10 most overrated matches in WWE in 2017

#6 The Royal Rumble 2017

The 2017 Royal Rumble was just OK.

The Royal Rumble is such an iconic tradition that it generates excitement every year, regardless of who is actually wrestling in the match in a given year. The 2014, 2015, and 2016 editions of the Rumble weren’t very well received, in particular for their both predictable and disappointing choices for winners. The 2017 edition had some promise, and, to be fair, was certainly the best Rumble in four or five years. That didn’t make it especially good, though.

The 2017 Rumble was competently worked and had a reasonably satisfying winner in Randy Orton (particularly because he disposed of Roman Reigns at the end). The match lacked Pat Patterson’s traditional eye for detail and layout that made earlier Rumbles such successes, though, not offering much by way of flow or meaningful subplots.

The Rumble match is a fun enough concept that the resulting match is hardly ever actively bad. THe 2017 version doesn’t deserve a lot of praise, though, just because it wasn’t as totally off point as its immediate predecessors.