8 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Royal Rumble 2025

6. A Bit Too Quiet

WWE Royal Rumble 2025 DIY Motor City Machine Guns Chris Sabin Alex Shelley Johnny Gargano
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Kudos to WWE for doing a two-out-of-three-falls WWE Tag Team Championship match during Saturday’s PLE, considering the lore of the women’s tag title match at the first Royal Rumble event.

However, the battle between DIY and Motor City Machine Guns played out largely to silence, save for some dazzling tandem offense, which brought the fans’ volume up a bit, but still below what you’d expect from 65,000 fans crammed into a stadium.

The match itself was fine overall – with DIY stealing a trick from The Bar’s playbook a decade ago with a fake tag – but it’s hard to award the match positive marks given how eerily quiet it was for much of the bout.

Good action without good fan reaction is not a formula for success.

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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.