WWE Royal Rumble 2023: 10 Surprise Entrants We Could See

8. Lana

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It would certainly be easy to negotiate; Lana isn't so much putting feelers out there that she'd like to return as Standing Up For WWE on main.

Whenever the topic of Miro is discussed, she puts over WWE and knows what she's doing. She's looking out for and defending a loved one, which is absolutely fine, but she's also intimating that Miro could jump to and be featured more in WWE. The timing of this politicking game was not exactly shrewd; Miro has around three and a half years left on his current deal, and, in parallel, Vince McMahon, who told Rusev that he wasn't over and fans were taking the piss out of him, is making moves to take over WWE creative. On Rusev Day, of all days.

So besotted all of a sudden with the product that she might as well rebrand on Twitter as WWELana, she loves the storytelling, the romance, the comedy: she just thinks it's neat.

Are these feelings reciprocated?

Time will tell, and while it's weird that the valet has become an antiquated role, Lana was significantly better at that than she was at wrestling. She was rubbish at wrestling.

But!

Her entrance theme was quite the "bop", which solves one of the problems WWE experienced last year.

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