5 most surprising Royal Rumble winners

Although the Royal Rumble match is always the most exciting WWE match of the year, it can often be plagued by the winner of the match being leaked to the internet, months, weeks and sometimes just days before the event happens.

That is how it has been in recent years, however during the first 20 or little more years of the match, the winner has been just about anyone. While many fans have been able to correctly guess who it could be every year, sometimes almost everyone is caught off and doesn't see the winner coming. Here are five such incidents.

#5 Bret Hart & Lex Luger - 1994

If you were to list the top five WWE superstars of 1994, both Bret Hart and Lex Luger would be apart of it, so it is not too surprising that either of them could have won the match, but both?

Yes, at the 1994 Royal Rumble, there would be two last men standing as Bret and Lex would both go over the top rope with both men touching the floor at the same time, and instead of restarting the match like 11 years later when the same thing unintentionally happened with John Cena and Batista in 2005, it was instead announced that both men had won the match.

Apparently, at the time there was some talk of possibly doing a Yokozuna vs Lex Luger vs Bret Hart triple threat main event WWE Championship match at WrestleMania X before they ultimately decided on two separate singles matches for the title.