12 Wrestlers Who Had ABSOLUTELY NO BUSINESS Being In WWE Royal Rumble

12. Shane McMahon (2022)

Shane McMahon got a pop (Shane McMahon always gets a pop) when he appeared a surprise entrant in the 2022 Royal Rumble, but the more he tried and failed to do out there, the more it became clear "no business" was an understatement.

It looked for all intents and purposes like McMahon was booking his own run, including the physical domination of just about everybody in the latter stage of the match not named Brock Lesnar. And when he did bump for the 'Beast', he made a mess of getting himself over the top rope. It was a performance so self-indulgent that he irritated his own insane Father - Vince McMahon, stewarding his final Rumble and with a quality bar never lower, sacked his own son in the aftermath of an alienating and counterproductive display.

It was inadvertently part of an increasingly humorous late-career legacy stuff for 'The Money'. His final WWE match as of writing was his WrestleMania 39 cameo against The Miz that resulted in him tearing his quad on a leapfrog. Wrestling-wise, he was last seen meeting with Tony Khan for a business arrangement that went nowhere after he allegedly asked for "equity" and to "run things" in All Elite Wrestling. Evidently, his Rumble stinker was a sign of things to come rather than an outlier.