WWE Royal Rumble 2023: Predicting All 30 Entrants

19. Sheamus - #12

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Sheamus is custom-built to star in a Rumble match.

He's beloved by the WWE audience at long last, he can Brogue Kick everybody's face off in one of the better introduction sequences the match has to play with, and his Beats of the Bodhran call-and-response is a great spot to tease an elimination or two. He won't go too far, but he'll stay in the match for a decent stretch. Nobody would truly believe he's actually winning the whole thing, but people will believe that he's capable of actually eliminating much of the field.

Placing him near enough the middle is the ideal slot.

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