OFFICIAL Royal Rumble TPWW 2018 Thread

[Dark One]

I don't disagree with the Usos winning 2-0, just, sudden roll-up is a flat finish, especially after JUST doing that in the match before.

[Evil Vito]

Oh wow, they're closing with the women's Rumble

Rousey is definitely there, then

[Frank Drebin]

Women going on last. Roman wins. Ronda wins or is eliminated by Steph. Might as well book it.

[Dark One]

I feel like it's never a good sign when the Rumble doesn't main event.

[#1-norm-fan]

Oh God. Women going on last so they can be like "OMG WHAT A REVOLUTIONARY MOMENT OMGGGGGGG!"

[Dark One]

The great part about it not closing the show is that if Roman wins, Philly is going to boo for three hours staight.

[Emperor Smeat]

Why do I have a sinking feeling either the Men's Rumble is going to have a depressing choice as winner since its not last or WWE has some swerve planned for the Women's Rumble that is going to be terrible.

[A.J.K]

The great part about it not closing the show is that if Roman wins, Philly is going to boo for three hours staight.

And if that doesn't give them a hint, nothing will.

[BigCrippyZ]

Why do I have a sinking feeling either the Men's Rumble is going to have a depressing choice as winner since its not last or WWE has some swerve planned for the Women's Rumble that is going to be terrible.

Or both will happen.

[OssMan]

Chris Jericho spent 5 hours in a Roayl Rumble, what..

[owenbrown]

ROMAN REIGNS IS NOT AN UNDERDOG!!!

[DrA]

I'm actually kind of glad they're doing it this early, I want to get the reepping out of the way.

[Triple A]

Did they announce that the women's match is going to be last just now? Wasn't paying attention

[Triple A]

oh the men's match is now...

[BigCrippyZ]

The Rumble being this early has pretty much already turned this into a shit show. It's turning the Rumble match (and let's be honest, with as much "prestige" as it had left) into a (even bigger) joke. :'(

[Ruien]

WOOOOOOOOOOO RUMBLE!

[Evil Vito]

Reigns is winning. God fucking dammit.

[Emperor Smeat]

Reigns is probably going to easily shatter Kane's total elimination record since he's already more than half-way to it and only been in 4 Rumbles.

[Frank Drebin]

Why do I have a sinking feeling either the Men's Rumble is going to have a depressing choice as winner since its not last or WWE has some swerve planned for the Women's Rumble that is going to be terrible.

Both

[Nicky Fives]

Really hate how Chris Benoit is never in these "By The Numbers" packages..... Always "4 people have won from #1 & #2 and only ever 3 people pictured" I wonder how many people notice that.....

[slik]

I predict Nakamura wins!

[BigCrippyZ]

Reigns is probably going to easily shatter Kane's record since he's already more than half-way to it and only been in 4 Rumbles.

Definitely

[Evil Vito]

Given the lack of people announced for the men's Rumble, I figured Rollins, Jordan, Sheamus, and Cesaro would be in it to make up the numbers. But I guess that can be ruled out now.

[KIRA]

Kicking off with the rumble Roman must be winning

[Frank Drebin]

ROMAN REIGNS IS NOT AN UNDERDOG!!!

HE'S THE BIG DOG!!!

[slik]

RUSEV

[owenbrown]

RUSEV DAY!!! :D

[OssMan]

Ppl like Rusev now?

[DAMN iNATOR]

WOO #RusevRumble!

[Evil Vito]

Oh god I hope Aiden comes back out and sings again at #2

[Emperor Smeat]

https://i.imgur.com/cvPhYcD.jpg

[Dark One]

Rusev going to go bell to bell.

Rusevmania.

Clearly.

[rez]

RUSEV DAY

[slik]

Balor Club

[Evil Vito]

God I wish I could get into this but this match being on now leaves me with a really bad feeling of how this and the rest of the show will go.

Oh well, hope I'm wrong. Now to crack open my next Sip of Sunshine.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Ppl like Rusev now?

It's against the law not to now since every day is Rusev Day. :shifty:

[BigCrippyZ]

Why does Balor look like a more lame, more homeless version of CM Punk, who just happens to have nothing better to do than hit the gym, and you know, not eat... because he's homeless. I think Rusev would kill Balor, but so could X-Pac...

