WWE: Triple H Says “A Lot Of Surprises In Store” for Royal Rumble 2026, Talent Spotted on Flight to Saudi Arabia for Royal Rumble, The Undertaker on “WWE Has Gotten ‘Too Comfortable’ Pulling Back The Curtain”

Triple H Says “A Lot Of Surprises In Store” for Royal Rumble 2026

A recent episode of ESPN’s Get Up show featured WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Levesque hyping up this weekend’s WWE Royal Rumble 2026 event in Saudi Arabia and promised there would be “a lot of surprises in store” for the event.

“The Royal Rumble is one of those events that’s amazing to see, because every couple of minutes there is a new entrant that enters into the fray, right? So as this match goes on over the course of the hour that it takes or so, you’re getting constantly surprised by who is next. And the strategy of what happens when that person comes out. This year is going to be no different.

There’s a lot of surprises in store, but also it’s one of the most star-studded Rumbles that I can recall. You’ve got Roman Reigns, Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton, Jey Uso, Bron Breakker, Logan Paul’s going to be in there. On the women’s side, Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch, Rhea Ripley, Liv Morgan. They’re just stacked cards. This one is going to be epic.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com

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Talent Spotted on Flight to Saudi Arabia for Royal Rumble

Nikki Bella was recently spotted on a flight heading to Saudi Arabia for this weekend’s WWE Royal Rumble 2026 event in Riyadh.

In a recent video posted on Instagram by WWE backstage interviewer and personality Jackie Redmond, Bella was seen in the background quickly leading to online speculation of her being one of the surprise entrants for this year’s Women’s Royal Rumble match.

This would be Bella’s first appearance since the December 29th episode of WWE RAW.

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The Undertaker Comments on “WWE Has Gotten ‘Too Comfortable’ Pulling Back The Curtain”

A recent episode of the Six Feet Under with The Undertaker podcast featured WWE Hall of Famer and co-host The Undertaker giving his thoughts about the WWE: Unreal docuseries and his belief that WWE has gotten “too comfortable” pulling back the curtain on wrestling.

“The actual presentation and everything is wonderful, right? From my aspect and my end of the business, I don’t like it. And everybody’s going to say, ‘Oh my God, that’s an old-school guy trying to protect kayfabe.’ Look, I don’t care if it’s 2025, it’s 1990, or it’s 1984. Everybody understands what wrestling is. Everybody knows. Ain’t no big veil been lifted — except I don’t want to go to see a magician and know how he’s doing everything. And I understand that there’s a huge part, they’re like, ‘Oh, that’s interesting, I want to do that.’ But there’s still that aspect

Everybody knows what we do, right? But when I’m in the ring, my whole goal, my motivation is to get one person, just one person to think, ‘Wow, Undertaker just clocked him. I don’t care what everybody else is doing. That right there, that was the real thing.’ So there’s always the doubt.

I think we’re too comfortable now in talking about our business. And I struggle on these podcasts too, because it’s hard to talk. It’s hard to talk and tell stories without lifting it up a little bit,” he said. “But I think we’ve gone too far. And again, I understand. Everyone knows what it is, what we do. But there’s got to be a little bit of mystery.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com