WWE Royal Rumble 2017: 3 Reasons Randy Orton Should Not Have Won

2. Randy Orton’s Legacy is Already Established

Going in line with how talented the WWE roster is at the moment, there are several superstars who could have been better choices for winning the Royal Rumble match. This is the kind of match that is designed to help launch a superstar into the main event picture. It has established a lot of legacies in the WWE through the 30 years the match has taken place.

This is supposed to be a new era of the WWE where someone new should have been given that main event opportunity at WrestleMania 33. Randy Orton was not in the conversation among prognosticators and wrestling experts. The reason is that he’s had his time and doesn’t need the push of winning the Royal Rumble match.

Orton already had a Royal Rumble victory in 2009; although that led to a loss to Triple H a few months later at WrestleMania XXV for the WWE Championship. Other than that, Orton has 12 separate world championships in the WWE between the World Heavyweight Championship and the WWE Championship. Orton is going to be a surefire WWE Hall of Fame inductee at some point when he’s hung up the boots.

Randy Orton winning the Royal Rumble match feels like the biggest miss of the night by WWE officials.