{"id":152164,"date":"2026-01-31T15:16:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=152164"},"modified":"2026-02-01T01:23:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:23:52","slug":"hall-of-famer-and-injured-star-returns-at-2026-wwe-royal-rumble-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/01\/31\/hall-of-famer-and-injured-star-returns-at-2026-wwe-royal-rumble-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Famer and Injured Star Return at 2026 WWE Royal Rumble Match"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Women’s 2026 WWE Royal Rumble Match<\/a> was a fantastic showcase and mix of WWE’s brightest stars, current standard-bearers, as well as reliable veterans. Of course, it’s the Rumble, and the WWE Universe is bound to have at least one surprise. Well, in this case, the Riyadh Crowd has two, as a WWE Hall-of-Famer and former champion came back in the form of Brie Bella and Tiffany Stratton.<\/p>\n

Both women came in very late in the match, but the crowd exploded for both of them. We haven’t seen Brie Bella since the 2022 Women’s Royal Rumble match, and she stated that it would be her last. However, it wasn’t, as she went full “Brie Mode” to enter the Rumble and reunite with her sister Nikki Bella.<\/p>\n

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On the other side of the coin, Tiffany Stratton finally made her return. The last time we saw Stratton, she was losing to the current WWE Women’s Champion Jade Cargill, ending her nearly one-year run. Stratton entered the match like a house on fire, executing a Swanton Bomb on a sea of women.<\/p>\n

Stratton and Brie’s return goes to show that anything can happen when it comes to the WWE Royal Rumble<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Women’s 2026 WWE Royal Rumble Match was a fantastic showcase and mix of WWE’s brightest stars, current standard-bearers, as well as reliable veterans. Of course, it’s the Rumble, and the WWE Universe is bound to have at least one surprise. Well, in this case, the Riyadh Crowd has two, as a WWE Hall-of-Famer and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3735,"featured_media":152232,"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":[2,12,2192,4,3,320],"tags":[9119,1636,8618],"class_list":["post-152164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-wrestling","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","category-wwe-women","tag-2026-royal-rumble","tag-brie-bella","tag-tiffany-stratton"],"modified_by":"Marilee Gallagher, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152164","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=152164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152360,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152164\/revisions\/152360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}