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2014
Who won: Batista
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Who should have won: Daniel Bryan
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A Rumble that will live in infamy. As 2014 began, Daniel Bryan was the most over superstar in WWE since The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin. It seemed a no-brainer that he would be in the main event of WrestleMania, but the company needed to be dragged kicking and screaming into it.
Batista returned that year and, wanting to take advantage of his success in Hollywood, the company selected him as the Royal Rumble winner. When Daniel Bryan didn't show up in the match, his fate was sealed. Showered in a chorus of boos, Batista, through no real fault of his own, looked set to take the company into disaster at WrestleMania with Randy Orton, a match people were sick of already, with or without Bryan.
A long period of convoluted booking took things to the right outcome, but it was an experience that didn't need to happen if only the company would have done the right thing.
