10 Burning Questions For WWE Royal Rumble 2017

2. Who Is The Favorite To Win The Rumble?

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Now we get into the weighty stuff.

Whoever wins the Rumble presumably will go to WrestleMania XXXIII to challenge for the WWE World or Universal Championship. Unlike recent years where it was fairly obvious who was winning (at least down to 2-3 competitors), this year seems to be a little wider open. Undertaker, Braun Strowman, Goldberg and Brock Lesnar all are strong possibilities, and dark horses like Chris Jericho and possible surprise entrant Samoa Joe have gotten some action on betting lines. There even has been a rumor circulating about Finn Balor getting cleared, entering and winning.

So who will emerge victorious on Sunday night? It’s a fun game to speculate, but by the time the match begins, we could have a better idea of who’s more likely, depending on who are the world champions at that point.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.