WWE Celebrating Record-Breaking 2025 Royal Rumble
WWE is touting the success of the 2025 Royal Rumble.
On February 1, the 2025 came live from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
While Cody Rhodes made sure he left the event with the World Championship after a wild Ladder Match against Kevin Owens, the biggest winners were the returning Charlotte Flair and Jey Uso.
In her first match in over 13 months, Flair won the women’s Rumble match before Uso won the men’s match at the expense of John Cena.
The event was also a huge success for WWE outside the ring, with the company boasting the largest gate for a single-night event in history.
You can find the press release from WWE below.
ROYAL RUMBLE 2025 GENERATES LARGEST GATE FOR ANY SINGLE-NIGHT EVENT IN WWE HISTORY
Royal Rumble at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis Shatters Event Gate, Viewership, Merchandise, Sponsorship & Social Records
February 3, 2025 – WWE, part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), today announced that Royal Rumble 2025, which emanated from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Saturday, became the most-successful and highest-grossing Royal Rumble event in company history.
Highlights include:
GATE: Royal Rumble 2025 generated the largest gate for any single-night event in WWE history. Saturday’s PLE, which drew 70,342 fans to Lucas Oil Stadium, is only behind WrestleMania 40 Saturday & Sunday for any single-night gate.
VIEWERSHIP: Royal Rumble 2025 set the event’s all-time viewership record, up nearly 14 percent domestically, distributed on Peacock, from last year’s record-setting audience. International viewing numbers are up even higher year-over-year with Royal Rumble shifting to Netflix globally.
MERCHANDISE: In partnership with Fanatics, merchandise sales were up more than 95 percent versus the previous Royal Rumble record set last year in 2024, making Royal Rumble 2025 the highest-grossing non-WrestleMania event of all-time.
SPONSORSHIP: Sponsorship revenue was up 94 percent versus the previous record set in 2024. Royal Rumble featured 14 total partners, with 100 percent of the matches sponsored.
SOCIAL: Royal Rumble 2025 set a record for the most social video views in Royal Rumble history. WWE Superstar Bron Breakker spearing popular streamer IShowSpeed became the most-viewed Royal Rumble social post of all-time, generating more than 300,000,000 social views in less than 24 hours.
Royal Rumble 2025 marked the first Premium Live Event to take place in Indianapolis as part of a first-of-its-kind partnership struck last year with Indiana Sports Corp that will see WWE’s three largest stadium events – WrestleMania, SummerSlam and Royal Rumble – take place in Indianapolis.
The record-breaking event was highlighted by WWE Superstars Charlotte Flair and Jey Uso winning the Royal Rumble matches to earn world title bouts at WrestleMania.
Drew McIntyre Storms Out Of WWE Royal Rumble
While the event might have been a financial success for the company, it was reported immediately after it went off the air that Drew McIntyre was screaming and swearing backstage. The star was reportedly upset that someone in the match was determined to “get their moves in,” and he made sure everyone in earshot knew it.
There were also rumblings that “something went wrong” during McIntyre’s elimination at the hands of Damian Priest.
The person who was reportedly the target of McIntyre’s anger was LA Knight.