20 Most RANDOM WWE Royal Rumble Entrants
13. ‘Fake’ Razor Ramon (1997)
We've all been fooled into a knee-jerk reaction before. Some WWE booking looks dumb on paper but later turns out to have hidden genius. Jim Ross bragging about managing to get Razor Ramon and Diesel back in the company only to wheel out Rick Bognar and a pre-Kane Glenn Jacobs was anything but genius. It was stupid, and it left a bad taste in fans mouths that Vince McMahon thought everyone was that thick.
That clanger of a reveal happened throughout September and October 1996. By January 1997's Rumble, the WWF had totally given up on these fakes as an ongoing concern. Fans had beaten them to it. Most behind the curtain agreed that Jacobs ("Fake Diesel") had something to him, but "Fake Razor"? Nah, he was toast, and his 17-second stay in the Rumble match confirmed it.
Here's the thing: Bognar's cosplay Razor was the only Ramon to appear in a Rumble bout. Scott Hall did appear on several Rumble cards, but he never took part in the 30-man attraction itself. No, not even once. That's why "Fake Razor" bags a spot on this list, because it's fascinating to think that one of WWE's most iconic characters needed a Halloween tribute act to make it into the Rumble at all.
Jacobs was later repackaged as Kane and became a legend. Meanwhile, poor Rick Bognar was cut loose from the roster and sadly passed away aged just 49 in 2019. It wasn't his fault that the Ramon knock-off flopped. Nobody was pulling that role off the way Hall had originally.