12 worst Royal Rumble competitors

#4 Zack Ryder

Spoiler alert: he doesn't last long.

TOTAL ENTRIES: 4

TOTAL ELIMINATIONS: 3

CUMULATIVE TIME: 4:15

BEST TIME: 2:26

WORST TIME: 0:34

One time. Only one time did Zack Ryder go longer than one minute in a Royal Rumble match. That was in 2013. Every other year he's entered, he has gone just over a half a minute.

Of all the wrestlers who have ever entered the Rumble four or more times, Zack Ryder has the worst cumulative time. It's kind of sad that the Long Island Broski has only once cracked the one-minute mark in a Rumble, and even sadder when you consider that he never eliminated anyone despite the crowd's consistently positive reactions to him over the years.

Just to give a brief history lesson - he was one of CM Punk's victims during his famous "Sermon on the Mount" at the 2010 Royal Rumble, then he was once again fed to CM Punk (and Daniel Bryan) in 2011, and then he was fodder for Randy Orton in 2013 and for Bray Wyatt in 2015. He hasn't entered one since then.

I can kind of see why, given how his luck has been.