[1/29] Official Royal Rumble 2017 Thread: Attack of the part timers!

[TrueEpic08]

best rumble in the Network era tho, despite Orton winning.

That's not a hard bar to clear, let's be fair.

It was cool and all, but only the first 40% of this was actually laid out well if we're being honest.

 

[ColiBomaye]

....but EC's in 2 weeks. How do you get Bray a shot when he knows Orton is set to face the champ at Mania?

How does he leap-frog AJ getting a rematch?

...or are you saying that even though Randy's booked to face Cena at Mania, the WWE title is going to be on the line at EC?

I haven't been keeping up with the sheets, but if the title is on the line in an Elimination Chamber match, then Bray and AJ both have their shot at the same time.

I don't like the idea of hot potatoing the title, but I'd rather have that than Cena vs. Orton #989 as the main event of Wrestlemania in 2017.

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Taker looked pretty bad imo. For the first time he's actually looked very old. This needs to be his last Mania.

nikka looked like my dad. and my dad is 68

 

[mrken12]

So we're looking at:

Bray Wyatt vs Randy Orton
Roman Reigns vs Undertaker
Goldberg vs Undertaker
Shaq vs Big Show
Kevin Owens vs Chris Jericho

That card looks

And I think you meant to put Goldberg vs Lesnar.

 

[Jesus H. Christ]

Vince cannot book shyt to save his life

 

[Green Ranger]

Cena's losing the strap at Elimination Chamber to Bray as per Meltzer
He was right about Orton

Krazy to think Cena could be a transitional champ

 

[45123]

I would have rather seen Joe, Bray, or Balor win but the alternatives were either

A. 50 year old Undertaker
B. 50 year old Oldberg
C. Too soon Strowman
D. Brock, but Brock v Goldberg in the main event of Mania???
E. AJ, but from a storytelling standpoint this is a little bit more interesting
F. Roman Reigns

So.... Bray vs. Orton or a 4-way/triple threat @ Mania is not a bad offering at all

 

[dakidbanks]

They planted plenty of seeds though..

1.) Taker will disappear after tonight then Reigns renew his Braun feud tomorrow and face him at Fastlane.. Taker will return and cost him the match leading to Taker/Reigns at WM... no way is Roman losing 5 straight PPVs so they'll have him be the 2nd person to go over Taker since fukk it the streak ain't there no more

2.) Bray will win the elimination chamber setting up Bray vs Orton at WM

3.) Goldberg has enough quick Ws on his resume since returning to finally give Lesnar his win at WM

 

[Canada Goose]

As a causal wrestling fan this PPV lived up the hype


Goldberg vs Taker was a dream match of mine so seeing them finally face off in the Rumble was I marked out for that.


Seeing Taker/Reigns face off was dope too, I said I wasn't looking forward to such a match but after tonight, I changed my mind


Shocked Lesnar's time in the Rumble was so short.




Owens/Reigns and Cena/AJ were both dope matches, Ce-GOAT tied Ric Flair record thought it was dope that prior to this PPV two neckbeard favorites in Owens and AJ Styles had both of WWE's top tier titles

I'm shocked Orton won, I was honestly expecting Reigns to win again was also shocked at the lack of legends in the Rumble other than Taker, Mark Henry & Goldberg.



Great PPV.

 

[Hey_zeus]

Network fukked up the match. Kept erroring out then I'd have to rewind to get back to my spot. Spoiling any new entrants/eliminations.

 

[Metal Face]

Disappointing...not total shyt but wow.

Scratching my head on who they're gonna rely on in 10 years for these matches...Bray should've won.

 

[Arcavian]

Same here. The part timers didn't even hog the spotlight all that much. They really could have excluded Crews, Ellsworth and Enzo for some surprise entrants but overall it was enjoyable.

i think not knowing any of the storylines going in also helped


I haven't watched wwe in about two years

 

[prophecypro]

y'all need to give Meltzer his due

Never gets the Rumble winner wrong

 

[Bruce Wayne]

No Joe. No Angle. No Benjamin.

You're right. I did expect some more legit surprise entrants.

 

[the artist known az]

Taker looked pretty bad imo. For the first time he's actually looked very old. This needs to be his last Mania.

He should have hung it up at least 3-4 years ago