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^^ Just watched this; very well-done and made by a wrestling fan, so it isn't talking down to the viewers. Nice to see Channel 4 starting to embrace wrestling again, too; they were the reason I became a wrestling fan in the first place by showing Sunday Night Heat and the Royal Rumble back in 2000.

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And the third and final rope break of the show...

 

Edited January 28, 2017 by MightyJordan

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[LOC Veteran]

Yeah not exactly shocking that Cena won the title. In fact, it was a damn good match, could be match of the year candidate (actually it is, it was so good). I really, really hope the people who keep saying that Cena can't wrestle watch this one. While his moveset is limited compared to say, Styles or Neville or someone like that, he can thrown down just fine in the ring. Sure he's getting older and can't compete like he used to 15 years ago now, still he's putting in the work. So did Styles of course, if it wasn't for him, Cena wouldn't have looked so good.

 

The Rumble match, kinda sucked though. Orton winning? Really? And Orton and Reigns as the final two? Really WWE? You had a perfect opportunity to have Angle show up even if he got eliminated insantly. Perfect time for say, Balor to show up since he's apparently cleared now? Etc ec. Wyatt should have won it with those as the final three, end of story. But not, Orton goes on to Wrestlemania. Bleh.

[Scazza]

I'm an avid 'lurker' of this thread and for the last 10-12 years an 'on/off' WWE viewer, but when it comes to PPV's I'll usually watch the main ones like the Rumble and Mania. This plost will contain Spoilers so tread carefully.

 

Last night, after the build up that this Rumble has had I decided to do something I haven't done in a long time (and I mean a LOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGG time) and that was stay up and watch the Rumble Live. Being in the UK it mean't a quick sleep between 8pm and 11:50pm before tuning in and catching the end of the Pre-Show with HBK cutting a small promo. 2 other friends were watching LIVE so we had a Party Chat going on via Xbox Live which really added to the experience of watching this PPV.

 

I'm not going to go through my thoughts on the whole card just the bits that I either appreciated or thought 'what the actual **** were you think WWE creative????'.

 

Spoiler

1. KO vs Reigns. 

Talking between us could see this ending with a clean finish, we discussed Jericho dropping his belt down to KO to use on Reigns (although we weren't far off as he pulled a knuckle duster out & dropped it down) as well as Rollins interfering but this 'summed up' our night as we were so far off the mark. Strooman interferring really came from left field for me, it was a WTF moment when he came in to the ring and demolished Reigns which allowed KO to grab the win. It's nice to see KO retain as I find him way more entertaining than Reigns! The spot with the chair was a nice touch too!

2. AJ Styles vs John Cena

Now, as per our thoughts for the previous title match we didn't think this would end clean but yet again we were wrong. This match was full of 'What the hell' moments with Cena and Styles really bringing the goods for this match. Cena adding some new moves to his move set really added to the match. The backwards and forwards submission interchange was a good touch too. Overall I really enjoy this match.

 

3. The Royal Rumble Match

One Word: Disappointment...

Let's start with the wasted spots, so New Day took up 2 spots, Enzo at #27 (Really....) and the amount of times the buzzer went & I was left thinking, he won't win he's a turd was countless. By the time we got to #25 you knew 3 of them was going to be Taker, Lesnar & Goldberg which left 2 people as a surprise & for them to give us Reigns and Enzo was a slap in the face! What happened to having Balor, Joe, Nakamura, Angle or Kane? There wasn't a single mark our moment after the buzzer went which is really poor form from WWE. What I don't get is why WWE didn't use the Rumble Match to continue with Reigns/Strooman? Get Reigns in the match whilst Strooman is there and get them trading blows, instead they throw Reigns out at #30 long after Strooman is gone. One thing we got wrong was that we genuinely thought WWE was going to throw a Brock equaliser in to the mix by having him eliminate Goldberg quickly, but nope, WWE seem to digging Brock a grave for his career as that's now 2 encounters between the 2 and he's lasted less than 2 minutes! Reigns eliminating Taker...does this mean they will now feud meaing the Strooman interference was wasted? WWE seriously need to stop shoving Reigns down out throats, as soon as his music hit the crows shut up as if they were attending a funeral which was then followed by an onslaught of boo's. Chris Jericho's run was mostly spent napping, I genuinely thought he was going to sleep his way to the final 2! Really poor booking from WWE with no Old Skool/Veteran's entering at all.

 

 

[MightyJordan]

I stayed up too and I mostly regret it. What a letdown the rumble match was.

 

Spoiler

Only one surprise entry and it wasn't even much of a surprise; more an obvious thing to do (Tye Dillinger debuting at 10).

And word to WWE: We know you mute the boos whenever Roman Reigns' music hits; you're fooling no one!

 

Oh, and since @Scazzamentioned WTF moments, I've got a little story from last night: JBL blocked me on Twitter for mentioning a certain bit in WhatCulture's WTF Moments series. I didn't even direct the tweet at him! I was responding to a tweet from Paddy Power, they tagged him, and I just left it in. Didn't think he'd be such a sensitive snowflake.

 

Now if I had mentioned his faux pas during NXT TakeOver San Antonio - which was a bloody great show as usual, by the way - I'd understand him blocking me...

 

So, just because of his childish actions last night...

 

And go and buy the t-shirt.

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@MightyJordan I noticed that JBL went and blocked anyone who mentions King Ross's John O'Clock as well as anyone who tweeted about that 'Browser Tab' incident! Cracks me up how sensitive he is 

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As seen on last night’s Royal Rumble PPV Roman Reigns was attacked by Braun Strowman at the end of his bout against Kevin Owens. As we have reported before Braun Strowman and Roman Reigns will be facing off against each other at WWE Live events heading in to WrestleMania.

 

Later in the night Reigns would return as an entrant in the Royal Rumble match and would eliminate The Undertaker from the match. Dave Meltzer noted on last night’s episode of Wrestling Observer Radio that the plan is for Reigns to face The Undertaker at WrestleMania following the elimination.

 

Meltzer also notes that the plan is for Goldberg to face Kevin Owens for the WWE Universal Championship at WWE Fastlane and go on to defend the title against Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania.

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[philixus1988]

I usually just lurk but man, I am extremely peeved about the rumble result. When is WWE going to pull the trigger on Bray Wyatt? He is slowly becoming a joke. He loses all his feuds and doesnt win the big one. With cena winning the title, wyatt is not going to get it on elimination chamber. Is orton going to end up facing cena? That will be a waste of a match. Been there done that.

 

Reigns facing undertaker? and what? lose?

 

Undertaker was there on wrestlemania 34 city reveal. He is most likely going to do a match on wrestlemania 34 next year.

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2 minutes ago, philixus1988 said:

I usually just lurk but man, I am extremely peeved about the rumble result. When is WWE going to pull the trigger on Bray Wyatt? He is slowly becoming a joke. He loses all his feuds and doesnt win the big one. With cena winning the title, wyatt is not going to get it on elimination chamber.

Funny you should say that, Meltzer recently said that that's the plan...

 

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10 minutes ago, MightyJordan said:

Funny you should say that, Meltzer recently said that that's the plan...

 

I highly doubt that they will make cena drop the belt a month into his reign. I think it might be cena vs orton vs bray at WM. If sane heads prevail, cena and orton will put wyatt over at WM. Wyatt, could be the top heel of the company.

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[red.]

Disappointing PPV overall. Really enjoyed AJ/Cena but the rumble match itself was rubbish. No surprise entrants and Orton winning. Push someone new FFS.

 

But at least it wasn't Reigns.