Imagine you're sitting in Gorilla on Monday night in Portland, your Paul Levesque and you just watched the interaction between CM Punk and Drew McIntyre. You have the responsibility of choosing who will win the Royal Rumble and the Elimination Chamber match in the coming weeks to set up the main events of the biggest show of the year.
People online, like me, would tell you the forgone conclusion is that CM Punk and Cody Rhodes will win both events. The only option you have is who wins what and in what way. You also gave the potential of The Rock if you want to get frisky. But, what about the dark horse contender that you just saw interact with CM Punk at a high level? This superstar has been a world champion, a solid following and has felt like he has been underutilized in the majority of his run in WWE. He also, at least per reporting, has his deal ending soon and has not resigned.