With Daniel Bryan's dramatic announcement that he will enter the 2015 Royal Rumble, it's now a great time to consider who exactly can feasibly win the event. In previous years, the Rumble's winner has been a cut and dry situation, WWE's Wrestlemania main event sometimes set as far back as the previous year's Wrestlemania or at least semi set-in-stone upon exiting the Survivor Series. With Brock Lesnar wrestling John Cena in the main event of the Rumble, the idea of Cena vs. Lesnar as a Wrestlemania main event is (semi) out of the question. As well, if Lesnar wins, he has no other direct competition that has been alluded to in the past year, meaning that the set-up of the Wrestlemania main event will occur in just under two months time for the "showcase of the immortals." However, if John Cena wins, there's unlimited potential for contenders. Cena's position as a wrestler who engenders both positive and negative responses from audiences allows for just about anyone from a roster of entertaining and seasoned veterans to those yearning to establish themselves as top-tier performers and "grab the brass ring" the opportunity to do so. There are absolutely ten choices (and maybe only ten *good* choices) of people who can win the Royal Rumble. Of those ten, let's count those down.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
