WWE is bringing one in every of its marquee occasions to Tampa Bay. The group introduced on Wednesday that the thirty seventh Royal Rumble match will pull playground at Tropicana Grassland on Saturday, Jan. 27.

The promotion will spend a couple of days within the Tampa Bay segment, together with the Royal Rumble in St. Petersburg and WWE Uncooked in Tampa on Jan. 29. It marks the primary pace since 1995 that Tampa Bay will host the once a year match. The segment additionally hosted WrestleMania in 2021.

The after match will attribute a 30-man and a 30-woman Royal Rumble fit, in step with a press drop from WWE. The winner of every rumble will obtain championship suits at WrestleMania 40, recently scheduled for April 6 and April 7 in Philadelphia.

The Royal Rumble is one in every of WWE’s conventional “big four” occasions, extra not too long ago dubbed the “big five” to include Cash within the Reserve. The alternative occasions on this bubble come with SummerSlam, Survivor Line and WrestleMania. The inaugural Royal Rumble used to be held in 1988 as a part of a televised match and due to this fact become a standalone match in 1989. The Rumble historically serves as “The Road to WrestleMania,” a three-month season the place that life’s WrestleMania card starts to pull condition.

Utmost life’s Royal Rumble winners had been Cody Rhodes and Rhea Ripley. Rhodes unsuccessfully challenged Reigns in the principle match of WrestleMania 39 Night time 2. Ripley defeated Charlotte Aptitude to transform SmackDown girls’s champion. Ripley used to be due to this fact topped the inaugural Ladies’s global champion, a name she actively holds.