5 Ups & 10 Downs From WWE Royal Rumble 2022

3. Big E Deserves So Much Better

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If you tuned into WWE for the first time since SummerSlam, you probably wouldn’t believe that Big E was WWE Champion less than a month ago.

E put Raw on his back the last couple of months and was rewarded with a last-minute decision to beat him for his title at Day 1 with a card change the day of the “premium live event.” Then he lost a #1 contender’s match and then match to Seth Rollins before being shuttled back to SmackDown.

Fans tried to soothe themselves by saying that this all was setting him up for a big run in the Royal Rumble, possibly vaulting him back into the main event scene.

NOPE. Big E entered at #26, eliminated no one, did nothing of note and was tossed by RK-Bro unceremoniously, so he wasn’t even around when Brock Lesnar entered the Rumble. For the record, Bad Bunny eliminated two men, and Shane McMahon tossed one.

A rapper and the 52-year-old son of the boss had better Rumbles than former WWE Champion Big E. But hey, let’s play it out and see where it goes…

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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.