12 Wrestlers Who Had ABSOLUTELY NO BUSINESS Being In WWE Royal Rumble
10. Hiroki Sumi (Greatest Royal Rumble)
At 2018's Greatest Royal Rumble - the first (and until 2026, last) Rumble to take place in Saudi Arabia, Hiroki Sumi entered at #7 and Michael Cole and Corey Graves talked him up as one of the most dangerous threats in the entire match.
Presumably they hadn't got their info from WWE.com - the company's official website infamously couldn't offer any backstory on him due to him being virtually obsolete in wrestling circles. Sumi was a mystery wrapped in an enigma to such an extent that Google itself barely brought up anything on his life, or certainly not the type of intel that could explain how he found himself walking the market leader's aisle to go face to face with Mark Henry. So just how was he in to date the first and only 50-man version of the Royal Rumble?!
Ludicrous question, ludicrous answer.
It was revealed subsequently that Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman wanted Yokozuna at the maiden spectacle. Unaware that he'd tragically passed eighteen years earlier, the Saudi Royal requested the former WWE Champion and the company duly obliged with a sumo wrestler alternative that at very least fulfilled the brief of the gimmick if not the man playing the role.