Too drunk and off to bed.

Glad I didnt pay to watch it. They didnt even give us a spin-a-roonie.

So I wanted to complain about all the old-timers and announcers in the Rumble but then I wondered who should have been in it. Henry is probably more or less injured so I didn't expect him in, Cena is already headlining Wrestlemania so he doesn't care, Kane doesn't care about matches anyway so no need to put him in the Rumble, Bryan and Punk have the titles so don't need the title shot and I guess they don't want the Funkasaurus to lose a match at this point. Unless I'm missing someone there's no important or semi-important wrestler left to put in.

I don't mind Sheamus winning fwiw.

I would have preferred to see a lot more young/FCW types. No Heath Slater? No William Regal? Guys like that are gonna contribute far more than Cole.

Henry is a monster and could make the rumble interesting just due to his sheer size, even with limited movement.

Cena should have had an angle where he talked about winning and challenging for the title at EC then facing rock with it to make the wm match bigger. and even if they couldnt you still put cena in the rumble because its JOHN ****ING CENA and he makes it good due to his sheer indestructability.

kane has the most eliminations ever and also has the most consecutive rumble appearances ever. the rumble would have been his legacy, built up over 15 years. they just broke that for no reason whatsoever.

bryan and punk could have hinted at unification, which is unbelievably good when y2j, the first ever undisputed champion has just made his return. also they can both actually work and make the match more exciting.

Not even to mention the heath slaters and tyson kidds that work their ass off every day as mentioned above, or the 100s of other special guests they could have brought in. kevin nash would have been infinitely better.

sorry but there is just no excuse for announcers taking up time in the ring. its terrible. reducing the amount of wrestlers by 10 with no reason other than to put more ad space in a paid for event, then taking a further 3 slots out to give to the egomaniac commentators was disgraceful.

Every time I get fed up with WWE I stop watching for months and then something big happens that brings me back (Nexus, The Rock return, The Shoot...) I only started watching again because Jericho returned, now that all the intrigue of his return has gone I might as well just go back to reading the results online.

I really can't believe how WWE took an event that had so much potential to be great with all the different possibilities and made it the worst PPV I've seen for a long time. The Punk match was good but Ace may as well have not been out there, Cena/ Kane/ Ryder is still AIDS, the Rumble match was full of scrubs and until the end there was no drama or tension, and Jericho promising the end of the world only for nothing to happen was a huge anti climax. That's before I even get on to all the adverts and filler. I'm seriously annoyed at just how much of a waste of time Royal Rumble was but I know that I only have myself to blame for thinking that WWE could actually deliver *this* time despite them not screwing up practically every major storyline I've been interested in since the Invasion. At this point in time I have no interest in watching Rock/Cena as all the excitement has gone by not striking when the iron was hot, I'm going to follow this forum so let me know when WWE is worth my free time again.

to be fair there was a lot of tension in the epic cobra/socko staredown

That would be fine in a vacuum of a serious rumble (i.e. they start off as 1 and 2 and do it, then srs biz for 3 elim), but as presented, it was lame.

How is Cody possibly more main event than the guy who hasn't lost a match in a year? He lost a number one and a none title both times to Bryan, sure, that's a compelling reason.

Miz hasn't had a win in like 6 months. Ziggler got buried hard last night.

Sheamus is a solid choice, no better or worse than the others.

Also whoever said Jericho deserved it cos he been witness the company for 10 years, he has spent a lot of those not in the industry and is only around for 6 months. Sheamus is exactly the kind of talent who should win.

This is pretty good btw. I hardly play video games but decided to pick this up and wasted two weeks pretty much just getting stoned and messing around with universe mode.

Full of botches tho obv in true wwe style.

So Jericho pretty much has to cut an actual promo or actually do something tonight on Raw no?

HE SHOULD HAVE ****ING DONE THAT LAST NIGHT AFTER THEY BUILT TO IT FOR A MONTH AND PEOPLE PAID MONEY FOR A PPV AND JERICHO PROMISED IT ON RAW AND TWITTER.

They were just rebalancing things last night. They realize that they give away matches on free TV for no good reason, and rather than cease doing that they decided to cover for it by evening up the playing field and putting tons of ads on PPV as well to further convolute the differences.

Brilliant...

tpiring aside, yes, he not only has to cut a huge promo but also do something insane like legit murder an opponent with a knife to possibly win back the buzz that was generated since his return on the 2nd.

Everyone really likes using the johnnyaceno.gif on me.

I've been johnnyaceno.gif-ed 3 times so far....is that a record?

Anyways, her real anniversary present is a week in Disney World where she has never been and always wanted, to go.

We get home from a week in Disney World, the Saturday before Raw.

And she has always watched Raw with me and we have gone to PPVs and other Raws, so it's not like I am dragging her to something she doesn't want to go to and won't enjoy.

And BTW, she called me at like 1:30am and I told her about it and she was pretty pumped.

Loled at this.

The ads were completely ridiculous, and the Cena and Rock packages were aids; I fully expect to see both of these packages on every RAW from now till 'Mania.

Is 4 times the record?

I have no problem with sheamus winning the rumble, but why not throw your stars in there and have them not win it? It was a lackluster ppv all around which is a shame because a lot of people who were just starting to come back into the product may very well be turned off again

You are a lucky man, enjoy your life

I was not impressed at all, much like you guys. And I lost with both Ortuh and Jeritroll. ****.

Also, it took me 5 hours to get home from a usual 3 hour drive to see Big Wally because of a damn blizzard. What a mess.

Anyway, Jericho can redeem himself with a promo on Raw, imo. But aside from that, the rest is kind of ****y.

This was a Rumble of moments that play well on Youtube in 1 minute clips, I.E Kharma return, Kofi hand stand, Socko/Cobra, etc.

Sheamus makes sense as he's HHH's buddy but I'm guessing it was some sort of last minute change as Lawler predicted in an interview he'd win and Lawler always gets it wrong.

I think it's not smart to not have Cena/Brodus/Bryan/etc in there as anyone should want to win the Rumble if its such a big honor and the second biggest match of the year other than WM main event.

The lack of debuts was weird.

Me and wesr had a back and forth after his draft pick about how we both predicted Ryback would debut in the Rumble. There were also other FCW guys getting ready to come up who might have showed up if they had anything for them on TV and given they have that legends house thing on WWE Cable they werent really any legends in the event. Even Big Johnny's brother didnt get a spot.

Its obvious that injuries crippled their chances of putting on a star studded event, but they still should have had a few less scrubs out there. They also should have spread out some of the big names, half the time it felt like amateur hour without a star amongst them.

If i had the book id extend the cage match, promote the divas better and have something that hung together better than a random 4 on 4, adjust the end of the Ziggler Punk match so Ziggler got more offence in the go home and then the Rumble id put Sheamus in much earlier (20th say) to give him a long run, id drop Orton in near the top after we get over the comedy of act 2 once Miz takes out Riley and Truth so ~entrant 10-15, Barrett would be in earlier and id have him and Orton go back and forth and have Orton eliminate him then Barrett pull him out and put him through a table (he can recover for the final 4 to tease a big recovery before he goes out third). #30 id give to someone more shocking than Big Show, maybe just Jericho. I dont hate Sheamus going over at all, id even go so far as to say i like the shock of it, but id have Jericho either do something dramatic to justify his promos or id have changed the promo concept going into WM instead of the prick tease ending we had.

I dont think the actual meta concept of what happened in the Rumble was bad. It was all there and it was fine, they used what they had. However the execution was pretty terribad and could instantly be improved.

Wade wins EC and faces Sheamus is my guess