rumble and that one I am going to give a 10 out of 10. He should be in this. He should have a phenomenal performance. And while I don't think he is going to win the thing, we should be setting up his WrestleMania match, or at least a feud at the elimination chamber. And it has to be something massive saying that he'll probably be in the elimination chamber match. But he has to be having beef with someone there. So we can go, oh my gosh, at WrestleMania, he is going to be taking on this person. Let's not forget LA Knight,, as he should do, has loads of appeal behind him. And I have read plenty of threads this week. People say, if LA Night doesn't win the wrong rumble, I'm going to have a meltdown. Well, don't do that because he's not going to win the Royal Rumble. Although at the same time, I say contradicted myself, Jay Uso won it last year, so you just never know. I don't think it's going to happen, though. In terms of him being in it, I am giving it 10 out 10.

I'm in it, I am giving it a 10 out of 10. I mean it would be crazy if he wasn't. Don't worry about all those things that you may have seen as well. There's like a big, yeah-ya sign and a big Roman Rain's thumb sign. That's to do with the fan convention they're holding. nothing to do with the entrances, they wouldn't put their front and centre otherwise when we get to someone that is very interesting or two people that are very interesting. This is only cropped up in the last 24 hours. Could the Iconics, or what they called now the inspiration, I believe, be in the Royal Rumble? Now, I am going to put my hands together because I love Chris Jericho. I love L.A. Knight. I love a lot of other people we're going to talk about today, but I want the iconics in this more than ever because, man, they were so entertaining.

It was ridiculous they got released in the first place and somehow have them come out together.

That's right, number 22 and 23, because W.W.E, as they should do, always has fun with the rules.

I mean, it would pop me if one came out in 22 and one came out of 23,

but there's just something funnier about them always being joined at the hip. And don't break them up this time either. That was the dumbest thing ever. Although Billy Kay still went out there, did that very funny resume gimmick, and they still got released. As you can see, I'm not quite over this, but I would do it. You need some comic relief on Rawan Smackdown and they were always so damn good,

especially their backstage segments. This one I'm not sure of, but they have left TNA. I'm going to give it a 7 out 10, but men I'm going to hope. We also may be getting an AEW debutante because of course it seems very likely that Powerhouse Hobbs has signed with WWE. He may be being called Royce Keys, which everybody went crazy about.

I think Royce is the name of his son, right?

So let's just moonwalk it a little bit. Also, we had a guy in the company for like 10 years, probably longer, called Dolph Ziegler. And we all got used to that one, so we'll be fine with Royce Keys. I mean, Powerhouse Hobbs is a better name, but I don't care, I got real problems to worry about. I do you think we should do this, although I'll be very intrigued to see how a WWW crowd does react to him. Like if you were going to do it back in the state, you would pick a very specific crowd, like a New York crowd or a Philadelphia crowd or a Chicago crowd because they're just so tuned in. So we'll see how Saudi Arabian audiences do react to powerhouse Hobbs. But he's another guy that should probably have an awesome rule rumble, throw a bunch of people out, but not as many as Oberfemi. I've told you this. He has to throw at least 10 people, and he should also probably be in the elimination chamber too, because that way, even though he's not going to win the damn rumble, he is still being treated as a top guy, which I presume is why he went to WWE, and maybe he does go to NXT.

Nobody can know at the moment. There's a one way to find out. I'm going to give us an 8 out of 10 because that's just such a cool hardcore nerd surprise. And I can consider myself a hardcore nerd. Another one people are talking about is Paige. That's right, the former Soraya in AEW, mostly because she did do an independent appearance at the end of 2025. and there was a video on the internet of her being back in the ring training and getting those reps in. I think this one can happen. I think if you are going to do it, the raw rumble is the best time to. I also think even though I am talking about it now, it has been so damn quiet. So I don't think anyone's going to have concrete information on this. It would get a pop. She does have massive legacy in WWE. And it seems like she's got over her neck injury, which is awesome. Think about all the matches you can do, even if they did put her in NXT, which they would never do. That would make no sense. You want to give me Sol Ruka versus Page. I'd be like, man, this is like generation that's coming together, even though Paige is still super duper young. And Solruca,

she's probably going to be in the War Rumble 2. Page, I'm going to go six out of 10 just because I have a bit wishy washing on it. Sol Ruka, I'm going to whack her eight on there. I mean, after what she did at Saturday's main event in December, she should be on a main roster anyway. Nikki Bella is a 10 out of 10 for me because there was a post by Jackie Repp put on social media. And over her head, it did appear to be Nikki Bella.

Now, it's still a surprise, but it's not a massive surprise.

And I guess that would come in the form of Bree Bella, but I'm going to say, no, you're not going to do that at the Royal Rumble. But Nikki Bella definitely gets a 10, as does Tiffany Stratton. And Tiffany Stratt has been out the last few months

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