Fantasy Booking Decisions That Will Make or Break WWE Royal Rumble 2025 | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

While WrestleMania tends to steal the headlines each
year, WWE’s annual Royal Rumble premium live event (PLE) is actually the
company’s second most important show and arguably its most entertaining.

With so many options in the men’s and women’s 30-person
Battle Royals, the unpredictability of the 2025 Royal Rumble has added a
genuine excitement that is missing from many of WWE’s marquee events.

Here are the fantasy booking decisions that will make
or break the February PLE.

In the men’s Royal Rumble, there are ample options for
potential winners, including John Cena, CM Punk, Seth Rollins and Drew
McIntyre, but there is one option that stands above the rest as the best for
WWE.

Roma Reigns should win the 2025 Royal Rumble.

The Bloodline storyline has been a central focal point
of WWE for over two years, and it still hasn’t run its course. With several of
the small players in the drama falling to the wayside, it’s time to get back to
the top stars squaring off.

If Reigns wins the 30-man Battle Royal, WWE Creative
can go in two key directions for the Road to WrestleMania 41. Either Reigns
battles Cody Rhodes again for the world title, or Triple H can throw everyone a
curveball and get Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson involved.

With so much on the line at the Royal Rumble, the WWE
Universe should fully expect The Rock to make his presence felt at the PLE, but
we’ll get to that next…

After Reigns wins the Royal Rumble, Rhodes should walk
down to the ring to set up what most fans believe would be a singles match
between the two foes. Instead, Johnson should interrupt the segment and enter
the ring.

The Rock should claim that Reigns needs to go through
him to get to the Undisputed WWE Championship, with the two men coming
nose-to-nose before Rhodes breaks up the confrontation by announcing he’ll
defend the belt against both challengers in Las Vegas.

By booking Johnson for the end of the Royal Rumble, the
company would build serious momentum heading into this week’s Raw and SmackDown
episodes and drive interest in the product at the most critical time of year.

With Reigns and Rhodes on television each week to build
to the eventual Triple Threat match, The Rock could continue working his
limited schedule, only appearing occasionally to keep the program fresh.

It’s a win-win-win situation.

There is genuine excitement surrounding the men’s Royal
Rumble match, but the women’s edition of the Battle Royal is wide open in terms
of possible winners.

While the roster is as deep as ever, WWE needs to go
back to a tried-and-true performer for the 2025 winner. Whether it’s Becky
Lynch or Charlotte Flair, the company needs a top name back on top, and two of
the Four Horsewomen are the best candidates.

Triple H and WWE Creative have ample options, such as
Bayley, Nia Jax, Bianca Belair, Liv Morgan, or someone from NXT, but they are
building to a massive WrestleMania match that has the potential to main event
Night 1.

Whether WWE goes back to a familiar story pitting Becky
Lynch against Rhea Ripley for the Women’s World Championship, or moves toward
something new with Charlotte Flair battling Tiffany Stratton for the WWE
Women’s Championship, the company needs its biggest names at the top of the
card again.

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