The Natural Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 I was thinking about that injury to Beth Phoenix the other day. Back of her head made a sick thud on the ring post. Great performance by the Glamazon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 The WWE Playback on the Women’s Rumble last year was very good. Crazy that Bianca wasn’t a champ on some brand last year. I haven’t been paying that much attention but she should win this year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzy Dunlop Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 (edited) Wait, that whole deal with Drew and Brock was last year's Rumble, right? One year ago? Fuck, it seems like it was about 95 years ago now. Buster Keaton was a special guest participant in that Rumble, right? Wait, that's ridiculous. As if they could get as big a star as that. Knowing old man McMahon's pop culture, he'd probably try to get Buster Keaton booked for this year's Rumble. GOD DAMMIT PRICHARD GET ME THE STEAM TRAIN GUY, THAT MUTE FUCK CAN TAKE A HELLUVA BUMP. One year ago. God damn. Edited January 31, 2021 by Fuzzy Dunlop 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 6 minutes ago, Fuzzy Dunlop said: Wait, that whole deal with Drew and Brock was last year's Rumble, right? One year ago? Fuck, it seems like it was about 95 years ago now. Buster Keaton was a special guest participant in that Rumble, right? Wait, that's ridiculous. As if they could get as big a star as that. Knowing old man McMahon's pop culture, he'd probably try to get Buster Keaton booked for this year's Rumble. GOD DAMMIT PRITCHARD GET ME THE STEAM TRAIN GUY, THAT MUTE FUCK CAN TAKE A HELLUVA BUMP. One year ago. God damn. Yes, last year. You're right in saying it feels a lot longer. What a terrible year 2020 was and it's continued that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoFistsJustFlips Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 5 hours ago, killsteve said: This may be a #HotTake, but they really don't have enough female talent to do a full 30 women Royal Rumble. Every year they are going to be padded out with NXT girls and 'legends'. Rather than try to run a female version of all their big gimmicks for gender parity I'd much rather them come up with a fresh, unique gimmick that they could give to the women. 2 Rumbles on 1 show is so bloated and kind of tiring to watch. Ditto for the Chambers and WarGames. Would rather them do a yearly Evolution PPV with something new and original on it. This is basically gonna be an old man yelling at clouds post, but man I wish they would make the big 4 two night events. So like, one Rumble main events Saturday one main event Sunday. You can fit all the titles on this way. But separate them from that gender's Rumble night. Like all women's title matches and the men's Rumble on Saturday, all the men's title matches and women's Rumble on Sunday. Could do the same with the Survivor Series gimmicks. Could make each world title main event a night at Mania, or one night be the big men's main and the other the big women's main. But even more importantly... the doubled up gimmicks would cease to be an issue if they, ya know, went back to booking gimmicks based on story telling vs 'hey it's October let's cue up two Hell in a Cell matches'. And this year it was fucking 3 of them wasn't it? They've been doing the shoe-horned gimmick PPVs for a decade now so they aren't going anywhere. But back in my day Cactus Jack vs Triple H in a Hell in a Cell was because the wanted to fucking kill each other, not just because the calendar said October 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamhock Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, Fuzzy Dunlop said: Knowing old man McMahon's pop culture, he'd probably try to get Buster Keaton booked for this year's Rumble. GOD DAMMIT PRITCHARD GET ME THE STEAM TRAIN GUY, THAT MUTE FUCK CAN TAKE A HELLUVA BUMP. If the Vaudevillians had worked more silent film bits as distraction spots, they’d have lasted longer. English distracts the heels at the Rumble with the Chaplin roll dance and Gotch throws them out. Or they scream “MAKEUP!” and blind the monster heels with powder and large makeup sponges, and then Harold Lloyd does an insane climb to the balcony and loses his hand in a explosion match. Edited January 31, 2021 by Hamhock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 On 1/27/2021 at 4:15 PM, Andy in Kansas said: Haven't watched much main roster WWE lately, which makes the Rumble actually difficult to predict. That's nice. Can't skip this if there's actually a chance Bryan's winning. Winner: Edge Final Four: Edge, Daniel Bryan, Big E, Sheamus Winner: Rhea Ripley Final Four: Rhea Ripley, Bianca Belair, Bayley, Charlotte Flair You gotta do whatever Fiend-Orton thing they might have planned mid-match to bump Orton or both of them out of the match, right? Right?! Please... Revising on account of the announcements on Backstage. Winner: Daniel Bryan Final Four: Daniel Bryan, Braun Strowman, Big E, Sheamus Ironman: Cesaro Most Eliminations: Braun Strowman Winner: Rhea Ripley Final Four: Rhea Ripley, Bianca Belair, Bayley, Charlotte Flair Ironwoman: Charlotte Flair Most Eliminations: Bianca Belair There are all bad guesses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Andy's predictions are pretty much mine as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 On 1/29/2021 at 10:13 PM, D.Z said: 20 men so far announced for the men's Royal Rumble, 13 for the women's. For the record - on the WWE website right now it is only 17 men Spoiler Randy Orton Edge AJ Styles Big E Daniel Bryan Sheamus Jeff Hardy Bobby Lashley Jey Uso Cesaro The Miz John Morrison Otis Sami Zayn Shinsuke Nakamura Dolph Ziggler Mustafa Ali And 12 Women Spoiler Shayna Baszler Alexa Bliss Peyton Royce Bianca Belair Bayley Charlotte Flair Nia Jax Mandy Rose Dana Brooke Tamina Liv Morgan Ruby Riott So either they are really lazy updating the website or giving themselves so wiggle room or a combo of both. The former is definitely true as Nattie isn't listed with the women despite everyone knowing she is #30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Hey, folks. I have a Rumble chat room setup on Discord if y'all want to chat while it's going on. https://discord.gg/Tk6HPhTtrC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FluffSnackwell Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Is Rhea's nearly year-long humiliation ritual (after losing at WrestleMania to Charlotte) over yet? I don't think she's won a single feud besides beating Aaliyah and Robert Stone. The Robert Stone Brand is so irrelevant having to feud with them was a major step down. It was the following year's Royal Rumble when Asuka finally got some legitimate shine back by tapping out Becky. Of course, that didn't last long. A worthwhile payoff to invincible Alexa Bliss would be if she got squashed for the title by Rhea Ripley at Wrestlemania. That would never happen though. Bianca Belair winning a title is also long overdue. I don't see them doing Bayley/Sasha again at Wrestlemania. Bianca/Sasha would be interesting, but it would work a lot better if one of them went full-blown heel, instead of some flat mutual respect approach. Any predictions that don't figure in Charlotte are probably way off. Charlotte challenging fiend Alexa Bliss would be a fun mess. What's the over/under on the match length for Goldberg/McIntyre? 