That was the first time I'd watched any WWE programming in... 6 years? 7? Something like that.
The championship match was awesome. From what the people I watched the show with told me, I really, really like the way they've booked Lesnar. He's a fucking beast, he doesn't show up all that often, and when he does it's a special thing. I'm fine with a mostly inactive champion.
The rumble match itself was mostly shit. The WWE still can't book what should be a slam dunk match, one of a kind that only happens once a year.
It was fine until Daniel Bryan got eliminated. Bryan was obviously the most over face in the company; he should have won the Rumble and gone on to Mania. From what I've been told, fans really haven't taken to Reigns as a top face. Hell, even Wyatt was more over and intriguing; having him win was a plausible outcome. If Bryan isn't going to win, there's NO REASON not to have him stick around until the end; jobbing him out in the middle of the match shits on the most over guy in your company and means you don't get to use him in a top level program anytime soon. If you have him stick around until the last few and then he gets fucked over by somebody, great, you still don't have him win which is what you (for some reason) wanted but NOW HE'S AT LEAST USEFUL. The way they booked it, what is Daniel Bryan going to do next? Might as well have not even had him in the fucking Rumble.
And that's about all the attention I'll bother paying to the WWE for the next god knows how long. It's been 6-7 years since I watched anything, 8-9 since I watched regularly, and they STILL HAVE the same fucking problem- they don't know how to book wrestling, which is kind of a problem when your job is booking wrestling. What a fucking waste.