10 Wrestling Matches That Seriously Took The Piss
3. The 2015 Royal Rumble
A wretched sequel to a wretched mistake one year earlier, the Royal Rumble as we all knew it died on January 25th 2015. It took big gimmicks and big stars in 2016 and 2017 to keep it from becoming a zombie, and the women's division to reinvent it entirely in 2018, to which we should all be grateful.
The Rumble was gone. The whole game was.
When WWE had failed to add Daniel Bryan to the match in 2014, they got Rey Mysterio and Dave Batista booed. When they added then eliminated him a year later, they turned the audience on the entire company.
This took the piss out of the exact fans from one year as well as additional ones that hopped on in the aftermath. A scientifically engineered selection of "f*ck you" gestures joined the unrelenting and unwelcome push of Roman Reigns as the upper-midcard were reduced to near-literal sacks of s**t in a sequence of closing Big Show and Kane eliminations that even now beggars belief.