The theme of the 2015 Royal Rumble clearly seemed to be, We dont care who you cheer, well cram our babyface down your throat! This of course runs completely counter to Vince McMahons podcast interview with Steve Austin where he said that they listen to the fans. (If you believe that, theres a bridge for sale.) By the middle of the match, fans had completely turned on the match with Daniel Bryans elimination and were jeering everything that happened. Then the #25 entrant, Dean Ambrose, came out, and fans erupted. It bore a question: If WWE is going to book its biggest fan favorite to get eliminated around #15, and you know that the Philly fans are going to turn on the match (which also happened last year, so this wasnt unprecedented), then why would you hold off your next smart fans favorite for 10 entrants? It didnt matter though. WWE brilliantly booked two of its lumbers lummoxes, Big Show and Kane, to knock out and toss Ambrose, Bray Wyatt and Dolph Ziggler three extremely popular wrestlers in fairly rapid succession at the end. If WWEs goal was to royally piss off Rumble fans, mission accomplished.
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.
