10 Best Surprise WWE Returns
It's been twenty years since Ric Flair made his shocking return on a monumental episode of Monday Night Raw...
6. Edge - Royal Rumble 2010
The Royal Rumble match has long been a great place to host a surprise return, whether it's a one-off cameo by a legend or a modern star coming back from a layoff.
When Edge tore his Achilles tendon in a match with Jeff Hardy on a July 3, 2009 house show, he looked at the calendar and immediately targeted the 2010 Royal Rumble as the place to return.
That gave the Rated-R Superstar six months to get ready following surgery, not the longest period of time to recover from a major injury but certainly doable.
Neither Edge nor WWE informed viewers of this plan, and so when he entered the match as entrant number 29 it was a genuine and very pleasant surprise.
He immediately went after and eliminated Chris Jericho - the man he was a WWE Tag Team Champion with at the time of his injury and who publicly disparaged him once he got hurt - before finally eliminating John Cena to win the Rumble and book his place at WrestleMania.
Written by Lewis Howse
Features journalist for Cultaholic.com and script writer for the Cultaholic YouTube Channel.
