This was a good show for the most part.
The Triple Threat for the title was fantastic. They did everything right with that match up. Such a great job of booking and doing what needed to be done there.
They had that crowd really hot heading into the Rumble.
They had the crowd growing hotter and hotter with the arrival of Bubba Ray and then when Daniel Bryan came out...Boom. Huge.
And then in one, extremely stupid, and completely unexplainable moment they ruined it all.
The elimination of Daniel Bryan so quickly was just flat out STUPID.
They absolutely KILLED the crowd off at that point. I mean KILLED the crowd off.
That is some of the most ignorant and just blatantly stupid booking I'd ever seen. I am certain that the majority of the crowd believed that either Bryan or Reigns would win the Rumble. I am certain that's what they believed. But the moment they eliminated Bryan early the WWE completely gave away who was obviously going to win the Rumble, for certain, and the crowd died. They crapped all over Reigns because of this. Now Reigns looks like Batista last year (For different reasons of course) because of the way this was booked.
If Bryan is there till the end and Reigns wins I'm certain the fans would have been a lot better about it because it would have allowed them to think that either one of them could be the one winning. The way they did it killed that.
And worse yet...they killed the crowd for what? To get The Rock involved in the storyline for absolutely zero reason? What the heck is the reason to involve him with Reigns and the Authority? It just didn't make a lick of sense and it just totally destroyed the event. I have never seen a crowd that was as hot as last night get killed so quickly in one event. I've seen hotter crowds, clearly, but those crowds remained hot because back then the WWE didn't do stupid things to kill the crowd.
Now there is going to be no choice but to make Reigns a bad guy, which quite frankly he's not good enough on the mic to pull off in a convincing fashion, and they're going to be forced to go with Lesnar as the good guy heading into Mania.
Also for anyone who watched the fall out show...so it appears we're going to see Cena vs. Rusev for Mania lead up and a Mania match? SNOOZE. That has suck written all over it. Rusev is absolutely painfully boring and terrible. Putting him with Cena...just yuck.
And now where does this leave Rollins? He still has Money in the bank but at this point there is no good place to cash it in other than after the Main Event of Mania. Does that even apply? Don't they do a Money in the Bank match at Mania? So won't that cancel out Rollins briefcase? Just some very weird and silly booking having him hold it all this time to where there now appears to be now clear, or quality, pay off.
