Everlong wrote:I heard the rumble was awful. Someone please explain.
At yer' service.
Both rumbles sucked. Because they released so many people in 2021, literally HALF the participants in the women's rumble were not currently employed by WWE, lmao. So like every other entrant was a "surprise return" by all the... "legends" they could salvage. The crazy thing is that they even brought in Mickie James, who is the current Impact Women's Champion. She even came out to her TNA theme and had the belt with her.
Men's rumble was actually somehow even worse. There were no memorable moments at all, and then Brock Lesnar came in at #30 as a "surprise" (not really, see below) and just tossed out everyone in like 2 minutes, including Big E, who was the WWE Champion a month ago, and Drew Macintyre, who had beaten Brock clean in the main event of Wrestlemania two years ago. Seemed like half the people in the match were nobodys/jobbers. I think there was only one surprise entrant, Shane McMahon, and he got fired two days later because apparently there was heat on him backstage for how he had booked the rumble.
Some people were looking forward Brock Lesnar vs Bobby Lashley because it's an actual dream match, despite the super underwhelming build-up it had. So lo and behold, the match ends up being less than 10 minutes long and Brock takes out Lashley with a single F5. But Roman Reigns interfered and hit Brock with the belt, allowing Lashley to cover him and become the new WWE Champion. As soon as this happened, it was obvious that Brock would go on to win the Rumble.
The one bright spot was that Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns had an outstanding match. In hindsight, it will probably be the match where Reigns should have lost his championship.
In a nutshell, this show just reaffirmed that the only wrestlers that matter in WWE are Brock Lesnar, Roman Reigns, Charlotte Flair, and Ronda Rousey. Everybody else can and will be sacrificed to feed their pushes.
And it's just one of many, many, problems with the product, as I talked about at length in the CM Punk/AEW thread. It's one thing to have a crappy show, but what's getting more and more obnoxious is the absolute ZERO effort being put into any of the booking. How did Brock get the #30 spot after competing in a championship match earlier in the show? Why did Ronda choose to challenge Charlotte at Wrestlemania instead of Becky Lynch? Why does Goldberg keep getting world title matches out of nowhere? Why did Roman cost Brock the tite? Zero explanations, zero effort.
But none of this really matters, because WWE just posted record profits. Even though they've crippled their roster and their product, the company is doing better than ever!