11 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Royal Rumble 2018

by Scott Carlson

1. Women’s Rumble Delivers

Sasha Banks Trish Stratus
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Despite a few negative moments (including the aforementioned legends’ dominance), the first women’s Royal Rumble was pretty well booked.

Going on last after another Rumble match and a bunch of other title matches, the women’s bout could have been completely overshadowed and lost the crowd. But the string of surprise entrants kept fans involved and into it. The match never got too crowded, and most of the notable women got a chance to shine.

We saw the first female Kofi Kingston, with Naomi walking the guardrail and using a chair to wheelbarrow her way back into the match. Old rivalries were renewed. Friends – and siblings – turned on each other. And the right woman won the first women’s Rumble.

So while there were some hiccups, hats off for a new milestone for WWE, and hopefully they build off of it.

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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.