{"id":211220,"date":"2026-01-27T22:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=211220"},"modified":"2026-01-27T22:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:17:17","slug":"seth-rollins-names-five-wwe-wrestlers-to-watch-for-at-royal-rumble-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2026\/01\/27\/seth-rollins-names-five-wwe-wrestlers-to-watch-for-at-royal-rumble-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Rollins names five WWE wrestlers to watch for at Royal Rumble 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2541141595\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Seth Rollins believes that Bron Breakker, Logan Paul, Austin Theory, Je\u2019Von Evans, and Carmelo Hayes are five young talents that people should keep an eye on at the Royal Rumble PPV on Jan. 31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWWE is full of extremely incredible young talent right now,\u201d Rollins said during an appearance on ESPN&#8217;s First Take today. \u201cYou look at NXT, which is our developmental brand, and there\u2019s tons of guys who have come through there, myself included, who are ready to take the next step. Bron Breakker\u2019s the first one that jumps off the page. He is one of the Steiner Brothers\u2019 kids, so he\u2019s got that Steiner DNA in him. You look at Logan Paul. You look at a guy like Austin Theory. There\u2019s a cat on Raw named Je\u2019Von Evans, the bouncy kid. I love him, I love what he\u2019s doing. Carmelo Hayes is the United States Champion over on SmackDown. He is incredible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rollins was asked about competing at the Royal Rumble this year during the interview and he clarified that he is currently out with an injury and wouldn&#8217;t be wrestling on the PLE. The only wrestler that Rollins mentioned that isn&#8217;t announced for the Royal Rumble so far is Hayes.<\/p>\n<p>Rollins last wrestled at WWE Crown Jewel on Oct. 11. He injured his shoulder, but managed to beat Rhodes to become the Men\u2019s Crown Jewel Champion. Rollins was attacked by The Vision on the Oct. 13 edition of Raw to kick him out of the stable and give a storyline reason for his absence from TV while he recovers from his shoulder injury. R<\/p>\n<p>Raw GM Adam Pearce then stripped Rollins of the WWE World World Hvt. Championship on the Oct. 20 edition of Raw. His recovery time is expected to be 4-6 months, which gives him a chance of being back in the ring in time for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usanetwork.com\/usa-insider\/wrestlemania-42-dates-location-las-vegas-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WrestleMania 41<\/a> in April if he is cleared by doctors.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-4215005383\"><div id=\"pwtor-823371159\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Seth Rollins believes that Bron Breakker, Logan Paul, Austin Theory, Je\u2019Von Evans, and Carmelo Hayes are five young talents that people should keep an eye on at the Royal Rumble PPV on Jan. 31. \u201cWWE <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2026\/01\/27\/seth-rollins-names-five-wwe-wrestlers-to-watch-for-at-royal-rumble-2026\/\" title=\"Seth Rollins names five WWE wrestlers to watch for at Royal Rumble 2026\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":175689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-25-at-12.06.08\u202fPM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211221,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211220\/revisions\/211221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}