WWE Royal Rumble 2020: Predicting 3 Men’s Rumble winners before TLC

3.) Kofi Kingston

Is it safe to say that Kofi Kingston is Mr. Royal Rumble? Yes. Kingston has made the Rumble so much more entertaining to watch with his innovative and miraculous saves. Only God knows what he has planned for the Rumble in 2020.

Is it safe to say that Kofi Kingston will win the Royal Rumble in 2020? That’s a big maybe, at best, but it’s still worth expounding due to the unjustifiable way in which his past WWE Championship reign culminated in October of 2019.

Yes, he won the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 35 against Daniel Bryan and it was the best WrestleMania moment of the entire show despite not being in the main event. Yes, he retained his WWE Championship for six months straight against all incoming challengers, especially ones he had a lot of history with, such as the ‘envious’ Dolph Ziggler and ‘stupid’ Randy Orton.

However, his abrupt 10-second championship loss to Brock Lesnar on a SmackDown (rather than a PPV, like Hell in a Cell which was two days away from that SmackDown) in October threw all of those aforementioned accomplishments out the door with a bad taste in the audience’s mouths. The majority of the WWE fans know that Lesnar performs spectacular matches with smaller competitors, but why couldn’t that be done with Kingston?

Lesnar stole the show with the likes of AJ Styles, Daniel Bryan, and Rey Mysterio in three consecutive Survivor Series. However, when it came to Kingston, it was a different story and it is thereby even safer to say that the racial overtones cannot be ignored, especially since it took Daniel Bryan, rather than WWE management, to push for Kingston to face him at Mania to begin with.

On a further note, Kingston may not even get another WWE Championship match despite his impressive six-month run as the WWE Champion. His championship win at WrestleMania 35 was supposed to signify his official and permanent transition to the main event. Instead, his entire reign was played out as a fluky Cinderella story to please fans for the short term but disappoint them in the long term.

Now that he is relegated to the tag team division with Big E, many naysayers may assert that it’s now Big E’s time to shine and that he should win the Rumble, instead of Kingston. Although that would be splendid and should not warrant a New Day disbandment, Kingston still has unfinished business with the current WWE Champion Brock Lesnar.

There is only one way to make things right: Kingston wins the Rumble in 2020 and challenges Lesnar for the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 36. Although he might not defeat Lesnar, he still deserves a better and longer match on a big fight field that will be remembered for years to come and that will further manifest his prowess in the squared circle as well as his future Hall of Fame attributes.