WWE Royal Rumble 2022: 10 Surprise Entrants We Could See

2. Paige

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Look, it's Royal Rumble season.

You can't go tweeting things like this during Royal Rumble season and get away without appearing on these kinds of lists...

Or this...

Page last wrestled on a December 2017 house show, suffering the neck injury that forced her into an early retirement four months later. This followed a rough couple of years of other injuries, surgeries, rehabilitation periods, and the associated stresses that come with them.

Outspoken in her criticism of the third-party streaming ban imposed by WWE in late 2020, Paige has nonetheless remained within the promotion's orbit. If she makes a wrestling return, it'll probably be under Vince McMahon's employ, and she has teased a comeback several times over the past few years.

If Paige has been cleared and WWE has been able to keep it under wraps, fair play. That's tremendous work - and she'd be a tremendous Rumble surprise, having been inactive for so long. Huge 2020 Edge energy.

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Andy has been with WhatCulture for eight years and is currently WhatCulture's Wrestling Channel Manager. A writer, presenter, and editor with 10+ years of experience in online media, he has been a sponge for all wrestling knowledge since playing an old Royal Rumble 1992 VHS to ruin in his childhood. Having previously worked for Bleacher Report, Andy specialises in short and long-form writing, video presenting, voiceover acting, and editing, all characterised by expert wrestling knowledge and commentary. Andy is as much a fan of 1985 Jim Crockett Promotions as he is present-day AEW and WWE - just don't make him choose between the two.