13 Ups And 16 Downs From WWE Royal Rumble 2019

4. NXT Stars Show Up WWE Roster

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Want to see the difference between WWE and NXT? It was on display during the men’s Royal Rumble.

Johnny Gargano, Aleister Black and Pete Dunne all got some time to shine in the Rumble, with Dunne and Black throwing down in the latter part of the match center-ring. It got a pretty good reaction, with Dunne using small joint manipulation, and Aleister popping his finger back into socket in a great little moment.

But their throwdown was better than about 70% of the battles we saw in the Rumble, which bodes well for the next generation, but reflects poorly on the overall booking of the rest of the Rumble.

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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.