As per the earlier reports, WWE had hyped-up the post-Wrestlemania season with some big events coming up.
For the first time, a 50-man Royal Rumble match would be hosted to entertain the fanbase present in the country of Saudi Arabia. The show named Greatest Royal Rumble will be hosted at the King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Friday, April 27th.
Almost, all of the prime superstars from both WWE Raw and Smackdown Live have been confirmed to compete in this special show. Seven title matches including the Cruiserweight Championship, Intercontinental Championship, United States Championship, Raw Tag Team Championships, SmackDown Tag Team Championships, Universal Championship and, the WWE Championship would get defended on that night.
Furthermore, names like John Cena, Triple H, Roman Reigns, AJ Styles, Braun Strowman, The New Day, Randy Orton, Bray Wyatt Shinsuke Nakamura and more will compete in the Greatest Royal Rumble match making it a must watch for every WWE fan. The show is supposed to be telecast on the WWE Network, live.
Saudi Arabia will host the “Greatest Royal Rumble” at the King Abdullah Sports City on Friday, April 27! https://t.co/dRp66KLiKQ
— WWE (@WWE) March 5, 2018
Recently, Daniel Bryan was medically cleared to compete in matches. Hence, it is likely that WWE will allow him to compete in this match who might turn out to be the biggest attraction of the night in Abu Dhabi. In a recent promotional activity for the same show, the Smackdown general manager alluded to participate in this match.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drqPrFY2xgM
While speaking of the match, he stated that eventually, this match would turn out to be historically more significant than WrestleMania. He’s quite ready to perform in this once-in-a-lifetime showdown hosted by the company. Recently, WWE officially handed over the spot for him in this match.
#Saudi General Sports Authority chairman #Turki_AlSheikh signed an agreement with #WWE for #wrestling matches exclusively in #KSA for 10 years. #WrestleMania #WWE #RoyalRumble #KSA #SaudiArabia #Sports #KSA_SPORTS pic.twitter.com/XVqirySvWc
— Forsan News EN (@Fnews_english) March 1, 2018
Meanwhile, the reports from Wrestling Observer Newsletter stated not only Daniel Bryan would enter the match but also end up winning it.
Check out the updates from Sportskeeda.com about the leader of the YES nation being the favourite to win this contest,
“Meltzer also weighed in on Bryan being one of the favourites to win the Royal Rumble Match which took place in January of this year. Meltzer noted that the betting odds led to rumours of WWE clearing Bryan to make his in-ring return. However, there is no truth to said rumours as they had nothing to do with people being aware of him wrestling again.”