WWE Touts Record Breaking Success of Royal Rumble 2025 in Indianapolis

WWE touted the record breaking success of their Royal Rumble 2025 event this past Saturday at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Besides confirming the event broke the record for largest ever gate for an event in Royal Rumble history, WWE also announced that the event also broke the record for largest gate for a single night event in WWE history. This year’s event was stated to also have been the most watched and most social views and the highest merchandise sales and sponsorship revenue for an event in Royal Rumble history.

Official press release:

Royal Rumble 2025 generates largest gate for any single-night event in WWE history

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-WrestleManiaevent 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.