Latest Royal Rumble News

One of the bigger Pay-Per-Views of the year heads our way in just a few weeks! WWE continues to update its website as more wrestlers qualify for the Battle Royal style match. Undertaker and Batista of Smackdown are the latest to qualify, and you'd have to think those two are amongst the favorites to win.

Here's the Royal Rumble participants so far:

John Morrison (ECW)
Hornswoggle (Raw)
Undertaker (Smackdown)
Batista (Smackdown)
The Miz (ECW)
Mick Foley (Raw)
Umaga (Raw)
Hardcore Holly (Raw)

According to WWE.com, Carlito and Santino Marella will compete as a tag team at a live Raw event this Friday, in another Rumble qualifying match.

Another match for the Pay Per View that was recently announced will be a Ric Flair "Career Threatening Match". This time Ric takes on the United States Champion, MVP, from Smackdown. Flair must win to continue his WWE wrestling career. Read more about the Flair match at WWE.com.

The rest of the Royal Rumble card:

JBL vs. Chris Jericho
Rey Mysterio vs. Edge (World Heavyweight Title)
Jeff Hardy vs. Randy Orton (WWE Title match)

More superstars and matches are sure to be added within the next few weeks, so stay tuned! The Royal Rumble will go down on Sunday January 27th, at 8PM EST!

Read interesting facts from Royal Rumble history here.