7 New Directions For WWE After Royal Rumble 2026

It's been said before and it'll be said again: Hunter adores a hooded mystery man angle. 'The Game' can't get enough of the things. Rumour has it that he ripped open his presents from Stephanie McMahon on Christmas morning and was utterly disgusted that Austin Theory wasn't hiding in the one of the packages. They had to cancel dinner and everything. The turkey was binned and the mood was tense.

Right, enough nonsense.

A mystery man stomped Bron Breakker early on in the men’s Rumble and effectively cost Paul Heyman's latest meal ticket the chance to go coast to coast and win it all. The figure who appeared over in Riyadh didn’t look like Seth Rollins, but creative can always pretend it was him and get there with the story if they really want to.

It would make sense if Seth was the one to attack his former cohorts after The Vision laid him out last year, after all. If it isn't the 'Architect' and someone else is playing mind games, then hands up who has a clue who it could be? This writer is stumped. He really has Rollins and that's it. Y'know, unless it was Punk having a laugh for the sake of it. That's always possible.

Seth has been making a lot of noise about coming back when he's good and ready, but he did say that it wouldn't be at the Rumble. We'll find out on Raw soon enough if that was a little fib. WWE will spin out the mystery thing a little longer than Theory's reveal, at least. Well, presumably.