10 Things That Are No Longer Special About WWE Royal Rumble

Many smaller and mid-weight WWE performers have to showcase their agility and ring awareness to survive the Royal Rumble match, let alone have a chance of winning the entire shebang. In contrast, large wrestlers don’t need to be in-ring technicians. Considering the only way to lose is to be hoisted over the top and rope and dropped to the floor, all heftier workers need to do is be… hefty.

It all makes sense, too. The Rumble match is a sort of sumo-wrestling hybrid. Therefore, anyone with a sturdier base was unlikely to be moved by a less-than-equal force.

Without the aid of another heavyweight, the other competitors often resort to teaming up on the goliaths. Unfortunately, that’s the problem.

The squared circle monsters were meant to be detrimental to everyone else’s championship opportunity pursuits. In the end, they instead started to become relatively easy to eliminate. All the other entrants had to do was wait around long enough for the ever-so timely flock of furious lightweights to band together and toss out the giant. Who knows how many times titans like Big Show have been chucked out of the ring by smaller foes? Everyone stopped counting after the trillionth time.