In the WWE calendar, the Royal Rumble is perhaps the second biggest event of the year.

Besides Wrestlemania, the Rumble garners the most excitement of any event. Since its inception in 1988, the Rumble has featured some of the biggest and best superstars the company has ever seen. Names like Shawn Michaels, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Becky Lynch, and Charlotte Flair have participated, making it one of the must-see events of the year.

Since 2018, WWE introduced a women's Royal Rumble match with every event including both the men's and women's match on the card on the same night.

And since 1993, winners of the Royal Rumble match can challenge any current title holder for a match at Wrestlemania, generally the main event of the entire show.

Currently acting as one of the "big-five" premium live events in the WWE calendar (Wrestlemania, Survivor Series, Summerslam and Money in the Bank acting as the other four), the Rumble offers superstars the chance to main event Wrestlemania. There have been only 9 superstars that won the Rumble twice, one man managed to do it three times.

The 2024 Mens Royal Rumble winner Cody Rhodes made history, becoming just the fourth ever superstar to win back-to-back Royal Rumbles - the first since Steve Austin did it back in 1997-98.

With just about every winner being a household name, here are all 46 winners of the Royal Rumble match.

Note:ย At the 1994 Royal Rumble, Lex Luger and Bret Hart were famously declared co-winners of the event - the first and only time in the event's history in which two superstars won the same match.ย 

Men's Rumble:

  1. Hacksaw Jim Duggan (1988)
  2. Big John Studd (1989)
  3. Hulk Hogan (1990)
  4. Hulk Hogan (1991)
  5. Ric Flair (1992)
  6. Yokozuna (1993)
  7. Lex Luger and Bret Hart (1994)
  8. Shawn Michaels (1995)
  9. Shawn Michaels (1996)
  10. Steve Austin (1997)
  11. Steve Austin (1998)
  12. Vince McMahon (1999)
  13. The Rock (2000)
  14. Steve Austin (2001)
  15. Triple H (2002)
  16. Brock Lesnar (2003)
  17. Chris Benoit (2004)
  18. Batista (2005)
  19. Rey Mysterio (2006)
  20. Undertaker (2007)
  21. John Cena (2008)
  22. Randy Orton (2009)
  23. Edge (2010)
  24. Alberto Del Rio (2011)
  25. Sheamus (2012)
  26. John Cena (2013)
  27. Batista (2014)
  28. Roman Reigns (2015)
  29. Triple H (2016)
  30. Randy Orton (2017)
  31. Shinsuke Nakamura (2018)
  32. Braun Strowman (2018)*
  33. Seth Rollins (2019)
  34. Drew McIntyre (2020)
  35. Edge (2021)
  36. Brock Lesnar (2022)
  37. Cody Rhodes (2023)
  38. Cody Rhodes (2024)

*Braun Strowman won the Greatest Royal Rumble in 2018, a separate event taking place in Saudi Arabia without ties to Wrestlemania. The 2018 Royal Rumble winner Shinsuke Nakamura went on to have a title match at Wrestlemania.

Women's Rumble:

  1. Asuka (2018)
  2. Becky Lynch (2019)
  3. Charlotte Flair (2020)
  4. Bianca Belair (2021)
  5. Ronda Rousey (2022)
  6. Rhea Ripley (2023)
  7. Bayley (2024)