The Royal Rumble is where WWE usually pulls out its biggest surprises of the year, with debuts and nostalgic returns littering the titular matches, in which 30 men and 30 women enter one at a time, and the match continues until 29 of them have been thrown over the top rope to the floor. The winners go on to main event WrestleMania in title matches. The 2019 edition of the Royal Rumble was short on personnel surprises, however. Aside from a handful of call-ups from NXT, WWE’s development brand, and the short-lived return of ‘90s icon Jeff Jarrett, things played out mostly as expected on Sunday night … that is, until the final entrant of the men’s Rumble match: Nia Jax. Nia Jax is the so-called powerhouse of the Raw women’s division, so if any woman was going to join the men’s Rumble, eliminate someone, then get dumped out, it would be her. That, in and of itself, is not particularly shocking. And so, she enters the ring, tosses out fan favorite Mustafa Ali to bewildered boos, and squares off with Randy Orton. She then attacks the tiny Rey Mysterio Jr., furthering her dominance and generally looking like a badass…. Read full this story
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