Rey Mysterio serves on this list as the perfect foil to the good Royal Rumble winner of Chris Benoit (#15). WWE would, for the second time, try to catch lightning in a bottle by placing Mysterio in the ultimate underdog role with his win at the 2006 Rumble. WWE would, in fact, go so all in with this strategy by not only having Mysterio win from the #2 spot, but he would also remain in the Rumble for a record amount of time. In the process, he would break the previous record held by Benoit in an effort to erase him from the history books following his controversial death.
The difference between the two was that Mysterio was simply not up to the task. Leading up to WrestleMania, and afterward as World Heavyweight Champion, it became obvious that the master of the 619 was not up to the task of his new main event stature.
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