[Nicky Fives]

Looking good for my Tipsters for the longest lasting with Balor entering #2

[DrA]

Why is Finn Balor not in demon mode for the Rumble, it's the most important match of the year.

[BigCrippyZ]

God I wish I could get into this but this match being on now leaves me with a really bad feeling of how this and the rest of the show will go.

Oh well, hope I'm wrong. Now to crack open my next Sip of Sunshine.

Same. About to start drinking, MORE heavily.

[#1-norm-fan]

I still don't think Reigns is winning because he doesn't HAVE to to go to WrestleMania so WWE will go the "shock" route. But this happening in a less important spot on the show makes it seem like they could just say "Fuck it" and have him win it.

[BigCrippyZ]

Balor looks like a giant pussy who any teenager could compete in a legit fight with. :lol:

[Locke]

here we go rhyno

[Emperor Smeat]

Why is Finn Balor not in demon mode for the Rumble, it's the most important match of the year.

He's not pissed off enough to invoke the DEMON or something.

[Locke]

Does not feel like 90 seconds between players

[RP]

Rhyno? Why lol.

[Evil Vito]

Haha, Corbin was more than halfway to the ring when the buzzer sounded

[Dark One]

Rhyno is built like a bunker door.

[slik]

H8 Corbin

[Dark One]

Haha, Corbin was more than halfway to the ring when the buzzer sounded

No golf cart this year, big man gotta do what a big man gotta do.

[slik]

Why does Balor look like a more lame, more homeless version of CM Punk, who just happens to have nothing better to do than hit the gym, and you know, not eat... because he's homeless. I think Rusev would kill Balor, but so could X-Pac...

Balor hot af

[Locke]

WTF why did they kick out Rhyno first

[Evil Vito]

That's quite a payday for Corbin. Great work if you can get it.

[Frank Drebin]

First big pop of the night is for Corbin getting tossed.

[Gerard]

That slow motion replay of the gore attempt was great...oh wait it was real time.:shifty:

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: Corbin out that quickly.

[slik]

Glad Corbin is gone

[Dark One]

WTF why did they kick out Rhyno first

Oh god.

They're going to the "flat finishes and disappointing surprises to tire the crowd out too much to riot over Roman" strategy in the playbook again.

[BigCrippyZ]

WTF why did they kick out Rhyno first

Vince is running things still.

[Gerard]

First big pop of the night is for Corbin getting tossed.

Not the type of thing you'd expect to see in the pg era.

[#1-norm-fan]

I hope they don't try to build a story where Corbin loses all the time and then finally wins something big. Instead I hope they tell the story that Corbin loses all the time and then keeps losing all the time because he is just awful.

[Dark One]

Hey guys.

I know how we'll keep the crowd hot for the Rumble.

Lay everyone out and have three minutes of dead air.

[Emperor Smeat]

Nice of Corbin to give everyone entered so far a nap break for the Rumble

[Evil Vito]

WALK WITH ELIAS

[OssMan]

F*ck yeah guitar guy playing Yellow Ledbetter..

[Gerard]

Here comes homeless honkey tonk man.

[slik]

Yes Elias

[Frank Drebin]

Elias doing way better on the main roster than I ever thought possible. Love it.

[rez]

lol

[Emperor Smeat]

:D Elias holding a Rumble concert.

[BigCrippyZ]

I hope they don't try to build a story where Corbin loses all the time and then finally wins something big. Instead I hope they tell the story that Corbin loses all the time and then keeps losing all the time because he is just awful.

Why would you use the Rumble match to build Corbin as some pissed off bad ass only ot have him lose in the first 10(?) minutes? Seems like a stupid and inefficient way to do that.

[Dark One]

"Time is just an illusion"

He's not wrong given how flexible WWE has been about the "2 minutes" being 2 minutes in the past few years...

[#1-norm-fan]

Cena coming

[DAMN iNATOR]

Time waits for NO man, Elias. Not even you.

[Locke]

Long hair super fan guy in the front row

[owenbrown]

:lol: Elias

[Blonde Moment]

Here comes homeless honkey tonk man.

Already like him better than HTM

[Evil Vito]

Almas?!?!?!?!

