The Royal Rumble is supposed to make legends, so why did WWE let these people anywhere near it?

There are some entries that scream more H.R. meeting than Rumble-sized surprise,

and those poor souls are who will be counting down today. I'm Andy from What Culture,

and here are 12 wrestlers who had absolutely no business being in the Royal Rumble. Number 12, Shane McMahon in

2022. Shane McMahon got a nice pop in the 2022 Royal Rumble, but the more he tried and failed to do

while in the ring, the more it became clear that having no business in the Rumble was an understatement

in this case. It looked for all intents and purposes

like Shane was booking his own run, which included going blow for blow with former

M.A fighter Matt Riddle and the physical domination of just about everybody in the latter

stage of the match that wasn't named Brock Lesner. And when he did bump for Lesnar,

he made a mess of getting himself over the top rope to be eliminated.

It was a performance so self-indulgent that he irritated his own insane dad, who ended up sacking his flesh and blood a couple of days later.

Inadvertently, this ended up being part of a legendary late career flub fest for Shane.

His final WW match, as of this recording, was his WrestleMania

39 cameo against the Miz that resulted in him tearing his quad on a leapfrog seconds after

the fans had finished chanting, you've still got it. Turns out, no, no, he did not. Wrestling-wise,

McMahon was last seen in a meeting with Tony Cannes for a business arrangement that went nowhere after he allegedly asked for equity and to run things in AEW.

Evidently, his rumble stinker was a sign of things to come rather than an outlier.

Number 11. Drew Carey in 2001.

It was often said that Vince McMahon was always happier trying an idea

that had worked in the past, rather than taking gambols on things with higher risk reward

ratios. He blew a small fortune on trying to make Lex Lugar a new Hulk Hogan,

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