8 Ups And 12 Downs From WWE Royal Rumble 2021

9. Dumb Things Cole Says

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You can’t always fault Michael Cole for saying something stupid considering he has someone yelling in his headphones constantly, but when Sami Zayn made his way out, Cole let loose a pretty dumb statement.

As Zayne entered the Royal Rumble at #3, Cole pointed out that #3 is the worst number to draw, talking about how statistically it’s the shortest average time in the Rumble. However, he left out one important stat: Bianca Belair literally just won the Rumble from the #3 position an hour earlier.

There’s nothing wrong with giving that stat, but he could have easily qualified it with that new piece of information. Instead, he just sounded like a dope talking about how unlucky #3 is.

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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.