The Royal Rumble has been and gone and here are the results from last nights show.

Spoilers ahead!

[Pictured is Naomi, who returned to WWE, a year and a half after walking out]

Predictions:

WWE Royal Rumble 2024 Predictions

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• Women’s Royal Rumble Match
  • WINNER: Bayley
• Roman Reigns (C) vs LA Knight vs AJ Styles vs Randy Orton in a Fatal 4-way match for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship
  • WINNER: Roman Reigns retains!
• Logan Paul (C) vs Kevin Owens for the United States Championship
  • WINNER: Logan Paul via disqualification
• Men’s Royal Rumble Match
  • WINNER: Cody Rhodes

And that was the show. What did you think of it?

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For the 37th time in WWE’s history, it’s time for the Royal Rumble, and the road to WrestleMania 40 begins tonight.

There are 2 rumbles and 2 title matches tonight.

WWE have deliberately not confirmed many entries for the Rumble matches, which makes things very difficult to predict.

At the time of writing, only 17 men and 10 women have been confirmed for the Royal Rumble matches.

Rumble Matches

• Men’s Royal Rumble Match – 30 man over-the-top rope battle royal.
  • PREDICTION: It’s very difficult to predict who would be the stand-out here. I will predict 3 people. CM Punk, Cody Rhodes and Lexis King 🤣
• Women’s Royal Rumble Match – 30 women over-the-top rope battle royal.
  • PREDICTION: Becky Lynch, (Hopefully a returning) Naomi and Gigi Dolin.

Title Matches

• Logan Paul (C) vs Kevin Owens in a singles match for the United States Championship
  • PREDICTION: This could well be match of the night, but I think Logan is going to be holding the title until at least Mania and probably will have a rematch with Kevin Owens. Logan to retain!
• Roman Reigns (C) vs LA Knight vs AJ Styles vs Randy Orton in a Fatal 4-Way for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship
  • PREDICTION: Roman is going to retain. There is no way that he is going to lose the title now before Mania. He is going to be keeping this until Survivor Series at the very least so that way, he can say that he beat Hulk Hogan. Roman to retain

And those are my predictions for tonight.

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Last night’s War Games show was something else, including the return of Randy Orton and one more person (who I’ll mention at the end)

• Bianca Belair, Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch & Shotzi defeated Damage Ctrl in the Women’s WarGames match.
• Gunther defeated The Miz to retain the Intercontinental Championship.
• Santos Esobar defeated Dragon Lee
• Rhea Ripley defeated Zoey Starks to retain the Women’s World Championship.
• Cody Rhodes, Seth ‘Freakin’ Rollins, Sami Zayn, Jey Uso & Randy Orton defeated The Judgement Day & Drew McIntyre in the Men’s WarGames match.

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And the return of CM Punk happened. A shock to many, but the return was not impactful to me as his return to AEW. It’s cool that it happened, don’t get me wrong, and I did pop whenever the music hit, but I am worried about him, his ego and how it’s going to affect the locker room.

Who knows why Drew stormed out? Is Seth working? Difficult to know, but I guess we’ll find out more on RAW on Monday.

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WarGames is back on WWE for a 2nd year for the 37th year, it is Survivor Series.

2 WarGames matches, 2 title matches and a possibility of some ‘punk’ showing up?

Non-Title Matches

• Dragon Lee vs Santos Escobar in a singles match.
  • PREDICTION: It was initially supposed to be Rey Mysterio and Santos, but then Rey is out because of surgery he needed to get done to his leg and then Carlito was replacing him and as of SmackDown last night, he got injured so it’s now Dragon Lee facing Santos. A much younger guy facing off against Santos is perfect and will be a good lucha-style match. Dragon Lee to win.
• Prediction of a match. Shinsuke Nakamura vs CM Punk in a singles match
  • PREDICTION: I know. Call me crazy, but with so much talk about CM Punk lately, it’d be foolish to not fantasy book. Given Shinsuke’s promos the last couple of weeks, he could be targeting anyone, but with Punk leaving AEW and the slight teases that have been on the shows the last few weeks, you can piece bits together. I am not saying that he is 100% coming back, but I would feel with the recent Shinsuke stuff, I could see it happening.
• Bianca Belair, Charlotte Flair, Shotzi & Becky Lynch vs Damage Ctrl (Bayley, Iyo Sky, Kairi Sane & Asuka) in a WarGames match.
  • PREDICTION: The face team have nothing to lose. Damage Ctrl with the newly added members of Kairi and Asuka should help elevate this match. Damage Ctrl win.
• Cody Rhodes, Seth “Freakin” Rollins, Jey Uso, Sami Zayn & Randy Orton vs The Judgement Day (Finn Bálor, Damian Priest, Dominik Mysterio & JD McDonagh) & Drew McIntyre in a WarGames match.
  • PREDICTION: Hard to judge who would win this match. I can probably tell that Randy will probably turn on Jey, and maybe some other dissolution within the team. I feel the same could happen for The Judgement Day, as JD & Drew are not liked by Damian Priest. Perhaps the ‘leader’ thing will get to this head and cost the match. Cody, Seth, Jey, Sami & Randy to win.

Title Matches

• Rhea Ripley (C) vs Zoey Stark in a singles match for the Women’s World Championship
  • PREDICTION: Zoey is nowhere near ready for the title. Mami is going to smash her like a jobber. Rhea to win and retain.
• Gunther (C) vs The Miz in a singles match for the Intercontinental Championship
  • PREDICTION: This is probably going to be the match of the night. Gunther’s chops are going to hurt Miz the same way that Gunther’s words hurt Miz on Monday on RAW. Another notch in the title reign for Gunther. There is no one that can take the title off him. Gunther to win and retain

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WWE Crown Jewel 2023 Predictions

Non-title Matches

• Solo Sikoa defeats John Cena
• Cody Rhodes defeats Damian Priest
• Sami Zayn defeats JD McDonagh

Title Matches

• IYO SKY (C) defeats Bianca Belair to retain the WWE Women’s Championship
• Logan Paul defeats Rey Mysterio (C) to become the new WWE United States Champion!
• Seth “Freakin” Rollins (C) defeats Drew McIntyre to retain the World Heavyweight Championship.
• Rhea Ripley (C) defeats Nia Jax, Shayna Baszler, Zoey Stark and Raquel Rodriguez to retain the Women’s World Championship
• Roman Reigns (C) defeats LA Knight to retain the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship.