Vince McMahon's Insane Idea For 2022 Women's Royal Rumble

There has been some frustration within the women's ranks in WWE.

On Fightful Select's discord (access for subscribers here), we answered a question about that frustration, and were asked about it on this week's Hump, which you can check out at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB8rdcsg4EY

In the podcast, we noted that the frustration was nothing even resembling major low points, with Royal Rumble 2022 as an example. A number of readers asked why specifically Royal Rumble was cited. We did a whole feature on the messes associated: https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/exclusives/inside-royal-rumble-3-look-behind-nightmare-royal-rumble-2022

One particular are of note was that widely respected producer TJ Wilson aka Tyson Kidd walked away for a period of time ahead of that Royal Rumble. One of the reasons we were given was that the vision Vince McMahon had was so off the wall, that there was trouble coexisting with it. We're told that this and other things let to Wilson taking time away and WWE calling in Fit Finlay to help produce the match.

Fightful has recently learned at one point early in the planning stages of the 2022 Women's Royal Rumble, that Vince McMahon had pitched to have Ronda Rousey eliminate the entire field of the Royal Rumble in what would be her first match in over two and a half years. We're told that early on, Vince was very steadfast in wanting to do something like this because they had Rousey on a full-time, advanced schedule for all of 2022. Eventually Rousey was brought back, entered at number 28, spent ten minutes in the match, eliminated four people and won.

Sasha Banks/Mercedes Mone had been pitched by many others as the winner.

There was also frustration with Vince McMahon as the vast majority of the cameos had no real plan, and McMahon had instructed them to "get in and get out." Summer Rae, Sarah Logan, Cameron, Kelly Kelly, Melina, Molly Holly and Ivory all spent a minute or less in the match.

At least four cameos WWE had planned for that year rejected WWE's overtures to be in the Royal Rumble. This included Peyton Royce, Billie Kay and Nia Jax. At least one cited TJ Wilson's lack of involvement as a reason.