WWE Royal Rumble 2018: 10 Outside Bets To Win The Men's Match

10. Jinder Mahal

If you think the idea of Jinder Mahal winning the Royal Rumble is laughable, just remember how you felt heading into Backlash last year. "There's no way Jinder is going to beat Randy Orton," you might have said. "He's just a stop gap opponent before Orton moves onto Baron Corbin or AJ Styles." Then it happened, and the Modern Day Maharaja joined the likes of Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair and Stone Cold Steve Austin in the annals of WWE history.

His loss to AJ Styles on 7 November was a moment of catharsis for the WWE Universe. The Mahal experiment was over, and the WWE Championship was back on the shoulder of a man who deserved the prestige.

Surely WWE wouldn't thrust Mahal back into the limelight? He's settled into the mid-card, never to return to the main event scene. But before his championship match with Randy Orton, he was a career jobber, most famous for being the last man eliminated by Mojo Rawley in the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 33 and giving Finn Bálor a concussion.

The idea of Mahal winning the Royal Rumble and heading to WrestleMania to face AJ Styles is a nightmarish one, but it's well within the realms of possibility. The sudden elevation of the Maharaja proves that in the crazy world of WWE, anything is possible.