Royal Rumble 2016 - 5 points to note

The 29th Annual Royal Rumble kicked off with much fanfare. We had a few good matches, some delightful returns and a hugely anticipated, momentous debut. There were not many surprise entrants this year at the Rumble. Just a note, Sami Zayn was a surprise entrant and he eliminated his biggest WWE rival, Kevin Owens in the process.This was a Rumble that needs to be looked at in hindsight. The winner was expected to be Reigns or Triple H. If it had been Reigns again, he would have been booed and he was to a great extent tonight. Thankfully, he wasn’t the winner.Here are the 5 points to note from this year’s Royal Rumble

#1 The (Bank) Statement

The feud between Charlotte and Becky Lynch was the one of the best within the Royal Rumble card. Firstly, after a long time the main roster writers provided the women with clear heel and face dynamics.

Then they gave them sufficient time to play out the angle. The video package before the match began was brilliant. After some back and forth verbally and physically, Becky got into laying out some arm drags and eventually locking Charlotte in an armbar.

There were enough distractions presented by papa Flair but none as gross as him kissing Lynch. Well, he’s a heel and he’s supposed to do things that are absolutely hateful. This one incident certainly did the needful. So, it wasn’t a surprise that the heel won in the end following another Naych distraction when he threw his jacket at Lynch to blindside her.

But there was more to stay tuned for.

After Charlotte continued celebrating her undeserved victory over Lynch, Sasha Banks returned to a great pop. She went on to kick Lynch out of the ring claiming the spotlight for herself. Then we think Charlotte and Banks are off to doing their little BFF act from NXT and that’s when Banks layeth the smackdown on the champion, locking her in a Bank Statement. The crowd was going crazy. We now have a new challenger to the title and Banks made that clear like a boss.