10 Controversial Wrestling Matches You'll Never See Again
5. Royal Rumble 2015
Roman Reigns will never again generate the sort of response he did after last eliminating Rusev from the horrendously booked and significantly damaging 2015 Royal Rumble.
Nothing the 'Tribal Chief' will ever do as a heel or babyface will create such fury in a building or stadium, not least because the fans that might once have fumed are simply no longer there. Many lifelong pro wrestling fans very literally took their business elsewhere when AEW showed itself as the provider of the content they desired, resulting in 2022 WWE crowds that mostly respond as requested to anything they're served, if they're making noise at all.
Reigns being mercilessly abused throughout, Big Show and Kane limply lifting out all the perennial favourites like sacks of sh*t, 'The Bulgarian Brute' being presented as the final boss heel but received as the last babyface hope - every single steer at the climax of this match was a bum one. As if it could have gone any other way after Daniel Bryan's earlier elimination.
Like the part-time 'Head Of The Table', the Royal Rumble doesn't always deliver a match of the year candidate. But it'll never be this bad again.