WWE Royal Rumble 2017: Predicting Odds for All 30 Potential Entrants
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16. Randy Orton
A story of the Royal Rumble match could be tension between Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt. Things seemed to be status quo with them heading into the final SmackDown of 2016, but a surprising tag team title loss to American Alpha seemed to set things in motion. This did not come between Orton and Wyatt, but Orton and Luke Harper.
By the time the Royal Rumble match comes around, we may get some increased heat between all three members, most notably Orton and Wyatt. If so, they may be on a collision course to a WrestleMania 33 match.
This will likely take the Apex Predator out of the mix for winning the Royal Rumble. He has also drifted away from the World title picture for most of the past two years (despite injury), and may not return to the picture for a while.
What could be possible is Orton and Wyatt in the final four, with one of the two eventually turning on the other. That could be a way of getting to WrestleMania and going forward from there with a feud on SmackDown.