WWE Royal Rumble 2024: Predicting All 30 Entrants

18. Shinsuke Nakamura (#13)

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Shinsuke Nakamura's current cruel character direction is working for him. He's never going to be the main man on WWE telly again, but Shin can still have bags of fun being a proper old-school heel. At the Rumble, he'd laugh at Kofi's misfortune, then mimic GUNTHER by trying to steer clear of Brock for a while.

That's when GUNTHER would recover, blindside Lesnar and both guys would brawl before tumbling over the top rope to the floor at the same time. Opportunistically, Nakamura would dive through the ropes at the same time to enter the match and steer clear.

The next chapter of the Rumble begins.

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