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Paul Heyman changed the initial pick to win Royal Rumble

Paul Heyman's decision making is something that the WWE Universe loves as he never thinks about just the short term. He has been spot on with his decisions lately and the latest one, the Royal Rumble winner, has also been well received by the fans.

Dave Meltzer on the Wrestling Observer Radio reports that Heyman was the one who convinced Vince McMahon and the WWE Creative team to make Drew McIntyre the winner of the Men's Rumble match. He claims that the initial plan was to have Roman Reigns win it once again.

So obviously, one main event at WrestleMania, perhaps the main event of WrestleMania is going to be Brock Lesnar vs. Drew McIntyre and they went all the way to build that and Drew McIntyre is the guy. Obviously this is a Paul Heyman decision that was made sometime back, I presume Bray Wyatt and Roman Reigns is the other main event. They could have had Roman Reigns win the Royal Rumble because McIntyre was made when he eliminated Lesnar, but it was one of those things where Heyman probably got the main event and everything for that main event.

He must have talked to Vince McMahon, 'We've got to make the main event as strong as we can and it's WrestleMania and all that and they didn't have any dream match out there, so this was it and you know, the whole Rumble was to make Brock into this unbeatable monster, I mean the Rumble told a good story. It was actually a very good Rumble and the story was that Brock is this monster and then Ricochet gave Brock a low blow and that led to Drew McIntyre giving Lesnar the Claymore kick and eliminating him and then, McIntyre went all the way, including throwing out Roman Reigns to win the whole thing.