Royal Rumble was a success.
2025 Royal Rumble
This past Saturday, we saw the WWE 2025 Royal Rumble live from Indianapolis. The event was a great success, and the show had fans buzzing across the world. But, the fans in-house made this event special. WWE has revealed that Royal Rumble 2025 from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis Shatters Event Gate, Viewership, Merchandise, Sponsorship & Social Records. They put out an official press release to tout the success.
Per WWE:
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 behindWrestleMania® 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 Rumble2025 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.
With the success of the Royal Rumble, it’ll only continue to grow as we are now on the road to WrestleMania.
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