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.
6. Most Years, Most Eliminations

Previous Record: “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, 4 (1997-1999, 2002) New Record: Tie, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, 4 (1997-1999, 2002) and Roman Reigns, 4 (2014, 2016, 2018, 2025)
If you can’t win the Royal Rumble, you might as well toss as many poor souls as possible. Eliminations are the lifeblood of the Rumble match, something that wrestlers tout and that can spark feuds between superstars.
Heading into Saturday, only one wrestler had led the pack in eliminations in four separate Rumbles: “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, who paced four Rumbles in his career, including two that he won (1997-98). That changed this past weekend, when Roman Reigns joined the Rattlesnake atop the list.
Reigns tied cousin Jacob Fatu with four eliminations, a record for this year’s men’s Rumble. It also was his fourth time leading the pack, putting him in a position where he could easily take over that spot on his own in the next couple years.
What’s interesting about Reigns is that he has tied Stone Cold despite being off the Rumble market for 2021-24 because he was the WWE Universal Champion and defended his world title at the Royal Rumble PLE during each of those four years.
5. Most Eliminations, One Rumble, Women

Previous Record: Tie, Shayna Baszler and Bianca Belair, 8 (2020) and Nia Jax, 8 (2024) New Record: Nia Jax, 9 (2025)
Ever since returning to WWE, Nia Jax has been a human wrecking ball, particularly in the Royal Rumble.
Queen Nia tossed nine women from the Rumble Saturday, breaking the record she held jointly with Shayna Baszler and Bianca Belair, who set the mark in 2020. Jax had eliminated eight women last year.
What’s most impressive about Jax’s run this year is how she eliminated so many women. She jettisoned Zelina Vega before even entering the ring and then would bounce five women at once as Belair, Naomi, Stephanie Vaquer, Raquel Rodriguez and Iyo Sky were fighting on the apron for survival and Nia knocked all of them to the floor in one blow. She also tossed Trish Stratus, Nikki Bella and Liv Morgan from the match before Charlotte Flair eliminated her.
There’s always a possibility that another woman could break this record in the next year or two, but only five wrestlers total have topped nine eliminations in 38 years of history: Brock Lesnar, Roman Reigns, Kane, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, and Hulk Hogan.
4. Most Eliminations, Career, Women

Previous Record: Rhea Ripley, 20 New Record: Nia Jax, 28
This new record should shock no one, especially given Nia Jax’s performance at the 2025 Royal Rumble.
In tossing nine women from the Rumble, Jax leapfrogged Rhea Ripley to take a commanding lead in cumulative Rumble eliminations. That lead grows by one if you count Jax’s elimination she scored in the 2019 men’s Rumble, tossing Mustafa Ali.
Ripley has not competed in a Rumble since 2023, when she won from the #1 position. She has been champion during the past two Rumbles. Should she enter next year’s Rumble, it’s a safe bet that Rhea will either close that gap significantly or even overtake the record – she’s averaging five eliminations per Rumble.
3. Most 60-Minute Superstars, Women

Previous Record: Tie, Bayley and Naomi (2024) and Rhea Ripley and Liv Morgan (2023) New Record: Roxanne Perez, Liv Morgan and Iyo Sky (2025)
Having multiple wrestlers put in a true power hour during the Royal Rumble is solely a women’s phenomenon. Only once, in 2006, have two men lasted more than an hour in the same Rumble, when Triple H and Rey Mysterio entered at #1 and #2, respectively, and were among the final three.
The women, however, have had multiple superstars top 60 minutes in three of their eight Rumbles. The unusual occurrence happened in 2023 and 2024, with two women each logging 60-plus minutes. But this year, three women lasted more than 60 minutes: Iyo Sky, Liv Morgan and Roxanne Perez, the first three entrants in the match.
All three topped Bayley’s previous record run in a women’s Rumble of 63 minutes, and their runs would outlast every men’s stay in the Rumble, save for Gunther’s 71-minute performance in 2023. That is an insane feat on its own, but to have it happen in the same year from three consecutive entrants is ridiculous.
2. Most Royal Rumble Wins, Women

Previous Record: Tie, Seven Women, 1 (2018-24) New Record: Charlotte Flair, 2 (2020, 2025)
One of the most predictable records that simply had to fall at some point was having a woman win more than one Royal Rumble. Heading into this year, each of the previous seven women’s Rumbles had had different winners, meaning the “record” was simply a listing of all the winners to date.
That changed Saturday night when Charlotte Flair won her second Rumble, etching out a record all to herself in the women’s division while punching her ticket to WrestleMania 41. She joins nine men who have won the Rumble twice, while “Stone Cold” Steve Austin still holds the overall record with three Rumble victories.
Flair will attempt to repeat what she accomplished in 2020, when she won the Rumble and defeated Rhea Ripley for the NXT Women’s Championship. If she is once again successful in challenging for a title at WrestleMania, Charlotte would join a bit more rarified air, as only Austin and Brock Lesnar have won multiple Rumbles and then successfully captured a world title at that year’s Mania.
1. Winning Numbers

Previous Record: #30, 5 (2007, 2008, 2016, 2022, 2023) New Record: Tie, #30, 5 (2007, 2008, 2016, 2022, 2023) and #27, 5 (1989, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2025)
Whenever fans watch the Royal Rumble, they can count on Michael Cole to give some history about each entrant, and – where applicable – any historical notes about when they are entering the match.
The announcers love to point out how difficult it is to win the Rumble from the single digits, and then will pivot to noting that pulling a number in the 20s greatly enhances your chances of victory. The statistics bear that out, as #30 had become the most frequent entry point for a Rumble winner, with five men triumphing from that spot. Back-to-back wins in 2022 and 2023 saw #30 overtake the longtime lucky number, 27, which had been the gold standard for Rumble entrants despite not producing a winner since 2001.
That changed Saturday when Charlotte Flair won the Rumble from #27, bringing the lucky number back to prominence and tying #30 with five Rumble winners from both spots.
And just to set the table for 2026, #1 and #28 each have produced four winners, so there is a possibility of a three-way tie down the line. For now though, WWE can once again start plugging 27 as a desirable number to draw in the Rumble.