Biggest Waste of a Rumble Spot

I would not consider a celebrity a waste since they get a reaction, and bring a bit of exposure to the product.

Wasted spots to me are inserting jobbers like 3MB into the match.

My pick would be they year that saw the 3 faces of Foley, because in truth it resulted in 2 wasted spots.

2001 - Drew Carey

2004 - Ernest The Cat Miller

2005 & 2006 - Jonathan Coachman

2008 - Chavo (made ECW look even more pointless than it already was)

2011 - Hornswoggle

2012 - Cole, Lawler, Hacksaw, Ricardo, ugh this Rumble was terrible. At first I semi enjoyed the fact it was different and accepted it because this was the first year that "Anyone was eligible" but looking back it made for an incredibly weak Rumble match. If they followed the 40 man suit the year prior I prob would be ok with it but about 2/3 the rumble was announcers, legends, jobbers and Kharma.

2013 - Bo Dallas, something should be said for the fact they chose him to represent NXT and call him up, proceeded to last 2 weeks and hasnt been seen since while better performers have been called up and have shined since, ex: Wyatt Family, Fandango, Summer Rae, Xavier Woods. Should've been one of them or Zayn, he could've produced some cool memorable Rumble spots from the work i've seen of his.

2014 -Should Jimmy Wang Yang show up this year, he gets my vote for one of the most pointless Rumble returns ever. I'll be sure to be lol'ing when no one in the crowd knows who he is.

Lower-card jobbers are usually a wasted spot. Drew Carey, Coach, Hornswoggle, Ricardo and the commentators all add something fun and different to the match. But the likes of Uso A and Uso B in a Rumble (prior to this year) is total "making up the numbers." Sometimes having a jobber that nobody cares about in there is necessary to facilitate a spot made by the more worthwhile entrants, like when Tyson Kidd was in and did some spots with Cena and Hornswoggle that time. Or like if Roman Reigns needs disposable bodies to dump out of the ring tonight.

I feel like the most wasted spots are those times in the nineties when they'd fill up Rumbles with old guys that nobody remembered, or Japanese and Mexicans that nobody had ever heard of. Although they only did that because the roster was so thin at the time so it's not like they had many options.

2001-Drew Carey

2005-Daniel Puder

2006-Jonathan Coachman

2008-Hornswoggle, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Superfly Jimmy Snuka

2011-Hornswoggle

2012-Michael Cole, Kharma, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Road Dogg, Ricardo Rodriguez, Jerry the King

Lower card jobbers are the guys who travel on the road with the company year round. I dont expect them to have a match at Wrestlemania, but the least the WWE can do is give them a spot in the Royal Rumble instead of wasting it on legends, announcers, midgets and celebrities.

Hall of Famer Drew Carey

Those lower card jobbers are lucky to get a check and travel the world doing so. Big PPV's call for either big stars or novelty acts that will pop the crowd, not Bland Blanderson coming out to birds chirping.

I don't really believe there are any wasted spots. I feel like the point of the rumble is that anyone could win a chance to challenge for the title. Also, if the rumble was all guys that were legit contenders, the rumble would drag on forever and it will do damage to the momentum of a lot of guys.

Bastion Booger, 1994