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#2 Shinsuke Nakamura has little to no chance

Shinsuke Nakamura was the winner of the Royal Rumble match only two years ago. It was an exceptional contest and he last eliminated Roman Reigns to win the entire thing. Since Roman Reigns is the favorite to win this year, we can anticipate him being the one to eliminate Nakamura this year.

Unfortunately, even though the Japanese star holds the Intercontinental Championship, what he doesn't hold is any momentum. His alliance with Cesaro and Sami Zayn simply feels like creative sticking three superstars together for the sake of it.

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His team lost to Braun Strowman and Elias on the night, with the latter getting a pinfall over Cesaro. While the objective is to get to Strowman vs Nakamura for the Intercontinental Championship - that doesn't seem like it's been built very well.

If not Roman Reigns, then Strowman would be the obvious pick to eliminate Nakamura to keep their story going. However, we like the idea of Nakamura and Cesaro eliminating Strowman instead.

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