It's arguably the most famous match in WWE. You know the lines that WWE always feeds us every year. Thirty men enter. You are eliminated by being thrown over the top rope with BOTH feet (that's key) hitting the floor. There are no friends, only foes. Of course the announcers will also tell you that anybody that's over 6'6" and/or over 300 pounds is a "huge threat to win" the match even though the fans know better. There's something special about an arena full of people chanting from 10 to 1 for 28 different participants. Then you see that it's some lower card wrestler like JTG and suddenly there's a big "groan" from the crowd. The surprise entrants are always a lot of fun, though. Remember that ovation for Chris Jericho earlier this year? That was special. The same can be said about guys like Kevin Nash and Booker T, who made their WWE returns in a Rumble match. Guys like John Cena and Edge made surprise returns to win the match. My favorite Rumble was in 1992 when the WWE Title was vacant and Ric Flair won the championship all the way from the #3 entrant spot. That's how you create memorable moments and build a guy into a star. Obviously Flair was a World Champion from the NWA at that point in his career, but he was still fairly new in WWE at that point. He became a bigger deal after the Rumble win. The other aspect of the Rumble that I like a lot is trying to guess who is going to win. I think next month's match has some top contenders in guys like CM Punk and Daniel Bryan, but there are others that could emerge as threats to win too. What about somebody like Roman Reigns? I don't think he'll win. I think he'll be the guy that eliminates the most people, though. The Rumble is special because it happens only once a year, we get to see up to 30 people interacting in the ring in an hour long match and hopefully it gives us some memorable moments along the way. I'm not saying it's great all the time. Sometimes it's below average. It's still a fun match to watch with a group of buddies or family members. There's only one Royal Rumble match and that's what makes it such a big deal to me.