10 Most Shocking WWE Royal Rumble Eliminations
The most shocking WWE Royal Rumble eliminations in history!
6. Goldberg Eliminates Brock Lesnar - 2017
Given the way Goldberg routinely smashed through the opposition in his prime, winning the Royal Rumble must have seemed like a piece of cake when he entered his first one in 2004.
He looked good value for it, too, entering from the coveted number 30 position and duly getting rid of Charlie Haas, Billy Gunn and Nunzio.
However, an interfering Brock Lesnar snuck in and nailed Goldberg with an F5, leaving Da' Man easy pickings for Kurt Angle, who slung him over to end his fleeting flurry.
13 years later, the former WCW World Heavyweight Champion sought vengeance on The Beast Incarnate. Goldberg had improbably returned to WWE at the 2016 Survivor Series, where he trounced Brock in a one-sided squash match main event.
Anyone thinking Lesnar might make things right in the Rumble was in for a rude awakening, because after Brock had tossed Dean Ambrose, Dolph Ziggler and, Enzo Amore, Goldberg came out, hit a Spear and then sent Brock backstage for an early shower.
Not only was it shocking to see one of the odds-on favourites get eliminated anyway, but the relative ease with which it was done was unprecedented.
