9 biggest botches from WWE Royal Rumble 2018
After years of so-so and sometimes awful Royal Rumbles, the 2018 edition of this WWE classic pay-per-view delivered in a big way. The men's edition was one of the best 30-man bouts ever, while the inaugural women's contest seemingly lived up to the hype. It also helped that they highly anticipated debut of UFC legend Ronda Rousey closed out the show. The media hype is sure to be ample in the fallout. This was a solid pay-per-view to cap off an exhausting weekend of wrestling.
Just because the show was good, does not mean that there weren't a few botches along the way. Moments like Kelly Kelly's sketchy head scissors, Jerry Lawler's inability to properly say the name of the event, and the unfortunate moment that Braun Strowman stiffed Brock Lesnar. Braun definitely got a receipt for that mistake.
All of those moments and more lie ahead, so let's kick it off with a sloppy finisher from the pre-show.
#9 A somewhat glorious DDT
The first botch of the night happened during the kickoff show. No, Mojo Rawley answering Bobby Roode's United States Championship Open Challenge wasn't the mishap, although it wasn't a very big surprise. The botch here is when Bobby Roode went for his finisher at the end of the match.
Roode came off of the turnbuckles with his arm wrapped around Rawley's head. He then lifted him for his finisher, which is an Implant DDT. Roode didn't really get any elevation on the move and planted more like a normal DDT. Tom Phillips questioned on commentary if he got all of it as the ref counted to three. This was a title retention for The Glorious One.