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WWE: 3 early potential winners for the Men’s Royal Rumble match

By Brett Grega

WWE Superstar Kofi Kingston celebrates at the end of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Super Showdown event in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea port city of Jeddah late on January 7, 2019. (Photo by Amer HILABI / AFP) (Photo credit should read AMER HILABI/AFP/Getty Images)
WWE Superstar Kofi Kingston celebrates at the end of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Super Showdown event in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea port city of Jeddah late on January 7, 2019. (Photo by Amer HILABI / AFP) (Photo credit should read AMER HILABI/AFP/Getty Images) /
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2. Kevin Owens

Here’s my early dark horse candidate for winning the 2020 Royal Rumble.

It’s fairly clear that WWE has no issue with pushing Owens. His feud with Shane McMahon was one of the marquee feuds on SmackDown for months. It just so happens that after that feud, Owens has been rarely used.

That seems to be about to change with an impending rivalry against AJ Styles potentially coming soon, but that doesn’t preclude Owens from winning the Men’s Royal Rumble match in the least.

Owens is coming off of a huge main event caliber push from the aforementioned McMahon feud, plus he has the perfect character to go up against someone like Brock Lesnar right now.

In fact, I would go as far as to argue that Owens is the ideal person on Raw to challenge Lesnar at the moment. His anti-establishment gimmick works perfectly against someone who’s been sold to fans as the definition of an overprivileged management favorite.

The rivalry basically writes itself then. Owens can rail against the fact that Lesnar plays by his own rules while he had to suffer under the tyranny of Shane O’Mac, and Heyman can jab back with his usual brilliant promos.

To me, that makes Owens a sneaky choice to potentially leave Royal Rumble with a guaranteed shot at the WWE Championship, and a scheduled showdown against Brock Lesnar.

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