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Originally Posted by Vito Cruz It is beyond startling how out of touch WWE are with their audience. It's not even an IWC thing. An entire fucking arena voiced the exact same opinion. Good lord nobody wants to see Orton/Batista.

entire arena to an extent but that was the smarkiest crowd since last years RAW after Mania. The exact same layout gets a different response in a different town aka when the crowd isn't full of knobs (not for the Bryan love, the general boo Cena/chanting boring 15 seconds into a match/the usual)

was definitely pulling for Bryan to be in the Rumble but really for the "romanticism" of it/"the moment". But thinking about it logically for 5 seconds, Bryan wins the Rumble and without hotshotting the belt to somebody at the next PPV/a pretty ho hum ending to everything Orton has done over the last 5-6 months, that sets up one of two main events, Bryan/Orton or Bryan/Cena, both of which have been done recently and decisively. Whether they booked themselves into that position or not, neither of those really work for your Mania main event. So I understand him not winning/being in it (personally would have loved to see him enter at 30 anyway just to see the crowd's reaction to him being eliminated) "the rumours" state that it'll be Bryan/Sheamus at Mania, which is fine, they've shown previously they can tear the house down. That said, for the crowd interaction it would create, the setting, the perfect ending it would give to the "ultimate underdog"/against the odds story etc, Orton/Batista/Bryan would be great. Not gonna happen but still great.