10 Wild Outside Bets To Win WWE Royal Rumble 2024

6. Tommaso Ciampa

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What's the one thing Triple H loves, other than his lifelong goal of trying to get Karrion Kross over?

Very regrettable, problematic iconography? Going too long in virtually every big WrestleMania match? Telling his audience that they are too thick to grasp his long-term master plan in press conferences?

No.

The one thing that Triple H is bound and determined to do, above everything else - other than trying to truck the Japanese wrestling scene - is to prove that NXT Black and Gold was good, and should have won the Wednesday Night War. He won the league but lost the derby, and that agonising defeat still stings, even though he achieved a far more important result.

This desire manifests in his ill-fated attempt to reboot certain 2019-2021 developments. The man teased reforming The Way last year, and you don't know what The Way is (a stable in NXT).

To that end, one true Wild Outside Bet that is surely worth a flutter is Tommaso Ciampa winning the Rumble. Triple H seems to like him more than he likes Johnny Gargano - look who got a lengthy Raw match with GUNTHER - and what better way of saying "NXT on USA was actually goated" by having one of its biggest names headline the most-watched WrestleMania ever?

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