Official Royal Rumble 2019 Thread

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I wasn't feeling that shyt, with E making Nia compete with men on equal level, though it was great seeing her ass kicked you barely see guys hitting the women back.
 

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Short thoughts:

I can't believe they had Rhea and Charlotte in the ring together for a good 15 minutes and they never interacted once. Rhea's entire current look and gimmick is because she got sick of being compared to Charlotte and decided to start powerlifting and butch it up. Meanwhile, there were 4 different "epic staredowns" between Lacey Evans and Charlotte :mjlol:

Both women's title matches were good, really hope Ronda doesn't leave or become a family woman before getting matches with Charlotte/Bayley/Asuka.

:deadmanny: @ :flabbynsick: Double J just happy to be alive :mjgrin:

Bryan/AJ had a match that was not appropriate for the venue or a show that long. That same match in like...All State Arena on a regular lengthed PPV could have been :blessed:, but not 4 hours into a stadium show. Brock/Balor was fun for what it was. There's a story heading into WM that the smaller guys are cracking the Brock code, and Seth being able to put together what AJ/Bryan/Balor have done and beat Brock would be pretty neat, but I'm sure that's not intentional in the least.

The whole thing with Nia Jax was :dwillhuh: as hell. She's both a dominating monster easily throwing the men around, but hitting her was "the worst thing" Orton's ever done? And that shyt can't go anywhere, because they aren't going to have Nia wrestling the men, and Nia is already the dominant monster of the women's division who gets to smash half the roster at once every few months anyway, so I can't imagine what the fukk the point of that was. fukking Dog Ziggler doing that "I'm not going to be at the show/I'm on hiatus/I haven't signed a new contract" yet being in the Rumble as usual for the 5th year running :sadcam:. Lmao at the spots to forget about Seth/Braun and really pushing that either Alamas or Ziggler were going to WM.




One thing stood out more than anything: I sure as fukk don't miss Jerry Lawler
 

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The RR itself is a mess... it used to be the rare moment where you’d see dream match scenario ppl interact with each other who normally don’t

That has not happened in years, excluding the AJ Styles debut because any interaction he had that night was fresh... I’m talking about ppl already popular in storylines facing off against others

But then again we’re at a time where you have no true heels or faces... I used to love seeing a baby face square off with another baby face in the rumble or a major heel vs another major heel
 

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They had incredible chemistry last month at TLC, they had a damn 4.5 star match and their 2 TV matches were really good to great. Even the match at this event was techinally great.
nah they are way too slow and take forever to turn the dial up. that TLC match was wack imo
I should be watching them put on a match like Gargano does
 

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The ending of the men’s Rumble wasn’t that good but it was never boring. The women’s rumble ended strong and had the internet favorite win, but was really boring for most of it and the quality of work fukking sucked.

Brock vs Balor was pretty good. Aj vs D Bry was boring, and both women’s title matches were good. Especially Asuka vs Becky.
 

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I thought the Bliss and Lashley emininations were botched at first. Just didnt make sense.

The Lashley one I legitimately thought was a botch. I get if they don’t think he’s the guy to send to the talk shows with the belt, but if he’s not then he’s the guy to face that guy. He’s way too threatening and good of a worker to not at least be in a top heel spot.
 

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:comeon: what? he is the most over he has been in years wtf are you talking about. shyt 2 years ago he was just coming back from a major knee injury, he WAS NOT at his peak. and prior to that he had a long title run, what period are you talking about that was his peak?

An how in the fukk is he stale when everyone chants at the top of their lungs when his music hits? dude is far from stale

I was wonderin' the same thing... 2 years ago Rollins was crackin' "Sparklecrotch" jokes at Jericho and having that suck-ass feud with HHH that it actually took an HHH promo of all things to get people remotely invested in.
 
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