WWE Royal Rumble 2017: Ranking All 30 Match Winners

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7. Rey Mysterio – 2006

The friendship between Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero was well-known on WWE programming, and even more so following the latter man’s death in November 2005. This played into Royal Rumble season, with the storyline focused around Mysterio, and his quest to make Guerrero and family (Chavo and Vickie) proud.

To do this, Mysterio had to enter the 2006 Royal Rumble match at No. 2, a spot that few other Superstars had won this spectacle from (if you’re counting No. 1 since they enter at the same time). A majority of this would see Mysterio battle to survive and linger around the ring until the very end, when it looked like he had a realistic chance of winning. To do this, he had to go through Triple H, who followed him around until the final three.

When Mysterio won, he received a grand celebration for not only being the greatest Iron Man of all time (1:02:12), but winning in honor of Guerrero. Emotions were at an all time high, so WWE cashed in on them

At WrestleMania 22, Mysterio followed this up with a World Heavyweight Championship win over Randy Orton and 2017 WWE Hall of Famer, Kurt Angle. It would cap off the Luchador’s best run in WWE and send him into main event status.