Boos, Bryan & Batista: How WWE should have booked the last 5 Royal Rumble matches

Modified Jan 20, 2018 09:20 GMT

Recent Royal Rumbles have been full of controversy

#3 Royal Rumble 2015

Even the presence of The Rock couldn't stop the boos

The winner: A year after breaking Kane’s long-standing Royal Rumble elimination record, Roman Reigns overcame the odds, with a little bit of help from The Rock, to eliminate six men and win the 2015 Rumble. In doing so, he booked his spot in the main event of WrestleMania 31, where he faced Brock Lesnar for the World Heavyweight Championship.

Fan reaction: The response to Batista’s 2014 win was the most negative there had ever been following a Royal Rumble, but the vociferous reaction after Reigns’ triumph was on a whole different level. The hostile Philadelphia crowd knew “The Big Dog” was going to win and hijacked the last few minutes of the match by booing everyone and everything that moved.

Alternative winner: Daniel Bryan (again). The popular former World Heavyweight champion had recently returned from a long-term injury and was many people’s favourite to win the 2015 Rumble and go on to main-event WrestleMania for the second year in a row. However, he was eliminated midway through the Rumble by Bray Wyatt and he lost a number one contender match to Reigns the following month at Fastlane.

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Danny Hart has been one of the most active writers at Sportskeeda since he began working for the WWE section of the site in October 2017.

Danny currently writes around 100 articles per month about WWE. Before joining Sportskeeda, he worked for seven years as a writer and editor for the football website Goal.com. He also reported live from Premier League stadiums around England.

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Edited by Pratyay Ghosh