10 Wild Outside Bets To Win WWE Royal Rumble 2020

5. Erick Rowan

John Cena Royal Rumble
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What is it that fascinates you about my forbidden closet of mystery?

This whole 'What's in Rowan's box?' bit is, somehow, a masterstroke, because if Rowan threatens to reveal its contents, you will watch, I will watch, and we're liars if we claim otherwise. It's fairly risible but completely, inexplicably intriguing; per this week's RAW, viewers were left with the impression that there is a small, terrifying entity in it capable of drawing blood. Is it a malevolent rodent? Or a contraption Rowan has designed to give the effect of something like that, and in which case, why did the jobber (and the enhancement talent Rowan wrestled) sell it? It must therefore be something tiny that is capable of inflicting severe pain.

Is it...is it Shorty G?

Rowan is a heel, and heels tend not to face other heels at all, much less at WrestleMania, but Rowan has accelerated so beyond the customary give-it-three-weeks push that one is left with the impression that WWE is genuinely serious about this development.

Serious enough to have Rowan point at the sign?

Perhaps that's when the big reveal will happen: at the Royal Rumble, with Rowan standing tall, as he removes the cloth and some evil Babu Frik-looking f*cker stretches out its claw, or something.

Way-hey!

Probability: 30%

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