WWE Royal Rumble 2017: 3 Reasons Shawn Michaels Should Be in the Match

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1. He Could Put Someone Over By Being Eliminated

If Michaels doesn’t have WrestleMania plans, he could still have an important place in the Royal Rumble. If he were to enter, he would obviously be highly unlikely to win. So unless he plans on exiting the match on his own accord, that means somebody would have to eliminate him. And in the Alamodome in Michaels’ hometown of San Antonio, whoever does that would need some SPF 50 to combat all the heat he would garner.

Think back to last year with the debut of AJ Styles. Styles came out to one of the largest reactions in WWE history during the Royal Rumble at the Amway Center in Orlando. That was the same city in which Styles made a name for himself in TNA, so the fans were all in on him just as the San Antonio crowd would be for Michaels. Then after a solid showing, Kevin Owens eliminated him. He was the perfect one to do so because as one of WWE’s best heels, it was appropriate to put the heat on him, and the Orlando crowd was more than willing to do that.

The same thing could happen for whoever eliminates Michaels. Maybe someone like the Miz, Dolph Ziggler (via superkick?), or Baron Corbin. Pick a heel, any heel. Whichever one seems to need the most extra heat as WrestleMania approaches could be the one to eliminate the hometown boy Michaels.

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