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Planned Referees For 2026 WWE Royal Rumble Matches

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The planned referee assignments for today’s WWE Royal Rumble 2026 premium live event have now emerged via a new report.

The referees set to officiate all six matches – including the two Rumbles – on today’s card have been revealed.

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As reported earlier, two pre-show matches have been added to the initial main four-match card.

PWInsider Elite reports that Danilo Anfibio is the planned referee for the Motor City Machine Guns & Shinsuke Nakamura vs New Day & Grayson Waller pre-show match.

The other pre-show match, which is The Wyatt Sicks vs The MFTs, is set to be refereed by Eddie Orengo.

One of the big matches on the main card sees Drew McIntyre defend the Undisputed WWE Championship against Sami Zayn – the planned referee for that one is Charles Robinson.

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Meanwhile, in the other non-Rumble match, AJ Styles puts his career on the line against GUNTHER in a match set to be officiated by Dan Engler.

On double duty tonight are the two pre-show referee – Anfibio and Orengo – who are two of four referees set to be ringside for both Rumble matches.

They will be joined for both the men’s and women’s Rumbles by Jessika Carr and Ryan Tran.

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