Nearly Half of the Rumble Participants Have Been Announced

14 Participants Have Been Announced for the Royal Rumble - and none of them are from Smackdown or ECW. The current list is...

Big Show
Carlito
Cody Rhodes
Evan Bourne
Jack Swagger
John Cena
Kofi Kingston
Mark Henry
MVP
Santino Marella
Shawn Michaels
Ted DiBiase
The Miz
Triple H

If this match were happening tonight, with these 14 participants, I would say it's Triple H's win - with Shawn going on to do the solo thing against Undertaker at Royal Rumble. In fact this scenario is completely plausible with another 16 people added to the mix. In a perfect world, Miz would win the Royal Rumble. But I won't even talk about it, because it's about a 100% Not Likely on the Likely Scale.

Other matches already announced for the Royal Rumble:

Undertaker (c) vs. Rey Mysterio (World Heavyweight Championship Match)- I'm looking for Rey to win this one. Undertaker goes on to fight Shawn Michaels at Wrestlemania - so the streak is broken without disrupting the world title contenders and Shawn and Undertaker can take their six month vacation after Wrestlemania.

- Sheamus (c) vs. Randy Orton (WWE Championship Match)- I'm terribly undecided on this match. I need another week of Raw to form a real opinion. If WWE wants to keep Randy heel, he wins here. If they turn Orton face, he loses here, and *shudder* helps John Cena win the title. (And my brain explodes.)

- Christian (c) vs. Ezekiel Jackson (ECW Championship Match)- I don't watch this show.