5 Best No. 3 Entries in the Royal Rumble match

# 4 Daniel Puder (2005) - Eliminated 1st - 0 Eliminations

Daniel Puder's performance in the 2005 Royal Rumble didn't last

long,

but was very memorable.

Puder did not make the splash on the 2005 Royal Rumble that others on this list did. Puder was the first person eliminated in the Rumble and did not eliminate anyone for the Rumble. So, what makes Puder's Rumble so memorable? Puder won the $1,000,000 season of Tough Enough, ahead of future WWE stars The Miz and Ryback.

Puder was not liked backstage for multiple reasons, including reportedly having an ego backstage and the shoot fight he had with Kurt Angle on an episode of Smackdown. As a result, Puder was sent out into the Rumble in the third position and cut a promo promising to be the first ever champion to have graduated from the Tough Enough programme.

With veterans Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit already in the ring, Puder was chopped and suplexed around the ring by the two elder statesmen of the WWF. Things went from bad to worse for the Tough Enough champ after the two of them were joined by Hardcore Holly, who also chopped and threw Puder around the ring. Finally, Puder was eliminated from the Royal Rumble by Hardcore Holly, in his first and only Rumble appearance.