8 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (Feb 3)

7. Golf Cart Madness!

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At Sunday's Royal Rumble pay-per-view, the epic length of the entrance ramp caused WWE a headache. Even the pacy Kalisto looked like flagging when he eventually made it to the ring, at which point Big Cass and Chris Jericho had to just stand there, incongruously, waiting for him.

To the company's credit, it anticipated that the likes of the Big Show might have collapsed without intervention - and such intervention arrived in the form of chauffeur-driven golf carts (!), which were driven to the ring to presumably preserve those famously accurate spaces between Rumble entrances, which have never oscillated wildly from one wrestler to the next.

In reality, to borrow one of Bobby Heenan's most winning calls, by the time Mark Henry made it to the ring, it would have been Royal Rumble 2036. If nothing else, the ridiculous entrance ramp at least forced WWE to continue what is hopefully a new tradition: keeping decrepit Golden Era retirees out of the January Classic.

Jim Duggan, God bless him, is so mummified that - golf cart or no - he'd have turned to dust just manoeuvring himself through the ropes.

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