 What's good Joshua Ross back again with another video, so we're gonna check out 10 times WWE got the Royal Rumble wrong Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's probably more than 10 times But I'm the Royal Rumble is right around the corner. So I'm definitely checking out some of these Royal Rumble related videos and we can all easily think of a Roar a Royal Rumble where the wrong person one one that comes instantly to mind to me is When I want to say Roman Reigns got eliminated It was I think it was the Royal Rumble for whoever won they won the WWE championship Well, Roman Roman Reigns got eliminated and then it was Dean Ambrose at the time you went by Dean Ambrose and Triple H left in the ring They should have gave it to Dean Ambrose. I'm just be honest with you Dean Ambrose should have been the guy to win at that moment. That would have been a great storyline Cuz then you could have had something potentially with him and Roman Reigns Maybe I wrestle man, but that would have been a fantastic storyline. That's just what I can think of off the top of my head He should have won that match, but appreciate our love and support. Let's get right into this one should be good one gentlemen Let's get ready to not be sued by Michael Buffer because hot damn He'll get you apparently deep in the heart of Rumble month the best time of the year And of course the biggest question on everyone's lips is who should win the Royal Rumbles? Give me Liv Morgan and Finn Balor, but that's just me. Please and thank you But WWE probably won't give me what I want They've demonstrated on many occasions that what I want and what I get are estranged bedfellows Vince and friends cocker snooker my hopes and dreams and repeatedly give me batistas on toast But honestly they can never kill my love of the Royal Rumble They just can't do it and they've tried many times how many I'm Adam Hailing from parts fun known and here are 10 times WWE got the Royal Rumble wrong and if you would not like to get your life wrong You better subscribe to our channel. We're taking a more aggressive tone in 2022. So subscribe. You're dumb prick number 10 2017 who won Randy Orton five years ago bloody hell five years ago. Stop it passage of time. Stop it 2017 was hyped is one of the most legends studded rumbles of all time Goldberg Undertaker Brock Lesnar Jericho any of these guys could have conceivably walked away with the win instead. That somehow went to Randall Mr. Keith Orton picked up his second Royal Rumble win and maybe I'm just automatically against anyone winning the Rumble more than once But hot dog that is Underwhelming to the point where they had to throw hated Roman in there in order to give Randy a pop when he finally won And who should have won tempted to say Chris Jericho as one He deserved it after decades of not winning the thing and two to set up What should have been the universal title match at WrestleMania 33 Jericho versus KO But actually I'm gonna go for Bray Wyatt WWE should have had Bray win the Rumble Orton win the title at elimination chamber and have Wyatt versus Orton for WWE title at Mania with Bray winning obvious copters number nine 1990 who won Hulk Hogan in 1993 WWE made a very welcome and defining change to the Rumble format in that the winner would be guaranteed a world championship match at WrestleMania a stipulation that lives with the Rumble to this day. That's all well and good But it did mean that from 1988 to 1991 1992 had its own unique stipulation Anyone could win the match and see their stock Elevated in the company without having to tie WWE into booking them in the WrestleMania main event Which means that Hulk Hogan current WWE champion did absolutely not need to win his first Rumble who should have won Mr. Perfect fun fact in the weeks leading up to the 1990 Royal Rumble Mr. Perfect who was undefeated in WWE for the last even more years was booked to win the Rumble match at the 11th hour Hogan successfully campaigned to win the match instead Which was a crying shame perfect and Hogan have been feuding for months a feud that saw perfect actually smash up Hogan's WWE title belt seeing as Hogan would eventually beat perfect at Saturday night's main event 26 Having perfect win the Rumble would have been well it would have been a perfect escalation of the rivalry number eight 2020 women's who won Charlotte flair and speaking of last-minute changes WWE has a habit of switching out the Rumble winner at the last minute sometimes even on the day of the pay-per-view Sorry premium live event itself one such fate befell the scheduled winner of the 2020 women's Rumble Which was eventually won by Charlotte while big Charlie eventually winning a Rumble match seems like an inevitability Flair's stock and the company was so high that she could simply dictate a challenge to rear rip Yeah, if she wanted an NXT title shot In fact doing so would have made her appearance at NXT takeover Portland even more of a wonderful shock who should have won Shayna Baszler more than anything. I think I said that when it happened Shayna should have won that that would that would have been cool That would be great thing just so that getting her to wrestle mania 36 didn't ruin an entire