8 HUGE WWE Royal Rumble 2023 Predictions You Need To Know
3. Men's Royal Rumble Match
In keeping with this most unlikely of successful runs, WWE have listened to the man that made the phrase his own in wrestling. WWE…have done the work.
As has Cody Rhodes. And WWE doing the work has allowed us all to see this for ourselves. A series of vignettes documenting Rhodes’ recovery has removed the element of surprise but precisely none of the suspense. When ‘The American Nightmare’ gruesomely went down in June, every single fan checked the timetable to see if a Royal Rumble return was possible. Everybody did the same maths, and the company wisely fed off that to produce a comeback story adjacent to Triple H’s iconic 2002 return.
Amongst a stacked field, his own reemergence was punctuated by a popular Royal Rumble win. His creative direction has surely curated a sublime sequel, especially with sentimental favourite Sami Zayn presumably ousted beforehand so not to replicate 2014's Daniel Bryan disaster.
Winner - Cody Rhodes
Unless…