3 minutes? I guess I'll take the over. They might give them 5 minutes for this latest finisher spam-off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastleVania Rey Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 We will know for sure we're in the worst timeline if Wyatt or Fiend Alexa wins one of the Rumble matches. Well, I guess the worst timeline is if they BOTH win their Rumbles... (Best timeline would have been Nikka Cross dramatically freeing Alexa from the Fiend's control at least, but we're well past that now probably...) I'm really unsure who else could win the men's Rumble match this year, though. They haven't built to anything or elevated anyone in a way that suggests... anything. For the women's, maybe Bianca Belair wins? Would WWE do that or does it make too much sense? I'd enjoy a Bayley victory, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuerrillaMonsoon Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 (edited) It's really difficult to take Goldberg seriously when he looks more and more like Judd Hirsch by the day. Edited January 31, 2021 by GuerrillaMonsoon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 28 minutes ago, FluffSnackwell said: I don't think she's won a single feud besides beating Aaliyah and Robert Stone. She only had 2 other feuds. She beat Mercedes and lost her second match to Raquel. The Rhea had a terrible year talk is bs. She was as big a focus in the division as Io was and lost around 3 matches legitimately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanChessgame Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Bianca just had a Chronicle episode come out a few days ago that talked quite a bit about her Rumble performance last year. That's a pretty good sign she's got a shot at winning. I'd like to see her or Rhea come out the winner. As long as it's not Fiendlexa, Bayley, Sasha, or Charlotte I'm good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastleVania Rey Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 2 minutes ago, HumanChessgame said: Bianca just had a Chronicle episode come out a few days ago that talked quite a bit about her Rumble performance last year. That's a pretty good sign she's got a shot at winning. I'd like to see her or Rhea come out the winner. As long as it's not Fiendlexa, Bayley, Sasha, or Charlotte I'm good. Good, good. I'd be unpleased to see Becky Lynch win right now. And definitely Rhonda Rousey too. But I figure if Rhonda returns, she's winning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Womens tag moved to pre show. Wiki has more names for the men's RR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FluffSnackwell Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 (edited) 28 minutes ago, Eivion said: She only had 2 other feuds. She beat Mercedes and lost her second match to Raquel. The Rhea had a terrible year talk is bs. She was as big a focus in the division as Io was and lost around 3 matches legitimately. She also ate the pin in the triple threat against Io and Charlotte following Wrestlemania, and then lost to her again recently before losing her exit match against Raquel. It's not pulled out of thin air. She also lost to Toni Storm, off interference in the build-up to facing Raquel. Key losses to Io, Storm, and Raquel on her way out the door since November. 1-2 in her only feuds doesn't sound like a great year to me. Since Wrestlemania, she had one legitimate win over Mercedes, somebody who should be a much bigger deal, but for whatever reason was barely featured on NXT for most of the year. To be fair, I understand that jumping to the main roster is basically going back to square one (for better or worse). Many times, the more heavily featured you were in NXT, the worse off you end up on the main roster. Just ask Shayna Baszler. Rhea will probably be thrown into some on/off dead end feud against Nia and Shayna for the next six months. Edited January 31, 2021 by FluffSnackwell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Ah yes losing a few big matches on her way out in the last two months of the year totally means she had a shit year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuerrillaMonsoon Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 24 minutes ago, D.Z said: Wiki has more names for the men's RR. One of which, temporarily, was Tom Jones. I'm not against this. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 8 minutes ago, FluffSnackwell said: Many times, the more heavily featured you were in NXT, the worse off you end up on the main roster. Just ask Shayna Baszler. Is she really the best example to make this point? I don't think anyone was expecting Ronda Rousey's less-recognizable, pushing-forty friend to be a world-beater on the main roster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Green Meanie Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 The Rumble is my favorite PPV all year from the E. This past year and a half has been rough for the company when it comes to me watching their weekly programing (I rarely watch anymore) but I'm going to try to enjoy this as much as possible. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 In singles matches post-WrestleMania, Rhea is an even 4-4-1 for the rest of the year. But if you put together the entirety of what she did on TV for the rest of the year, it doesn't look too pretty. WrestleMania: lost to Charlotte May: No contest with Io, lost to Charlotte & Chelsea Green June: lost three way match against Io & Charlotte, defeats Aliyah in a singles match July: defeats Aliyah & Robert Stone, loses a #1 contender match to Dakota Kai August: wins a tag match against Aliyah & Mercedes, loses a tag match against Dakota & Raquel September: defeats Mercedes, loses a #1 contender battle royale October: defeats Raquel November: loses to Io December: losing team on WarGames, loses to Toni Storm, defeats Dakota January 2021: loses to Raquel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuerrillaMonsoon Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Is there a show where Jerry Lawler doesn't say that he's "never seen anything like this before in his life"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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