elimination chamber match Because it really really did a lot of things should have happened with Baszler in early 2020 She was the world's most fearsome monster heading out of NXT and she absolutely needed to make a dominant debut And should have done so by winning the Rumble going on to be Becky Lynch at WrestleMania 36 Still at least she got a feud with a doll in her main roster career, so all's not lost there number seven 1993 Who won? Yokozuna I mean at the end of the day it makes sense that Yokozuna won the 1993 Royal Rumble He was a foreign menace and represented the biggest guy that Vince could find He wouldn't also ping a drug test failure in the wake of the WWE steroid scandal The company needed a different kind of giant and the 500 pound Japanese Samo and certainly fit the weight requirements But was he the best pick for that particular Rumble that particular year? We don't think so Randy Savage in 1993 Was in a period of transition where the older Titans of the Golden Era savage Hogan warrior were departing the company to make way for The new generation such a thing requires the passing of a torch an act that Hogan infamously refused to do for Vince's new face The company Brett the hitman heart a WrestleMania 9 Brett lost a title to Yoko before Hogan Snaffled it for himself in a famously rubbish bit of booking how much better could it have been if Savage had won the Rumble one of his last great accolades before heading to WrestleMania Randy Savage versus Bret Hart Could have been f**king dynamite with Savage putting over the hitman cementing Brett as the top guy Number six 19 This plenty of stories of Hogan and I want to put people over that's Politicking and it's finest man 99 who won Vincent Kennedy McMahon How could we forget the Vince Russoist thing in a long terrifying legacy of Vince Russo things? 1999 was a weird year for WWE with every month seeing some sort of Looney Tunes new shenanigan taking place Austin becoming joint CEO of the company China winning the right to challenge for the WWF title at Summer Slam Vince Actually winning the WWF title in September on SmackDown triple H marrying an unconscious Stephanie it was a mad year and boy did the Rumble set the tone with Vince McMahon winning the entire thing before going on to Forfeit the shot and also something about a cage match and a big show I guess and look it was just a lot of screwy nonsense Who should have won Steve Austin? I mean course he should have you know Austin was going on to face the rocket WrestleMania Was he not so like Austin should have won the rumble wrestling doesn't have to be this hard boys Now I know what you're thinking that would give Austin three wins in a row right surely that's bad Well, that's why number five 1997 who won Steve Austin this should have been different WWE had never satisfied taking easy road with the rumble in 1994 two men wanted to throw the crap amongst the pigeons and in 1997 the road to mania was further complicated by Steve Austin getting eliminated on camera So everyone could see it then slithering back into the ring like the naughtiest snake since Randall and ousting the man Who actually won the match Bret the hitman heart who should have won Bret the hitman heart like Randy Savage earlier in this list This would end up being the last time the hitman could have won the rumble and his first time doing it without having to share The honors with Lex Luger and it would have been the perfect setup to what should have been the WrestleMania 13 main event the rematch that everyone wanted to see Bret Hart versus Shawn Michaels too Of course HPK had his own thoughts on that booking. So this is probably the most understandable call on this list But in a better less dumb less petty world the hitman winning should have been the results saving Austin's first rumble win for his coronation year 1998 number four 2012 who won? Shameless It's a good thing WWE has two world titles as it doubles the potential winners of the rumble match sometimes though That's a double-edged sword that plunges right into the back of the obvious winner that everyone wants just so WWE can swerve is on the day and do the most surprising aka least desirable thing Shayna Baszler knows what's up and so does one other superstar who should have won Chris Jericho Why 2j returned to WWE in early 2012 with a weird and interesting gimmick He'd be super jazzed about being there and then refused to speak walking away Yeah, that was such a interesting gimmick. The jacket was crazy. He'll be like, yeah Yeah It's just wouldn't say shit. You're like Yeah What was that? Oh Man way from the ring leaving fans puzzled going through manic episodes basically then suddenly crashing This lasted for a few weeks until the rumble go home Raw where Jericho said one thing just one this Sunday at the rumble It's going to be the end of the world as you know it. Okay, cool Everyone thought a plans in place. He's going to win the rumble Then everything will be revealed an overdue rumble win capping off a hot return and weekly intrigue and WWE thought I saw that's a Bit predictable. Let's have bland happy shavers with it instead for no reason. Just a good Job 2014 who won? Batista all this one's