12 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Royal Rumble 2016

By Scott Carlson /

7. Lucha Champ, Part 2

OK, hopefully we won€™t get a rematch on Raw to negate this title win in 24 hours. A serious argument can be made that if WWE was determined to actually make a new star out of Kalisto, he wouldn€™t have lost his United States Championship rematch against Alberto Del Rio three days after winning the title. That was just WWE€™s 50/50 booking, kicking into overdrive once again. Be that as it may, at least WWE did things the right way in the U.S. title match Sunday, with Kalisto absorbing a ton of punishment, persevering and overcoming to beat Del Rio and regain the championship. Del Rio kept up the pace in this match and made the luchador look strong in the match, eating Kalisto€™s Salida del Sol twice in a losing effort.Now, if WWE is smart (and that€™s saying a lot), they€™ll book him strongly going forward so that this doesn€™t look like a fluke.