The Royal Rumble is amazing, except when it isn't, and even then it can be kinda fun. Adam Blampied has taken a look at WWE's biggest blunders in the Royal Rumble but you let us know what you think is the biggest Rumble screw up ever in the comments!
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00:00 Ladies and gentlemen, let's get ready to not be sued by Michael Buffer because hot
00:06 damn he'll get you apparently. Deep in the heart of Rumble Month, the best time of the
00:11 year and of course the biggest question on everyone's lips is who should win the Royal
00:16 Rumbles give me Liv Morgan and Finn Balor but that's just me please and thank you.
00:20 But WWE probably won't give me what I want, they've demonstrated on many occasions that
00:23 what I want and what I get are estranged bedfellows, Vince and friends, Cock a Snooker, my hopes
00:29 and dreams and repeatedly give me Batista's on toast but honestly they can never kill
00:34 my love of the Royal Rumble, they just can't do it and they've tried many times. How many?
00:40 I'm Adam Haling from PartsFunknown and here are 10 times WWE got the Royal Rumble wrong
00:46 and if you would not like to get your life wrong, you better subscribe to our channel.
00:51 We're taking a more aggressive tone in 2022 so subscribe you dumb prick.
00:57 Number 10. 2017. Who won? Randy Orton. 5 years ago, bloody hell 5 years ago, stop it passage
01:04 of time, stop it. 2017 was hyped as one of the most legend studded Rumbles of all time.
01:09 Goldberg, Undertaker, Brock, Lesnar, Jericho, any of these guys could have conceivably walked
01:14 away with the win. Instead that somehow went to Randle. Mr Keith Orton picked up his second
01:20 Royal Rumble win and maybe I'm just automatically against anyone winning the Rumble more than
01:23 once but hot dog that is underwhelming. To the point where they had to throw hated Roman
01:28 in there in order to give Randy a pop when he finally won and who should have won? Tempted
01:32 to say Chris Jericho has won, he deserved it after decades of not winning a thing and
01:37 two, to set up what should have been the Universal title match at WrestleMania 33, Jericho vs
01:42 KO but actually I'm gonna go for Bray Wyatt. WWE should have had Bray win the Rumble, Orton
01:47 win the title at Elimination Chamber and then have Wyatt vs Orton for the WWE title at Mania
01:52 with Bray winning, obvious copters.
01:54 9. 1990 Who won? Hulk Hogan. In 1993, WWE made a very welcome and defining change to
02:02 the Rumble format in that the winner would be guaranteed a World Championship match at
02:07 WrestleMania, a stipulation that lives with the Rumble to this day. That's all well and
02:11 good but it did mean that from 1988 to 1991, 1992 had its own unique stipulation, anyone
02:17 could win the match and see their stock elevated in the company without having to tie WWE into
02:21 booking them in the WrestleMania main event, which means that Hulk Hogan, current WWE Champion,
02:26 did absolutely not need to win his first Rumble.
02:29 Who should have won? Mr. Perfect. Fun fact, in the weeks leading up to the 1990 Royal
02:34 Rumble, Mr. Perfect, who was undefeated in WWE for the last few years, was booked to
02:38 win the Rumble match. At the 11th hour, Hogan successfully campaigned to win the match instead,
02:43 which was a crying shame. Perfect and Hogan had been feuding for months, a feud that saw
02:46 Perfect actually smash up Hogan's WWE title belt, seeing as Hogan would eventually beat
02:51 Perfect at Saturday Night's main event 26. Having Perfect win the Rumble would have been,
02:55 well, it would have been a perfect escalation of the rivalry.
02:58 8. 2020 Women's Who Won? Charlotte Flair
03:02 And speaking of last minute changes, WWE has a habit of switching out the Rumble winner
03:06 at the last minute, sometimes even on the day of the PPV, sorry, Premium Live event
03:10 itself. One such fate befell the scheduled winner of the 2020 Women's Rumble, which
03:14 was eventually won by Charlotte. While Big Charlie eventually winning a Rumble match
03:17 seems like an inevitability, Flair's stock in the company was so high that she could
03:21 simply dictate a challenge to Rhea Ripley if she wanted an NXT title shot. In fact,
03:26 doing so would have made her appearance at NXT TakeOver Portland even more of a wonderful
03:30 shock. Who should have won? Shayna Baszler. More than anything, just so that getting her
03:34 to WrestleMania 36 didn't ruin an entire Elimination Chamber match. A lot of things
03:39 should have happened with Baszler in early 2020. She was the world's most fearsome monster
03:43 heading out of NXT, and she absolutely needed to make a dominant debut, and should have
03:48 done so by winning the Rumble before going on to beat Becky Lynch at WrestleMania 36.