[Locke]

Why would you use the Rumble match to build Corbin as some pissed off bad ass only ot have him lose in the first 10(?) minutes. Seems like a stupid and inefficient way to do that.

(whisper) it doesn't matter

[rez]

everyone just stomp on heath as you go down the ramp

[Frank Drebin]

Sweet. Bad ass match last night! Grabbed the brass ring.

[A.J.K]

:eek:

[Dark One]

https://media.giphy.com/media/PhKhSXofSAm3e/giphy.gif

[#1-norm-fan]

Almas. Nice.

[Gerard]

That running knee looked more like a running teabag.

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at beating up Slater outside being the running gag

Really hope they continue with it all the way to #30.

[Sepholio]

LOL slater not gonna get in until the very end and then win the rumble hahaha

[Evil Vito]

Nice surprise here. They've been pretty consistent about putting at least one NXT entrant in the Rumble that they planned on calling up after Mania.....so enjoy Almas in NXT while you can.

[BigCrippyZ]

In all honesty, Elias (who I didn't even know existed prior to this match) was (sadly) (slightly) more interesting than anything I've seen so far.

[slik]

I love this Rumble so far.

[BigCrippyZ]

(whisper) it doesn't matter

Sorry. I forgot Rock's motto was the new creative doctrine of WWE for that past 10+ years. I haven't been watching lately and forgot.

[KIRA]

The eater of eliminations....I hope he takes this thing

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: Slater getting beaten up again

[owenbrown]

there's Slater again :lol:

[A.J.K]

Better than expected so far.

[Evil Vito]

LOL Slater being unable to get into the ring

[KIRA]

So far so good

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol:

[owenbrown]

wtf Big E :lol:

[A.J.K]

Even if Roman does win, at least we are being entertained.

[KIRA]

Oh if Slater slides in to win this I'm going to cry

[Emperor Smeat]

https://i.imgur.com/i4jnXZA.gif

[slik]

I predict no one in the ring r/n wins the Rumble

[Frank Drebin]

Ty gonna be #10 in the Rumble as long as he's employed.

[Sepholio]

LOL I've seen better film on teeth. Good one King.

[Nicky Fives]

so Dillinger just requests his entry.....

[owenbrown]

lol wtf

[Emperor Smeat]

Don't think Owens or Sami got the message that its supposed to be Slater you beat up outside the ring.

[#1-norm-fan]

Oh. They're doing the old Edge "If you attack a guy before a match you get to take his place" thing. Owens might actually win.

[Frank Drebin]

So is Zayn legal and Ty isn't all of the sudden?? If I'd known that was allowed I'd be in Philly right now.

[Frank Drebin]

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL That was great!!!

[DAMN iNATOR]

Poor Slater. :'(

[Dark One]

Wow

[Emperor Smeat]

:eek: Slater actually got rid of someone.

[KIRA]

OH SHIT

[Triple A]

Good @ Sheamus/Slater...

[slik]

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[Dark One]

So is Zayn legal and Ty isn't all of the sudden?? If I'd known that was legal I'd be in Philly right now.

ABT's coming in #30, brother.

[rez]

geez. on his birthday! wtf, vince!

[A.J.K]

That was surprising

[Evil Vito]

These intervals are really short and King is basically calling them out on it.

[RP]

I hope Philly throws bottles and chairs in the ring win Roman wins.

[Emperor Smeat]

Did Lawler just make fun of the WWE for rigging the clock to be too fast?

[#1-norm-fan]

NOT ON HIS BIRTHDAY!!!

[owenbrown]

<s>ABT's</s> Former Anonymous Raw GM Lock Jaw coming in #30, brother.

fixed

[KIRA]

Remember when Xavier Woods was deathly afraid of Bray Neither does WWE

[rez]

Apollo 13

[slik]

apollo crews lol

[Dark One]

Odd.

I thought 13 was usually a lucky number for King.

[KIRA]

Philly is full of racists............

[Nicky Fives]

Odd.

I thought 13 was usually a lucky number for King.

No, that's 69 with someone 1/4 his age....

[OssMan]

Last clock was 83 seconds

[Ruien]

No surprises so far :(

[Frank Drebin]

Apollo 13

I just got it. LULZ WWE. RDRR

[A.J.K]

No surprises so far :(

Allmas.

