WWE: 4 reasons why Roman Reigns should win the Royal Rumble

As we near closer to the 2020 edition of WWE’s Royal Rumble PPV, the prime candidate to win the Men’s Rumble is Roman Reigns.

WWE Royal Rumble 2020 is arriving to a television set (or arena, if you plan to attend) near you sooner and sooner as the clock ticks. Just over a month away from the event, there are plenty of possibilities for who could win the Men’s Rumble.

Seth Rollins, Kevin Owens … a lot of strong candidates heading into the match, but only one specific candidate stands out in my eyes as a clear cut winner: Roman Reigns.

Roman Reigns has an interesting history with the WWE Royal Rumble Pay-Per-View, to say the least. His first year at the PPV saw him participate in the match of the same name. While he did not win, he was a runner up against that year’s winner, Batista, and went on to break the record for the most in-ring eliminations at 12.

The Big Dog then had his time in the sun the following year when he won the Royal Rumble match in 2015. Unfortunately, he failed to win his promised main event at WrestleMania the following April, thanks to an intervening Money in the Bank cash-in from Seth Rollins. 

The following year’s Royal Rumble, Roman wasn’t so lucky in a Rumble where his WWE Championship was on the line. He was one of the last men eliminated.

Then, in 2017, not only did he fail to beat Kevin Owens for his Universal Championship earlier in the night, but he couldn’t win the Rumble match later on despite arriving at entrance #30. He was the last man eliminated by Randy Orton. He gave yet another runner up performance in 2018, last being eliminated by Shinsuke Nakamura this time.

He missed 2019’s Rumble to recover from a real life cancer diagnosis, but this time in 2019, he has what it takes to win the whole thing. Here’s why: