The Official Royal Rumble 2017 Discussion Thread - Brought to you by Wolf Cola
 

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The 2 hour kickoff show to the 4 hour show begins in less than half an hour!!!

Not sure I will be able to handle 6 hours but will prob tune in for the last hour of the Kickoff Show at some point.

PPV itself should be really good.

Hoping The Miz wins, probably going to be Goldberg.

A lot of sign-pointing begins tonight


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Surprise entrants: HBK ( seems obvious ), Kurt Angle Jake The Snake and DDP, Kevin Nash.

Is that the RAW set or is it different? I can't tell.


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Rumble stuff from 5-111 god darn it

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Jerry and HBK I sold!

This guy has more energy than that new chick from nxt last night

Yours truly will be right here at TPWW during the Royal Rumble.

Please wait until after the show ends for autographs.

Wait. This is starting now and is on for 6 hours? I thought I still had like 3 more hours until it started. Weird.

This is just the 2 hour pre-show....has like 3 matches on it. The real show starts in under 2 hours.

not gonna lie, i just want to jake DDT some people.

HBK admitting he was a dick

*runs in throws you over the top*

I'm watching Bobby Roode vs Shinsuke Nakamura because they both have sweet entrances.

wait, what the fuck, why are both brock and goldberg in the royal rumble?

thought they were supposed to fight eachother.

Ugh Bayley

Wrestlemania

RP, how does HBK seem obvious?

i thought he was ted nugent now.

Funny they don't even qualify Charlotte being undefeated on PPV as being in title matches because I saw Bayley best Charlotte in a tag match at Battleground...

WWE should just cut down the pre-show after the fact to just the matches.

He looks crosseyed for sure.

Every 2 minutes

Lets see if that holds

Undertaker will take the entire 2 minutes to get down that ramp..who ever is next might pass him

Willl JBL show us his porn interests again?

Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaavvvvvvvve

it'll be long over by the time he gets to the ring.

Mania logo spotted

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No Speakers on this computer at work so enjoy everybody else!

It's time to Rumble! It's time for the ROYAL RUMBLE!

A lot of people seem to have forgot the Rumble

It's early.

If you didn't read that as Vince you suck

Of Course I did DAMMMNIT! SAY IT! SAY IT MICK!

I got 71 pts on my post in Squared circle about the Miz coming out to Flight of the Valkyries so I really really want that to happen

1...Don't like Mickie James' attire
2...Why do they put their own adverts in the middle of their own matches on their own network!?
3...Naomi was pretty impressive there

*DING-DING-DING*

if only he came out to the Final countdown, with a dragon cape, to get under bryan's skin. Only people who watched his Ring of Honor work will get this.

Always tell myself I am fine sith Reigns being the top guy but then I hear him talk I want him gone. Like, not goNE to to the mid card but gone from.the WWE. Arg. Kevin Owens is such a mid card act too.

you got 71 points?

Imagining Droford sitting in his chair watching the Rumble with a stopwatch in hand, meticulously timing each interval.....

no idea what this means but it sounds nerdy as fuck.

Hell ya. Ppv has finally started.

Fuck you STD. I know it started an hour ago.

I thought for sure they'd do 60 seconds just cause that would piss people off

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I like the Mr. Bean sign in the front rows..... nice and distracting......

Everybody, smiley green shirt fan has entered the building

Is this a 5 hour PPV

AAA will be happy the black ref is being used.

I dunno if anyone is interested, but the Tipsters spreadsheet is up early, if you want to follow along and watch your score go up throughout the night.

Fuck you poit wait.. i can get in this ok? no fuck you.

You can still submit Tipsters picks. You'll just get no points for the preshow matches.

WWE using 3 teams for the Royal Rumble ppv with the RAW team doing most of the show.

How did I get 100 pts?

Is this Anderson related to Arn Anderson? Wondering because of him using a spinebuster

Love the small bald guy's spine buster.

New Tag Champs
Woo I called it in tipsters

GOOD BROTHERS WIN!

Whow. Shocking.

SEX FERGUSON AND MACHINEGUNKA CHAMPS 4 LIFE

Anderson and Gallows actually winning?!

same here , although not exactly as predicted.

Who is ready for another Sheamus and Cesaro best of 7 series?

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Those are your points for the first match.

Shawn Michaels "had to sneak off" :lol:

Glad Dark One appeared at this moment..... seems like he is one of the only ones who actually like Anderson/Gallows......

HBK getting ready for the Rumble match.

So hbk sneaks off....getting ready for a rumble?

Lost his smile......

Good Brothers 4 Life, NERD.

and he had another Playgirl photo shoot to take part in.

I'm not a nerd........ nerds are smart.

Yeooooo who's this braud

Only saw the latter half of the RAW tag title match, did the two Women's pre-show matches already happen?

The Smackdown tag match did. Banks/Jax has not happened yet.

Charly Caruso

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Wish Michael Cole would stop saying "IT'S BOSS TIME!!" whenever Sasha Banks comes out

That ramp seems excessively long

Not watching right now but glad to hear that Gallows and Anderson win the tag titles. Actually watching ROH right now Matt Scurl vs Juice Robinson.

making a pizza, ready 4 the rumble

the demon nia jax taking on the boss

ads in the middle of matches ppvs are dead

Probably a logistics thing with the size of the dome.

Nia and Sasha could have had an excellent tits match: first person to nipple cripple and make their opponent scream wins.

Nia is quite fat though.

Noticed "Rowan" in the graphics of all the names scrolling by in the graphics.......

They're never going to convince me that Nia Jax is "strong" and not just "round."

What if they tried to convince you that she's not like "most girls"?

Jack Gallagher is in there too

Jack Swagger
Konnor

I could still buy "round" dominating/ragdolling Sasha Banks, though.......

Sasha dead

The Rollins stuff from last night's Takeover was pretty cool.

Lol at the clips of Styles from WCW

Sasha vs Nia was not very good.

People wonder why WWE goes to TX so much but honestly 80,000 fans for WM and 60,000 fans for the Royal Rumble should answer that.

Four more guys will enter the rumble before Taker steps foot in the ring

He did nothing in between WCW and Japan, right?

They don't call him Booby Roode for nothing

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