5 Dark Horses who could win the 2017 Royal Rumble
The WWE’s Royal Rumble is a match that’s built on surprises. Surprise entrants, draws, returns, betrayals and most of all winners. Although, the last few years have felt predictable regarding the winner.
Last year Triple H winning shocked no one due to the heavily saturated feud between The Game and Roman Reigns. In 2015, Reigns himself was the favourite and to the surprise of no one, he cemented his spot in the main event at Wrestlemania by winning the Royal Rumble match.
This year seems a little different. Granted, we have our favourites. Brock Lesnar and Goldberg were the first two to declare entry and both of those behemoths are heavily tipped to win.
The returning Undertaker is always a threat to win when he’s involved. You could also see main event calibre superstars pulling double duty such as John Cena, AJ Styles and the aforementioned Reigns, who could enter and end up winning the 30-man over the top rope classic for themselves.
What about the superstars that aren’t in that upper echelon? Could one of them be the last man standing? Here’s a list of 5 superstars who could potentially be the Dark Horse in this year’s Royal Rumble.
#1 Kurt Angle
Recently announced Hall of Fame inductee Kurt Angle could be in this year’s Royal Rumble. How crazy is that? The possibilities are absolutely endless designing his comeback with the company. Where do you start? AJ Styles? John Cena?
The comparison between The World’s Greatest Tag Team and American Alpha has been a popular one. Teaming them up with Angle only seems fitting. The three collegiate style wrestlers would be great adversaries for the Wyatt family.
Angle last wrestled for WWE in 2006 for their ECW brand. Since then, he had a lengthy run with TNA and up until recently had been taking Indy bookings. Angle is 48 years old though and can’t go like he used to.
He has taken a lot of bumps on those old bones but if he entered the Royal Rumble late it’d be a believable win for the Olympic gold medalist. Headlining Wrestlemania one last time for either brand’s title could be his swan song.
His matches with AJ Styles in TNA were epic and on the biggest stage of them all, Wrestlemania, that showdown could be a monster draw.