13 Ups And 16 Downs From WWE Royal Rumble 2019

10. Retribution, Then Payback

Naomi Mandy Rose
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For a while now, Mandy Rose has been trying to seduce Naomi’s husband Jimmy Uso, to no avail. All it’s done is enrage Naomi.

So it was satisfying Sunday for Naomi to eliminate Mandy from the Royal Rumble. However, Mandy then pulled Naomi off the apron and tried to eliminate her. But Naomi hung onto the barricade and walked it, as she did last year. She leapt to the steps, as she did last year.

But before Naomi could re-enter the ring, Mandy blasted her off the steps, eliminating her. And just like that, both women had eliminated the other. Regardless of what you think of this feud, this was nicely done.

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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.