WWE Royal Rumble Betting Guide: Preview, Statistics & Picks

2025 Royal Rumble

The 2025 Royal Rumble which will be the 38th edition with details of the date and location likely to be announced later this year.

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2024 Men's Royal Rumble Recap

CM Punk went into the 2024 Royal Rumble as the +120 favorite, he had a favorable draw coming in at number 27 and after spending 21 minutes and 45 seconds in the ring he made it to the final two standing.

The man he was left in the ring with was Cody Rhodes who came in at 15, he spent a total of 43 minutes and 21 seconds in the ring, his odds were +250 to win and he did just that for the second year running!

2024 Women's Royal Rumble Recap

Bayley was priced up as a strong favorite at -220 and it looked like she had a tough task ahead of her with a number 3 draw, however, over an hour later she was crowned the winner, eliminating 7 wrestlers along the way.

*Odds correct as of 2024-01-27

Past Men's Royal Rumble Winners

Who won the 1st Royal Rumble? The first ever Royal Rumble took place in 1988 at the Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and it was 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan who won the twenty-man event from the thirteenth draw eliminating three opponents including One Man Gang to win the event.

Who won the Royal Rumble the most times? There has been a total of ten wrestlers who have won the Royal Rumble multiple times, nine of those have won it twice and the only man to win it more than twice is Stone Cold Steve Austin who won it three times.

What is the best draw in the Royal Rumble? The later entry the better would be for obvious reasons as there will be fewer opponents to be faced and those coming in early would have been in the ring for some time too. 58% of the winners (22 from 38) came in from draws 21 or later.

• Draws 1-5: 7 winners (19%)
• Draws 6-10: 2 winners (5%)
• Draws 11-15: 3 winners (8%)
• Draws 16-20: 4 winners (11%)
• Draws 21-25: 8 winners (22%)
• Draws 26-30: 14 winners (38%)

Who won the Royal Rumble from draw 1? Only three men have ever been the first in the ring and go the distance to win the whole match, the first to do so was Shawn Michaels in 1995. It was nineteen years until it happened again in 2004 when Chris Benoit achieved the impossible and then Edge in 2021 was the last wrestler to do so.

Men's Royal Rumble Winners

Here are the past winners of the Royal Rumble, the 1994 match was declared a two-man win as both Bret Hart and Lex Luger were eliminated simultaneously.

Past Women's Royal Rumble Winners

Who won the 1st Women's Royal Rumble? In 2018 the WWE introduced a Royal Rumble dedicated to the women of the WWE and that first-ever match which featured thirty women was won by Asuka from a 25th draw.

What is the best draw in the Women's Royal Rumble? There have only been seven events but already the later draws have had success, three of the seven came in as the 25th entrant or later, another was drawn 17th and the only ones that were earlier were Bianca Belair's (2021) and Bayley (2024) who both came in at number three and the 2023 winner Rhea Ripley who became the first women's winner from entry number one.

Women's Royal Rumble Winners