10 Easy Ways Of Injecting Realism Into WWE
2. Rethink The Rumble
The Royal Rumble is an absolute institution, so popular and enduring that it refuses to go the way of its contemporary, the 5 on 5 Survivor Series elimination match.
The 2018 incarnation was a refreshing change from the woefully unrealistic trend that had become endemic in recent years: the surprise entrant. Watching Michael Cole in there in 2012 was a particularly irksome example of it. This isn't the Gimmick Battle Royal at WrestleMania X-Seven. This is a match held to determine the contender for the company's biggest prize on its biggest night. 2018 saw the return of the Hurricane, in what was one of few weak spots of an awesome match. Once an affectionate trope, this has devolved into a sort of empty Family Guy-style reference. The mere sight of a performer from yesteryear is supposed to generate a pop. Increasingly, this relic of a spot is as tired and irrelevant as the antiquated animated show itself.
The likes of Michael Cole, El Torito, The Godfather et al. should be nowhere near it. Not that WWE cares, but it's incredibly difficult to parse just how these comedy entrants end up there in kayfabe. Does everybody connected with WWE, past and present, wrestler and non-wrestler alike, receive an invitation to stick their hands in the golden tumbler, on a first come first served basis? If so, isn't it a coincidence that, year after year, there is an equal mix of 28 full-time roster members and two wacky characters from WWE's colourful history?
Hurricane's Brian Christoper Special of a reaction hopefully killed this goofy b*llocks for good.