13 Ups And 16 Downs From WWE Royal Rumble 2019

11. An Actually Funny Comedy Spot

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As mentioned earlier, WWE loves to try to do comedy in some matches, particularly the Royal Rumble. And we saw an example of it bombing in the women’s Rumble.

However, they got it right Sunday night in another spot in the women’s Rumble with Zelina Vega. The diminutive wrestler hid under the ring for much of the match, popping her head out to see what was going on. At one point, Dana Brooke got eliminated, and Zelina popped her head out to laugh at her.

Suddenly, Hornswoggle stuck his head out from under the apron, which freaked Vega out as she raced around ringside, with ‘Swoggle in pursuit. Zelina ran into the ring, only for Rhea Ripley to eliminate her, and she then kept running to the back, with Hornswoggle still chasing.

Of course, WWE then beat the joke into the ground in the men’s Rumble match, but this one was decent enough to merit a positive here.

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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.