Winning a Royal Rumble match is a career-defining moment in most wrestlers’ WWE careers. Since 1993, the winner of the Royal Rumble match punches their ticket to a World Championship match at WrestleMania. In some instances, the Royal Rumble match winner’s title match also guarantees a coveted spot in the main event of WrestleMania. However, there have been several occasions where the runner-up of the Royal Rumble match had a better WrestleMania than the winner.
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Multiple reasons as to why a Royal Rumble runner-up has had a better time at the Showcase of the Immortals than that year’s Rumble winner. Some reasons are that a Rumble runner-up has won a world championship match at WrestleMania, whilst the Rumble winner failed to win the top prize in their WrestleMania world championship match. Furthermore, another reason is that the Rumble winner may not have competed in a match at WrestleMania.
