10 Worst WWE Royal Rumble Winners Ever
5. Seth Rollins (2019)
This Royal Rumble win defined the essence of Seth Rollins, if you’re inclined to believe that he’s a perfectly solid wrestler who isn’t anything special.
He won a match that was only decent, in a vacuum, but scanned as something of a relief. Thank God Vince McMahon didn’t commit a booking atrocity, eh?
The danger’s always there!
In 2019, though, sensible, un-botched but uninspiring really wasn’t good enough. AEW was on the cusp of making things interesting - a word one can’t really associate with Seth Rollins, as skilled as he is on his better days.
In football, when a club is in a dire run of form, the owner sometimes goes with - to borrow the clichés - a “safe pair of hands” who “knows the club inside out”. This new caretaker manager isn’t going to succeed at the top level, but they’re capable, at least, of staving off yet more utter humiliation.
That was Seth Rollins in 2019.
His unremarkable win led to some very committed booking - going over Brock Lesnar clean twice surely counts as being “handed the ball” - but his run-in with the Fiend and his Stand Up For WWE campaign didn’t do much for his Face of the Company credentials.