Royal Rumble (2022)

Royal Rumble (2022) is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It will take place on January 9th, 2022 in St. Louis, Missouri at the Enterprise Center. It will be the seventeenth annual in WWE's production lineage for the Royal Rumble event. It will feature talent from both the Raw and SmackDown brand.

Background
Royal Rumble will feature professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that played out on WWE's primary and secondary television programs, Raw & SmackDown. Wrestlers portrayed heels or faces as they followed a series of events that built tension, and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.