Royal Rumble bookings
By Scott Keith on 3 August 2018
A typical rumble has 30 people in it right? However… the way they book these things you can only see say max 5 people having a shot at winning. Thus you only care about those 5 and rest is filler…Why not make every participant count? Why not give every single one a royal rumble back story instead of being filler? Say a jobber like Ellsworth could cut some promos how you gotta believe in yourself and how he's gonna prove anyone can do whatever they put their mind to etc.. some other jobber could say he's never ever eliminated anyone in the rumble and how he will finally eliminate someone for his dying grandpa in the hospital watching… I mean I literally wanna see 30 people who all have angles revolving around the rumble match.. That way there is no filler.. every moment means something.
That's how it used to be with the pre-match vignettes and mini-promos during the show!