#3. Roman Reigns - Royal Rumble elimination record

Before 2014, the record number of eliminations in a single Royal Rumble match was held by Kane, who wiped out 11 competitors and was the runner-up at Royal Rumble 2001. In 2014, that record was broken a man who was a year away from winning the match himself - Roman Reigns.
Still with The Shield at the time, Reigns would dominate the Royal Rumble 2014 match, breaking Kane's record and eliminating 12 superstars. Like the WWE legend, he was the runner-up in the match, losing out at the end to Batista.
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It was done to set up the push that he would begin to receive in the following year. Interestingly enough, fans clamoured for Roman Reigns to win when he had the final showdown with Batista. All of this was only a year before he was booed out of the building for winning the Royal Rumble match. It was the start of what would be one of the biggest pushes in WWE history.