obvious. Yeah, he's a showdown for a WrestleMania main event against Randy Orton That no one wanted to see look like pit bulls dad and solidifying in everyone's mind that instead of old Volusion they'd actually rather see a payoff to the Daniel Bryan Yes, and running since summer slam, please and thank you So crushingly inevitable did Orton versus Batista seem and so much did the crowd really not give a honk that when Ray Mysterio beloved Ray Mysterio entered the rumbler number 30 and it became clear that Daniel Bryan would not be Ray He was just a victim of circumstance, bro wrong place wrong time Ray The odd bro people was like it had to be Daniel Bryan And no he didn't go out And I think that was the same rumble where Daniel Bryan had a feud with Bray Wyatt One of the best matches one of the best matches at Royal at the Royal rumble One of the best matches that year correct me if I'm wrong, but it was that same night and he lost So people are thinking well That was the beginning of show he could still be in the rumble and they were hoping and praying and when he didn't show up It was done. There was nothing nobody could do to save that show be in the match Then the crowd elected to not only turn out of puff Batista in his big brain head full heal But they turned every single other person in the rumble full heal as well. Yeah, who should have won? I mean, have you not been paying attention Daniel Bryan should have one a guaranteed title shot at mania being the perfect fly in the Authorities ointment. Oh, would they try and screw him out of their angles for days instead of booze all the booze for Tista number two 2015 who won Roman Reigns who should have won Daniel Bryan again? It's the hardest and cruelest WWE have ever trolled us sheer unabashed pant dropping butthole brandishing Contrarianism that genuinely beggars belief on the road to the Royal Rumble Roman Reigns was the obvious winner for months months Yeah, everyone knew he was being strapped to a rocket people weren't quite jazzed for it He seemed miscast as the new John Cena, but hey, there weren't really other options And then WWE dropped another option back on TV weeks before the rumble Daniel Bryan Who never lost his title making a heroic recovery from a deeply concerning injury? Yeah, famously didn't get to win the 2014 rumble returns big And that was the time if they were gonna do it prior to that was the time because it's like he never lost the title It would have been a perfect story. He didn't lose the title. He wins the Royal Rumble to gain the title He never lost. Oh Who the hell? Roman and he got booed to Oblivion oh for the 2015 rumble Surely everyone thought it would make no sense for WWE to do this if Brian wasn't winning and then he didn't not only that Brian was eliminated early looking at a total loser and the first entry after him was gold dust Which means the first thing from WWE production on the screen after crowd favorite Daniel Bryan was ousted with the giant words shattered dreams on one hand that is an exceptional prank on the other Yeah, you too and number one those times WWE broke the rumble itself Every other entry on this list has been about the big dub getting the winner of the Royal Rumble match wrong But for our final stop on this list We wanted to cover both years where WWE got the format of the match wrong messing with a winning formula in a way That made it worse I know it's hard to imagine WWE taking something that isn't broken and feeling the need to fix it But it's had two major medals with the rumble in the past 30 years in 1995 They reduced the gap between entrants to one minute in all likelihood to be kind to Shawn Michaels and the British Bulldog Who were booked to enter one and two and last right until the final two but the end result was one of the worst ever rumbles A frenetic mess that managed to feel slight at a mere 38 minutes long and also drag Thanks to the lack of spots created by endless arrivals of wrestlers. That's bad in 2011 WWE went the other way booking 40 men to compete 30 it's not the worst rumble ever But the extra 10 slots were just used to cram more lower mid carders in there Which didn't justify at all the matches extra length What should have felt like the biggest rumble ever felt much more low rent for having a bunch more jobbers in it the greatest And worse having 20 extra jobbers be a part of it But I don't count that because that rumble happened in the shadow dimension No one counts those rumbles Because those they don't exist they're not canon those rumbles or never will never be canon because They're not canon. Let's it's not even count those. But yeah Be honest with you man, of course if I'm gonna pick the nor the ones that they are buying definitely should have one Because he was over at that time. He was one of the hottest talents at that time So you it's like you guys strike while the iron is hot and it made sense from a booking standpoint standpoint But comment down below. Let me know you guys want to win this year's royal rumble for the men's and Women's side of things. Let me know your reasonings for who and why but I appreciate all love and support Road to send the K appreciate y'all kicking me. See y'all next week. Peace