Also, that thread by
@GoddamnyamanProf is bullshyt
10.
Curtis Axel has had one mildly-amusing moment in his WWE career, it has everything to do with the Rumble last year, and there wasn't a single mention of it. Rusev and Mark Henry getting tossed immediately like a couple of fukkin ham & eggers. Miz and Erick Rowan lasted longer. Remember the Hall of Pain?
Remember when Rusev was an unstoppable monster less than a year ago?
the remnants of that inCenarator still fukkin shyt up even when he aint there
Really breh?
We getting up in arms now cuz Curtis Axel and Mark Henry didn't get shine? And Rusev got tossed out early because they wanted him to come out for the table spot later. I'll give you that they didn't need to bring him at 2 and get thrown over like that with the quickness
9. No throwback returns this year. Except Golddust. And zero interaction between him and Cody. Overall the roster was strong but surely a couple nostalgic returns would've been better than pointless appearances from low-card guys/guys pulling double duty in other matches.
We got AJ Styles and Sami Zayn, two FUTURE stars. This Rumble didn't need any throwback returns nor did it feel like such a thing was missing. Most of the match was setting up stories and the finish of the Rumble. A random appearance by the Godfather or some shyt would have been out of place.
6. AJ's debut, pop and theme were awesome. His actual time in the rumble, not so much. He got like 2 moves of offense in and mostly sold for everyone else. Reigns got the better of him right off the bat
And why so early at number 3? No one's expecting him to win or even be there at the end but his elimination seemed early and you could feel the crowd deflate and never recover for the rest of the match.
5. fukk was the point of Jericho being in there so long, sitting in the corner, only for them to gloss over his elimination? Pointless. I dont even remember who threw him out, did they set anything up? He looks like shyt btw.
4. Lesnar. If the point was to set up him vs the Wyatt's, they pretty much did that in the worst way possible. If the crowd was deflated after AJ was tossed, they were downright dead once Lesnar went over. Smh
3. The order of the entrants was terrible. What's the point of a scripted competition if you're not going to use it to your benefit? A guy like Ziggler should come out in the first 10 to be an early midcarder favorite for the crowd to root for and last a long time as a workhorse, w/ a bunch of selling and near eliminations. Instead they bring him out late after bigger favorites are already tossed, eeryone knows he has no chance and no one cares. A bunch of heavy hitters and exciting guys come out early and then you waste the later spots on guys barely on TV, glorified jobbers and guys the crowd knows have no chance, just to further kill the atmosphere? Its almost as if they were deciding the order live in real time and Vince was like "these smarks are too excited dammit, lets cool them off!"
AJ Styles being in the Rumble was a spectacle in that of itself. He didn't get tossed out like a bytch and he didn't job out early. He lasted 28 minutes in the damn thing first of all, he came in at 3 because the crowd would have just flooded the arena with AJ Styles chants if he came out later, plus they wanted AJ to last a long time while also setting up stories such as AJ vs KO, then Dean vs KO, then Zayn vs KO, and then giving appropriate time to Brock vs Wyatts and the final 4. Yeah he did like 3 moves but why show off everything in a Rumble match where the point is to get your opponent over the rope?
They set up Dean vs. Jericho. Don't pay attention to the Rumble then complain about it later, brehs
The booking of the Rumble, from the entrants to eliminations to the times is very delicate, so I'm not gonna pretend like I know how it works, but something tells me putting in all the smark favorites from the beginning is not a good idea.
And I don't know what you mean by the crowd fizzed after AJ got out, I didn't hear any of that. They were hype as fukk for the Bray HHH staredown, the Triple H entrance, the Brock entrance, and Dean vs HHH.
2. Kayfabe rules making no sense. Why would the League drag Roman out in a way specifically not to eliminate him and then not throw him back in after rhe beat down? Why did they leave at all? If Roman refused the stretcher and could walk, why go backstage instead of staying and fighting? Makes him look like a bytch heel. Why would Lesnar just leave after being screwed and not destroy everybody? If the Wyatts had free reign to throw people out after being eliminated, why would they leave instead of just getting rid of everyone and guaranteeing Bray a win? Why didnt Roman help Dean at all? Why did anyone follow the rules at all when there's clearly no repercussions.
You're nitpicking aspects of the Rumble which logically and kayfabe wise might not make sense, but they were overlooked for the sake of booking the match. They didn't do those things for A REASON. Reigns was obviously gonna be in the last moments of the Rumble and they wanted H to eliminate him, so why would they have the League toss him out? Maybe Roman couldn't stay in the match because the doctors wouldn't have let him? Lesnar left and didn't go back in destroy everybody because he just got fukked up the Wyatts. Wyatts staying would have just bended the rules even further. There's always been a history of guys sticking around a little bit after they've been eliminated, I don't know why its a problem all of a sudden this year.
One minute yall are complaining of being tired of how Brock runs through the roster, the next you're concerned because he didn't immediately jump back in the ring after being whooped by 4 powerhouse monsters
I'll give you Roman not helping Dean but again that would only make sense if Dean was gonna be booked to win it, which didn't happen
Nobody even paused and pointed at the damn Mania sign
More nitpicking shyt. Ok if you wanted Triple H to go on the turnbuckle and point at the Mania sign would that have absolved all your complaints
They really fukked it up 3 straight years
No the fukk they didn't
8. What happened to Kofi? His gimmick to stave off elimination this year was kind of underwhelming compared to previous ones, then they casually mention he was eliminated somehow off-screen and we never see New Day again.
7. The camera work in general was bad. fukk was up with the close-up on Reigns the whole time instead of the tron or even the crowd during a major debut? Also switched to a straight-on angle just in time to show Reigns missed his superman punch on HHH by a mile.
1. HHH is the biggest mark for himself of all time. You guys realize that this entire "winner of the Rumble wins the belt" angle they've been building around was only added as a stipulation after the fact, just to make HHH champion in 2016? There's no logical reason he should have the title other than to stroke his own ego like a mark. He doesnt need to be champ to fight Roman (or anyone else) at Mania because he always gets a match anyway, and kayfabe-wise he doesnt need to win the rumble to main event Mania because he's the boss, he can just make that the card whenever he wants. So you took two tried and true tropes that could set up big matches and solidify guys- the title match and the ticket to Mania - combined em together, and then wasted them both on a fossil that doesnt need it in kayfabe or in real life. And in the process you also had him beat your two top faces clean so absolutely no one looks strong, and you wasted a perfect opportunity to turn either one of em and swerve everybody in favor of the finish that was both the most predictable outcome and the one nobody wanted to see.
I agree with these 3, the camera work was terrible and missed key moments in the Rumble, and H winning it was somewhat ill-advised
The matches were good and there were some good returns, was definitely a big step up from the nightmare that was TLC
