Every Heel WWE Royal Rumble Winner Ranked From Worst To Best

10. Alberto Del Rio (2011)

A run that massively failed to deliver on expectation and occasional bursts of promise, Alberto Del Rio's win should have actually felt more historic than it was.

He was the only wrestler (as of writing) to win a 40-man version of the event, but in an indictment of his Rumble-to-WrestleMania run, he was demoted to losing in the 'Show Of Show's opener against Edge, and had to win July's Money In The Bank to get reheated for a summer series with CM Punk and John Cena.

Concerted effort generating so little reward was all-too-often the trend in WWE, but it all got a little too obvious a little too quick with the relative newcomer.

One man needing so much sh*t thrown at the wall to get him over should have highlighted a wider problem with Del Rio's ability to connect in general, but the Rumble was the first point where it started getting obvious - an otherwise excellent main event felt depressingly hampered by this fairly dispiriting outcome.