Its sad that one of the most exciting things about TLC was the announcement that WWE World Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar will defend his title at the Royal Rumble. Lesnar last defended his title at Night of Champions, which means that 18 weeks will have passed between title defenses. Thats 126 days, more than one-third of a year. That is an utter embarrassment when you consider that Daniel Bryan was stripped of the same title after less than 40 days of not defending it. Having said that, it was always widely expected that Lesnar would defend the title at Royal Rumble, one of the Big Four WWE PPVs. Now that its set in stone, there actually is a top prize to fight over. Sure, its going to be John Cena once again getting the title match, but at least WWEs top title will actually be featured on its programming once again.
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.
