WWE Royal Rumble winners by year, most wins, historic champions Names list Since 1988..

Most winning title & to-enter in the WWE Wreslter-Mania is by Steve Austin 3 times in the WWE Royal Rumble history.

The 2025 Royal Rumble officially kicked off the road to WrestleMania, as the iconic first premium live event of the year took place Saturday. The night was headlined by the men’s and women’s Royal Rumble matches. Each had 30 entrants enter the ring, and the winners were guaranteed a championship opportunity at WrestleMania 41 in April, a potentially career-altering opportunity.

2025 WWE Royal Rumble Winners, Results, 2025 RR Results Here.

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Brief history of WWE Royal rumble and Stats-Facts-Records.

WEE Royal Rumble is one of the Most popular WWE Pro-Wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event. The first Royal Rumble is organized by WWE in since Jan 24, 1988 till now and every year it is held in January. It is one of the "Big 4" event of WWE along with Wrestle-mania, Summer-slam & Survivor series.
It is based on Royal Battle in which normally 30 wrestlers participate by tossing them over the rope & it has only 1 hour for deciding the winner of Royal Rumble.
The Most WWE Royal Rumble wining title is by S.C Steve Austin 3 times.
The Highest individual time spent in the ring in a single match is by Rey Mysterio is 1:02:12 in 2006.
The shortest time spent in ring by a wrestler in a single Royal Rumble match is by Santino Marella is just 1 sec in 2009.
Most Royal Rumble appearance is done by Isaac Yankem-Diesel-Kane are 19th times.
The 2018 Royal Rumble was the first to include a women's Royal Rumble match, which was the main event for that year; it is now standard for the event to include a men's and women's match.
This year in WWE Royal Rumble 2025, Jey Uso, Charlotte Flair won the Men's and Women's Royal Rumble Matches to earn a Championships Match at WrestleMania 41 in Nevada.

WWE Royal Rumble History: Full List of Winners through the Years 1988-2025.

Whoever ends up on top of the 2025 Royal Rumble will be the 39th winner in the match's history − even though it will be the 38th event (there were two winners one year). Another feat is while the Royal Rumble was introduced in 1988, it wasn't until 1993 that the winner received a championship opportunity at WrestleMania.

Of the 39 winners, 10 of them have won it multiple times, including a record three victories by Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Here are complete list of WWE Royal rumble champions-winners name list from 1988 to 2025.

WWE Royal Rumble 1988 = Hacksaw Jim Duggan

WWE Royal Rumble 1989 = Big John Studd

WWE Royal Rumble 1990 = Hulk Hogan

WWE Royal Rumble 1991 = Hulk Hogan

WWE Royal Rumble 1992 = Ric Flair

WWE Royal Rumble 1993 = Yokozuna

WWE Royal Rumble 1994 = Lex Luger / Bret Hart

WWE Royal Rumble 1995 = Shawn Michaels

WWE Royal Rumble 1996 = Shawn Michaels

WWE Royal Rumble 1997 = Steve Austin

WWE Royal Rumble 1998 = Steve Austin

WWE Royal Rumble 1999 = Vince McMahon

WWE Royal Rumble 2000 = The Rock

WWE Royal Rumble 2001 = Steve Austin

WWE Royal Rumble 2002 = Triple H

WWE Royal Rumble 2003 = Brock Lesnar

WWE Royal Rumble 2004 = Chris Benoit

WWE Royal Rumble 2005 = Batista

WWE Royal Rumble 2006 = Rey Mysterio

WWE Royal Rumble 2007 = Undertaker

WWE Royal Rumble 2008 = John Cena

WWE Royal Rumble 2009 = Randy Orton

WWE Royal Rumble 2010 = Edge

WWE Royal Rumble 2011 = Alberto Del Rio

WWE Royal Rumble 2012 = Sheamus

WWE Royal Rumble 2013 = John Cena

WWE Royal Rumble 2014 = Batista

WWE Royal Rumble 2015 = Roman Reigns

WWE Royal Rumble 2016 = Triple H

WWE Royal Rumble 2017 = Randy Orton

WWE Royal Rumble 2018 = Shinsuke Nakamura

WWE Royal Rumble 2019 = Seth Rollins

WWE Royal Rumble 2020 = Drew McIntyre

WWE Royal Rumble 2021 = Rugged Edge

WWE Royal Rumble 2022 = Brock Lesnar, 2nd win -

WWE Royal Rumble 2023 = Cody Rhodes -

WWE Royal Rumble 2024 = Cody Rhodes

WWE Royal Rumble 2025 = Jey Uso -

Women’s Royal Rumble history, past winners list

The women’s Royal Rumble match was introduced in 2018, with Asuka winning the first edition. Charlotte Flair becomes the first women to won the Royal Rumble title for the second time in Event history.

Here is the full list of women's Royal Rumble winners from each year:

WWE Royal Rumble 2018: Asuka

WWE Royal Rumble 2019: Becky Lynch

WWE Royal Rumble 2020: Charlotte Flair

WWE Royal Rumble2021: Bianca Belair

WWE Royal Rumble 2022: Ronda Rousey

WWE Royal Rumble 2023: Rhea Ripley

WWE Royal Rumble 2024: Bayley

WWE Royal Rumble 2025: Charlotte Flair

Best number to enter the Royal Rumble for winning?

Save the best for last when it comes to the men’s match; five winners have come in at No. 30, the most of any entry number. All of the wins have happened since 2007. The second most is No. 27 with four wins and No. 1 and No. 24 with three wins. Nos. 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 15, 17, 20, 21 and 26 have never been winners.

The later numbers have been most successful, with 22 of the 37 winners (59.4%) coming in at least No. 22 or later.

On the women's side, No. 28 has been the most successful with it being the only entrant number with two wins (2019, 2022).

How successful are Royal Rumble winners at WrestleMania?

The concept of the Royal Rumble winner earning a title shot at WrestleMania wasn’t introduced until the 1993 event.

Since then, the winner in the men’s match has mostly been successful in capturing a title at the flagship event, going 16-14 in those matches for a 53.3% success rate. However, the winners are on a losing streak, with the past three – Edge, Brock Lesnar and Cody Rhodes – all losing to Roman Reigns.

The women winners have been very successful in the short match history. Royal Rumble victors are 4-2 in WrestleMania matches, including Rhea Ripley last year.

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