5 ways the 2022 WWE Royal Rumble could have been better

#1. Brock Lesnar shouldn't have won the men's Royal Rumble match

If Brock Lesnar doesn't win the men's Royal Rumble match, all of the moving around in the last entry isn't necessary.

Everything leading up to the Rumble match still points to a Brock Lesnar/Roman Reigns WrestleMania main event. Whether or not Brock wins the Rumble match is irrelevant. In fact, it probably makes it worse if he does... er, well... that he did.

Look at how the Brock Lesnar-Bobby Lashley WWE Championship match ended. Roman Reigns nails Brock with the title belt and leaves with Paul Heyman - and sets up an it-writes-itself WrestleMania main event. Brock doesn't need to win the Royal Rumble to get a title shot against Reigns. He's BROCK LESNAR.

WWE would have been better served to crown a new challenger for Bobby Lashley's newly won WWE Championship. Going with former champions Big E or Drew McIntyre would have been fine, or picking someone new to turn into a contender would have been even better.

Bobby Lashley is good at what he does, and he's capable of having a good match with a number of the men who were in that Rumble match. Lashley vs AJ Styles, Shinsuke Nakamura, Kevin Owens, or even Randy Orton would make for a great WWE Championship match at WrestleMania.

We're going to get one of those matches, as it's pretty evident that Lesnar is going to pick Roman for his 'Mania title bout. But... why can't the way Lashley's opponent is picked be used to pick Reigns' instead?

Odds are likely that it'll be Elimination Chamber - so why not have Brock murder everybody in an Elimination Chamber to get his hands on Roman? Meanwhile, Lashley has a match with someone that WWE can elevate to another level.

The worst part of all of this is that... it's all so obvious. Having Brock win the Rumble smacks of a solution in search of a problem.

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