10 Greatest WWE Royal Rumble Posters
Poster Boys.
The recent furore surrounding the demeaning placement of WWE Champion AJ Styles on the official 2017 Royal Rumble poster highlighted the significance of the company's promotional material, especially for a show which traditionally ranks highly in fan affections regardless of the product's quality at the time.
As the company's greatest success story of 2016, it did seem unfair to position 'The Phenomenal One' in the rear, but as history has shown, the poster does not always determine the fate of the performers prominently featured.
Over the past twenty-nine years, WWE's marketing team have bust out the big guns in their promotion of the January tradition, regularly finding creative new ways to represent masses of their talent in preparation for the 'fastest hour in Sports Entertainment'.
Having reviewed nearly three decades of company artwork and with 2016's Rumble fast approaching, here's a collection of the 10 greatest Royal Rumble pay-per-view posters.
10. 2006
Snapping up the chance to live out a fantasy he'd probably had most of his life, Vince McMahon decked himself and the family out in Roman attire as he took on the role of a 'benevolent' Julius Caeser for the marketing of the 2006 event.
Taking advantage of a rare opportunity where all four McMahons were unified after Linda's laughable heel turn in late-2005, the poster's imagery brought the clan together as rulers of a roster of warriors, projecting the Roman Coliseum theme of that year's show.
It would also foreshadow appearances from Vince and Shane themselves, who would run-in and eliminate Shawn Michaels to set-up nearly a year's worth of storylines with the 'Heartbreak Kid'.