Sometimes the runner-up can be a massive name or contender, but others have been, in hindsight especially, awful choices at coming second. Fans have groaned at some of these wrestlers who finished second, as they either showed no threat to winning the match or else the booking decision to have them so close to winning was a mistake.

Roman Reigns winning the most bleak match in WWE history was a major factor, as tracked by the excellent Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics. The backlash to that dismal match informed the worst ratings pattern on the road to WrestleMania since 1996.

Roman Reigns is going to be back in the Men's Royal Rumble Match for the first time in five years. Paul Heyman made that announcement Friday night on SmackDown. The Wiseman making it very clear to Cody Rhodes that the new Undisputed Tribal Chief has his sights set on once again becoming the Undisputed WWE Champion.