3 potential winners of the Royal Rumble 2018

His time is... Still now?
His time is... Still now?

#1 Shinsuke Nakamura

WrestleMania main event... Come on!
WrestleMania main event... Come on!

I won't say the odds for this are as huge as they are for John Cena and Roman Reigns, but a Royal Rumble win for Shinsuke Nakamura is quite realistic, especially compared to everyone else who will be in the match, apart from Cena and Reigns.

Firstly, in some cases a Rumble win for Cena and Reigns would come off a little to obvious, so predictable that WWE may try to pull the kind of swerve they did with Orton in January, and have one of the lesser obvious picks to win, be the last man standing, in this case, Shinsuke Nakamura. Although if Cena were to win he would likely challenge the WWE Champion, a Rumble win for fully fledged Smackdown star in Shinsuke Nakamura would be a great move for Smackdown, which has been portrayed as the B show ever since they lost every high profile match at Survivor Series.

Finally, Nakamura vs Styles at WrestleMania is almost a lock. Their Wrestle Kingdom 10 match made everyone stand up and take notice of NJPW, even WWE. Nakamura vs Styles was teased at last year's WWE Money in The Bank and still remains pretty much the only really big one-on-one match between two Smackdown stars that hasn't happened yet.

Much like Lesnar vs Reigns, I expect this match to happen at WrestleMania.

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