10 Wild Outside Bets To Win WWE Royal Rumble 2024

2. Oba Femi

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Have you seen the guy?

He's absolutely amazing.

There's a certain sect of wrestling fans who simply cannot abide anything WWE does because the presentation, commentary, production, the general WWEness of it all is anathema to them.

Oba Femi smashes through that barrier with his brute force power game. He transcends bias. He is awesome in the strictest definition of the word: he inspires awe. He is an airport test built from the ground up, an über-marketable living action figure, a gigantic unit somehow as dynamic as he is big, capable of picking people up at will and throwing them across the entire breadth of the ring. He boasts a certain intensity and presence, if not quite a fully magnetic personality. He can develop that as he finds his feet - he's somehow only worked 20 matches - but the raw materials on the bloke are impressive. He is the wrestler a child will watch and bond instantly with the sport. He is the wrestler guys will watch and say "hell yeah".

Look, there's no chance he's winning, and you wouldn't stick a fiver on it even at 10,000/1, but on the off-chance, Vince worms his way back in, the stopped clock would probably go for it on a mad whim.

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