WWE Royal Rumble 2023 Weekend Thread: Smackdown Friday, Premium Live Event Saturday
 

I am so mufuggin pumped!!

Royal Rumble you say, that is a so MF'ing pumped from me dog.

So motherfucking pumped! Love the Rumble

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LOL, I just found out the Rumble is happening here in town. I am way out of the loop to say the least. :lol:

Despite last year’s Rumble being absolute dog shit (Hi Shane 👋 ), the Rumble is always gonna get me so motherfucking pumped

so motherfucking pumped doesn't even begin to describe how pumped I am!

Rumble is something I normally tune in for, dont know if I will this year.

Can you even order it as a standalone show now?

Going to a friend's place to watch the Rumble... but he is working so we'll be starting on a bit of a delay....

I always love the Rumble

The most consistently entertaining WWE ppv IMO

Re-watched the 2020 Rumble Match last night as a warm up. Excellent match.

A little pumped sounds right. I don’t watch more than choice clips here and there and so I have little to no investment in the stories.

But it’s the goddamn Rumble. It’s hard to screw those up (lol last year) but even a bad Rumble should usually have a few moments.

Pretty fucking pumped to read you guys talk about it and possibly seek it out if it sounds enjoyable.

I’m also in the “Fuck WWE sucking. It’s the Rumble!” boat but I watched a couple years ago and it really did put a damper on it not having a rooting interest at all. Only real draw for me outside a love for the match itself is the surprise entrants and I feel like any cool surprise entrants have been done to death or are dead.

What are the odds of Austin or Rock winning?

Give me the scuttlebutt.

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LMAO, "Great deal". BLOW ME!!! :lol:

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Some people are speculating that the Rumble poster (seen above) is a hint at something ELECTRIFYING happening tonight

I’m waiting for the other half of the poster to be revealed to see who everyone is facing off against…

Yes. Good ol’ Comcrap is still at it, hoping people will order it through them for $44.99 (+taxes), instead of realizing that as a customer of them they can watch it on Peacock for free. :lol::rofl:

Also, normally I’d be in the so f’n pumped category, but something about this year’s card just feels... underwhelming to me. Don’t know if it’s the lack of current stars announced for the 2 Rumbles, or that Roman/K.O. will predictably end with Roman somehow retaining or what. I will probably tune in out of sheer boredom however.

Wait, is Peacock really free with Comcast?

Yeah they are the same company lol

The Rumble has been greatly diminished. Can’t say I’ve been pumped for a Rumble in years. Doesn’t help that they do the Women’s Rumble on the same show. 2020 was a great match though.

This has to be the third Roman Reigns vs. Kevin Owens match at the Rumble, right?

lol I know they’re both owned by NBC but if you’re a Comcast customer, you get Peacock, and thus WWE events for free? That seems odd…

Yeah. 3rd time for the title too. Pretty much a let’s get this out of the way match save for any Sami drama but I think that comes in the Rumble itself. I think HHH will deliver on a good Rumble Match. The rest I can probably pass on.

I love wrestling, but that is about 10 times more than I could ever justify spending on a single event for anything sports or entertainment.

yeah i agree screw ticket master they made every live show go up, still floor seats for wwe's 2nd biggest show

My Royal Rumble predictions:

Rhea
Cody (or Sami)
Roman
Bianca
Bray Wyatt

Match order per Fightful:

Should swap the order of the men's and women's Rumble. Maybe even put the men's Rumble on after Roman cause come on, ain't nobody caring about that match more or believing that Owens is gonna win.....

Lol they gotta fuck up the ring somehow, right? That’s the only excuse to have that match last.

I love how in a world where everyone denies they’ll be in the Rumble, Matt Cardona’s openly been teasing it all day.

Nowadays, this means everyone assumes he won’t be. Which, ironically, would make it an even bigger surprise if he was.

My final four predictions for the Men's Rumble:

Jey, Sami, Cody, Seth

One wrestler expected to be in the Rumble tonight...

sigh

So they are still trying to get The Rock then

Fans are really chanting for Cody a lot on the preshow

Seph is here with pizza, liquor and weedles. WOOOOOOOOOO

fucking stupid numbers being picked off the board

ball hopper or bust

I can see 3 things happening in the main event, either Rock/SCSA show up, Cody or MAYBE Bray wins the Rumble and then comes out during the main, or Roman is just straight up losing a title tonight somehow.

Only 3 open spots for the men's rumble match


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Love people bitching about them announcing too many people

Would they rather go into it with 10 spots open and then be underwhelmed when most of those spots go to Alpha Academy, Street Profits, etc

Wonder if Shinsuke got hurt in his match with Muta. He hasn't been around since.

Royal Rumble baby...

Anyone eating any food...

Rumble just got a little bit fluffier

made a home made pizza, mozzarella and onion jack cheese, diced tomatoes and onions with herbs for topping and then a balsamic drizzle on it

Booker hates the New Day still lol

I think the final three will be (this is just me speculating based on 'stuff and things')

Gonna have pizza at friend's place..... but starting the Rumble like 30 minutes late cause he was working....

Booker just picked Cody to win

His prediction is right every year, including picking Brock last year when he wasn’t even announced as being in the Rumble

Already got thrown off of Peacock once. That’s not a good sign.

sweet and sour pork

means people are watching

Lawler on the kick-off makes me grateful he isn't still on the RAW commentary team

not jeff hardy

Kid Rock in the house!!

Is this Kid Rock in the intro or some other guy...

Hell yeah got sushi

Tempura, dragon and a local special

He's baaaaaack!

men's royal rumble first?

Michael Cole is stoked!

lol some guy wearing a syxx pac shirt

Salisbury steak

Si. As reported by Slikshuke Nakamura

Michael Cole pissing me off

lol that stage hand just got a raise

I'm here you guys!

GUNTHER is ENTRANT ONE

That is a loooooong walk to the ring

gunther in 1st wow

I haven't watched WWE in a while, pretty excited, is Cody coming back?

Super long

strong urge to mute the commentary........... insanely annoying me

2 big dudes 1st

Gunther vs Sheamus is a good time

Applebee's sponsered RR that's dope.

Wish the RR was sponsored by Space Applebees but I understand why it wasn't.

Miz being in 14 Rumbles makes sense but also seems crazy to me

Hey Johnny Gargano your theme music is gay.

yeah they announced him on tv to return tonight

Hmmmm....Wonder how Big E's recovery is coming along....

Lol they didn’t have Xavier on the graphic with 27 guys

So only 2 surprises this year

They gave the RR WM level camera work

Wonder if Michael Cole is wearing a diaper... ramp seems 2 long to go back there to take a piss

Karrion Kross seems very "not over"

just that little bit there made me feel like Kross v Gunther could be a decent match

Chad Gable here to spoil us

I dunno if u guys like cider but Angry Orchard has a baked apple pie flavor now in one of their variety packs and it's just the bees knees.

After that little exchange I've actually decided that Gunther v anyone would probably be a decent match. Kross has no importance after all.

Either the Rumble is incredibly boring so far or you guys are underselling it. WHICH IS IT??

Dawkins has come a long way

karrion crickets

Oh shit time to clear the ring

A lot of simple statements of fact and no all caps mark outs. The end is definitely nigh.

brock vs gunther

holy shit gunther looks way more impressive standing next to Lesnar. Never get the feeling of how big he really is usually.

Gargano in the ring with Lesnar, Gunther, Sheamus, McIntyre and Lashley...

HOLY SHIT