10 Expectations Vs. Reality For WWE Royal Rumble 2021
1. They Can't Bring Back Brock Lesnar AGAIN, Surely...
Expectation:
Say Bray Wyatt doesn't win the Royal Rumble match.
Say Bray Wyatt does in fact return with a burnt mask and eliminates Randy Orton from the Rumble by distracting him with a Zippo, before one of the robots programmed by every other TV match they work accidentally rolls him up and then scarpers out of the ring.
WWE can't rely on Brock Lesnar again. 2020 was an atrocious year highlighted, inexplicably, by the dual ascension of Drew McIntyre and Roman Reigns. Rule-proving exceptions, or evidence that the giant is merely sleeping?
The giant is dead.
In any event, why would you go back to Lesnar again? He's a draw and 'Mania needs them, but he's not going to do a job immediately after getting his ar*e handed to him in four minutes last year. He'd win, and we'd see more of the deadening repetition that did very little for Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins.
Reality:
The word "respect" should terrify you.
Say Drew actually does defeat Goldberg. The obvious post-match is a respectful handshake and passing of the torch.
But that's not episodic pro wrestling soap opera; what is is Brock Lesnar coming back to avenge last year's defeat.