6 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Greatest Royal Rumble

4. Leaving No Doubt

Matt Hardy Bray Wyatt
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The result wasn’t a surprise, but the manner in which they got there might have been, pleasantly so.

Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt captured the vacant Raw Tag Team Championships at Greatest Royal Rumble, defeating The Bar. Considering that Sheamus & Cesaro are now on SmackDown, it made perfect sense for Hardy & Wyatt to win the titles. But they did it in convincing fashion.

There was no surprise rollup or distraction finish to protect The Bar. Hardy and Wyatt took out their opponents, with Matt hitting a Twist of Fate on Cesaro to take him out of the match, then Sheamus falling to a Sister Abigail and elevated Twist of Fate.

The match itself wasn’t anything special, but we’ll give this an “up” nod because it was definitive.

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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.