Ranking EVERY WWE Royal Rumble Match From Worst To Best
10. 2021 (Women)
The ThunderDome Royal Rumble presented yet another interesting challenge for a company that had failed spectacularly to meet any of the previous ones from the moment the pandemic took hold in 2020.
A beloved institution dependent on crowd reactions for so much of drama surely needed real voices and faces rather than piped in digital ones, didn’t it?
No, in fact. And if anything, time proved even kinder to a pretty great Rumble, in that it clearly delayed a decaying WWE product being exposed to a live audience. The work was good, the cameos were sweet and the direction - at last - was centred around building for the "Forever" rather than the "Then" or "Now". Especially because nobody could be "Together".
Not to overstate the outcome either, but transport yourself back to January 2021 and it's hard to do so with a smile. The world - or at very least the wrestling fan corner of it - needed something as joyous as Bianca Belair's victory, and 'The EST's earnest euphoria at her achievement only solidified it as old school WWE magic finally transported to a contemporary age.