WWE Royal Rumble 2021: 10 Nightmares That Could Happen
6. The Lack Of Atmosphere Kills WWE's Buzz
The anxiety pre-Sunday is real.
One year ago, fans in Houston's Minute Maid Park roared themselves hoarse through one of the best supercards of the modern era. Edge's return, McIntyre's win and a generally excellent night of action vindicated their volume. WWE are gonna' find it hard to replicate that in 2021.
This will be the first Royal Rumble ever to take place without a live audience at ringside. That means there's no precedent set for how one of these bouts works in front of the ThunderDome LED screens, and that's rather disconcerting going in. Could the once-mighty Rumble be something of a crowd-less popcorn fart in execution here?
Hopefully not, but maybe. There isn't going to be any natural atmosphere in Tropicana Field at all this weekend, and that doesn't exactly sound promising for such a beloved match type like the Rumble. Fingers crossed that WWE can create some of their own buzz and mask the void.