10 Fascinating WWE Royal Rumble 2006 Facts
1. One Of Undertaker's Druids Would Go On To Have Championship Success
So why did Angle/Henry go last? So that Undertaker could destroy the ring, that's why. As a means of setting up the main event of No Way Out, The Undertaker appeared after Angle's victory, telekinetically victimizing him by causing the ring to collapse beneath his feet. That explains the odd match order - can't have a Rumble go on after Angle's match if Undertaker's going to be all ring-breaky, ya know.
When Undertaker made his grand entrance, he was accompanied by some of his standard, friendly-neighborhood druids, and one of them would have quite the notable career ahead of him.
Freeze-frame it sometime and you'll spot the 20-year-old mug of young Dean Ambrose, then known professionally as Jon Moxley. A week earlier, the still-obscure Ambrose lost in a tag team match on WWE Velocity to MNM, and hung around long enough to take part in the Royal Rumble ending. A decade later, Ambrose was the runner-up in the Rumble match.