WWE: Royal Rumble 2026 Start Time Reportedly Revealed, Seth Rollins Says The Rock Gave Him Surprise Gift After WrestleMania 40, Raquel Rodriguez Confirms Liv Morgan Returned Early From Shoulder Injury

Royal Rumble 2026 Start Time Reportedly Revealed

WrestleVotes on Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that WWE officials currently have scheduled for next year’s Royal Rumble event on January 31, 2026 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to have a start time of 2PM EST.

It was reported that WWE officials had some back-and-forth internal discussions before making the decision for the early afternoon start time for next month’s event.

This will be the first time that WWE will be holding a Royal Rumble event outside of North America and the first time in Saudi Arabia.

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Seth Rollins Says The Rock Gave Him Surprise Gift After WrestleMania 40

A recent episode of Julian Edleman’s Games with Names podcast featured Rollins as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Rollins’ thoughts about his relationship with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and revealed that Johnson gave him a special gift following an injury he suffered after WrestleMania 40 in April of 2024.

“What a guy. I’m friends with DJ [Dwayne Johnson] now. He sent me, when I got hurt after WrestleMania 40, he sent me like a giant, so much ice cream and chocolate. We still have pints in the back fridge because there’s so much to go through.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com

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Raquel Rodriguez Confirms Liv Morgan Returned Early From Shoulder Injury

As noted before, Liv Morgan made her surprise return from a dislocated shoulder injury at this past November’s WWE Survivor Series WarGames 2025 event.

A recent episode of News4Jax’s Going Ringside podcast featured Judgement Day’s Raquel Rodriguez as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Rodriguez confirming that Morgan had returned to WWE earlier than expected from her injury.

“You know, if I know Liv (Morgan) as good as I think I know Liv, I’m actually not surprised (she’s back already) because that girl is hungry. She’s hungry for success, she is hungry for a championship, she is hungry just to be better and be the best that she can be and so, as also a fellow athlete, when you do get taken out for an illness or for an injury, it is so difficult to sit on the sidelines and just watch, and so I know that that hunger that built up as you’re just watching is really just eating at you to get out and so, the fact that she was able to get through rehab and get back to 100 percent and be back early, I mean, I’m very, very happy that she’s back in Judgment Day and back on Monday Night Raw and I think everybody else is too. We’re all happy to see her.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com