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3. IShow Speed In The Royal Rumble
A polar opposite to the sort of celebrity brilliance that everybody's been accustomed to over the past several years, the IShow Speed Royal Rumble cameo was better for its brevity than Speed going out there and looking like he truly belonged.
Taking the place of Akira Tozawa due to being in the right place at the right time, the influencer did well to pivot from deer-in-the-headlights to chancer-in-the-Royal Rumble over the course of his entrance, and this was an important bit of the work - the likes of Speed divide audiences, but he very effectively illustrated who he was before Bron Breakker appeared to almost end his existence.
Falling victim to one of the best spears ever by maybe one of the best to administer it, Speed went full tackling dummy and was left for dead by the future Vision man. His night wasn't even over - having eliminated Otis before Breakker trucked him, he was fed to the Alpha Academy man who promptly launched him backwards through the announce table. This gashed his leg up, which made for great additional content when it came to the inevitable detailed documentation of the moment.