10 Times WWE Totally BOTCHED The Royal Rumble

10. 2022

To focus on just one botch from last year's sh*tshow would genuinely be doing it a disservice.

Shane McMahon booking himself to batter Matt Riddle and others before struggling to get over the ropes for a Brock Lesnar elimination was a riot. AJ Styles getting the most eliminations in the entire match and going half an hour only to eat an unremarkable exit himself. The devastating disinterest the live crowd had in 90% of the combatants, or at very least the complete ignorance of their theme songs.

There are sometimes matches - and with Rumbles, it should be every time - that can be best summed up as having The Lot capital-T capital-L. This was the polar opposite and troublingly so. After years of the show and match itself reflecting something a return to form, WWE botched the booking of the men’s and women’s matches in 2022 killed the magic all over again and left the Road To WrestleMania still full of pot - and plot - holes.