So back in 2018, WWE decided to fly to Saudi Arabia and have the greatest rule rumble of all time. If you're asking yourself why it was the greatest, well it had 50 people in it, which is taking the idea of less is more, throwing it out the window. And this is a very interesting time for me as well because it was 24 hours before my own personal wrestling debut. So I watched this entire pay-per-view, absolutely terrified because I knew what was going to happen the day after, then turned out to be one of the best moments of my life. That is not what we're going to talk about today. However, that's where I was, and where I'm at now, we're going to go through every single 50 participants and figure out how they had a good wrestling career, and why they kind of thrown into the abyss. Let's find out. Number 50, Daniel Bryan. Now, of course, we are going to go in reverse order, kind of, because it is number 50, but we are going to talk about the number one entrance, who was Daniel Bryan, and he went one hour and 16 minutes, mostly, I suppose, because he was just allowed to come out of his retirement forced by WWE, and he just wanted to make up four last times, so he went totally crazy. He forgot to have a whale of a time, because not only did he tangle with Kurt Angle, which was basically a dream match, even if Kurt wasn't 100%. He also had that chopping battle with Roderick Strong, and there's probably an image on the screen right now. You can see that their chests are basically mincemeat, and you just know Daniel Bryan would have seen Roderick and been like you're an indie guy that made a name for yourself much like me. Let's have a fight. People do forget how close this was to his comeback though, then all of a sudden he was doing over 60 minutes in a very strange battle royal. And then of course he went on to have that feud with Big Cass, which now when you look back on it, when it didn't really work out,

but we aren't going to talk about that later. As for today, well, as we all know,

he has become a modern-day goat, if not one of the best wresters of all-time full stop. He moved

to AW in 2021, basically had a bunch of bouts that he's always wanted to have before he retired in

2024, and now he's doing commentary on dynamite, and he's great at that as well now he may be back in

the ring one day but given all of his health issues i just hope he does chill out and play nintendo

there is nothing else that brian dansson does need to give us so actually from 2018 to 2012 24

well he had one hell of a run maybe the best run of of the last. Number 49, Dolf Ziegler.

In a number two and lasting 22 minutes, which is kind of interesting. It's quite timely that we were talking about Dolf Ziegler, as I am sitting down to record this video, because he just returned on WWTV to be part of the John Sin the last time his now tournament, where he took on Solis Sokola. And even though he didn't win, it was a stark reminder that Dolth Dichler may be in his mid-40s, but he is still a tremendous professional wrestler. Certainly back in 2018, though, he was trapped between a rock and a hard place, because WW was aware of how good he was, but they never booked him in a situation that was going to be benefiting of the man. And he kind of became a gatekeeper for those coming up from NXT, which, as

Dolph has talked about in podcasts, is one of the reasons he started to go, maybe you want to release me. It was Coah Angle that did eliminate him, though, so that must have been fun, and he finally did leave in 2003, and ever since then, he's torn up in TNA, and he's been an absolute benefit to them and he's had matches in New Japan as well like we've already talked about he shows no

signs of slowing down. He really is very good, and in many ways underrated, but at the same time, if the first time you took a bump in training, someone said to you, you're going to have a career like Dov Ziegler, I think you'd look off into the distance and say to yourself, well, that's pretty flabbing good. Number 48, Sincara.

In a number three, and he lasted 30 seconds. Now, we need to make it very clear. The character come 2018 was already did, because the original Sincara was missed to go, and he fell out with WW management left and went back to Mexico. Here it was Hula Kohl. I think by this stage he totally understood this gimmick likely wasn't going to go anywhere.

So he turned up to Saudi Arabia, he did his job. Before he could say whips, bam, he was out. Eventually he got let go in 2019 when Hunukkah renamed himself to Sinta de Oro, when he did go back to Mexico. And then he started his own wrestling promotion. So now he essentially picks and chooses his bookings. That makes him a smart professional wrestler. It doesn't feel like there is any bad blood between him and WW. Although I doubt this syncar and character is ever going to come back. And again, when it does come to Mr Coe, well he has a relationship with AEW now too. I think that does tie in. They did not get on at all. Number 47, Curtis Axel. In a number four, and he too lasted two minutes.

