{"id":129993,"date":"2025-01-24T21:13:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T02:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=129993"},"modified":"2025-01-24T21:24:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T02:24:57","slug":"returning-superstar-wwe-royal-rumble-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/01\/24\/returning-superstar-wwe-royal-rumble-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning Superstar Declares for WWE Royal Rumble 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time coming. But on February 1st, 2025, the Queen makes her return to WWE for the Women&#8217;s WWE Royal Rumble 2025 match. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/01\/24\/wwe-smackdown-results-1-24-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">video package on WWE SmackDown<\/a>, Charlotte Flair declared that she&#8217;s on her way back to reclaim her throne.<\/p>\n<p>The last time we saw Charlotte Flair was on the December 8th, 2023 edition of SmackDown. She only just returned too after months away. Unfortunately, Flair would suffer a torn ACL,\u00a0MCL, and\u00a0meniscus during her bout against the &#8220;Empress of Tomorrow&#8221; and Damage CTRL member Asuka.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Queen is BACK! \ud83d\udc51<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t wait for <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RoyalRumble?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RoyalRumble<\/a>! \ud83c\udf7f<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MsCharlotteWWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MsCharlotteWWE<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SmackDown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SmackDown<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L2UihS8uea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/L2UihS8uea<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WWE (@WWE) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1882972618560540826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After over a year away, she finally makes her return as she takes on 29 other women to have a chance at a title match for either the WWE Women&#8217;s World or Women&#8217;s Championship at WrestleMania 41. The road will not be easy, even if it&#8217;s Charlotte Flair who&#8217;s walking it.<\/p>\n<p>That said, she is a 16-time World Women&#8217;s Champion, and if anybody could do it, it&#8217;s definitely Charlotte Flair.<\/p>\n<p>With Bayley, Nia Jax, Naomi, Liv Morgan, Raquel Rodriguez, and Bianca Belair all declaring for the 2025 installment of the 2025 Women&#8217;s Royal Rumble, Charlotte Flair has her work cut out for her. But for the WWE Universe, the match will surely be an amazing one, considering the talent that will be in it.<\/p>\n<h2><em>What do you think about the imminent return of Charlotte Flair at WWE Royal Rumble 2025?<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Header photo \u2013 WWE \u2013<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can check out WWE programming on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81788927\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Netflix<\/a>\u00a0(Raw),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usanetwork.com\/wwe-friday-night-smackdown\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USA Network<\/a>\u00a0(SmackDown),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwtv.com\/shows\/wwe-nxt\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The CW<\/a>\u00a0(NXT), and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peacock<\/a>\u00a0(archives and premium live event streaming). You can follow WWE on social media and relive top moments on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WWE\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time coming. But on February 1st, 2025, the Queen makes her return to WWE for the Women&#8217;s WWE Royal Rumble 2025 match. In a video package on WWE SmackDown, Charlotte Flair declared that she&#8217;s on her way back to reclaim her throne. The last time we saw Charlotte Flair was on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3735,"featured_media":129996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2192,26,317,4,3,320],"tags":[1445,403,217,406,602],"class_list":["post-129993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wrestling","category-smackdown","category-women","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","category-wwe-women","tag-bianca-belair","tag-charlotte-flair","tag-liv-morgan","tag-naomi","tag-nia-jax"],"modified_by":"Michael Joseph Sugue, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129998,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129993\/revisions\/129998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}