Every Babyface WWE Royal Rumble Winner Ranked From Worst To Best
8. Shinsuke Nakamura (2018)
An unlikely victory pulled Shinsuke Nakamura's flailing WWE career back from the fire before he willingly strolled back into it as the years ticked by. For a split second though, it genuinely felt as though WWE had at long last made a Japanese megastar without relying on dated cliches or questionable xenophobia.
Fans, unused to such a thing, went apesh*t for his victory, not least because it came at the climax of one of the greatest Rumble's ever. A final showdown between Nakamura and Roman Reigns was fan service in the extreme, even if 'The Big Dog' ended up in the WrestleMania main event anyway.