WWE Royal Rumble 2023: Predicting All 30 Entrants

6. Zack Ryder - #25

Zack Ryder
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What does Triple H love more than heavy metal, skulls, and meandering through a heat sequence with all the dynamism of the decomposition of a plastic bag?

Why, returns of course!

Funny, because Tony Khan was meant to be the promoter obsessed with shortcuts to a cheap pop. Those pops have barely been heard in Triple H's WWE, but while all very nominal the irony still exists. Ryder will generate a pop, he's already declared WWE as his endgame, and as a talented all-rounder will probably do rather well for himself.

He knows the in-house style inside out and knows how to turn up the volume in the libraries that WWE calls arenas these days.

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