{"id":2240127,"date":"2026-01-18T23:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2240127"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:45:11","slug":"royal-rumble-stadium-nears-completion-in-riyadh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royal-rumble-stadium-nears-completion-in-riyadh\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Rumble stadium nears completion in Riyadh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Construction on the temporary stadium set to host this year\u2019s Royal Rumble in Saudi Arabia is nearing completion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">New photos from inside the stadium at the King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh show the structure nearly finished as crews begin installing staging and seating.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Many were surprised to learn the event will take place in a temporary venue after Mike Johnson of <em>PWI Insider<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwinsider.com\/article\/204022\/rumble-rumor-killer-long-day-for-raw-tag-team-to-aaa-and-more.html?p=1\">dismissed rumors<\/a> that the Rumble could be delayed due to construction. However, temporary arenas like this are common for major events. They offer flexible setups and help avoid the cost of building a permanent venue that would sit unused most of the year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">WWE has used similar designs before. In 1993, the company transformed a parking lot at Caesars Palace into a stadium for WrestleMania IX, complete with a Roman coliseum theme and billed as \u201cThe World\u2019s Largest Toga Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Crews in Riyadh appear on track to finish the stadium before WWE announces a full card or reveals the entrants for the men\u2019s and women\u2019s Royal Rumble matches. So far, Cody Rhodes is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/410953\/royal-rumble-2026-preview-cody-rhodes-only-confirmed-entrant\">the only confirmed participant<\/a> in the men\u2019s match.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The show will also feature at least one world title match. Undisputed WWE Champion Drew McIntyre will defend his title against the winner of a Fatal 4-Way at <em>Saturday Night\u2019s Main Event<\/em>. WWE is expected to add at least one more match, maintaining the four-match format established in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.cagesideseats.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction on the temporary stadium set to host this year\u2019s Royal Rumble in Saudi Arabia is nearing completion. New photos from inside the stadium at the King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh show the structure nearly finished as crews begin installing staging and seating. Many were surprised to learn the event will take place in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[23675,433447],"class_list":["post-2240127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-royal-rumble"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Royal-Rumble-stadium-nears-completion-in-Riyadh.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240129,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240127\/revisions\/2240129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}