The 2026 Royal Rumble has come and gone, with Roman Reigns and Liv Morgan winning their respective matches to go on to challenge for top championships on “The Grandest Stage of Them All.” The premium live event itself was historic, because it was the primary time the Rumble was held from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. WrestleMania 43 is about for the country next yr, and Dave LaGreca and Bully Ray discussed on “Busted Open Radio” how the group’s reactions on the Rumble don’t exactly have them excited for next yr’s two-night event.
“I do not know if I’m wholeheartedly convinced just yet, until the WWE tells me that WrestleMania is definitively two nights from Saudi,” Bully Ray said. “I’m not convinced that it will be two nights… I believe you are going to get one night within the states.”
WWE has not yet announced dates for the 2027 event, and a press release on the corporate’s website simply states that WrestleMania is a “week-long celebration” consisting of “WWE SmackDown,” “WWE Raw,” and “WWE NXT,” in addition to other community events. With reference to the Rumble, LaGreca said that you can hear a pin drop, and it didn’t feel like a Royal Rumble to him, to which Bully Ray agreed.
“Should you get two nights of WrestleMania with the sort of crowd that we got [at the Rumble], or the distractions that we got from those lights… No bueno,” Bully Ray said. “I could only hear the group when the group was really popping. Let’s just take the ladies’s Rumble. I heard Rhea Ripley’s pop. I heard Brie Bella’s pop. I heard Liv Morgan’s pop, but throughout the match, I didn’t hear that much.”
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