{"id":152032,"date":"2026-01-31T17:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=152032"},"modified":"2026-01-31T17:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:39:21","slug":"oba-femi-makes-his-main-roster-debut-at-the-wwe-royal-rumble-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/01\/31\/oba-femi-makes-his-main-roster-debut-at-the-wwe-royal-rumble-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Oba Femi Makes His Main Roster Debut at the WWE Royal Rumble 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oba Femi made his main roster when he entered the 2026 WWE Royal Rumble match. During Monday\u2019s episode of WWE RAW, a brief vignette played. The promo video highlighted Femi\u2019s many accomplishments, including various big wins in NXT. At the end, his name appeared, before the Royal Rumble logo did as well. The confirmation revealed that Femi was Royal Rumble-bound, and he\u2019d no doubt be a big favorite to win the coveted contest.<\/p>\n<p>At <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/01\/07\/oba-femi-retains-but-vacates-the-nxt-championship-at-nxt-new-years-evil\/\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">NXT New Year&#8217;s Evil<\/a><\/span>, despite retaining the NXT Championship against TNA X-Division Champion, Leon Slater, Femi left the Championship belt in the middle of the ring, leaving NXT and vacating the title. The move, in addition to the multiple vignettes aired on WWE shows, immediately fueled rumours he could be called up to the WWE main roster.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oba Femi \ud83e\udd1d Royal Rumble <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Obaofwwe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Obaofwwe<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PsuUdjNqry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/PsuUdjNqry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/2015992345829814593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>What happened to Oba Femi at the WWE Royal Rumble?<\/h2>\n<p>Oba Femi made a thunderous entrance as the number 1. He eliminated Bron Breakker, Rusev, Solo Sikoa, Rey Mysterio, and Matt Cardona. After 49 minutes in the match, The Ruler was eliminated by Brock Lesnar.<\/p>\n<p>This WWE Royal Rumble participation represents a huge main roster debut for Oba Femi. It is unknown if Femi will be a part of the Raw or SmackDown roster. For sure, he will soon become a dangerous contender for any championship.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brock Lesnar \ud83d\udc40 <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Obaofwwe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Obaofwwe<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FO8OXKlgXD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/FO8OXKlgXD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/2017728611575308308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 31, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\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> for more on the <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.wwe.com\/shows\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWE<\/a> PLE schedule and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. 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Follow WWE on social media to relive top moments and matches on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/wwe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oba Femi made his main roster when he entered the 2026 WWE Royal Rumble match. During Monday\u2019s episode of WWE RAW, a brief vignette played. The promo video highlighted Femi\u2019s many accomplishments, including various big wins in NXT. At the end, his name appeared, before the Royal Rumble logo did as well. The confirmation revealed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5457,"featured_media":151995,"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":[2,12,2192,4,3],"tags":[8734,7214],"class_list":["post-152032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-wrestling","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-oba-femi","tag-wwe-royal-rumble"],"modified_by":"Steph Franchomme","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152032","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\/5457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152032"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152039,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152032\/revisions\/152039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}