WWE Royal Rumble 2017 Match: 5 Ways to Make the Main Event Interesting
By Dean Siemon
3. But Book Kurt Angle as a Surprise Entrant
After spending the last slide explaining why there shouldn’t be any surprise legends in the Royal Rumble match, this might seem like a contradictory point. Kurt Angle is a legend who was just announced for this year’s class for the WWE Hall of Fame. We promise, there’s a good reason to justify this “contradiction.”
For one, it would be a timely booking decision. There’s a lot of buzz going around regarding the Olympic gold medalist who developed quite the resume from the mat to the ring. In the WWE, he’s a six-time world championship, and won every single championship imaginable in the WWE since the 1990s. This includes the current United States Championship, the European Champion and the Intercontinental Championship.
He’s won tag team gold and even won the King of the Ring in 2000. But the one thing that Kurt Angle has never done in his WWE career is winning the Royal Rumble match. That’s not to say that Angle should be a favorite to win the 2017 Royal Rumble match. But it would be a talking point if he happened to be announced for the match in the week leading up to the pay-per-view.
Nothing has been announced as of this writing, but Kurt Angle would be the best choice for a surprise entry in the Royal Rumble.