First Five Competitors Announced for “Greatest Royal Rumble”

Who else could it be? Later this month, WWE will be heading to Saudi Arabia to hold the “Greatest Royal Rumble”. The show which features a stacked card of seven title matches, Triple H vs. John Cena, and a mega fifty man Royal Rumble match. Aside from wondering how this show will manage to stay under about six hours long, one of the more interesting questions is who will be filling out the fifty slots in the Royal Rumble. As of today, we officially know ten percent of the names as WWE has announced five participants.

And in video form no less.

First 5 Greatest Royal Rumble competitors revealed: WWE Now

Today, WWE announced that Daniel Bryan, Braun Strowman, Kane, Big Show and Bray Wyatt will be the first five names entering the Greatest Royal Rumble. The event, which takes place on April 27, still has several names to be announced and there is no statement on when the other forty five names will be given. Of course there is a chance that several of them will be surprises rather than being announced in advance. It is also not yet known what the prize will be for the winner.

Opinion: I’m getting more and more excited about this, mainly because the show is less than a month away. It almost doesn’t seem possible that it’s taking place so soon but as of this writing we’re less than four weeks away. The show is going to be a big deal and if there are some title changes taking place as well, things will feel even more important. It should be cool to see how big of a foot WWE is going to be putting forward on this, especially with another huge show already rumored for Australia later in the year.

Who do you thinks wins the Rumble? Who do you want to see participating? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 26 wrestling books. His latest book is the WWE Grab Bag.

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