This year in both Rumble matches they did a really good job of highlighting developmental talent (or course, some of those people are "developmental" in name only- Garganno, Black, Pete Dunne, Kairi and Io, etc are better in ring performers than a lot of main roster people) instead of bringing back nostalgia acts for a cheap pop. (other than Jeff Jarrett and bastard McMahon son Hornswoggle, obviously) I very much preferred that tactic to what they did in last year's women's rumble, although I understand why they went that route and enjoyed a lot of the entrants.
It was a weird ppv in a lot of ways- just about the only non-rumble match that I thought was genuinely good was Becky vs Asuka. Gotta question the booking in the Bryan/AJ match- wtf was going on there? That match also had the misfortune to have to follow the women's rumble match, and the crowd was pretty much spent by that point.
God bless Dolph Ziggler for not being afraid to kick Nia Jax, btw. He's the big winner of the night.