WWE Royal Rumble 2017: 22 Best Internet Reactions To Randy Orton's Win
9. So Much For Surprises...
WWE played themselves with the Rumble booking, allowing it to unthinkably sag and then not delivering on any surprise entrances or any returns. It's almost like they threw out their own play-book of how to get even cheap pops from the crowd.
Instead of Finn Balor or a hero's return for Kurt Angle we got barely enough to raise an eyebrow...
The "replacements" for the surprise entrants as they will forever be considered simply didn't whip anyone up into a frenzy and the decision to bring out so many middling stars just looks weird on reflection...
And it's definitely Samoa Joe who is the biggest lamented missing player across the net...