7 Ups And Downs From WWE Royal Rumble 2015
WWE tells fans it doesn’t care who your favorite wrestlers are.
Never let it be said that WWE doesnt stick to their game plan even if that game plan is exactly the opposite of what is best for business. For the second Royal Rumble in a row, WWE told its fans collectively that it doesnt care who your favorite wrestlers are, the company will choose the next big thing and youll like it. What looked like it had the potential to be a really fun and enjoyable Royal Rumble match degenerated in its second half into an absolute mess and not just because the Philadelphia fans (rightfully) booed mercilessly. At one point toward the very end of the match, there were about 10 men in the ring with next to nothing going on. If the #28 entrant is coming in and there is nothing interesting happening in the ring, then something is dreadfully wrong. While the Rumble match itself was terrible, the Royal Rumble PPV itself did have a couple bright spots. The WWE World Heavyweight Championship match had the notoriously tough Philly fans chanting This is awesome! multiple times. (Perhaps this should have closed out the PPV rather than the Rumble match.) And there were some individual moments from the Rumble that were noteworthy. However, the Royal Rumble kicks off the Road to WrestleMania and thus is a barometer of how WrestleMania will shape up. And the biggest component of that is who wins the Rumble. Given how things unfolded, we could be looking at a repeat of last year, with the role of Batista being played by the 2015 Rumble winner, Roman Reigns. So lets get to the meager ups and booming downs from possibly the worst Royal Rumble ever.