20 Most RANDOM WWE Royal Rumble Entrants
2. Dan Matha (Greatest Royal Rumble)
Spoiler alert: WWE's Greatest Royal Rumble was not, in fact, the greatest Royal Rumble. It wasn't even close. The 50-man special existed only as an olive branch to money men funding trips to Saudi Arabia, and the "Greatest" branding fooled nobody. WWE should've learned after 2011's 40-man experiment that 30 is and always will be the sweet spot for these matches.
50 bodies being needed did widen the scope, admittedly. It meant guys like Dan Matha could appear on a proper main roster PLE. Wait, you don't know who Dan Matha is? That's not too shocking, 'cause Matha was little more than an NXT live event regular who barely (if ever) appeared on TV during four full years under contract. The GRR was his highest-profile match.
It was a two-minute spot to pad out the match and give Braun Strowman someone else to eliminate. That's all. After the show, Dan was sent back to NXT and didn't come close to bothering mainline episodes of Raw or SmackDown on a permanent basis. That makes him one of the most random Rumble entrants ever; the Greatest variant is considered part of the family for the purpose of this article, for the record.
Don't give us that look, please.
Matha was #40 of 50 in the match, and can always tell people he was technically in the largest WWE Rumble of all the times. Not everybody can say that, so fingers crossed it gets Dan some brownie points amongst those who bought replicas of Braun's green belt. Y'know, if those even exist.