Most Forgettable Rumble Winners?

[Dmbfantomas]

Sheamus all the way. History will prove me right on this one. A rumble winner who went on.... TO OPEN WRESTLEMANIA IN AN 18 SECOND MATCH.

Yeah, but at least he won his match, unlike 1/4th of the people on this list.

Sure, the WM match sucked. But the fact that it was a colossal failure will only make Sheamus winning more memorable. This isn't a matter of how GOOD something was, just if it was memorable. Horrible things get remembered all the time!

 

[Dmbfantomas]

I don't see why people are saying Big Show won the 2000 Royal Rumble, when it was clearly The Rock and it states so in the WWE records.. What ever they say stands. Also, I believe the whole 'The Rocks feet touched the floor first' was to continue the feud between the 2 so they could fight at No Way Out.

I was making a joke, for humor.

Rock hitting first was an accident. So they made something out of it, something that should have been way more awesome than it was but what can you do?

 

[Dagger Dias]

The most forgettable Royal Rumble winner was Alberto Del Rio. His win was at the show they claimed was the "biggest Rumble ever". That may have been the case in terms of number of entrants, but looking back on the list of who participated they could have done a much better job. The runner up was SANTINO!!!! Michael Cole would have been a more believable runner up than Santino. The wrestler who is the runner up needs to be just as believable to win as the winner himself. Why not one of the main eventers or a legend? No, let's have the guy who lasted one second in 2009's rumble come in second. THAT makes perfect sense.

So Alberto wins by last eliminating Santino in a 40 man match with hardly the star power it deserved. What does he win? The opportunity to OPEN Wrestlemania and LOSE. Whatever happened to the days when the Royal Rumble winner main evented Wrestlemania by wrestling LAST, let alone WINNING? Yes, Sheamus won, but he went on first in what I can't even consider a true "match". Alberto's Rumble in 2011 did more damage to its prestige than any other Rumble ever has. The aftermath of his win (opening and losing) makes him by far the most forgettable winner as it's the only Rumble I can think of that harmed the winner rather than helped him.

 

[Dmbfantomas]

The way Santino was the #2 was GREAT, though. What a great surprise, HUGE pop, and obviously Del Rio still won. Randy Orton was eliminated before him, and it was a great confrontation. Santino almost winning got EVERYONE off their feet, though.

 

[rocksaviour]

For me it would be these three that justify being given the title of 'Unforgettable Royal Rumble Winner'

Lex Luger - Well he was a joint winner, went on to have a dull title match at WMX and then never did anything of note afterwards in the WWF.

The Rock - Did he win? Joking but it was hardly a career highlight that he is remembered for, more people would remember his 'This is Your Life' segment or 'The Rock Concert(s)'. Also the fact his title match at Mania was made into a fourway and he didn't walk away with the title.

Sheamus - It was a forgettable Rumble match to be honest, from 12 months ago I remember more of the WWE title match between Punk and Ziggler and it wasn't until the other day that I remembered that Jericho was the man he threw over the top rope to win it. His title match at Mania was a silly waste of himself and Daniel Bryan and opened the show at least the year before it was a decent contest for the WHC.

On the next tier in terms of forgettable Rumble winners for me it would be Big John Studd (but that was a WWF career highlight for him), Stone Cold '97 (but then it was a classic finishing sequence and his performance on the night was fantastic) and Vince McMahon (but that was the part of something big w/Austin and we are reminded about it through the likes of Lawler, Cole and Ross to this day so we can hardly forget about it).