1. Charlotte Flair (59:49)
The 2026 women’s Royal Rumble match kicked things off at the Royal Rumble, and the women’s Rumble carried on right where it left off. The first two-time women’s Royal Rumble match winner, Charlotte Flair, opened up proceedings as the number one entrant. Flair won the 2025 women’s Royal Rumble match, coupled with her 2020 triumph, and she was bidding to become the first woman to win three Rumbles and tie Steve Austin overall for three Rumble match wins.
The 14-time WWE Women’s Champion started the Rumble alongside her tag team partner Alexa Bliss, who entered second. The former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions refused to fight each other when they started the match, although they teased a couple of moves.
Moreover, Flair’s record was impeccable in Rumble matches as she’s always finished in the top three. Furthermore, Flair eliminated Nia Jax from the Rumble with a big boot. However, whilst doing that, Flair accidentally eliminated the Goddess after they were battling with Nia Jax.
Flair and her former best friend, the 2019 winner and reigning Women’s Intercontinental Champion Becky Lynch, locked horns. The crowd went crazy when the bitter enemies went head-to-head. The Queen had an excellent outing, and there’s no surprise that she was a few seconds shy of lasting an hour.
It was the first time that she failed to make it into the final three, but it took a motivated and in-form Lash Legend to halt her from winning a trio of Rumbles.
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