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ZeroSignal posted...

From my experience watching them...

Classics: 1992, 2001

Great: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007

Good: 2002, 2008, 2010, 2018, 2018W, 2019W, 2020, 2021W

Mostly forgettable, might have an excellent moment or two during the event, but nothing else: 1997, 1998, 2000, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022W

Legit rough: 1995, 2012, 2014, 2022

Bad: 2015

Dumpster fire: 1999

Haven't watched: 88-94, 96

You left out a royal rumble.
In fact, you've left out the GREATEST ROYAL RUMBLE (2018 Saudi). It was okay.

If I had to pick 5 Royal Rumbles to recommend... Probably 2001, 2007, 2002, 1992, and maybe 2018.

Worst is still easily 2015 by far. Outside of DDP and Bubba showing up and brief spots where Wyatt ran into The Boogeyman and Harper/Rowan early on, there was NOTHING to enjoy from that match ESPECIALLY the latter half of the rumble which felt slow, boring, botched what would was supposed to be one of the most memorable eliminations that night, had two over-the-hill wrestlers slowly dumping people out of the ring, and pretending the match was over for like 3 minutes despite Rusev still not being eliminated yet.

That's not even taking into account fucking up Roman's push so badly heading into the rumble that, combined with key dangling the prospect of a returning Bryan winning the match only to eliminate him halfway into the match with only like 8 minutes, the crowd turned so hard on Roman that it took him needing to take a break to deal with Leukemia in order for that massive heat to stop. Not just an excellent example of how not to book arguably your most anticipated match of the year, but how not to book the guy who you're planning to make the next face of the company.

All the other bad rumbles at least have SOMETHING to enjoy. 2012 had some decent moments despite being underwhelming. 1995 had HBK and DBS lasting the entire match back when that meant a lot more, the earliest rumbles (88-91 and 93-94) were relatively boring (I partially blame the lack of music between entrants entering, not having that really hurts watchthroughs) but still had a couple of good moments and had to establish the traditions/tropes that are usually associated with the match (if that's the right phrase to use)? 2014 only got bad once #30 came out and everyone realised "oh, they are actually going with Batista", 2022 had some decent moments despite being poorly booked as a whole (not to mention Lesnar F-5'ing Bad Bunny keeps it out of the bottom 5 for me). As for 1999, that took a backseat to the whole "Austin/McMahon" angle, but at least the angle was somewhat entertaining (not to mention you HAD to have known that Austin was facing Rocky at Mania regardless of whether he won or lost the match, right? Who else was going to realistically face Rock and not get a Bootista-esqe crowd reaction? Chyna?).