10 Wrestlers Who Deserve A Big Push After WWE Royal Rumble 2018
The road to WrestleMania is paved with monster pushes.
The Royal Rumble has come and gone, and while there are still 67 days until WrestleMania 34, the event and its follow-up give us a broad idea of where WWE will head over the coming weeks and months.
Few events come with as much game-changing potential as the Rumble, and this year's was a complete success. Several wrestlers find themselves in vastly different positions after the show, and in Shinsuke Nakamura and Asuka, WWE delivered two victors the audience actually want to root for. For once, the post-PPV reaction is overwhelmingly positive.
It's tough to tell who else WWE plan on elevating heading into New Orleans. In the land of 50/50 booking, when pushes begin and end seemingly on a whim, anything could happen. Still, the Rumble gave us several indications of who they should push, either because of or in spite of their fortunes at the pay-per-view.
Granted, there are only so many seats at the top table. The WWE roster is vast, and they can't push everyone at once, so some marginalisation is inevitable. It'd still be great to see the following wrestlers in a bigger spotlight, though...
10. The Revival
Raw 25 was an absolute farce.
We all saw it coming, but that didn't make the moment when Triple H and his gang of decrepit geriatrics played finisher roulette with the throwback tag team any easier to swallow. Make no mistake, this was as pure a burial as you'll see on WWE television, and that WWE chose to do it to two wrestlers as talented as Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson is unforgivable.
"But it's just one beatdown," you might say. Cool, how did that "one beatdown" work out for The Ascension?
It's time for WWE to stop f***ing around with The Revival. They defeated Gallows & Anderson on the Royal Rumble Kickoff Show, but nobody cared. Then, they smashed Heath Slater & Rhyno on Raw. Again, tumbleweed. Their interest revels are non-existent, and no number of decisive victories over mid-tier opposition will solve this problem. The Revival most be re-positioned against their division's biggest names, and allowed to perform to their old NXT levels, when they were, without a drop of hyperbole, one of the best teams in the world.
A 2-3 month program with The Bar should be just the tonic Dash & Dawson need to get back on track. Make it happen, WWE.