{"id":320081,"date":"2026-04-17T11:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=320081"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:56:11","slug":"potential-spoiler-andre-the-giant-memorial-battle-royal-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/potential-spoiler-andre-the-giant-memorial-battle-royal-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential **SPOILER** &#8211; Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_106\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>As we previously reported here on eWn, the annual Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal is ready for this Friday\u2019s go-home episode of SmackDown ahead of WrestleMania 42.<\/p>\n<p>While WWE has yet to officially reveal the list of participants, an early **SPOILER** regarding the potential winner has surfaced. In keeping with a report from BodySlam+, Royce Keys was penciled in because the expected winner of the 2026 edition as of last week.<\/p>\n<p>Keys, a former AEW talent, first appeared for WWE throughout the Royal Rumble pay-per-view event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia this past January. Despite that debut, it took greater than two months for him to transition onto weekly television.<\/p>\n<p>During that point, he competed in several dark matches on each RAW and SmackDown before finally making his televised in-ring debut last Friday night. Keys made a right away impact, defeating Berto in decisive fashion to officially kick off his run on Friday Night SmackDown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> If you will have any news suggestions or podcast recaps that you simply\u2019d prefer to send in for us to post (full credit will probably be given to you), please email me at <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"0c5e4f606d7e675c5b5f4c556d646363226f6361\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we previously reported here on eWn, the annual Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal is ready for this Friday\u2019s go-home episode of SmackDown ahead of WrestleMania 42. While WWE has yet to officially reveal the list of participants, an early **SPOILER** regarding the potential winner has surfaced. In keeping with a report from BodySlam+, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":320082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[14950,2917,5028,5211,2095,4477,18658,5031],"class_list":["post-320081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-andre","tag-battle","tag-giant","tag-memorial","tag-potential","tag-royal","tag-spoiler","tag-winner"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320084,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320081\/revisions\/320084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}