Backstage News On Vince McMahon Rejecting Forbidden Door Royal Rumble Entrants

Over the last few years there’s been a lot of talk about wrestlers walking through the forbidden door, and Mickie James made history back in January when she entered the WWE Royal Rumble even though she was the Impact Knockouts Champion at the time.

Mickie’s involvement in the Royal Rumble led to speculation regarding other potential Royal Rumble entrants, but WrestlVotes recently explained to GiveMeSport that no one from AEW was considered.

“It was never on the table for it to be anybody from AEW. That that I know for sure. They agreed to have Mickie James wearing the IMPACT title, so I know the idea was ‘if we do it in the women’s, shouldn’t we do it in the men’s?’”

However, other names from the wrestling world were considered for the men’s Royal Rumble match, but none of them were approved by Vince McMahon.

“From what I understand, a list of four or five guys was presented, and Vince didn’t like any of them, so that’s where it ended. Vince doesn’t know every single wrestler outside of the WWE, so when this list was presented, there was nothing that jumped out at him. I’m not even quite sure he recognised the four or five or six guys that they said, ‘we can probably do this.’”