From top to bottom, the 2016 edition of the Royal Rumble delivered quality in spades. The undercard contained four well put together matches with the right people winning, plenty of exciting spots and a crowd who seemed to genuinely care about the events. The Rumble itself was objectively the best one in years, with a whole host of stories told, rivalries teased and of course the arrival in WWE of AJ Styles. Whether or not the right man won can be debated long into the night, but the hour of action that came before the finish was exciting, surprising and engaging. What more could one want? Well, we are but are critical species, and the Royal Rumble was not without fault. Professional wrestling is a unique form of performance art, one where the audience is very, very rarely completely satisfied (if ever). The non-stop nature of the product means that every event is as much about the future as it is about now, meaning decisions are made that are perplexing to say the least. Here are eight such decisions. As we are now on the Road to WrestleMania these could just be the beginnings of bigger, better stories, but right now they look like foolish move...
Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.
