WWE Royal Rumble 2018: Results, Highlights, Analysis, and Grades

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Raw Tag Team Championship Match

Seth Rollins & Jason Jordan (c) vs. Cesaro & Sheamus

Result: Cesaro & Sheamus defeated Seth Rollins & Jason Jordan via pinfall to become the new Raw Tag Team Champions

Rating: 2.75 out of 5 stars

Oh, good, another fake concussion storyline in WWE. That plays well with the very real concussion lawsuit that conspiracy theorist point to as what’s keeping Daniel Bryan on the sidelines.

Remember back in 2013 when Triple H had a feud with Brock Lesnar? Triple H won a No Holds Barred match at WrestleMania, and Lesnar beat the stuffing out of him at Extreme Rules. The night after Extreme Rules, Triple H challenged Curtis Axel to a match (I swear I’m not making this up) and suffered a “concussion” because of the beating from Lesnar. It was a stupid, ill-advised story – and it looks like that’s kind of what’s happening with Jason Jordan here five years later.

Early in the match, the doctors got involved, Jordan fought them off, tagged himself in, got dizzy, and tagged back out. Yes, let’s make light of head injuries with a guy on commentary who was forced to retire prematurely because of them. Or with the former superstars who couldn’t tell you what day it is because too many chair bounced off their skulls.

This was a de facto handicap match. Jordan literally spent about ten seconds in the match as the legal man, executed precisely zero moves, and served as nothing more than a distraction. Meanwhile, Rollins – who competed in the Royal Rumble about twenty minutes prior – went up against a terrific tag team solo, falling because of the numbers game.

This was just bad from a storytelling perspective. The actual match itself was clean, some good spots mixed in. But with a garbage storyline I can’t get too excited over it. Just fast forward to Rollins vs. Jordan and move them both on.