5 fascinating facts about Royal Rumble winners you may not know

#2 Roman Reigns currently averages 6.5 eliminations per Royal Rumble... but there's still one better

Roman Reigns has put on four impressive Royal Rumble performances, much to the fans' disdain.

Say what you want about Roman Reigns, but the numbers don't lie. And his Royal Rumble numbers are remarkable.

In his first Royal Rumble, he tossed out 12 men, breaking Kane's old record of 11 eliminations from 2001. He then won his second one, went coast-to-coast in his third one, and made it to the Final Two (again) in 2017.

As of this writing, Reigns has the 8th most eliminations in Royal Rumble history, which is incredible considering he's only been in four of them. With a little quick math, we can determine that Reigns (on average) eliminates 6.5 men per Royal Rumble match.

Impressive, but there's still one former Rumble winner who tops him - Hulk Hogan.

Much like Roman Reigns, Hulk Hogan also entered four Royal Rumbles. In that time, he managed to throw out 9 people in 1989 (a record until 1997), 6 people in 1990 (when he won), 7 people in 1991 (when he won again), and 4 people in 1992.

Not only does Hogan have one more elimination in his worst performance than Reigns does in his worst, but Hogan also has one more total elimination than Reigns - 27. This means that, on average, Hogan eliminated 6.75 people per Royal Rumble appearance.

And while we're on the subject, Stone Cold Steve Austin comes in a pretty close third place here, as his 36 eliminations in 6 appearances gives him an average of 6 eliminations per Rumble.

Back to the main point, though -- Reigns has more time to top Hogan's elimination number/average, but when people say that Roman Reigns' push is comparable to Hulk Hogan's, it's kind of hard to disagree when you put numbers like these side-by-side.