5 UFC Fighters who could be surprise entrants at WWE Royal Rumble 2018
The UFC features fighters with otherworldly athleticism and a will to grind through the rigors of a full-contact sport.
While UFC being the topmost MMA organization in the world, possesses some of the most elite athletes on the planet, the world of professional wrestling boasts the same—with the two fields having never been mutually exclusive to one another.
Several notable figures from either side have dipped their toes into the other, as Ken Shamrock, Josh Barnett, and many more MMA legends have tried their hand at pro-wrestling. Similarly, sports-entertainment bigwigs such as Brock Lesnar, CM Punk, Batista and Bobby Lashley have made inroads for pro-wrestlers in the world of MMA.
With the WWE Royal Rumble 2018 coming up this weekend, today we look at a few UFC stars who could partake in the Royal Rumble Match as surprise entrants.
#5 Daniel Cormier
Daniel Cormier is no stranger to the world of professional wrestling and has in fact been pretty vocal about his fandom for the WWE and the sport of pro-wrestling.
DC successfully defended his UFC Light-Heavyweight Championship against feared KO artist Volkan Oezdemir at UFC 220 and has previously stated that he’d like to attend the Royal Rumble this year. While Cormier has asserted that he can’t compete as a full-time sports-entertainer owing to knee issues, a one-off in-ring performance at a special annual event such as the Royal Rumble wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility for the former US Olympic wrestler.
Besides, Cormier was recently making headlines in the pro-wrestling media owing to his social media beef with The Young Bucks. Perhaps the UFC Champion could enter the Men’s Royal Rumble Match and show Matt & Nick Jackson his idea of how a professional wrestling match should be presented.