Ranking EVERY WWE Royal Rumble Match From Worst To Best
12. 2023 (Men)
An excellent entry into the pantheon, 2023’s men’s match setting about getting an awful lot done and achieved just about every goal with unfamiliar pace and zip.
Brock Lesnar and Edge’s appearances were reduced to sprints, but long stints in the match weren’t required to sell their impending programmes with Bobby Lashley and The Judgment Day respectively. Speaking of which, Dominik decking his Dad backstage and stealing his mask was inspired bullsh*t from the jumped up little tosser, especially considering the need for Rey’s late injury write-out.
And the flash-points were strong, the most meaningful stuff fell to those that mattered most; Gunther and Cody Rhodes as the final entrants from #1 and #30 respectively simultaneously put both men over for telling completely different tales. The Intercontinental Champion felt as over as he’d ever been in what’s been a fantastic WWE run, and Cody’s return never once felt like an entitled queue-jump of days gone by.