It's gonna suck so hard that Owens and especially AJ are going to drop their belts and not get top spots at Wrestlemania.

it's cute you guys think anyone but undertaker wins

Kenny Omega

lol what a ridiculous opinion, clearly you know nothing about wrestling if you think big show is going to win.

See while big show weighs a lot he actually has quite a high centre of gravity meaning if he topples he probably goes over. Mark Henry on the other hand is a much lower centre of gravity with a similar weight. Realistically he should be the short priced favourite

Meh I think both these guys are retaining to Mania.

What level is:

Nakamura wins the rumble and faces AJ at mania
Jericho is interference tossed by Owens
Taker & Cena ko each other to go to a career ending match at mania
Laser and Dadberg ko each other to go to a lolworthy match at mania

Level 2?

I read the end of this as "he's topless" and got horrific images in my head. Thanks.

Cant stop laughing... he's always topless!!!

I would like to hear this...



Follwed by this...

Us not "knowing" is pretty awesome, actually. It's been awhile since that's been the case. Hopefully the final 3-4 guys are all viable winners to maintain the suspense through the end.

I have a bad feeling they are going to throw away the rumble match again for goldberg.

Miz coming out to DB's music would be amazing!.

Anyway defo in for this ppv as I think their will be some good moments, LOL moments to go along with the throw away rumble match.

The RR is the PPV I always look most forward to each year. Even if the product isn't that great it usually delivers in one way or another.

Same here. Though I don't know why; the winner has been a disappointment for 6 straight years now.

The brand split might help a little bit with that because they don't have to shoe horn that one guy into the one spot now.

This may be the year I skip the Rumble, after the last three years I've just been beaten down too much to be all that hopeful.

Of course, I've said that before...

If I ever skip the rumble, I'll know I've completely checked out of WWE.

No love for Rollins?

OK how about a Kurt Angle return that's kept under wraps, I would jump out of my chair...

How can you skip Rumble and watch other WWE? That's crazy. I would rather skip WM

Meh

2016 - Great rumble outside of the Reigns stuff, winner was ok given the corner they were booked in to with injuries
2015 - Lol ok
2014 - Lol so much lol
2013 - Meh definitely bad, I think the Rumble gets a lot of its hate for the Rock/Punk travesty though
2012 - Pretty bad given how awesome a Y2J win would have been. Probably one of the only times they should have level 1d it and they didn't. Awful Rumble too
2011 - ADR was good I thought. Remembered worse than it was due to what came after I think.

So yeah I'll give 4.5/6, and I'm not particularly strong on the other 1.5. Guess you are right =/

Rollins

Is anyone planning to organize/escrow a Royal Rumble pool?

My thoughts without looking at odds or anything.

-Undertaker shouldn't win, that would be ****ing ridiculous. He's not at the point where he can put anyone over, and apparently (I say this bc I have no idea why he's so hot, he's terrible IMO) AJ already is over enough that a win vs Taker at WM wouldn't matter, and a loss would crush his momentum.
-Brock/Goldberg should be an autobook at WM. Making that for the title would be bad for the future of the company as neither are ever gonna be full timers again. So neither should win.
-Rollins- I'm really not sure where they can go with him. It appears they're really trying to keep him as a face but they don't seem to have any clue what kind of face they want him to be. He's kinda just a tryhard right now with no mic skills. The thing is they've given us 0 reason to care about a potential him/KO Mania. For these reasons I really think they need to cool it with him and let him get hot again lower on the card. He has proven he can be a title contender, I just think now's not the time for another Rollins push.

Which leaves us with the following:

-Finn Balor- immediately got a push and was first ever Universal Champ. Clearly they think highly of him. But it would be extremely shocking if they did the same exact thing upon his return from injury. I think they'll build him up a little this time around lower on the card. It would hugely benefit Raw to not be so polarized.
-Chris Jericho- Seems very clear they're setting up a Jericho/Owens feud for WM. I'm not convinced, however, that they (or I) see that as something worth headlining the main event of WM. Again, building the mid-card would really help
Raw.
-Dean Ambrose- EH. They beat AJ/Dean to death and it wasn't very good. Seems unlikely. Especially since he's already IC. It would be a huge disservice to that belt to have the champ also be the #1 contender for the WWE Championship. Keep him on the midcard and rebuild the IC.
-Roman Reigns/Cena (after losing their championship matches)- They thought the #CancelWWEN movement was bad? There might be riots if this happened.
-The Miz- Man I would really love to see this. He's been the best wrestler on either brand for awhile now. Unfortunately WWE has never really been big on heel vs heel, and, like I said earlier, they seem to be pretty high on AJ so I don't think it's likely he puts Cena over. I'll say this though, Cena has been crushing it lately (something smarks would never want to admit) and if he does go over AJ at RR, I would expect it to happen with The Miz winning the rumble and letting the two of them build towards a Wrestlemania title match.
-Braun Strowman- Probably the biggest fav. They very obviously want to push RR, and they've been, not subtly at all, pushing Braun as the unstoppable heel. It would make perfect sense for Roman Reigns to go over KO at RR and then DEFY THE ODDS at WM vs Braun.

Rollins won't win, he's wrestling HHH at WM.

I think Taker wins and wrestles Cena or they do some dumb **** and have Goldberg/Reigns or Goldberg/Lesnar/Reigns. Unfortunately the only full timer I see having a chance is Ambrose and that would be terrible. I don't like any of those options. Cena/Taker doesn't need a title plus AJ deserves it after the year he's had and **** anything that involves Goldberg.

I'm fairly confident Balor will win it if he returns and Taker will if he doesn't

Who does he wrestle though? He's already had high profile matches with KO and Reigns. I know WWE likes to recycle but seems a little too close and risky to do it at WM.

GeoffRas22 - I don't think anybody thinks Taker is going to win and face Styles. They are expecting Cena to beat Styles and then Taker to win and vs Cena.

It's a theory so utterly ******ed that I still think the WWE has deliberately leaked it to throw people off the scent of their plans