10 Outsiders To Win WWE Royal Rumble 2020 Match

If there was any year for WWE to throw fans for a loop by booking someone completely unexpected (yet logical) to go over in the Royal Rumble match, it would be this year.

For the first time in a great while, there isn't one Superstar who stands out as being an obvious choice to win the Rumble. For example, Seth Rollins made the most sense to come out on top because of how long his WrestleMania match with Brock Lesnar had been in the works for. Shinsuke Nakamura vs. AJ Styles had also been rumored for WrestleMania 34 long before Nakamura won the Rumble in 2018.

The only true contenders to win the 2020 Rumble for the men seem to be Kevin Owens, Samoa Joe, Roman Reigns and Cain Velasquez. Owens and Joe are both being positioned as the top faces on Raw right now, Reigns vs. Bray Wyatt is virtually a lock for the Universal Championship at 'Mania, and Velasquez vs. Lesnar II also seems to be inevitable.

WWE has had issues in the past with delivering satisfying Rumble finishes. Joe and Owens would be well received in that role, but the crowd in Houston may not be as kind to Reigns and Velasquez.

With the road to WrestleMania far from set in stone as of now, 2020 should be the year a dark horse comes out on top in the Rumble.

Admit it: The first thought that came into your head when Brock Lesnar declared himself as the number one entrant in the Royal Rumble was that Matt Riddle would be number two.

Riddle has been boasting almost since the beginning of his wrestling career that he'd be the one to ultimately retire The Beast Incarnate. He got one step closer to achieving that goal when he signed with WWE in August 2018, and at the Rumble, he may finally get his wish.

All right, so Riddle retiring Lesnar while the latter is still at his physical peak is laughable, but the sight of those two sharing a ring and trading blows would be nothing short of spectacular. If Riddle doesn't join him in the Rumble right away, then there is reason to believe that he'll enter later on so he can win the whole thing.

Needless to say, Lesnar vs. Riddle is WrestleMania-worthy. He's practically been main roster ready from the moment he joined the promotion a year and a half ago. WWE simply needs to debut him at the right time and this would be it.

Unless NXT has plans to push him as the face of their brand and dethrone Adam Cole as NXT champion, he would be the perfect person to shock the world by ridding the Rumble of Lesnar and punch his ticket to the main event of WrestleMania.