WWE Royal Rumble 2017: Ranking All 30 Match Winners

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16. The Rock – 2000

The Rock did plenty in his WWE career to go down as one of the greatest Superstars of all-time. However, he would get passed over for Stone Cold Steve Austin in the main event of WrestleMania 15 and 17 by taking the pinfall in both.

Well, in 2000, the People’s Champ seemed to be on his way there by winning his one and only Royal Rumble match. This moved him into the McMahon family saga of a main event at WrestleMania 2000, pitting him against Triple H, Big Show, and Mick Foley for the WWE Championship.

Calling this decision to have the Rock win isn’t a bad one due to all he did for WWE in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. This one just wasn’t memorable, though, potentially due to the 2000 Royal Rumble being one that gets lost in the shuffle and from Rocky losing at WrestleMania. He did get his ‘Mania main event win in 2012, which was well past his time as a full-time performer.