10 HUGE WWE Royal Rumble 2022 Predictions You Need To Know

2. Men's Royal Rumble Match

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Cody Rhodes is not going to be in the Royal Rumble.

Jon Moxley is not going to be in the Royal Rumble.

The Rock is not going to be in the Royal Rumble.

Another major star not featured regularly on WWE television might be in the Royal Rumble (and more on him shortly), but realistically to whom can the company turn to from the regular rank-and-file if they're not pressing a box office panic button?

Damian Priest is theoretically getting pushed, but he's entering off the back of two straight defeats. Dominik and Rey Mysterio are bantering each other off but all of that seems to be for their own gains rather than to go to WrestleMania, and former WWE Champion Big E might really want his belt back but it's not like the company have been focusing much attention on him achieving it.

WWE could bring back The Fiend for cents on the dollar, but with the field already feeling thin and Texas on the horizon, is it at last time to break glass in case of emergency...

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