03:52 Still, at least she got to feud with a doll in her main roster career, so all's not
03:56 lost there.
03:57 7. 1993 Who Won? Yokozuna
04:01 I mean, at the end of the day, it makes sense that Yokozuna won the 1993 Royal Rumble. He
04:06 was a foreign menace, and represented the biggest guy that Vince could find who wouldn't
04:10 also ping a drug test failure in the wake of the WWE steroid scandal. The company needed
04:14 a different kind of giant, and the 500 pound Japanese Samoan certainly fit the weight requirements,
04:21 but was he the best pick for that particular Rumble that particular year? We don't think
04:25 so. Who should have won? Randy Savage.
04:28 In 1993, WWE was in a period of transition, where the older titans of the golden era,
04:32 Savage, Hogan, and Warrior were departing the company to make way for the new generation.
04:37 Such a thing requires the passing of a torch, an act that Hogan infamously refused to do
04:41 for Vince's new face of the company, Bret 'The Hitman' Hart. At WrestleMania 9,
04:45 Bret lost the title to Yoko before Hogan snaffled it for himself in a famously rubbish bit of
04:50 booking. How much better could it have been if Savage had won the Rumble, one of his last
04:54 great accolades, before heading to WrestleMania? Randy Savage vs. Bret Hart could have been
04:59 f***ing dynamite, with Savage putting over The Hitman, cementing Bret as the top guy.
05:05 6. 1999
05:08 Who won? Vincent Kennedy McMahon! How could we forget? The Vince Russo-iest thing in a
05:14 long and terrifying legacy of Vince Russo things. 1999 was a weird year for WWE, with
05:20 every month seeing some sort of Looney Tunes new shenanigan taking place. Austin becoming
05:24 joint CEO of the company, Chyna winning the right to challenge for the WWF title at Summerslam,
05:29 Vince actually winning the WWF title in September on Smackdown, Triple H marrying an unconscious
05:34 Stephanie. It was a mad year, and boy did the Rumble set the tone, with Vince McMahon
05:38 winning the entire thing before going on to forfeit the shot, and also something about
05:42 a cage match and Big Show I guess. And look it was just a lot of screwy nonsense. Who
05:46 should have won? Steve Austin. I mean, of course he should have. Austin was going on
05:51 to face The Rock at WrestleMania, was he not? So like, Austin should have won the Rumble.
05:56 Wrestling doesn't have to be this hard, boys. Now I know what you're thinking, that would
05:59 give Austin three wins in a row, right? Surely that's bad. Well that's why.
06:03 5. 1997 - Who won? Steve Austin. This should have been different.
06:09 WWE are never satisfied taking the easy road with the Rumble. In 1994, two men won it to
06:14 throw the crap amongst the pigeons, and in 1997, the road to Mania was further complicated
06:19 by Steve Austin getting eliminated on camera so everyone could see it, then slithering
06:24 back into the ring like the naughtiest snake since Randle, and ousting the man who actually
06:27 won the match, Bret 'The Hitman' Hart. Who should have won? Bret 'The Hitman' Hart.
06:31 Like Randy Savage earlier in this list, this would end up being the last time The Hitman
06:35 could have won the Rumble, and his first time doing it without having to share the honours
06:39 with Lex Luger. And it would have been the perfect set up to what should have been the
06:43 WrestleMania 13 main event, the rematch that everyone wanted to see, Bret Hart vs Shawn
06:48 Michaels 2. Of course, HBK had his own thoughts on that booking, so this is probably the most
06:52 understandable call on this list. But in a better, less dumb, less petty world, The Hitman
06:58 winning should have been the result, saving Austin's first Rumble win for his coronation
07:02 year 1998.
07:04 4. 2012 Who won? Sheamus! In some ways, when it comes
07:10 to the Royal Rumble, it's a good thing WWE has two world titles as it doubles the potential
07:14 winners of the Rumble match. Sometimes, though, that's a double edged sword that plunges
07:18 right into the back of the obvious winner that everyone wants, just so WWE can swerve
07:23 us on the day and do the most surprising aka least desirable thing. Shayna Baszler knows
07:28 what's up, and so does one other superstar who should have won? Chris Jericho. Y2J returned
07:33 to WWE in early 2012 with a weird and interesting gimmick. He'd be super jazzed about being
07:39 there and then refuse to speak, walking away from the ring, leaving fans puzzled, going
07:43 through manic episodes basically, and then suddenly crashing. This lasted for a few weeks
07:48 until the Rumble go home roar, where Jericho said one thing, just one. "This Sunday, at
07:53 the Rumble, it's going to be the end of the world as you know it." Okay, cool, everyone
07:59 thought. A plan's in place, he's going to win the Rumble, then everything will be revealed,
08:03 an overdue Rumble win capping off a hot return and weekly intrigue, then WWE thought, ah
08:08 sod it, that's a bit predictable, let's have bland, happy Sheamus win it instead for
08:11 no reason. Just a good f***ing job.
