6 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Greatest Royal Rumble

4. Soooo Looong

Greatest Royal Rumble
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“It was excrutiating; It was painful.”

Byron Saxton said a mouthful there. No match should last that long. It was an exercise just to watch the whole thing, to power through the first 35 guys, knowing another 15 were coming. It really was two different matches. The first 35 were mostly jobbers, tag team wrestlers and mid-carders filling space.

At #35, Randy Orton signaled a bit of a shift, although we still had NXT guys no one knew, clumsy Titus O’Neil and Curt Hawkins filling space. But at least we got Braun Strowman, Bobby Lashley, Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho in that grouping too.

Please, never do a 50-man Rumble again, WWE.

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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.