WWE Royal Rumble 2018: 5 Takeaways from the Women’s Match

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Women are the main event (again)

It didn’t take long for viewers to realize that the final event, the event that would end the show, would be the women’s Rumble match.

Why wouldn’t it be? With all the hype and news coverage leading up to the event, WWE would be stupid to miss the opportunity to keep pay-per-view buyers tuned in to the very end. Though not the only match in the pay-per-view to cause an uproar, it certainly was the one to garnish the most attention, criticism, heat, dubiousness, and excitement.

The tag-team matches had some highlight reel moments, but neither could keep our attention. The triple threat match failed to invoke a response from anyone in the crowd; forget about the home audience. The men’s Rumble match was incredibly entertaining and superbly booked, but still felt like a teaser for what was to come.

Sasha Banks and Charlotte Flair were the first women to headline a WWE pay-per-view at the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view in Oct. 2016, so women acting as the main event in the Royal Rumble isn’t ground-breaking, but it’s still a new concept.

Ending the pay-per-view with the women’s match was smart for a multitude of reasons, but it finally gave fans a glimmer of hope that, yes, WWE is finally starting to take women seriously.