WWE Champion: Randy Orton
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Randy Orton won the 2017 Royal Rumble match, eliminating the surprise #30 entrant Roman Reigns. His victory was met with a mixed reaction.
Most people cheered solely because Orton was an infinitely better choice than Roman Reigns, whose juggernaut-like main event push appears to be continuing no matter how vociferous the reaction towards him is.
Though Orton isn’t a bad choice in himself, his victory does ruin the opportunity for WWE to have used the Royal Rumble to elevate a new star.
With this victory, Randy announced that he’d be challenging for SmackDown’s WWE Championship, which John Cena won for the 16th time at the same Rumble PPV. This is where possibilities begin to change.
Some people believe that WrestleMania 33’s main event will be Randy Orton vs. John Cena for the 4,346,265th time, which would make sense given that these men are two of Vince McMahon’s favourites.
The other possibility circulating right now is for Bray Wyatt to win the championship at the Elimination Chamber PPV, only for Randy to capture the belt from Bray at ‘Mania.
Either way, it looks like SmackDown will be carried by Randy Orton for the coming months. Vince has been happy with Randy’s work since returning and was especially happy after Randy didn’t complain upon getting his head smashed in by Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam 2016.
And speaking of Brock…
