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#4 Paul Heyman changed the winner of the Royal Rumble, original plans revealed

Royal Rumble 2020 was a very well-booked show that ended with Drew McIntyre winning the men's match. The women's match was surprisingly won by Charlotte Flair earlier on in the night after she eliminated the favourite, Shayna Baszler.

Dave Meltzer revealed on the Wrestling Observer Radio that Shayna Baszler and Roman Reigns were originally scheduled to win the Royal Rumble matches but the plans were changed a few weeks ago.

Okay, so I had sort of heard this, so this is confirmed, that Shayna Baszler and Roman Reigns were scheduled to win the two Royal Rumbles and then as they were trying to decide what was going to happen for WrestleMania, the decision was made instead to go with Charlotte Flair and Drew McIntyre.

Because I had not heard Shayna was going to win, I had just assumed that from a lot of different things, and Roman, I just figured Roman for Bray Wyatt. I think it was on the 14th, would have been the day of the change because there was a lot of money being bet on Charlotte Flair on the 14th because originally all the money was coming in on Shayna Baszler

Meltzer also added that the decision to book Drew McIntyre as the Royal Rumble winner was made by Paul Heyman.

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.