Full 2026 Royal Rumble Breakdown
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What happened in the 2026 Royal Rumble and why did Roman Reigns win?
Welcome to the Busted Open Podcast. This is Dave LaGreca. On today's episode, myself and Bully Ray talk Royal Rumble 2026. We're on the road to WrestleMania. What transpired? We react right now on the Busted Open Podcast. This is the Busted Open Podcast. Roman Reigns comes out your victor. So Roman. Roman Reigns guaranteed a main event match at WrestleMania. What did you think of Roman winning and where do you think Roman's d gonna declare? What championship do you think Roman's gonna go at?
No idea, I'm more interested in what Roman said on ESPN a couple of days before the rumble. How he thought Nick Khan does a phenomenal job, but nobody else is really stepping up to the plate in this company. Hmm. Talk about saying the shit that you just want to say.
I mean I I what's the evidence of saying that? What do you mean? Of w with with what Roman said about stepping up. Like, where does that come from? Like I don't I don't agree.
I'm interested in stuff like that. Listen, you wanna stick with what happened at the Rumble? We just had the fucking Royal Rumble on Saturday. Yeah. I want to talk about the Rumble. My point is this. Some of the Roman won. Roman's gonna go after a champion. We've been here before. He said in his comments, nobody is stepping up to the plate. I'm a gracious, um, I'm a gracious tribal chief. I'm trying to give everybody else the opportunity to step up and I win the rumble. So he just squashed everybody he just squashed everybody else, which is fine with me. We've seen Roman in this spot before. So Roman and uh who are the champ uh we have uh the choices are Roman Roman versus Punk or Roman versus uh Drew right now.
I say we get Roman and Punk.
Yeah, I think we go I g I think we go Roman and Punk. Now from your comments that he said, like his comments were in character. So I take it for what it is. Were they? It it certainly sounded like that way to
me. So by not mentioning Triple H's name, singling out Nikon. But not mentioning Triple H and letting the world believe that Triple H is creative is not up to par right now is in character. I mean, I I
do you believe what he's saying is true? I'm
asking you if you think that's in character. The way
the listening to that interview, he he did that interview in character. Okay. I mean I'm just going by the you know, he was playing the tribal chief in the interview. So
Um well the tribal steep chief stepped up to the plate, he won the rumble.
Yes.
So d so punk what is your level of interest in Punk and Roman?
I think that's where where you gotta go. I think I think you have to go with Roman Reigns and CM Punk. I mean, I think that's box office, I think that's Marquee WrestleMania match, CM Punk and and Roman Reigns. And and I'm interested, you know, I think that's gonna be one of those matches, again, you know, like it's gonna it's gonna probably split the crowd in half. Because you got as many people that love Roman Reigns as they love CM Punk.
Agreed. But but uh May Maybe one of them will maybe one of them will take the heel roll?
Or or, you know, you talk about stepping up, like you and and if you're in character, like looking at solo Sokoa, I don't think Solo Sokoa stepped up to be the quote unquote leader of the bloodline. Drew McIntyre is obviously in a feud with Cody Rhodes, and we'll get into some of the eliminations and some of the things that we saw in the rumble match bully. But I could see possibly Jacob Fatou winning this championship. before WrestleMania and what about Roman versus Jacob Fatou?
That's not nearly as box office as Roman and CM Punk.
I mean Jacob Fattoo. The WW
The WWE right now is all about money. And make because TKO's involvement, it's all about money. They want the biggest box office match they can have. So you could sit there and go, Yeah, but Jacob Pottu, yeah, yeah, yeah.
How did Roman Reigns’ ESPN interview shape his post‑Rumble storyline?
It's not gonna do the same business as Roman and CM Punk will do right now.
All right, so we'll get into that and we'll have obviously a lot of time to speculate that. But overall, what did you think of the men's Royal Rumble match on Saturday?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened in the 2026 Royal Rumble and why did Roman Reigns win?
0:00–4:35
2
How did Roman Reigns’ ESPN interview shape his post‑Rumble storyline?
4:35–9:50
3
Which championship match is Roman most likely to challenge for at WrestleMania?
9:50–15:28
4
Why do Dave and Bully think a Roman vs CM Punk showdown would be the biggest WrestleMania main event?
15:28–20:37
5
What was the impact of Oba Femi’s performance and his elimination by Brock Lesnar?
20:37–25:24
6
Why did the producers downplay Brock Lesnar’s elimination and how did fans react?
25:24–30:21
7
Was including Gunther in the Rumble a smart creative decision or a missed opportunity?
30:21–34:54
8
What are the possible WrestleMania scenarios for Roman, Punk, Drew, and other top stars?
34:54–38:17