Watch WWE 'Monday Night Raw' Live Stream Online 1/18/16: Royal Rumble This Sunday

WWE will air the January 18, 2016 edition of Monday Night Raw from the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, and Brock Lesnar will be on the show tonight before the Royal Rumble this Sunday. The show will air on the USA Network at 8 p.m. Eastern, but if you can't watch there, try here or here - both of these streaming provider links broadcast free live streams but may require downloading a torrent.

The company has already revealed that Lesnar would appear tonight on Chris Jericho's Highlight Reel show. Hopefully this will give us some more direction on Lesnar's participation in the Royal Rumble match this Sunday.

Last week on Raw, Vince McMahon and Stephanie McMahon told Paul Heyman that Lesnar needed to enter the annual 30-man match, but Heyman retorted that his client is a prize fighter and should be in the main event of WrestleMania 32 regardless of what else happens. We never got to see the end of this conversation on camera, but last week's edition of Raw concluded with Lesnar obliterating everyone in the ring, including the WWE World Heavyweight Champion, Roman Reigns.

Now that we know Lesnar is in the Rumble, is it possible the match ends with Reigns and Lesnar as the final two participants? Or would WWE want to hold off on that showdown a main event rematch at WrestleMania 32? We should get some clarity tonight when the Beast Incarnate (or his advocate) appears on Jericho's show. That is, before Lesnar inevitably grinds Jericho into the mat.

Amid all this, Reigns' time as champion could be running out, as he defends the belt against 29 other Superstars in the Rumble match, a challenge no other champion in WWE history has faced. If Vince McMahon really does not want that belt on Reigns, then he would announced tonight that the champion will be the first entrant in the match.

These are the men officially announced for the Royal Rumble this Sunday:

Big Show
Braun Strowman
Bray Wyatt
Brock Lesnar
Chris Jericho
Curtis Axel
Dolph Ziggler
Erick Rowan
Luke Harper
Roman Reigns
Ryback
Sheamus
Stardust

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