5 surprise entrants you won't see in the 2017 Royal Rumble match

#4 Shelton Benjamin

He may be returning this year, but it won’t be in the Rumble match

The star, who was set to make his return to SmackDown Live months ago but fell to the injury bug, won’t be showing up in the Royal Rumble match. Mum’s been the word on the guy, and there has been no official word as to whether or not he has been cleared by doctors to compete.

Maybe WWE is holding this information back, realising that Benjamin is under the radar at this point because of everything else going on right now in pro wrestling, and all of the other rumours, but that’s difficult to say.

In any event, chances are very low that the Royal Rumble match will see the reintroduction of Shelton Benjamin to WWE.

He will hopefully be back, but with SmackDown Live being in a fairly similar position now as it was in the early stages of the new brand split, I expect that his return would go the same now as it would have last year when he was first hyped up.