And this is when you start to realize that a lot of people that were thrown into the Greatest Rumble were only done so, so we could get the numbers up. I don't know about you, but I don't think that's particularly good professional wrestling. Now, as we know as well, WW never really allowed Curtis Axel to reveal that he was the son of Mr. perfect Kurt Henning which was totally crazy and around about this time he was like team with

ryeback which actually was quite a decent duo, especially the way they did break up. They just shook hands, like, man, I want single success. So they ended as buddies. This goes to show you don't always have to turn on your tag team partner. He did ever run his intercontinental champion, though, and he was a Paul Heyman guy when eventually he did get released in 2020. Ever since then, he has appeared on a few indie shows. Also kind of feels like he's done with wrestling, which I could totally understand. Imagine getting to WWE, which would have been the equivalent of WCW when Mr. Perfect was around, and being told, we are not going to lean into this incredible gimmick that changed the lives of many children who loved him, especially as a heel. I think it was totally nuts. Number 46 Mark Henry. Now, to be fair, this was the twilight of Marks Henry career, so he did get in at number 5, only lasted 30 seconds. But we also hadn't seen him since April 2017, so it had been a solid year. The writing was on the war. Brian Danielson and Dolf Ziegler were the two that did eliminate him, so at least we tied into the whole, he's so big. How will we eliminate him for the Royal Rumble? And then he went on to AEW, where he kind of did some things. These days, you can probably hear him on Busted Open Radio. I do think he has a legends deal with WWE. Although actually when you do go into what Henry is being done most over the last five years, it is helping young up-and-common wrestlers find their way to be at AEW or WWE, and there ain't nothing more important than that. That is the cycle or the circle of professional wrestling when a legend reaches down and brings somebody else up. So in that sense, he's done some stellar work. Number 45, Mike Canellis. In a six, and out in three seconds, and I suppose if you aren't going to win a raw rumble, you may as well be the dude that has the shortest time, but the whole point here was trying to break the record. They did not. Again, Mike lasted three seconds, and Santino, and he was in and out in around about 1.6. It was Mark Henry as well who did this, so how he got elimination this quick, I will never know. And Mike's gimmick at the time was he was scared about going back to the USA because wife Maria was probably going to yell at him. You should go and watch what WW was doing with these two at the time. It was a little bit strange. Canellis was another one of these guys that did get in the 2020 cuts, which were very controversial because they were slap bang in the middle of a pandemic. But soon after this, he did find his way to AEW, had a pretty decent run there. These days, you're more likely to see him on Ring of on the TV. But he's still performing, he's still going, he's still having good matches, and by this point I think you've got to say he has had a pretty damn good career. Number 44 Hiroki Sumi. In a number seven, and he'll last in 45 seconds, and if you are going to believe the rumor mill, and want to stress this is allegedly reporting here, the only reason Sumi got brought in, especially given that he'd done nothing with WW before this,

is because Saudi Arabia had been, listen, WW, we're playing you a lot of money, and we would love to have Yoko Zuna on the show when I presume somebody sat down to say, listen, it's going to be a little bit of a problem. No, he did have a brief standoff with Mark Henry because once again it was big men, sla man meat. And after this, he never did any wrestling again, although he did get the last laugh because he essentially went and joined the movie business when he got a part in the John Wick franchise. I mean, that is pretty damn awesome. It's also interesting to note that he had retired from Suma Wrestling in 2017 and of course, it was April 2018.

So I can only imagine his phone rang. He answered it and someone said, listen, we are going to pay you a lot of money for no work whatsoever. All you got to do is get in a ring and someone's going to throw you out a ring. So we all need to be more like Sumi. This is how you make the most cash in the shortest possible time. Number 43 Victor. From the Ascension tag team, he did come in at number eight, and I do believe he lasted 45 seconds. So churn is the word my friends, churn. We were

just trying to get through as many people as possible. And actually, given that the Ascension

have come up, WW, we never treated them right on the main roster. Go back and watch some of the

stuff they were doing at NXT. They just had that cool cool factor man. And I genuinely thought when they did get to Raw Smackdown, they could be portrayed as the new version of the Road Warriors, which WW did do as a parody. Guess how long that lasted? Soon after this, Victor got released when he renamed himself Zion. Listen, he did do a few things in the NWA. He did a few things on the indie scene. And nowadays, it feels like he's quietly left it all behind him. But not everybody does get to the big leagues. And again, the NXT run, that's pretty flipping good. Number 42, Coffey Kingston. So here's a modern day go, and he did come in at number nine. And thankfully he did last 15 minutes. You do not put kofi in a raw rumble and chuck him out straight away i would find it insulting now his main input was making sure tony niece got eliminated alongside Xavier woods because of course they're new day friends and the coolest thing to do when you are watching this is to know that in one year's time it was going to be kofi mania and nobody had that on their bingo cards. But that's why it is

so great. If everybody deserved the accolade, I tell you my friends, it was Kofi Kingston. These days he is

still kicking ass. Of course, had that wonderful hill turn in December 24, which WW didn't really

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