6 Superstars Who Should Not Have Won The Royal Rumble Match

The Royal Rumble match comes once a year and grants a superstar a world championship match at WrestleMania. Over the years, winning the match has been a great way to elevate a superstar to main event status, or to continue or create a feud with another top talent.

Usually, the Royal Rumble winner makes sense to WWE, for their WrestleMania plans. However, sometimes even they can be wrong. Throughout the three decades of the Rumble event, we have seen some Rumble winners who's creative plans just fell through or didn't make sense, to begin with.

For every popular Rumble victor comes an unpopular one to follow, and that brings me to these top six superstars who should never have won the Royal Rumble match.

#6 Big John Studd - 1989

The late Big John Studd obtained main event status pretty early on in his WWE career thanks to his height and presence. He came off as a true superstar in his feuds with then WWE Champion Bob Backlund and André the Giant.

So really, it is no surprise that he would go onto win the second ever Royal Rumble match (and first 30 man version), in 1989. And while Studd has all the attributes to a rightful winner of the match, it just seems like it was wasted on him.

This is because, following his big win, Studd would only wrestle sporadically for WWE over the next six or so months, before he left WWE due to what were described as Studd having what he felt were unfair paydays.

And so because of this, I think the Rumble victory should have been given to one of the other incredible performers in the match, who could have benefited from the win more, such as the best performer of the 1989 Rumble Mr. Perfect or maybe even André the Giant, who was supposed to be someone who was indestructible in this type of environment.