10 Terrible WWE Main Events One Tweak Away From Excellence
7. The 1999 Royal Rumble Match
Why it's terrible: The Vince Russo Royal Rumble escapes a lot of criticism because of Attitude Era rose-tint and Vince McMahon's admirable cowardice, but it's a dog of a watch compared to some of the truly great Rumbles. There are several points of actual inaction, whilst suspension of disbelief is made tougher by the sheer number of wild coincidences throughout. Even for the January classic, there are one too many moments of the premise being stretched to breaking point.
One Tweak: I swear to god, bro, just book it like a f*cking Royal Rumble, bro.
It's not hard to leave some guys in the ring so that when a new combatant enters he doesn't have to stand alone out there for two minutes. Further to that, if the big draw is what's not going on thanks to the Austin/McMahon arena-wide brawl, make sure the rest of the match has more happening in the meantime.
If you absolutely must book 'The Rattlesnake' and The Chairman to be missing for the bulk, spilt the stars evenly across the match rather than just loading the last ten slots up with all the major names. The ending might be hot, but much of the magic had already been lost by then.