5 most surprising Royal Rumble winners

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No one saw these coming

#1 John Cena - 2008

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Most shocking Rumble return

During a match with Mr Kennedy on the October 1, 2007, episode of RAW, John Cena suffered a legitimate torn pectoral muscle. John soldiered on through the match and an attack afterwards from Randy Orton. The injury was claimed to have been suffered from Oron's RKO onto the announce table after the match by WWE announcers, but it really happened after a botched hip toss during the match with Kennedy.

WWE announced that John was too miss anywhere between 7 months to an entire year of action. However that didn't happen, instead, John truly lived up to his 'Super Cena' moniker bis-toed to him from the fans as Cena made a surprise return as the number #30 entrant in the 2008 Royal Rumble, just under 4 months after the injury occurred.

The building nearly blew off Madison Square Garden as his theme music hit and when he last eliminated Triple H to take home the win.


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