WWE Royal Rumble 2022: Predicting All 30 Entrants

10. Shinsuke Nakamura

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Believe it or not, Shinsuke Nakamura is still Intercontinental Champion!

He gets on television quite often, and most recently found himself butting heads with Sami Zayn, but rarely has the strap felt so unimportant. Nakamura has defended his secondary belt just once since winning it in August. That defence over Apollo Crews went down over three months ago, on 24 September.

It's a dead run, this, but Nakamura retains some stock amongst WWE fans. He should be in the Rumble.

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