11 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Royal Rumble 2018
7. Cruiserweights Fail To Impress
You would think at a time when the WWE Cruiserweight Championship has become vacant due to the champ being fired would prompt a more aggressive approach to showcasing the division. If you were going to put a match on PPV (or at least the kickoff show), you’d want to garner some interest by showing off the talented wrestlers on 205 Live.
But that’s not what happened.
We got a six-man tag match pitting Lince Dorado, Gran Metalik and Kalisto against Jack Gallagher, TJP and Drew Gulak. They went through a match that was more ground-based than you’d expect, only picking up the pace and adding some high-flying moves toward the end. By then, it was too late to salvage a middling match.
It’s a shame, because you know these guys are capable of so much more, and this could have been a reset of sorts. Instead, it was a time-filler of a match put on in a mostly empty arena.