11 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Royal Rumble 2018

7. Hard-Hitting Triple Threat

Brock Lesnar Bruan Strowman
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Although it did not close out the PPV, the WWE Universal Championship triple threat match was set up to be a massive collision between three super-heavyweights. The announcers joked that they needed to reinforce the building, but that’s exactly what needed to happen.

Brock Lesnar, Kane and Braun Strowman wasted no time with a feeling-out process and got right to attacking each other and demolishing everything around them. Tables were broken, chairs were bent, and steel steps were hurled. The match itself barely lasted 10 minutes, but they squeezed a ton of action into it from bell-to-bell.

To make it even better, they managed to possibly set up another confrontation, with Braun standing in the ring and yelling at a victorious Brock that he didn’t pin him.

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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.