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Originally Posted by Bigdaddydvo
It'd be like when Robert Varkonyi or Jerry Yang won the WSOP. Sure, any of the 30 can win, but the event obviously favors the upper crust of talent. Still, there is a huge luck/variance factor in every RR. Remember that Santino Marella got heads up with ADR last year and damn near won it outright.
FWIW, the above analysis goes to show how amazing Stone Cold's 3 RR victories are. Obviously most wrestlers would do anything to win just one, but 3 is on a whole other plane of existence.
I think this analysis makes perfect sense 5 years ago, but not any more.
Nowadays people dont just go in to the rumble and try to get anyone out, they deliberately focus together on the main threats. You only have to look at last year when Cena and Orton were targeted and thrown out, and the relatively unknown ADR was able to capitalise.
Same the year before with Edge. Noone even had any idea he would be back, so noone prepared for him. While they were all focussing on the big threats, Edge was able to seize the opportunity and take the rumble.
Its obviously hard to pick a winner in such a chaotic event, but I would say a guy like JTG would be my favourite.