10 Best entrants to start the Royal Rumble match in WWE history

Elias and Jeff Jarrett formed a fun pair of opening participants in 2019
Elias and Jeff Jarrett formed a fun pair of opening participants in 2019

#7 Sasha Banks(1) vs Becky Lynch(2) (2018)

The best women wrestler to start the historic match
The best women wrestler to start the historic match

When WWE announced the first ever Women Royal Rumble match for 2018, no one was sure how the fans were going to respond to this idea. WWE was hell bent on doing everything possible to make this match a grand success, and that included choosing two suitable candidates to open the match.

Guess what? They smashed it right out of the park with their selections, with Sasha Banks becoming the first ever entrant and Becky Lynch soon joining her in the ring. As two of the pioneers of the Women's Revolution, both Superstars had more than earned the right to be a part of this history making moment.

This interaction in this match was also special for the fact that, barring any tag team matches and their matches in NXT, this was their first one-on-one face-off in over two years, and the two wouldn't come face to face again for more than 18 months. Women's Royal Rumble match in 2018 was a success, and this choice was certainly one of the main reasons for that.

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Edited by Akhilesh Tirumala
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