Every Heel WWE Royal Rumble Winner Ranked From Worst To Best
9. Randy Orton (2009)
Dull Rumble featuring a dull winner helped by his dull stable, "Legacy leader Randy Orton victorious in 2009 Royal Rumble" is a headline impossible to imagine reading anywhere else but WWE.com at its greyest.
A well-booked match of a fashion - Orton wisely lets his lads do the work to see his way to a predictable win - it rather diluted the energy WWE had generated just days earlier when he'd booted Vince McMahon in the head as hard as he could.
Make no mistake, 'The Apex Predator' was absolutely the most talked-about man in the promotion and a natural choice to win the golden ticket to WrestleMania. Not least with Triple H soon to regain the WWE Championship and be the one to try and avenge the various McMahon assaults. But that in itself was emblematic of the company's key problem at the time - even their best stuff was pretty dull.