Bobby Lashley will face Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship at the Royal Rumble. In the main event of the January 3rd Raw, Lashley defeated Seth Rollins, Kevin Owens and Big E in a Fatal 4-Way match to earn the opportunity on January 29th.

In a repeat of the match at Day 1, Rollins and Owens teamed up to try and take out Lashley and Big E, which included Lashley crashing through a barricade and Big E being slammed through the announce table. As the match had no count outs, the match took place all over the arena and into the concourse. The match would end with Lashley hitting a spear onto Owens to become the new number one contender.

The Fatal 4-Way match was originally supposed to take place at the Day 1 pay-per-view on January 1st. However, due to Roman Reigns testing positive for COVID-19, the Universal Championship match between Reigns and Brock Lesnar did not take place. Instead, Lesnar was added to the WWE Championship match, which became a Fatal 5-Way. Lesnar would pin Big E to become a 6 time WWE Champion.

The following matches have ben announced to take place at the Royal Rumble:

• Men’s Royal Rumble match – Montez Ford, Angelo Dawkins, Rey Mysterio, Dominik Mysterio and Austin Theory have been officially announced for the match.
• Women’s Royal Rumble match – No participants have been officially announced at the time of writing.
• Brock Lesnar (c) vs. Bobby Lashley – Singles match for the WWE Championship.
• Edge and Beth Phoenix vs. The Miz and Maryse – Mixed Tag Team match.
• Becky Lynch (c) vs. Doudrop or Bianca Belair or Liv Morgan – Singles match for the Raw Women’s Championship.

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