5 YRS AGO PPV PREVIEW: Keller & Sam Roberts Royal Rumble 2021 Preview with predictions and analysis of various possible winners, full card

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

Tv & Film, Sports, Leisure

3.9 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

In a special episode of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast from five years ago (1-27-2021), PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a bonus episode of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast previewing that Sunday’s WWE Royal Rumble with Sam Roberts from the WWE Kickoff shows and the Not Sam Wrestling Podcast and Sirius XM radio. They discuss first at great length the men’s Royal Rumble match and the top tier possible winners, second-tier possibilities, and long-shots, with the pros and cons of various options as they relate to WrestleMania. Then they breakdown the women’s Rumble match and the three announced title matches including Goldberg challenging Drew McIntyre and Kevin Owens challenging Roman Reigns.

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1:04.4	Five years ago this week, I was joined by Sam Roberts to preview that year's Royal Rumble.
1:12.3	We talked about the top candidates to win, second-tier possibilities, and long shots with pros and cons of various options as they related to WrestleMania.
1:13.4	We also broke down the Women's Rumble match and the three announced title matches, which included Goldberg challenging Drew McIntyre and Kevin Owens challenging Roman reign.
1:20.4	So a fun hour and a half here of conversation with the always enthusiastic Sam Roberts looking at the lay the land heading into the Royal Rumble in WWB.
1:28.6	Five years ago this week, this originally dropped on January 27th, 2021.
1:37.4	All right, Sam, without detailing yet, the names, how many in the Men's Royal Rumble, how many candidates roughly are there
1:48.9	who right now, if I pressed you to name them, which I'm not, we'll get to that, have a chance
1:53.9	to come out the winner. I was thinking about this and there's like, obviously, right? That's why we're
2:00.7	having this conversation.
2:02.6	I hadn't thought of that at all, Wade.
2:04.1	Let me take a break here.
2:05.7	Is that Sunday?
2:08.4	I think, you know, the thing about it is that there's probably at least a good five that have been announced and there's so many that
2:20.5	haven't been announced like there's so many open slots and so many potential you know i i could
2:26.8	easily i could probably come up with 10 five that are announced and and five that haven't
2:33.6	been announced or or some semblance of that.
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