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The original plan for the Men's Rumble winner was Riddle, PWInsider.com has learned. Plans were changed over the course of the week a ton of times with the final decision to have Brock Lesnar enter and win as a surprise. At one point, there was a pitch for Randy Orton to win as well, but Riddle was the frontrunner until the switch to Brock was made.
Kurt Angle stated on his Kurt Angle Show podcast with Conrad Thompson that he would be back on WWE programming "for the next month or so." Angle was backstage at the Royal Rumble and filmed content for the WWE Network, including Table for 3, over the weekend. WWE did not acknowledge publicly that Angle was at the show.
Bad Bunny was secretly training for the last several weeks before the Rumble.
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