WWE Royal Rumble 2017: 5 Reasons Dean Ambrose Should Win

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Dean Ambrose has achieved a lot in his career. In 2017, “Royal Rumble Winner” should be added to his resume.

Winning WWE’s Royal Rumble Match is a career-changing moment. The winner isn’t just guaranteed to go to WrestleMania, but he also gets to fight for a world (or Universal) title on the biggest stage in all of professional wrestling. There can only be one winner of the Royal Rumble, and in 2017, that man should be Dean Ambrose.

Ambrose is the current Intercontinental Champion, but that should not take him out of consideration. They could make him a dual-champion, like Seth Rollins was with the WWE Championship and United States Championship in the summer of 2015. Of course, they could also take the title off him, and free up his title holding hand between now and The Show of Shows.

The most likely scenario for Ambrose to find himself challenging for a top championship at WrestleMania, is for Dean to drop his title early in the show at The Alamodome, probably to The Miz. We’ve seen it many times in the past with Money in the Bank cash-ins, the briefcase holder loses an announced match, then cashes in later and walks out champion. It’s not their best idea that they constantly recycle, but it could be tweaked to lead to Ambrose outlasting 29 other men.

So let’s get to it. Five reasons that WWE should follow through on that and let Dean Ambrose make them money in the main event of WrestleMania, starting with #5: