5 Reasons why a babyface should win the 2018 Royal Rumble  

#4 A rare chance to break through the glass ceiling

Daniel Bryan was the last " B+ player" to exceed all expectations

There is no doubt that WWE is the biggest wrestling promotion on the planet, and with every passing year, the company is making efforts to expand their product across various countries. Therefore, by reaching out to different wrestling hotspots around the world, the powerhouse in professional wrestling has one of the biggest wrestling rosters on the planet. As they recruit respected Indy darlings, create future superstars at the WWE performance centre and already have a talented main roster with many performers and veterans. Therefore, Vince McMahon & Co have a huge responsibility of ensuring these superstars don’t get lost in the shuffle.

Getting lost in the shuffle shouldn’t be an issue for WWE superstars as the company has numerous shows such as Raw, Smackdown Live, NXT and 205 Live to present every wrestler in a unique light. Unfortunately, even though WWE has hours of time to build up every wrestler in their rungs, a majority of their roster is underdeveloped. While most WWE wrestlers are underutilised, there are a rare few that find a way to get themselves ‘over’.These are wrestlers that organically forge a connection with the audience, eventually become more popular than the company’s top draw and logically position themselves as the WWE’s next top main eventers.

However, even though those superstars do their part and get themselves over, management doesn’t do their share and give them that monster push that would assist these white-hot wrestlers in reaching the apex of their careers. These are superstars that were held back by the glass ceiling and in turn, they couldn’t grab any of Vince McMahon’s brass rings. As McMahon said in an interview with Steve Austin back in 2014, his roster is not doing everything in their power to grab the spotlight. The CEOs misperception has cost his own company high merchandise sellers and huge draws, as superstars such as Cesaro, Dolph Ziggler and Zach Ryder were held back by the company’s glass ceiling and were never allowed to show their full potential as hot rising talent.

But this year there are several scorching hot superstars just waiting to explode into the main event scene and by giving these babyfaces a chance at the Royal Rumble will showcase whether or not they are ready to ascend to the next level. Having an old face return into the main event of Wrestlemania would be redundant, as superstars such as John Cena, Randy Orton and Triple H have already cemented their names in the Hall of Fame and therefore need no further validation

But superstars such as Rusev, Shinsuke Nakamura and Finn Balor are wrestlers that popularity is at its peak. Therefore, rather than seeing them waste their momentum jobbing to mid-carders they should be given an opportunity where McMahon witnesses whether they sink or swim just like many superstars before them. Letting these superstars shatter all notions will be a breath of fresh air at the Rumble and could turn out to be extremely profitable for the company.