WATCH: Top 10 Royal Rumble showdowns
Friday 26 January 2018 12:04, UK
One of the key features of the Royal Rumble has always been its ability to generate intriguing confrontations.
Who can forget, for example, when Santino Marella arrived in the ring to great acclaim in 2009, only to be immediately reunited with the ringside area barely a second later?
But there have been some more meaningful meetings during Royal Rumble matches over the years.
The cliche commonly associated with the Royal Rumble is a cliche because it is essentially a wrestling truth - that is a match type which pits friend against friend, foe against foe, tag team partner against tag team partner.
Sometimes these are colossal collisions between legendary superstars whose careers have seemingly been built to one great destined point.
Sometimes they are surprising showdowns between wrestlers whose paths it was never contemplated would cross.
And sometimes they have consequences which reach as far as the grandaddy of them all, WrestleMania.
We've picked out 10 of the best Royal Rumble showdowns for your perusal - click on the video above to check them out!
