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Originally Posted by [Phill]
Has the guy who has lost the WWE/WHC title then entered the Rumble straight away before?
This got me curious, so I checked Wikipedia and was stunned by the percentage of champions that retain at the RR. For the World and WWE titles:
2011: Both retain (Miz/Edge)
2010: Both retain (Undertaker/Sheamus)
2009: Cena retains, J. Hardy loses to Edge
2008: Both retain (Edge/Orton)
2007: Both retain (Cena/Batista)
2006: Angle retains, Edge loses to Cena
2005: Both retain (HHH/JBL)
2004: Both retain (Lesnar/HHH)
2003: Both retain (Angle, HHH loses but by DQ)
2002: Jericho retains Undisputed title
2001: Angle retains
2000: HHH retains
That's almost 90% for the champions in the 2000s.
The answer to your question is no, but there haven't been that many opportunities.
Probably means nothing, and I probably spent too much time looking into it.