8 WWE Royal Rumble 2020 Impulse Reactions
4. Bayley (c) Vs. Lacey Evans
In a first for this show since the addition of a second Royal Rumble, Bayley and Lacey Evans didn't wrestle to silence in a post-Rumble clash.
It speaks to how surprisingly successful the Lacey Evans babyface experiment has been - the pair didn't exactly reinvent the wheel in there, and Bayley's countering of Evans' best babyface spot (the old Merosault was always destined to be a popper alongside the Women's Right as soon as she turned) was as clean and cheap, but the bad guy got over by trying to subdue the good guy, and there's an awful lot to be said for that in 2020.
All the craic is still a bit one dimensional - the Champion is a misery now, the Challenger has a kid and has stopped being a d*ckhead to everybody - but these two have had good physical chemistry away from the microphone and Evans seems a cert to eventually win the title and satisfy a Vince McMahon dream sequence. Thumbs cautiously up, then, until they rematch the f*ck out of it before the next pay-per-view.