5 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Raw 3:16 Day

3. Still Get Goosebumps

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The one perk of sitting through the entire 2020 Royal Rumble match was getting to see entrant #21 make his shocking return.

Despite having watched Edge’s surprise appearance and the crowd reaction no less than 50 times on YouTube, this writer still got goosebumps seeing the Rated-R Superstar return at WWE’s signature January PPV. Watching Edge nail repeated spears and manage to hang with all the current superstars despite being retired for nearly nine years was still just as surreal as it was nearly two months ago.

If anything, that section of the match, combined with Edge’s promo Monday night, reinvigorated a desire to see this match in less than three weeks, empty arena or not.

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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.