WWE Royal Rumble 2017: 10 Potential Main Events

5. Triple H Vs. Seth Rollins

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While HBK would be best served staying retired, his D-Generation X cohort is sure to come back to the ring another time or two (or three or four). After taking on Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns in the earlier part of 2016, Triple H now has only one man left to complete The Shield trifecta in one year.

Triple H's feud with Seth Rollins has been building for over a year now with rumors dating back to last November that the two were headed for a WrestleMania 32 showdown prior to Seth tearing his ACL, MCL, and medial meniscus. Once Rollins went down with injury forcing him to miss WrestleMania, plans were changed to move Roman Reigns into a program with The Game.

With Hunter helping Kevin Owens to the Universal title this past August, betraying a stunned Rollins, the program was back-on and started with a bang. The only question remaining now is when will the match take place?

WrestleMania 33 in Orlando is the setting that most fans would suggest and they'd probably be right.

In recent years, a match of this magnitude would only be held at WrestleMania, but with WWE wanting to bulk-up their Big 4 pay-per-view events to make them feel more special, plus the size of the Rumble's venue, it's very possible WWE will book the first meeting between Rollins and Triple H for January 29, 2017.

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