10 Wild Outside Bets To Win WWE Royal Rumble 2024

4. Nikki Cross

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Triple H wants to do something with Nikki Cross.

That purpose is vague, obscure, but he can't just be placing her in the background of backstage segments as a catatonic, supposedly unsettling presence for nothing, can he?

No, of course not. The chess master of booking is simply positioning the board, ready to make his move. He hasn't forgotten that Cross exists, don't be daft. There's a grand plan at work here. All this time, Cross has entered deep concentration, a sort of zen state, so that she can harness her immense power and energy in one seismic burst, this volcanic phenomenon set to erupt at the Royal Rumble, where she will eliminate multiple opponents in a brief, volatile sequence. It will shock the world, this 0-100 moment, and Cross will win the whole damn thing when nobody expected her to do it.

What else has she been doing for the last year?

Aimless, supernatural-adjacent "spoopy" stuff to cruelly tease that portion of the audience who thinks WWE should have done more with Kevin Thorn, Hade Vansen and Mordecai?

Nope.

She's winning.

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