WWE Royal Rumble 2021: Full match card and winner predictions

The 2021 WWE Royal Rumble is days away, and that means the annual Road to WrestleMania is about to be in full swing. While the card is subject to change and there could be a few alterations in the coming days, it seems pretty clear what those would be.

As of now, there are five confirmed matches for the event. Looking at the last three Royal Rumble pay-per-views, which are the only others that included a Men’s and Women’s Royal Rumble, the show has featured six or seven matches on the main card, with two or three of them occurring on the Kickoff Show.

However, the company will likely schedule only one Kickoff match this year. In previous years, the Royal Rumble had a two-hour Kickoff Show, but WWE has been setting a standard of only one-hour Kickoff Shows — even for their Big Four pay-per-view events — since hosting without a live audience.

WrestleMania 36 (on both nights), SummerSlam 2020, and Survivor Series 2020 all had a one-hour Kickoff Show with a single match on it. As a result, we can likely expect one match on this year’s Royal Rumble Kickoff Show and one (maybe two) added to the main card of five that is already announced.

Here, we’re going to predict the full WWE Royal Rumble 2021 card and exactly who is most likely to win each match.

For clarity, the following matches are confirmed and announced by WWE to take place at the 2021 WWE Royal Rumble:

• Men’s Royal Rumble Match
• Women’s Royal Rumble Match
• Roman Reigns (c) vs. Kevin Owens (Last Man Standing for the Universal Title)
• Drew McIntyre (c) vs. Goldberg (WWE Title)
• Asuka & Charlotte Flair (c) vs. Shayna Baszler & Nia Jax (WWE Women’s Tag Titles)

Before diving into predictions, let’s first look at which matches WWE could likely add to the show in the coming days and who is poised to walk out with a win this Sunday.