10 Ups And 11 Downs From WWE Royal Rumble 2020

4. The Messiah Is Sacrificed

Drew McIntyre Seth Rollins
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Kudos to the arrangement of Seth Rollins and his cronies coming down to ringside together and acting as one unit to eliminate the competition.

Rather than having them all enter the Rumble and take up space, AOP and Buddy Murphy just hung out at ringside and attacked the other participants, helping Rollins toss three men: Kevin Owens, Samoa Joe and Aleister Black.

And then, in a show of continuity, those three brawled with AOP and Murphy, pulling them away from the ring and leaving Rollins alone to face four men. His fate was quickly sealed, as he ate a series of finishers and was tossed.

Perfectly done.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.