5 early favourites to win the 2018 Royal Rumble

#1 Roman Reigns (joint-favourite)

Fans would not like to see another Roman Reigns victory

Over the last four years, Roman Reigns has become synonymous with the Royal Rumble: he set a new record of 12 eliminations in 2014; he was the eventual winner in 2015; he lost his WWE title in the match in 2016, and he was the surprise number 30 entrant in 2017.

During that time, he’s eliminated a total of 26 men, which puts him eighth on the all-time list of eliminations in Royal Rumble matches.

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Another victory at the 2018 event in Philadelphia, the same city where he was furiously booed after winning in 2015, would make sense if he’s going to face Brock Lesnar for the Universal Championship at WrestleMania 34.

However, the exact same thing happened to set up their WrestleMania 31 feud, so perhaps WWE will go another direction.

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Danny Hart has been one of the most active writers at Sportskeeda since he began working for the WWE section of the site in October 2017.

Danny currently writes around 100 articles per month about WWE. Before joining Sportskeeda, he worked for seven years as a writer and editor for the football website Goal.com. He also reported live from Premier League stadiums around England.

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