12 WWE Royal Rumble 2018 Impulse Reactions

12. Returning The Favour

The previously unannounced kickoff match between The Revival and The Bálor Club was as ineffectual as the Raw 25 squash that triggered it, made worse by the fact that none of the men even had a sniff of a position in the Royal Rumble match later on with the battle royal predominantly dedicated to the bloated singles rosters across either show.

Thrown together alongside some pedestrian Cruiserweight action in the absence of former champion Enzo Amore, the performers fittingly wore the expressions of those with better places to be.

Watched by less than half of those that idly looked past two moribund minutes of in-ring action to get a glimpse of DX d*cking about in the Manhattan Center on Monday, this match offered little indication of the plans for either going forward and failed to repair the damage done to Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder.

Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson weren't covered in glory by the win either, as they weren't exactly a year earlier when they lifted the tag team titles from The Bar on the 2017 curtain-raiser. Sheamus and Cesaro bounced back from that setback, can The Club fail upwards from their winning fall?