10 Wrestlers Who Deserve A Big Push After WWE Royal Rumble 2019

3. Andrade

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The past few months have been kind to Andrade, whose patchy start to main roster life has given way to a renewed SmackDown push, with the budding Rey Mysterio rivalry yielding two excellent singles encounters thus far. An ambush angle kept their bad blood flowing on this week's show. We're almost certainly getting a big pay-per-view clash between the two, and there's no reason to expect anything less than an early Match of the Year candidate when it happens.

Andrade's good fortunes continued in the Royal Rumble. Entering at number 19, he was handed Randy Orton's scalp and made it to the final four before Braun Strowman lobbed him over the top rope. A solid showing, and further evidence that WWE believe in him as a potential top-level star, though the best is still to come from the former 'Cien.'

Andrade, on his own, is a great wrestling act; paired with Zelina Vega, he comprises one half of an excellent sports entertainment act. They are the total package. The Mysterio programme should culminate with Andrade's victory in a fantastic blow-off bout, after which there'll be no reason not to send him stratospheric.

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