3 women who appeared in the men’s Royal Rumble

#2 Beth Phoenix

Beth Phoenix is the only person to work both the men's and women's Rumble matches.

Beth Phoenix was a surprise entrant in the 2010 Royal Rumble and in some ways the most oddball of female entrants to the otherwise all-male match. Although the Glamazon was competing regularly on WWE television at the time, unlike Chyna, she wasn’t regularly wrestling men, but rather a cornerstone of the women’s division.

Phoenix did, to her credit, have the power game to immediately carry some credibility into the Rumble. Moreover, she made unique use of her femininity in executing the momentous elimination of The Great Khali from the Rumble via a lip lock.

Phoenix’s appearance in this match would become all the more historic. Interestingly, eight years later, she entered the first women’s Royal Rumble and thus became the only woman to work both types of Rumble, and the first woman to have ever worked two Royal Rumble matches (though she will have a great deal of company at that latter milestone after this Sunday).