List Of All The Rumored Surprise Entrants in the Royal Rumble Match

The speciality of the Royal Rumble match is that we get to see surprise entrants, which includes Legends as well as Superstars who return after a hiatus.

Here's a list of this year's rumored surprise entrants in the Rumble match:

Rob Van Dam - RVD is rumored to be a surprise entrant in the match, but it is still unknown whether it's just a 1 appearance deal, or a part time deal for a few months (possibly till WrestleMania).

Dudley Boyz - The Dudley Boyz, who have never participated in a Royal Rumble match, have been in talks with WWE officials for a while now about returning to their programming, and they are rumored to be the surprise entrants in the Royal Rumble match at the moment (not confirmed).  There were reports last year that one of the two could end up in NXT as a trainer but we haven’t heard anything else about that.

Diamond Dallas Page - Another surprise entrant that the WWE officials want is a multiple time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, Diamond Dallas Page. Officials have wanted to do a program with DDP for a long time now, and it looks like they are finally going for it. If they go with this plan, then lets hope we get to see a confrontation between him & Randy Orton, who is expected to be back for the 30-man Royal Rumble match. It would be great to see the “Diamond Cutter vs. RKO” & interesting to found out if DDP can take some revenge on Orton for stealing his move!

Bo Dallas - It is expected that Bo Dallas will make a return to WWE TV at this event. He has been out of action since last November due to an injury.

Randy Orton - Orton has been advertised for several WWE events (including the Royal Rumble PPV) for quite sometime now, and has not yet made his return to WWE TV. This has lead to much speculation that he will be returning in the Royal Rumble match (given the fact that his surgery was planned in time so that he could return in time for the Rumble match).

* According to reports, 2 spots have been locked for entrants from NXT. There is a possibility that we might see Baron Corbin in the Rumble match.

Surprise Entrants for Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal ?

There are 30 entrants scheduled for Andre The Giant Memorial Battle just like the Royal Rumble match. So can we expect some Old School Surprise Entrants for the match ?

This will be a perfect moment for the return of part-time wrestlers like Rob Van Dam, Chris Jericho & other Old Schoolers for 1 time appearance only like Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Sgt. Slaughter, Jake Roberts, DDP.

RVD Reveals Why He Didn’t Re-sign with TNA and Went to WWE

WWE part-timer Rob Van Dam recently spoke to Chris Jericho on his “Talk is Jericho” podcast about how he almost stuck around longer in TNA, but essentially they took too long to get a deal signed.

RVD said that his three-year contract with TNA ended last year, and even though they used up all of his dates, they still continued to use him. When it came time to renegotiate a new deal with TNA, they talked about every single term. He said that he was really looking forward to the deal, but then the company started slacking and they kept giving him the run-around. Officials then started to pass the blame around as to why the company was taking so long until RVD had finally had enough.

“I got to a point where I was offended,” RVD admitted. “It struck my ego. So I was just like, ‘Well, screw them!’”

RVD said it was then when he reached out to World Wrestling Entertainment.

Rob Van Dam Tweets About His WWE Return

Rob Van Dam continues to tell fans on Twitter that he will be returning to WWE soon. 

As noted before, RVD's contract with World Wrestling Entertainment allows him to only work a certain number of dates, and then he takes an extended amount of time off.