5 Ups & 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Backstage (Jan 14)
1. Trailblazers
Short but sweet, this return from commercial loaded with highlights of the four women that entered the men's Royal Rumble long before such a thing existed for their own division - or in Nia Jax' case in 2019, because she f*cking wanted to.
Ahead of a couple of clunker segments on a show that otherwise raced by, this was a palette cleansing use of WWE's vast archive, not least with Rumble fever starting to gradually permeate throughout the entire organisation. The celebration of Chyna, Beth Phoenix, Kharma and Jax was nice for the sake of being nice, and how often can that be levied at WWE?
As a bonus by-product, Kong was more over by virtue of the clip played of her 2012 Rumble cameo than she's been since sidling up to Brandi Rhodes as part of The Nightmare Collective in AEW - even Backstage can book a better women's division.