13 Ups And 16 Downs From WWE Royal Rumble 2019

8. The Feud Must Continue

Dolph Ziggler Drew McIntyre elimination
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When Drew McIntyre destroyed Dolph Ziggler a while back, this column talked about how writing Ziggler off for several months could help rehabilitate his character and really sell the beating he took.

So naturally, Dolph re-emerged during the Royal Rumble at #28 and eliminated McIntyre, because the feud – which Ziggler decisively lost – must continue. And Ziggler did nothing else of note, other than superkicking Nia Jax.

Keep in mind something similar happened last year, when Ziggler won the United States Championship, then surrendered it and quit, only to return weeks later at the Rumble. There’s just no rhyme or reason to this stuff.

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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.