4. Elias and Baron Corbin

Elias has one of the best gimmicks on the main roster. He is "A Drifter," someone who plays music from city to city which just happens to coincide with Monday Night Raw every week. He is one of the most over characters on WWE TV at this moment as the WWE Universe absolutely love him. He gets a guaranteed reaction from any crowd at any given time. Elias usually performs for the crowd in every show he is booked in. Elias will come out and sing a song for the crowd, usually poking fun at whoever he is feuding with.
So it seems only logical that WWE has Elias do the same thing at the Royal Rumble. Last year WWE innovated a very entertaining spot for Elias' performance between entrants in the Rumble match. Baron Corbin went on a rampage after being eliminated and laid out Finn Balor, Rusev and Heath Slater who were the only 3 men in the match. Elias came out next and with everyone down, performed for the crowd until the next entrant came in. WWE won't be repeating that same spot again this year and the most logical way of putting an Elias performance in the Rumble is to put him at #1. He can perform for the crowd before being interrupted by a mid-card heel like Baron Corbin and the match can begin.
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With the stacked card the Rumble has, an Elias performance will be a perfect way to warm up the crowd for the Rumble and will be pretty entertaining as well.
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