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WWE celebrates highest-grossing Royal Rumble ever

February 3, 2025

WWE, part of TKO Group Holdings, has announced that Royal Rumble 2025, which emanated from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on February 1st, 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 Night 1 & Night 2 for any single-night gate.

VIEWERSHIP: Royal Rumble 2025 set the event’s all-time viewership record, up nearly 14 per cent 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.

SPONSORSHIP: Sponsorship revenue was up 94 per cent versus the previous record set in 2024. Royal Rumble featured 14 total partners, with 100 per cent 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 (PLE) 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 ‘Main Event’ Jey Uso winning the Royal Rumble matches to earn world title bouts at WrestleMania. Cody Rhodes also retained his Undisputed WWE Championship against Kevin Owens in a brutal ladder match.

Celebrities in attendance included Tyrese Haliburton, Kai Cenat, Kurt Angle and John Mellencamp – as well as YouTuber IShowSpeed who found himself entering the Royal Rumble as a surprise entrant.

UK viewers can rewatch Royal Rumble 2025 on Netflix, alongside a huge library of WWE content includng all the previous Royal Rumble matches from over the years.

The next WWE PLE is Elimation Chamber on March 1st, then WWE returns to the Europe with The Road to WrestleMania tour which stops in Glasgow, London, and Brussels for RAW, and Barcelona, Bologna, and London for SmackDown ahead of WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas taking place on April 19th and 20th.

 

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