WWE Royal Rumble 2017: Predicting the ‘Final Four’
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It’s every wrestling fan’s favorite time of year, the Royal Rumble and The Road to WrestleMania.
The Royal Rumble Match is one of the most hectic matches of the entire year in wrestling. The dust usually begins to settle when the final four men are left in the ring, as they all take a breath and acknowledge how close they are to reaching the main event of WrestleMania.
30 men will enter the ring on Sunday night, so there are bound to be a few that don’t have any chance at winning, but the final four participants are a window into who the company has big plans for in the coming year.
Winning the Royal Rumble is the ultimate prize, but still being in at the end is a win in its own right.
We don’t know all 30 participants for the Rumble Match on Sunday, but here are the 22 that we know of so far:
- Brock Lesnar
- Bill Goldberg
- Kofi Kingston
- Xavier Woods
- Big E
- Chris Jericho
- Braun Strowman
- Dolph Ziggler
- Baron Corbin
- The Undertaker
- The Miz
- Dean Ambrose
- Cesaro
- Sheamus
- Bray Wyatt
- Randy Orton
- Luke Harper
- Big Show
- Sami Zayn
- Big Cass
- Rusev
- Mojo Rawley
That leaves us with eight surprise entrants. Could they be from NXT? Like Samoa Joe, Shinsuke Nakamura, or Tye Dillinger? Could they be legends? Maybe an appearance from future Hall of Famer Kurt Angle?
It remains to be seen who will round out the field, but one thing is for sure, it’s going to be a wild night at The Alamodome. One that not only sets up The Road to WrestleMania, but also sets the tone for the rest of 2017.
Before we pick out the final four of the Rumble, we need to take a few guys out of contention.