Former WWE Champion Roman Reigns will enter the Royal Rumble 2025 match. The Tribal Chief hasn't participated in the 30-man match since 2020. He won the Universal Championship in August 2020 and entered the next four events as the champion.

Not only did this make Cody Rhodes only the fourth person ever to win back-to-back Royal Rumbles - following Hulk Hogan (1989, 1990), Shawn Michaels (1995,1996), and Steve Austin (1997, 1998) - but he was the first person to do so in a quarter of a century.