10 Most Disappointing WWE Moments Of 2016
5. Triple H Winning The Royal Rumble
The last few Royal Rumbles have suffered from crippling predictability, and while this year’s match was a lot of fun, it ended on an unsatisfactory conclusion. It was blatantly obvious in the lead-up that WWE were building towards an eventual Triple H vs. Roman Reigns showdown at WrestleMania 32, and with Reigns’ WWE Championship on the line, all signs towards The Game entering the Rumble and taking the gold.
That’s exactly what happened, and while Hunter got a big pop for eliminating Roman from the match, his win was only acceptable from an “anyone but Reigns” sandpoint. WWE put their top championship on a 46-year-old authority figure who hadn’t been a full-time wrestler for years, and all for the sake of shoehorning him into a feud that nobody wanted to see.
The Royal Rumble used to be the most exciting event on the wrestling calendar, but the past few years have done much to ruin that. Batista in 2014, Reigns in 2015, and Triple H in 2016 were huge disappointments, and set the wrestling year off to a disastrous start. Fingers crossed they’re able to avoid such an outcome with next year’s match, though they’ll have to try very hard to outdo the past three years’ worth of letdowns.