8 Ups And 12 Downs From WWE Royal Rumble 2021

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8. At Least It Was Quick

Drew McIntyre Goldberg
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After venting about the Goldberg/Drew McIntyre match, we do have to give credit in one area: it was mercifully short.

WWE knows that Goldberg isn’t capable of having some scientific, drawn-out match, so they just went for all action and ran through the semblance of a match in about 2:30. Sure, they could have had some other moves beyond finishers, and that’s a huge criticism. But they kept it simple, Goldberg didn’t blow any spots, didn’t drop McIntyre on his head, and didn’t win the title in a warped way of the company trying to make news.

For keeping the title on Drew and not getting too cute with things, we’ll give WWE the slimmest of “ups” here.

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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.