piranesi Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Also, main three matches at Mania currently stand as Trips/Reigns, Wyatt/Lesnar, and Ambrose/Jericho. In related news, fuuuuuuck that noise. So that same Bray Wyatt promo with no Brock around over and over for months and then Bray jobs to him clean. Sounds about the same. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Having Ambrose winning and then turning the next night on RAW to set-up him an Ambrose for Mania would've been the smarter move. I can't complain though. It wasn't a bad Rumble overall and it set-up plenty of stuff for Mania James. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMN Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 They were SO FUCKING CLOSE to doing something interesting. I thought they might actually do it, then you can run Ambrose/Reigns at 'Mania, which could have been really fucking interesting. Ah well, even as a HHH fan I'm like whatever about it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted January 25, 2016 Author Share Posted January 25, 2016 Meanwhile - poor poor Becky Lynch So gets booked like an idiot... again and then literally gets thrown out of her spot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skelemania Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 ♫ It's all about the game, and how you play it All about control, and if you can take it ♫ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godfrey Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Look, I like Roman, I do. But I think they need to cool it with this guy. A lot of good stuff on this show otherwise. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 If tomorrow opens with Big E. carrying Kofi into the ring to challenge HHH. Well, this wills till have sucked, but it'll be something. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Loved it. Only match that was a mess was Kalisto/ADR, but Kalisto winning was a feel good moment. Best WWE show since Wrestlemania, for sure. Trips winning was predictable, but that crowd ate it up. In fact, they were hot for almost everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Is anyone invested in Roman vs. Hunter? Roman wins the belt back whatever.. I mean who gives a crap? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 I didn't hit the match rooting for Triple H, but I damn sure was when it came down to him and Ambrose. Nobody has fallen off more/been more exposed over the last year than Ambrose. Owens was great. "Welcome to WWE" right before dumping AJ, the shocked look at Sami's music, selling the opening match but still being an asskicker... Brock going out sets up a match, but it killed that crowd dead. Triple H ta decent pop on his entrance, but nothing compared to Styles. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted January 25, 2016 Author Share Posted January 25, 2016 And again the faces hate each other Maybe if Reigns had stopped sulking for 5 seconds - he pulls Hunter off the ring apron and his "best bud" is now World Champ 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Meanwhile - poor poor Becky Lynch So gets booked like an idiot... again and then literally gets thrown out of her spot That SPort COAT WAS LINED WITH LEAD!!! THE HORESMEN BROUGHT IN A LOADED BLAZER!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSmUgly Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 If they ever let Ambrose eventually win that thing, the folks attending are going to break a few decibel levels. They blew it again. They have Fastlane. Have Ambrose win and then run HHH/Ambrose at Fastlane. HHH can be the Drago to Ambrose's Apollo Creed. He can hit Ambrose in the head with the sledgehammer and tell a horrified Stephanie at ringside, "If he dies, he dies." Then Roman can be Rocky except with about one-one billionth of Sly Stallone's natural charisma. But noooooo, two months of HHH as WWE Champ yet again. I saw enough of this shit in 2003, frankly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontaneous Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Wrestlemania*/Wrestlemania Star appears off to the same meh starts the last few did. I'm hoping there are still some twists and turns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man Known as Dan Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Meanwhile - poor poor Becky Lynch So gets booked like an idiot... again and then literally gets thrown out of her spot I'm trying not to think about that. Also, I liked that match but boy what a stupid mother fucking finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie M. Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 I largely enjoyed the show. I do think it's lousy booking if you want Roman to get sympathy. Brock got screwed 10x worse than Roman did in the Rumble so HHH simply tossing him out like a goof was hardly some big screwjob. The response to AJ Styles was phenomenal and he looked great. WWE's been handed arguably the best wrestler in the world who is over with their crowd and has a ton of fresh opponents. Let's see how they handle it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Honestly, I'm not nearly as bothered as most of you guys seem to be, but the one thing that bothered me was how calmly Brock left. He should've at least F-5'ed Wyatt, or thrown stairs at him or something. He just sadly walked away. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kafkonia Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 The crowd did 'ooooh' for the Wyatt/HHH staredown... But now that's just another port they've passed on the way to his ship having sailed. Better to feed the Wyatt Family to Brock Lesnar so he can fuck off for a few months, then come back and suplex the rest of the roster into irrelevance again. If you take HHH, Lesnar, and Reigns out, this would have been a very intriguing Rumble. And say what you will about Jericho, but he did get one of the biggest pops of the match when he came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 They're never actually going to let AJ do the Styles Clash in WWE, are they? Except against like Neville. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hector Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 I'm guessing Roman getting taken out for that large stretch might have been a last minute thing because the dude looked like he had flu face before the match even began. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted January 25, 2016 Author Share Posted January 25, 2016 They're never actually going to let AJ do the Styles Clash in WWE, are they? Except against like Neville. I am perfectly fine with them not letting him do the Styles Clash 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 If Dean had won, then Roman is a heel and maybe interesting again and they could maybe start to build him up organically. But they will not give up on this. It's like almost two years now? Has there been a time when the "top face" was getting booed for two straight years and they didn't give up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanChessgame Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 With Owens/Ambrose going on first, it gave me hope one or both guys would be back for the Rumble. The match started going in the direction of the average WWE garbage match, but they kept things from getting over the top stupid and it was a solid match overall. New Day/Usos was also solid, but has been done to death. They really need to get some new team in there as they've gotten all their going to get out of that feud. Kaliso/Del Rio keep the string of good undercard matches going. Nothing special but perfectly good for what it was. Charlotte/Becky was a decent match with an absolutely shit finish. Sasha coming out saved it, but poor Becky looked like an afterthought when it was over. Ever since they had announced Roman would be coming in as number one, myself and probably most of the rest of you were dreading them doing some spot where he gets dragged out of the ring, beaten down, then miraculously comes back in the last few minutes. Then there were the dire predictions of HHH inserting himself in and winning. Of course this being the WWE they had to do both of those things. It's a shame because the Rumble match itself was really good for the most part. Great debut by AJ Styles setting up a possible program with Owens, or re-igniting Owens vs Sami, The Wyatts looking strong with some good spots between them and Brock, and lots of other entertaining stuff throughout. Ending it with a completely awful finish setting up a HHH/Roman main event that will get shit on completely took the wind out of things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 One thing I can see happening, possibly--Reigns has the automatic rematch clause. HHH forces him to put it on the line against the last man eliminated from the Rumble--Dean Ambrose. Or am I being goofy? Probably goofy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneybrown Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Man, I guess I'm going to be Gregg because aside from the last twenty minutes, that was one of the best WWE shows I've seen in years. We KNEW HHH was winning. It was a total forgone conclusion. I loved the rest of the show. Or maybe I'm not so angry because I was starting to regret not buying WrestleMania tickets, and now that it's over, I don't regret it at all. I'd be pissed if I'd spent hundreds of dollars for a HHH/Reigns main event. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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