PWInsider has provided some news as notes from Saturday’s WWE Royal Rumble, which took place from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
-SmackDown Director Lee Lipschulz served at the director for the Royal Rumble. Lipschulz also is the director for WWE’s countdown and post-show broadcasts.
-Brie Bella was much hidden away until a few hours before the show
-Chris Jericho was not in Riyadh and never scheduled to be there. (As of this morning, Jericho still appears on AEW’s roster page).
-Two dark matches took place before the Rumble went live on the air: The New Day and Grayson Waller vs. The Motor City Machine Guns and Shinsuke Nakamura an The Wyatt Sicks vs. The MTFs. (At the time of PWInsider’s report, there were no results).