What Time Is the WWE Royal Rumble in 2022?
Find out when the WWE Royal Rumble event is taking place in 2022 so you can plan your viewing party accordingly.
Introduction
The “Royal Rumble” is a professional wrestling event produced every year by WWE, a wrestling entertainment company in the United States. It is a Pay-Per-View event that features a match in which wrestlers from both Raw and Smackdown compete against each other. The winner of the match is the wrestler who lasts the longest in the ring.
The Main Event
The Main Event is the highlight of the pay-per-view, as it features 30 WWE Superstars from Raw, SmackDown, and NXT competing for a chance to headline WrestleMania. The winner of the men’s Royal Rumble match will go on to facing either the WWE Universal Champion or the WWE World Heavyweight Champion at WrestleMania, while the winner of the women’s Royal Rumble match will get a women’s championship match of their choosing at WrestleMania.
The Undercard
The WWE Royal Rumble 2022 will feature several matches on the undercard before the main event. These matches are typically between up-and-coming superstars or legends making a return to the ring. The undercard matches are a great way to get the crowd pumped up for the Royal Rumble match itself. The following is a list of matches that have been announced for the WWE Royal Rumble 2022 undercard:
-Brock Lesnar vs. Braun Strowman
-Rey Mysterio vs. Andrade
-The Miz vs. Shane McMahon
-Rusev vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
The Royal Rumble
The WWE Royal Rumble is a professional wrestling pay-per-view event, produced every January by WWE. It is one of the “big four” events, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series. It is named after the Royal Rumble match, a modified battle royal in which the ring is slowly emptied of wrestlers until only one remains. The 2022 WWE Royal Rumble will take place on Sunday, January 16th at 8:00 pm EST at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The Aftermath
The WWE Royal Rumble in 2022 will take place on January 29th at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event will start at 7pm EST and will be available on pay-per-view and the WWE Network.