[KIRA]

PLEASE GOD LET NAKAMURA WIN THIS

[A.J.K]

PLEASE GOD LET NAKAMURA WIN THIS

[OssMan]

Last clock was 95 seconds

[slik]

The winner is now in the Rumble! Let's go Shinsuke!

[Ruien]

Allmas.

Is that the no name guy in there? That is just some jobber. Does not count.

[Locke]

didn't Cesaro announce Rusev

[owenbrown]

PLEASE GOD LET NAKAMURA WIN THIS

[OssMan]

Last clock was 82 seconds

[Evil Vito]

Some of these intervals aren't even hitting 90 seconds.

[KIRA]

Who has Almas staying till the end

[#1-norm-fan]

Tag title match coming up later after the Royal Rumble match. Weird. Usually at the very least, the only thing following the rumble match is something important. Gonna be such a downer.

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at Kofi's flop after getting nailed by Cesaro.

[OssMan]

Last clock was 87 seconds

[Frank Drebin]

Tag title match coming up later after the Royal Rumble match. Weird. Usually at the very least, the only thing following the rumble match is something important. Gonna be such a downer.

Ill walk the dogs during that match and be home in time for the rest.

[KIRA]

Some of these intervals aren't even hitting 90 seconds.

First part of the song plays just long enough for identification then it just stops

Romans theme is going to loop

[DAMN iNATOR]

Last clock was 83 seconds

Last clock was 95 seconds

Did you not hear Elias? Time is an illusion, man...

[Evil Vito]

"This is the first time Jinder has entered a Royal Rumble"

Nope. He's been in two already.

[OssMan]

Jerry Lawler "poured" over the stats leading up to this match for 3 days

[OssMan]

Last clock hit exactly 90 seconds

[KIRA]

Mahal from jobber to personal hero

[DAMN iNATOR]

THE DEMON SETH!

[Locke]

new "fire" gimmick from Sethrollins

[Triple A]

Feels like Finn Balor's mouth always starts bleeding

[Frank Drebin]

No Seth.....not flaming pants.

[slik]

bam bam bigelow tights for seth

[Evil Vito]

They really should've put the Raw tag match on before this. Knowing all of these guys have another match just makes them being in this feel pretty daft.

[Locke]

real quick 0wange strike from Sethrollins

[Emperor Smeat]

Pretty cool Harlem Heat style gear by Rollins.

[Evil Vito]

Hahaha the annual Kofi save

[Blonde Moment]

PLEASE GOD LET NAKAMURA WIN THIS

I want this, but for some reason i think he's going home next year

[KIRA]

Seth Rollins Broke into jake the snake's house

[slik]

lol

[Emperor Smeat]

:y: annual wacky Kofi saving spot.

[Evil Vito]

Seth looks like a WCW midcarder with those tights.

[rez]

lol wtf

[OssMan]

Last clock was like 3 minutes or did I miss one

[DAMN iNATOR]

Didn't know Kofi was a Slinky.

[KIRA]

When your boy saves you by letting you damn near step on his throat you know you got a friend for life

[Emperor Smeat]

The antics for this Rumble have been great so far.

[KIRA]

THEY HINDERED JINDER!

There will be blood

[Gerard]

Delete delete delete. Fuck off:roll:

[Emperor Smeat]

Why are Bray and Matt working together?

Stupid to have Matt involved in Rusev's elimination.

[Triple A]

This has been booked pretty well so far... lots of lil stories in the match

[owenbrown]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HARDY AND WYATT ELIMINATING RUSEV :fu:

[Dark One]

Oh god.

They're going to the "flat finishes and disappointing surprises to tire the crowd out too much to riot over Roman" strategy in the playbook again.

It's happening boys.

[KIRA]

Where the fuck is Luke Harper

[Gerard]

Why are Bray and Matt working together?

.

Cos wwe

[Ruien]

Love Kofi!

[#1-norm-fan]

DO IT CENA!

[Evil Vito]

Cena eliminating Elias was the easiest Tipsters prediction of the night

[OssMan]

stay-in-the-back!

[KIRA]

Old man Cena

[A.J.K]

The Hurricane!!

[Dark One]

THERE'S YOUR NEW CRUISERWEIGHT CHAMPION

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at the Cena beatdown.

Despise Cena's pre-Mania feuds since they never go well for his opponents.

