10 Wrestlers Who Should Never Have Made WWE Royal Rumble's 'Final 4'
7. Billy Gunn (2001)
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The 2001 Royal Rumble was another stacked contest. The Monday Night Wars were as good as over, and as a result a number of quality performers from WCW and ECW had defected to the WWF, wrestlers like Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, and more. The 2001 Rumble had a predictably stacked final four, with winner Stone Cold Steve Austin and runner-up Kane being joined by The Rock and Billy Gunn.
Yeah, Billy Gunn. WWE tried immensely hard to make Gunn a thing in the early 2000s, but they were simply pushing a lame duck. Gunn was a valuable hand on the card, but had spent far too much time languishing in the midcard and tag division for anyone to buy him as a potential main event performer come 2001.
To give a clearer image of how hard Gunn was being pushed, the man outlasted The Undertaker and a heavily pushed Rikishi to make it to the final four. Then packaged as 'The One', Gunn didn't even have his trademark bleached blonde hair at this point, a state of affairs that leads this writer to make an all-too-acceptable link between Gunn and Dolph Ziggler.