Every WWE Royal Rumble 'Final Four' - From Worst To Best

15. 2012 - Big Show, Randy Orton, Chris Jericho & Sheamus

I dare you to read the four above names aloud and not fall asleep by the time you hit "Sheamus". Maybe that's because I can't shake my feelings about the dead-in-the-water 2016 versions of these guys, though, because if I remember correctly, Sheamus was actually pretty over when he won this thing. Jericho wasn't exactly in peak form here - not suited intellectual Jericho nor pigtailed goofus Jericho - but he was freshly returned and FELT like he could recapture some of that magic at some point. In fact, both Jericho and Sheamus found themselves in World title programs at WrestleMania, although Jericho proved unable to unseat CM Punk and Sheamus defeated Daniel Bryan in a notorious blink-and-miss-it match, which wound up making Bryan a bigger star than the Irishman ever was.
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