WWE continues to break company records and WWE Royal Rumble 2025 was no different as we head into WrestleMania season.
On Monday, the company announced via a press release that Royal Rumble “shattered” previous record numbers for a total gate in a single show, highlighting five particular categories:
- 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 is notoriously one of WWE’s tentpole events every year and with how much the company has been embracing a global and new audience with their live events and the big Netflix deal, the company is very much entering a new era.
Royal Rumble only featured four matches with Charlotte Flair and Jey Uso winning their respective Rumble events, both of which received polarizing responses online.