[owenbrown]

If Almas eliminates Cena the crowd might not go nuts

[Nicky Fives]

STAND BACK!

[Dark One]

Hurricane gonna Chokeslam Cena?

[slik]

The Hurricane just loves to have fun!

[Evil Vito]

THE HURRICANE WTF

[KIRA]

Elias may be gone but his music will live forever

[Dark One]

He must return to his home planet.

https://i.makeagif.com/media/8-22-2015/Xudnml.gif

[OssMan]

STAND BACK!

it's actually "stay in the back"

[Gerard]

Helms must be desperate for a payday if he made the trip there for that.

[Evil Vito]

Hurricane for 205 Live GM

[Emperor Smeat]

Cena with the "No Fun Allowed" buzz killer in this match so far

[KIRA]

BULLSHIT

[owenbrown]

Cena getting the nuclear heatz

[DAMN iNATOR]

Hurricane will now be battling a non-tropical depression all night.

[slik]

cringing at roman still being left

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at English's theme.

Did they recently change it since I don't remember a screaming woman at all in it before?

[KIRA]

If Almas eliminates Cena the crowd might not go nuts

If Almas eliminates Cena I will need to change pants

[Sepholio]

LOL STAND BACK

That made it all worth it for me.

[A.J.K]

cringing at roman still being left

[Evil Vito]

ADAM COLE BAYBAY

[Frank Drebin]

Nice

[Emperor Smeat]

Why do I have a sinking feeling Taker is going to show and get rid of Cena to kick off their rumored Mania feud.

[Savio]

Where's 2B!?

[Nicky Fives]

smart surprise there.

[KIRA]

YES? I don't know how I feel about Cole

[Emperor Smeat]

Almas and Cole have been pretty cool picks for NXT's reps.

[A.J.K]

Better surprises than last year at least.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Orton, PLEASE eliminate Cena.

[Evil Vito]

Reigns, Miz, and Titus are 3 of the remaining 6 entrants

Reigns is so winning this :(

[slik]

Really donut want Orton or Reigns to win this...

[OssMan]

I HEAR VOICES IN MY HEAD THEY TALk to me they understand the y talk to me

[KIRA]

I feel like Philly is saving its energy

[owenbrown]

fuck you Orton

[RP]

Its so obvious that Roman is winning. I want to puke.

[Nicky Fives]

At least Almas gets to be in the packages for the rest of his career, no matter how it turns out with that RKO

[Frank Drebin]

Its so obvious that Roman is winning. I want to puke.

Better than drink. AM I RIGHT??

[Evil Vito]

They talk up #27 being the lucky number but nobody's won from that spot since 2001

If Reigns is #27, look out.

[#1-norm-fan]

So they never officially announced Reigns for the Rumble on TV... and now he's gonna be a very late entrant. They've done everything they can to make people forget he's a potential winner. Doesn't bode well.

[KIRA]

Thats not true I remember Taker beating the shit outta Maven and sucker punching Scotty 2 hotty

[owenbrown]

MIZ! :D

[Evil Vito]

Rey!

[rez]

REY REY

[slik]

Rey Mysterio!

[Emperor Smeat]

Holy Shit

[Dark One]

THERE is a surprise.

AND he didn't get booed for not being Daniel Bryan at #30 this time!

[Gerard]

Oh fuck, the return of the injury magnet that needs assistance for just about anything he does.

[Frank Drebin]

THERE'S your next CW champ.

[Nicky Fives]

REY REY!

[KIRA]

Going out for sure

[owenbrown]

REY MYSTERIO! :eek:

[Dark One]

Adam Cole and Rey Mysterio facing off in a Royal Rumble in 2018.

What planet are we on.

[#1-norm-fan]

This seems like the least star-studded Rumble ever maybe.

[Nicky Fives]

THERE'S your next CW champ.

[Evil Vito]

Nice to see Rey get a good Rumble moment after the last one he had

[DAMN iNATOR]

WOO ROIDIN' REIGNS!

[slik]

Big Boos for The Big Dog

[KIRA]

Rey clearly has bionic knees at this point

[Dark One]

http://i.imgur.com/JFeU6be.gif

[owenbrown]

get your beer and popcorn ready to throw

[DAMN iNATOR]

Jordan possibly #30?