5 most controversial Royal Rumble winners since 2000

#3 Roman Reigns (2015)

Getting help from the Rock backfired for Roman Reigns.

Daniel Bryan was the people’s favorite at the time. He was eliminated before Reigns could enter the match, thereby mitigating the possibility of him facing Reigns.

The fans worldwide were of opinion that Reigns is being pushed “too hard” as the face of the company. The Rock “helped” Reigns to win the match, which only strengthened this theory.

This ended up in a disaster for Roman Reigns as he became the only Royal Rumble winner in the WWE history who was booed out of the arena.