16 Wrestlers Who Must Feature In WWE's Crown Jewel World Cup

12. Mexico - Andrade Almas

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Andrade Cien Almas should win WWE's Crown Jewels tournament. There. I've said it.

The man has, if rumour is to be believed, already been picked out as a probable winner of the 2019 Royal Rumble, but with only a few months to go until that still hasn't even made his full PPV debut. They are running out of time to make him a believable main-eventer.

Crown Jewels isn't, by any stretch of your imagination, prestigious enough to fix that, but it does give him the opportunity to go over far, far bigger names. This tournament could contain numerous former world champions, and Almas emerging as the dark horse by beating a succession of them will all of a sudden make fans take notice.

Nobody will care if he wins the thing, but having the (possible) likes of Nakamura, Balor, Jinder, Owens and whichever big name represents the good ol' USA on his CV moves him away from the "him who did that good NXT match" tag.

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