Overview

The 2026 Royal Rumble, also promoted as Royal Rumble: Riyadh (Arabic: رويال رامبل, romanized: ruyal rambil), is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by the American company WWE. It will be the 39th annual Royal Rumble and will take place on Saturday, January 31, 2026, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as part of Riyadh Season, and will be held for wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. This will be the first traditional Royal Rumble to take place outside of North America, the 14th event WWE will hold in Saudi Arabia as part of its 10-year partnership in support of Saudi Vision 2030, the second to feature a Royal Rumble match after Greatest Royal Rumble in April 2018, and the first of WWE's "Big Five" events to take place in the country.