I'm fine with it. nobody was really built up enough going into it that you felt they could win.
I thought either Brock was going to come back and win or KO might beat Reigns and he debo's a spot and wins.
people thinking Big E should win and go to Wrestlemania was odd to me. when they're clearly doing baby steps with E.
last night laid down roots for a win next year though.
Smackdown's setting up the guys that are going to be next to get their noses wiped by Reigns but none of them felt like they would win the Rumble.
Daniel Bryan is running around with Otis and has a "just happy to be here" disposition, Naka was an outside shot and Cesaro was just built up too late. then you've got Strowman who is terrible, Lashley still got the US belt on him, too early for Riddle, Keith Lee was quarantining (?), people would've moaned about AJ or Rollins.
with Edge you can either let him pull off the complete big comeback or you wreck his dreams.
it works with both either Drew or Reigns..it can let Drew softly lean into heel stuff without actually being heel or it gives room for Edge to turn back into the slimey opportunistic heel to beat Drew out of his desperation to win it one last time or you go with Reigns being the villain that retires him. either way it rounds off Edges story.
) about a month before that years Mania. No excuse not to run back a similar storyline with Big E going up against Reigns/Jey Uso/Heyman.
tendencies aside, at least you know you're getting a kick-ass match from him and he's a main eventer that doesn't hog the spotlight all the time. He's in a perfect spot where at any time you could elevate him as top contender and people wouldn't bat an eye.
