10 Wrestlers Who Should Never Have Made WWE Royal Rumble's 'Final 4'

To think, Crush almost headlined WrestleMania.

by John Bills
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The Royal Rumble is often jam-packed to the gills with top level talent. Sure, every year may have only one or two possible winners, but that doesn't mean the bout is two main event guys and 28 losers. The 30-man field is almost always made up of multi-time world champions, young stars, and top tier performers.

As such, we've seen some incredible groups make it to the final four of the match. In 2007, The Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, Randy Orton, and Edge battled it out at the death. Three years before, Edge, John Cena, Batista, and Michaels did the same. In 1992 the final four came down to Ric Flair, Sid Justice, Hulk Hogan, and Randy Savage, one year on from Hogan, Earthquake, Brian Knobbs, and Davey Boy Smith making it to the end.

Wait... Brian Knobbs?

Every now and then someone unexpected slips through the net and manages to find themselves in the mix at the end, outlasting genuine superstars to come within a whisker of earning a title shot at WrestleMania.

The glory never came, but the memories remain for these 10 (well, 11) superstars.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.