08:14 3. 2014 Who won? Batista! Well, this one's obvious. Batista showed up for a WrestleMania
08:21 main event against Randy Orton that no one wanted to see, looking like Pitbull's dad,
08:25 and solidifying in everyone's mind that instead of Old Volution, they'd actually
08:28 rather see a payoff to the Daniel Bryan storyline that's been running since f***ing SummerSlam,
08:33 please and thank you. So crushingly inevitable did Orton vs Batista seem, and so much did
08:38 the crowd really not give a honk, that when Rey Mysterio, beloved Rey Mysterio, entered
08:44 the Rumble at number 30 and it became clear that Daniel Bryan would not be in the match,
08:48 and the crowd elected to not only turn out of puff Batista and his big brain head full
08:52 heel, but they turned every single other person in the Rumble full heel as well. Who should
08:56 have won? I mean, have you not been paying attention? Daniel Bryan should have f***ing
09:00 won. A guaranteed title shot at Mania being the perfect fly in the authority's ointment.
09:05 How would they try and screw him out of it? Angles for days instead of boos. All the boos,
09:10 Batista.
09:11 At number 2, 2015, who won? Roman Reigns. Who should have won? Daniel Bryan again. It's
09:18 the hardest and cruelest WWE have ever trolled us. Sheer unabashed, pant dropping, butthole
09:25 brandishing contrarianism that genuinely beggars belief. On the road to the Royal Rumble, Roman
09:30 Reigns was the obvious winner for months. Months. Everyone knew he was being strapped
09:34 to a rocket, people weren't quite jazzed for it, he seemed miscast as the new John
09:39 Cena. But hey, there weren't really other options. And then WWE dropped another option
09:43 back on TV weeks before the Rumble. Daniel Bryan, who never lost his title, making a
09:48 heroic recovery from a deeply concerning injury, who infamously didn't get to win the 2014
09:54 Rumble, returned before the 2015 Rumble. Surely everyone thought it would make no sense
09:59 for WWE to do this if Bryan wasn't winning, and then he didn't. Not only that, Bryan
10:05 was eliminated early looking like a total loser and the first entrant after him was
10:09 Goldust, which means the first thing from WWE production on the screen after crowd favourite
10:14 Daniel Bryan was ousted were the giant words "Shattered Dreams". On one hand, that
10:19 is an exceptional prank. On the other, f*** you too. And number one, those times WWE broke
10:26 the Rumble itself. Every other entry on this list has been about the big dub getting the
10:30 winner of the Royal Rumble match wrong. But for our final stop on this list, we wanted
10:34 to cover both years where WWE got the format of the match wrong, messing with a winning
10:39 formula in a way that made it worse. I know it's hard to imagine WWE taking something
10:44 that isn't broken and feeling the need to fix it, but it's had two major meddles with
10:48 the Rumble in the past 30 years. In 1995, they reduced the gap between entrants to one
10:53 minute in all likelihood to be kind to Shawn Michaels and the British Bulldog, who were
10:56 booked to enter one and two and last right until the final two. But the end result was
11:00 one of the worst ever Rumbles, a frenetic mess that managed to feel slight at a mere
11:05 38 minutes long and also drag thanks to the lack of spots created by endless arrivals
11:11 of wrestlers. That's bad. In 2011, WWE went the other way, booking 40 men to compete in
11:17 the Rumble rather than the usual 30. It's not the worst Rumble ever, but the extra 10
11:21 slots were just used to cram more lower mid-carders in there, which didn't justify at all the
11:25 match's extra length. What should have felt like the biggest Rumble ever felt much more
11:30 low rent for having a bunch more jobbers in it. The greatest Royal Rumble had the exact
11:34 same problem, and worse, having 20 extra jobbers be a part of it. But I don't count that, because
11:38 that Rumble happened in the Shadow Dimension.
11:41 And that's our list. What do you think is the biggest time that WWE has ever got the
11:45 Royal Rumble wrong? Other than 2015, obviously, because that's what everyone's going to say.
11:49 So what's your- the second one? What's the second one? Tell us in the comments. Don't
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