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

26. 2000 - X-Pac, Kane, Big Show & The Rock

This is the beginning of Big Show€™s sad, sad Royal Rumble career. His strategy, which he would bafflingly stick with for years, was simple: saunter in mid-match, impressively press a few jobbers to the floor, then try to dump out a popular babyface in such a way that they could easily grab a front facelock and drag him over the ropes. This match didn't even get that right, as Rock yanked Show over but somehow still landed first, meaning that Show technically should have won the match. The botch was so obvious that they wound up making the main event of WrestleMania a 4-way match with A MCMAHON IN EVERY CORNER because of it. Also, X-Pac was one of the top four contenders to main event WrestleMania. The year 2000, everybody.
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