10 Early Favourites To Win WWE Royal Rumble 2018 Match

10. Randy Orton

You can never count out Randy Orton, massively-maligned massive 2017 push or no. Higher-ups simply refuse to align his positioning with his perception. He is a top star and will continue to be pushed in kind, irrespective of how overexposed he is. And why wouldn't he be? If you built a sports entertainer from the ground up, he'd look like Randy Orton!

There's also WWE's unrequited love for achievements and records to consider. "Randy Orton is only the fourth man to win the Royal Rumble two years in a row!" doesn't sound that impressive. Then again, neither did "The Universal Title will be defended in a Fatal 4-Way for the first time ever!" - and WWE still parroted the line in order to sell SummerSlam. It's just something they do in an ongoing quest to achieve something without using much in the way of imagination. It's hard to see where Orton fits in now, let alone on the biggest night of the WWE calendar. He's as hot as snow. But again - few saw his march to Orlando coming after Brock Lesnar tore strips off his skull on August 21, 2016.

You can never count out Randy Orton. It doesn't even matter that he cannot point at the WrestleMania sign.