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#1 Roman Reigns to win the Royal Rumble

It has already been reported by multiple outlets that Roman Reigns is the favorite to win this year's Royal Rumble match and face 'The Fiend' at WrestleMania 36.

SportsKeeda's Tom Colohue has reported that Roman Reigns is the management's pick to win this year's Men's Royal Rumble match, whereas Shayna Baszler will likely be the first choice to win the Women's Royal Rumble match.

The current betting favourites, previously these were just favourites from management, to win the Royal Rumble, I mentioned it was Shayna Baszler and Roman Reigns, they are now the betting favourites on a lot of betting sites, and a lot of betting companies are taking less and less odds of the chance for Roman and Shayna winning. It’s worth remembering, I believe the time was 2016 when Randy Orton won, the betting averages narrowed day by day to get closer and closer to Randy Orton, at that time you had Goldberg, Lesnar and The Undertaker in the Royal Rumble, so they were favourites the day before but Randy Orton was the betting favourite on the day. So it’s very telling when the betting favourites start to move.