WWE Royal Rumble: January 26, 2014 - 5 talking points

Royal Rumble 2014 was a night full of surprising events, unfortunately most of these surprises were for the wrong reasons. We got new tag team champions, a great feud came to end, a beast was unleashed, the champion won again and new talents were robbed by an old star. Overall, the pay-per-view ended with several talking points which will have an impact on WrestleMania XXX.

1. The New Age Outlaws’ title win will shape the future of the tag team division

The Attitude Era fans would have definitely enjoyed watching The Outlaws’ win the tag titles for the 6th time, but now with that win Road Dogg and Billy Gunn have got the responsibility to lead the tag team division in the right direction (with WrestleMania just 2 months away), and their experience and fan connection matters a lot now. Very soon there will be a feud between Cody Rhodes and Goldust and they are eventually going to fight each other at WrestleMania XXX, so that brings up the end of one of the best tag teams in WWE’s recent history, and The Outlaws’ have came in as a replacement for The Brotherhood. Because they are a popular heel team they are expected to wrestle face tag teams such as The Usos, The Prime Time Players and Los Matadores (The Brotherhood couldn’t have done that), and eventually lose their tag titles to the much deserving Usos, who have been waiting since a long time to hold the tag titles. So The Outlaws’ with their experience will help in drawing more attention to the tag team division and then they will make way for the future tag team champions, The Usos.