7 Records Broken At WWE Royal Rumble 2025
Records were made to be broken, and several new marks were set during Saturday's Rumble PLE.
With the 2025 Royal Rumble done and dusted, now is the perfect time to quickly look backward before everyone turns their attention forward about 11 weeks to WrestleMania 41 and the hijinks that surely will ensue in the space between.
This year’s Rumble received kudos for some of WWE’s booking decisions but also some head-scratching from fans who were perplexed by other choices. In charting out the men’s and women’s Rumbles, WWE opted to crown one winner who was the odds-on favorite and another who barely would have even scanned as a dark horse.
Regardless of the booking, the Rumble results are in the books, and that has led to some Rumble records being rewritten. Despite being in its 38th year, the Royal Rumble continues to see its historic marks regularly shattered, leaving fans to wonder if there’s no record that can’t be broken.
In recent years, records for the number of eliminations in a single Rumble, iron man and iron woman, and the longest run for a winner have all fallen. This year, the men’s and women’s Rumbles collectively scratched out several more all-time marks and scribbled in some new recordholders.
Let’s dive in and see who made history Saturday night, even if they didn’t have their hand raised at the end.
Let’s get to it…
7. Longest Run, Women
Previous Record: Bayley, 63:03 (2024) New Record: Roxanne Perez, 67:47 (2025)
WWE has become obsessed in recent years with establishing Iron Woman records during the Royal Rumble, setting a new longevity mark in the women’s Rumble for the past three consecutive years.
Saturday, Roxanne Perez shattered the “old” mark of 63:03, set last year by 2024 Rumble winner Bayley, logging 67:47 after entering at #3 and hanging around to be the final woman eliminated by eventual winner Charlotte Flair.
Perez’s record clearly was aided by the two-minute intervals WWE employed this year, rather than the 90-second gaps they have been using for quite some time. That longer window alone guaranteed that someone who entered early and outlasted all the countdowns and entrances would hit an hour.
Normally when someone breaks a difficult record by such a wide margin, you would typically state that it’s difficult to imagine someone else breaking that record for a while, but after three straight Iron Woman replacements, it might be wise to shelve that prediction.