8 Ups And 12 Downs From WWE Royal Rumble 2021

5. Lana Gets Revenge

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It has been nearly two months since Lana was taken out of action by Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler, thus robbing us of the logical conclusion to her two-month-long storyline of going through a table repeatedly.

The decision to spend an inordinate amount of time scripting Lana’s travails only to write her off without resolution was emblematic of WWE’s issues these days, as they seemingly can’t even follow through on the most basic storytelling elements. And so, the bullying went unpunished… until Sunday.

Lana returned at the Royal Rumble and managed to eliminate Nia Jax, who was on a roll after entering at #29. (Of course, it was just Lana low-bridging the ropes so a charging Jax just hurtled out of the ring, but it worked.) In one fell swoop, Lana managed to rob Nia of a shot at WrestleMania and got a modicum of revenge for months of torment.

So while justice was delayed, it wasn’t denied, and WWE finally followed through on something, so good on them.

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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.