WWE Royal Rumble: 8 Potential Winners

royal rumble 2013 We are merely three weeks away from the annual WWE Royal Rumble PPV extravagnaza. One of the highlights of the year and one of the last four traditional Pay Per Views that the WWE has kept in the modern era. Alongside Survivor Series, SummerSlam and of course WrestleMania, the Royal Rumble is now onto its 26th incantation. Recently the Rumble has become the only event that holds any sort of interest apart from WrestleMania seeing as the others are now just filler PPV€™s with very little to offer. The Royal Rumble is still an exciting prospect each year; it€™s only a shame that the resulting winner no longer gets fast tracked to the main event of €˜Mania. The Rumble used to be the official start of the run up to the grandest stage of them all; only nowadays it has become more of a match to determine who will kick off €˜Mania. The past two years we have had Del Rio and Sheamus respectively win the Rumble and then take on the World Heavyweight Champion in the opening match of the evening. Hopefully this year things may be different. During the following 8 pages I will highlight the talent I believe could potentially walk out as Rumble Winners. I decided against ten purely as I would be adding guys to it that have an absolute outside chance and rather concentrate on people whose names have probably been bounced around.

8. Daniel Bryan

daniel bryan If Daniel Bryan was not one half of the Tag Team Champions I would have him much higher on this list. As it is though he has an outside chance of winning purely for the fact I get the impression Vince has plans for Bryan to be a constant feature of his promotion. He will also be a World Champion again so I am almost hoping that Team Hell No lose their titles early on in the night / prior to the event and he enters the Rumble. Like I say though, it€™s very unlikely that this could happen but the progress and momentum he has created alongside Kane cannot be ignored and an immediate boost after potentially losing the tag belts would be a superb way to go about it. He can also pull out a great match with pretty much anyone so the quality at €˜Mania would be secured.
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