3 Wrestlers who could win the Royal Rumble and 3 who should not

Should Not: Randy Orton

Randy Orton's recent heel work has been good, but another Royal Rumble win would be the wrong call.

Randy Orton is currently on a mission to destroy anyone the fans love or have ever loved. He brutalized Jeff Hardy and almost ripped off his ear. He even spit on the legacy of Lucha Libre and ripped off Rey Mysterio's mask on Smackdown this week.

While the heel work has helped to freshen up the once staggering Orton, the problem lies therein. He's a heel and so is the current champion on Smackdown.

Oh, and it's Daniel Bryan. You know, the guy who fought against Orton and the Authority throughout most of 2014 en route to a heartwarming and well-deserved WWE Championship win over Batista and the Legend Killer at WrestleMania 30.

It would be highly unlikely to have Orton get cheers from the crowd any time he would oppose Bryan. The two are polar opposites and have had hugely different paths to the top.

One spent numerous years in the independent leagues and was never deemed worthy of main event status.

The other has a famous last name and was hand-picked from developmental to be a part of one of the biggest factions (Evolution) of the last 20 years. Another strike against Orton is that he won the Royal Rumble in 2017.

It's too soon for him to win another rumble and he doesn't necessarily need another rumble win on his resume.

The main reason he won in 2017 was to set up a match with Bray Wyatt at WrestleMania and to have fans cheer him when he and Roman Reigns were the final two participants in the match.

Had it been someone like Rollins or Ambrose instead of Orton, Orton wouldn't likely have been cheered as he was.

It's time for another first-time winner to get a title shot a Wrestlemania.