WWE Royal Rumble 2015: Twitter Reacts After Roman Reigns Wins Battle Royal
For the second year in a row, fans vociferously booed and jeered the Royal Rumble winner.
Poor Roman Reigns. A Royal Rumble victory should have been one of the major stepping stones of his WWE career. Instead, the angry crowd ensured the win will likely go down as one of this year's biggest debacles. To make matters worse, The Rock, who came out to endorse Reigns, also found himself receiving vitriol from the Philadelphia audience.
The depressed look on Reigns' face as the show went off the air said it all. The star couldn't even pretend to ignore the reaction and act happy.
The fans at the Wells Fargo Center had a good reason to be livid. The booking was hopelessly inept.
The massively popular Daniel Bryan was booted out of the match alarmingly early after weeks and weeks of WWE building up his comeback angle. The people got behind Bryan's quest to win only for the star to be treated as a total afterthought. How frustrating.
Unsurprisingly, fans at home—as well as various people in and around the wrestling industry—were as critical of the ending as the people in the arena.
ESPN's Bill Simmons put it bluntly on his Twitter account:
Former WWE and ECW wrestler Justin Credible made an odd (but surprisingly accurate) comparison of Vince McMahon to Star Wars creator George Lucas:
Presumably, the company will now get sold to Disney and rebooted by J.J. Abrams.
Former ECW wrestler Mikey Whipwreck offered sympathy to Reigns, noting that the wrestler will likely end up being punished for shoddy booking decisions that he really had nothing to do with, which is a fair point:
"I feel bad for Reigns. This is totally not his fault but he's going to pay the price.
— Mikey Whipwreck (@MIKEY_WHIPWRECK) January 26, 2015"
Many fans just voiced their disbelief at the mediocre ending:
"WWE booking confuses me and makes me super sad. #RoyalRumble
— JoHnNy (@horacethepsycho) January 26, 2015"
But a few people did put their bitter feelings at the result aside and tried to see the funny side of things:
"How come the fans don't want me, man? #RoyalRumble pic.twitter.com/uHmNMglh4J
— Ryan Loco (@RyanLoco) January 26, 2015"
"Kobe Bryant staying healthy #ThingsBetterThanTheRoyalRumble
— ❗️King Gahd❕ (@SlimRoman) January 26, 2015"
Oh dear.
It will be interesting to see if McMahon listens to this derision and elects to make changes to the booking or if the chairman continues to remain out of touch with the fans.
