6 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Greatest Royal Rumble

By Scott Carlson / April 28, 2018

4. Soooo Looong

“It was excrutiating; It was painful.”

Byron Saxton said a mouthful there. No match should last that long. It was an exercise just to watch the whole thing, to power through the first 35 guys, knowing another 15 were coming. It really was two different matches. The first 35 were mostly jobbers, tag team wrestlers and mid-carders filling space.

At #35, Randy Orton signaled a bit of a shift, although we still had NXT guys no one knew, clumsy Titus O’Neil and Curt Hawkins filling space. But at least we got Braun Strowman, Bobby Lashley, Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho in that grouping too.

Please, never do a 50-man Rumble again, WWE.