Every Babyface WWE Royal Rumble Winner Ranked From Worst To Best

18. Brock Lesnar (2003)

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'The Beast' made fairly light work of The Big Show in the show's opener to qualify for the evening's titular main event, then won it with The Undertaker as his only real competition at the end.

An important checkpoint for 'The Beast', this was as much about regaining the WWE Title he'd lost as it was making it to the main event of his very first WrestleMania. That was lost in the Rumble messaging, even if WWE made it count by the time the 'Show Of Shows' arrived.

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