Really, on WWE Network, every special show is already four hours. It is just that WWE book the first hour as a "pre-show", with a ratio of forty minutes talking and video packages to twenty minutes of wrestling action. For SummerSlam 2015, WWE took the step to outright make that event an official four hours. It is something they should also do for Royal Rumble 2016, as the Rumble, WrestleMania and SummerSlam are the holy trinity of pro wrestling specials and deserve equal treatment. Plus, the Royal Rumble match is an hour in itself. That can sometimes mean an underdeveloped undercard. How many times in the past have we seen the pre-Rumble matches rushed because WWE need to allocate sixty minutes to it? By making the show four hours, it will give them time for a typical special card, with the Rumble match on top of it. Making this change worked out well for SummerSlam, and can be a neat promotional sell for the "biggest Rumble event ever".
