WWE’s Royal Rumble 2017 is now in the history books and it offered plenty to make any wrestling fan happy. Roman Reigns and Kevin Owens beat the tar out of each other under No DQ rules, there was plenty of solid women’s action, and Cena vs. Styles might’ve put on the best match of the year.
Plus, there was the always intriguing 30-man Rumble match. With all of that wrestling goodness, who could find fault? Well...
Like usual, WWE will always find a way for a mistake or two to make its way onto the broadcast and it’s my job to find these moments. I document them in the convenient medium of the .gif, ready to be seen endlessly by the masses.
Royal Rumble had its fair share of these moments, including a bloody mouth from the Raw Women’s Champion, a goofy amount of makeup from The Deadman and a certain member of New Day, who weighs slightly more than the limits of Cesaro’s swing.
All of these botches and outrageous moments from one of the biggest wrestling shows of the year lie ahead, so read on to witness them all...
#5 All of Undertaker’s makeup
I’ll accept if I’m alone on this one but The Undertaker looks awful when he tries to cover up how old he is. It’s not that he’s super old, but with the pencil thin black eyeliner, the hair-do that looks like a wig, and the dyed goatee, he just looks like your dad’s older brother who still wants to hang out with you and your college friends, rather than a man who can fight alongside Brock Lesnar.
#4 Number 30
It might be good to go ahead and get this booking botch out of the way. I understand the point in using Roman’s rocky relationship with the audience as a way to get the crowd more sympathetic to Randy Orton in the final moments of the Rumble, but this soured many people on the entire show.
It doesn’t take long to figure out why the crowd was so upset about Roman entering at #30. There were strong rumours that Kurt Angle might be in the Rumble. There were also hopes that somebody like Samoa Joe or Shinsuke Nakamura might make their debut in the 30-man contest.
Perhaps it was due to a lack of surprises that fans were so disappointed with Roman when he made his way to the ring but WWE should’ve anticipated this a little better.
#3 Big E is too big to swing
When Cesaro entered the Rumble at Number 20, he immediately began swinging everyone. First up was Miz, then Sami Zayn, then Dean Ambrose, then Kofi Kingston, then... he experienced trouble. Big E was next up and try as he might, Cesaro couldn’t swing the man.
Cesaro resumed swinging after this failure against Baron Corbin. He then seriously considered swinging his tag partner Sheamus, The Swiss Superman was finally stopped with a kick by this point, stopping a big mistake against his sort of buddy.
#2 That table did not break
If it wasn’t for Braun Strowman, Roman Reigns would be Universal Champion right now. Braun got involved in this No DQ Match, specifically targeting Roman Reigns.
One of the big moments in his attack was when he Chokeslammed The Big Dog onto an announce table that just did not give way. In addition to that, nobody cleared the monitors off the table before the big bump. Roman’s head clearly landed on a TV.
#1 Charlotte’s bloody mouth
I’m not sure how Charlotte did this, but her mouth suffered the most legitimate injury of the night. Bayley is not exactly known for being a stiff worker, but there’s a good chance she landed something a tad too snug on the Queen of Pay-Per-View.
This Figure Four reversal by Bayley offers one of the better glimpses of Charlotte’s bloody mouth. She’s screaming in pain while sporting crimson in her mouth.
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