This Year’s Royal Rumble Winner Is A Sad Sign Of Where The WWE Is Right Now

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Brock Lesnar is our Royal Rumble 2022 winner. How fucking boring is that? The founder of Suplex City marched in as a late entrant to the 30-man match and cemented himself as an easy winner, effortlessly securing a spot at the WrestleMania main event like many of us had sadly predicted. He will go up against Roman Reigns for the World Championship in a bout we have seen countless times before, a damning indictment of WWE’s lack of creative energy and how as a promotion it has long fallen into mundanity.

While it remains the biggest wrestling promotion on the planet, WWE has long fallen from grace when compared to the Attitude and Ruthless Aggression eras, often failing to foster new talent and embrace new ideas that managed to propel it into the stratosphere only a few short decades ago. Now the brand is still far from mediocre, boasting global talents such as Shinsuke Nakamura, AJ Styles, Finn Balor, and countless others who remain the top of their craft, but they are continually subject to a system that fails to acknowledge what they are truly capable of while subjecting them to forgettable storylines and second-rate exposure compared to part-timers who don’t care for the business at all.

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Brock Lesnar falls squarely into that latter camp, earning headline status time and time again purely because he’s a big name with the physique to match. I am fairly sure he could punch through several cars without breaking a sweat and likely eats children for breakfast, but he also has the personality of a plasticine potato. Big man angry, and slightly homophobic judging from alleged comments in the past. To me, he remains a treat to watch, but approaches so many of his bouts