10 Most Disappointing Nights In WWE History

OK, so it's probably true that the extent to which this show sucked has been exaggerated. The WWE audience, like any group of angry fans, have an unfortunate tendency to overstate their strength of feeling in the immediate post-mortem (hence every Arsenal defeat is the team's worst-ever performance).

But it still fell short of expectations, and not just for the television audience either. Some of those who attended the Manhattan Centre leg of the broadcast, whose tickets didn't come cheap, were filmed protesting after it went off air (good luck with that).

It should be a violation of wrestling law to invite Stone Cold Steve Austin to your show and not put a microphone in his hand. He didn't even get the chance to exchange a couple of "whats" with the crowd; he just delivered his Stunners, downed a can of beer, and then left.

Undertaker's promo was anti-climactic too, neither confirming nor quashing speculation that he is set for a return to the ring in April. That would have been fine if there was something else to sink our teeth into, but all the other segments were just standard fare Royal Rumble build-up, which meant that there was little to really get us out of our seats.