Assessing The Futures Of 10 WWE Stars Who Didn't Make The Royal Rumble 2021 Cut

5. Robert Roode

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The 2021 Royal Rumble wasn't a great one for current tag team champions. Actually, maybe it was okay? Better to not be involved than to be embarrassed, right? Either way, only one of the four men holding big pennies right now found themselves in the Rumble, and that was the guy that has been ploughing the same furrow for nearly 13 years. Dolph Ziggler is great, but why not give his spot to Cedric Alexander?

Sticking with the theme, why was Ziggler involved but tag team partner Robert Roode was nowhere to be seen? The Dirty Dawgs working together in the early stages would have been a nice addition to the first third of the Rumble. As it was, Ziggler did Ziggler things while The Glorious One sat twiddling his thumbs in the back.

It is easy to read too much into this. Does it mean that WWE has more interest in Ziggler than it does Roode? One is a homegrown talent while the other made his name in TNA, so that wouldn't be a huge surprise, but is it true? There isn't too much between them on the age front, either. Roode's absence doesn't really bode well for his post-Dawgs prospects.

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