The biggest winners and losers of Royal Rumble 2019

#5 Loser: Finn Balor

For a while, this looked like it might become as thrilling as Lesnar's matches with AJ Styles and Daniel Bryan, but it didn't turn out that way. It was cut short. Despite playing up The Beast's past struggles with diverticulitis with an injury to his core, Finn Balor never felt as convincing of a challenger as the other two had at Survivor Series 2017 and 2018, respectively.

After Brock Lesnar kicked out of a Coup de Grace, he essentially no sold the manoeuvre and put Finn Balor in a Kimura lock for a quick submission win. It was a big let down for a match that felt like it was getting into a high gear.

Though I suppose Lesnar's heeling it up and disappointing everyone yet again could be done for a reason, because the next match determined where things would start going from here on until April 7th, 2019.