10 Weirdest WWE Royal Rumble Entrants

10. Hiroki Sumi (Greatest Royal Rumble)

April's ludicrous 'Greatest Royal Rumble' farce scraped the earth from beneath the barrel as it stretched to fill each of the mammoth 50 (fifty!) available spots.

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This meant that no fewer than 18 'superstars' (we're using that term very loosely) made their Rumble debut in the desert, including perennial curtain jerkers The Ascension and Mike Kanellis, cameos from dreadful former stars The Great Khali and Hornswoggle, and inexplicable NXT trainees - the Babatundes and Dan Mathas of this world.

But nobody - nobody - had fingernails digging into scalps quite like Hiroki Sumi, a man so obscure that WWE themselves ran an article following the show asking just who in the blazes he was.

Whatever his background - a former Sumo wrestler with a pretty impressive record, apparently - he didn't do particularly well, being quickly flung over the top by fellow behemoth Mark Henry. Rumours Sumi was presented to Saudi royalty by obsequious WWE officials as 'Yokozuna, honest' have been overstated. But are probably true.

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