5 best Royal Rumble competitors who never won

#4 The Big Show

This was the trope they used for just about every one of Big Show's Rumble entries.

"How can anyone possibly eliminate The Big Show?!"

Yes, I know that this banal commentary has become somewhat of a meme among the wrestling community, as someone has always managed to eliminate The Big Show from the Royal Rumble. Still, we cannot discount The Giant's impressive overall performance in the match.

In every Rumble he's entered, Big Show has been rightfully built up as a threat, both by commentators and wrestlers. While his cumulative time of 1:18:27 is nothing special, especially considering he's tied for second most Rumbles ever entered (12 times), his dominating history of eliminations more than makeup for that.

So far, Big Show has eliminated 31 people from the match (the sixth most ever and the second most out of anyone who hasn't won), meaning he averages about 2.5 eliminations per entry. This also means he's eliminated more people than there are entrants in one Rumble.

He is also pretty consistently among the final men in the match. In his 11-minute, 12-second performance in 2000, he threw out four men and was the runner-up to The Rock. He was the runner-up once again in 2004 and, though he eliminated the same number of men that year, he more than doubled his time from 2000.

But perhaps his most dominant performance was in 2009 when he took out 6 people (the most of anyone else that year) in just over 9-and-a-half minutes. He would once again end up in the Final Four in both 2012 and 2015, giving him the second most all-time appearances in the Final Four (4 times). His two appearances in the Final Two also give him the distinction of most Final Two appearances without having won. Still, he only went over 10 minutes twice and only went over 20 minutes once.

But hey, at least he got to win the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal that one time...