Royal Rumble Expanded to 40
 

WWE For the first time in history, the WWE Royal Rumble is expanding to 40 SUPERSTARS, all competing for the main event title match at WWE WrestleMania XXVII!!


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Discuss.

epic...I dig this.

Sounds like a plan. Anyone can win it this year.

The Superbowl has added a fifth quarter this year.

Got a feeling this is to have Del Rio outlast Rey in terms of record time even if he doesn't win.

Hoping the extra 10 guys are shocks, but probably not.

<font color=goldenrod>Definitely think a good amount of nostalgia participants will be in.</font>

I'm all for this, but I'm wondering how the intervals will be handled.

<font color=goldenrod>Yeah if they bump the intervals down to 60 seconds, the change wasn't worth it. Gotta be at least 90.</font>

At 90 seconds it makes it exactly an hour for everyone to come out (obviously not taking the longer intervals into account, which there always are). Best case scenario, they keep that rapid-fire pace while extending the match itself. And that's awesome.

The article says there will be entrants every 90 seconds. I'm quite excited by this, despite the fact it won't make too much of a difference overall. I think anyway.

Article: http://www.wwe.com/shows/royalrumble...30520/preview/

"Every 90 seconds, one of 40 elite ring warriors with randomly drawn Rumble entry numbers joins the fray. "

This is officially epic.

Well, now I have to order the Rumble.

awesome.

I love this.

Well, now I guess my fantasy-booked Rumble from a couple weeks ago is shot to shit, right?

Very excited about this. Especially the prospect of more nostalgia entrants.

What the fuck???

So in this case, nobody should be left off the RR card unless they're hurt. Maybe they're going to let some of the NXT guys into the RR?

I'm all for this, especially if they do a spot where like 25 people are in there at once or something.

Also Kane's record for eliminations will probz be surpassed.

Good shit regardless.

More guys for Hunter to squash.

Awesome, and I was thinking that the Rumble was just going to be alright this year.

40 participants is going to make it pretty great I think. Looking forward to it now.

So this could easily give Cena a chance to pull a Foley and use the 3 faces of Cena during the rumble.

Awesome. It'd be crazy if the winner this year draws number 1

I'm guessing we get two Chavo appearances, one as himself, one as the Eagle where he finally gets unmasked and even Swagger is disappointed that it's Chavo.

Is this really awesome? It's interesting I guess, but putting in 10 extra guys with no chance of winning doesn't really scream awesome to me.

Nice. Now it will be just like the Battle Royals I used to play on WCW/nWo: World Tour. :love:

:lol:

Here’s my card.

30 Man Royal Rumble
1. Triple-H
2. Randy Orton
3. Dolph Ziggler
4. Evan Bourne
5. Cody Rhodes
6. Jack Swagger
7. Alex Riley
8. R-Truth
9. The Miz
10. Daniel Bryan
11. Wade Barrett
12. Kofi Kingston
13. Santino Marella
14. Tyler Reks
15. Zack Ryder
16. Christian
17. Yoshi Tatsu
18. Big Show
19. Tyson Kidd
20. Mason Ryan
21. Drew McIntyre
22. Ezekiel Jackson
23. Kevin Nash
24. Hunico
25. Booker T*
26. Justin Gabriel
27. Ted DiBiase
28. Sheamus
29. Road Dogg
30. Alberto Del Rio

WWE Championship Match
CM Punk © vs. John Cena

World Heavyweight Championship Match
Kane vs. Mark Henry ©

R-Truth vs. The Miz

Intercontinental Championship Match
Cody Rhodes © vs. Sheamus

*The entire event is called by the trio of Jerry Lawler, Jim Ross, and Michael Cole.

I'd have rather it remained 30. Alas, the decision was out of my hands.

PUT THE TITLE ON THE LINE AND THAT WILL BE EPIC

I like this..... I'd still like to see the time intervals stay at 2:00, but I guess I can't be picky.....

Why not just put every title on the line? Depending on how you finish, determines which title you get. 6th and 5th=tag champs, 4th=US champ, 3rd=IC champ, 2nd=WHC, and the last man standing gets the WWE titles, and both the Bella twins.

Blech. Just means they felt they didn't have enough singles/tag matches to fill the rest of the time adequately.

World War Three had 60 participants and those were the greatest PPVs in the history of the universe

:y:

That is such a TNA idea

But all 60 started at the same time.

Plus three rings.

I remember the very first Royal Rumble had 20, and a year later, it went up to 30. And now, they move it up to 40. That's a pretty good change of pace.

The Rumble just got bigger in more ways than 1!

Pretty awesome, but I wish they still came in every 2 minutes. That might seem too long for most fans though.

I agree with Supreme, I don't think this is really a great idea. Usually in a 30-man Royal Rumble there are at least 20 participants that you KNOW are not going to win. Now it's going to be 30 participants.

I'm all for nostalgia and stuff, but if we suddenly get ten guest appearances (when you know damn well they won't win the thing), the nostalgia kind of wears off and ruins the 'unpredictablilty' of the match.

Plus, if it ends up being the usual legends such as Sgt. Slaughter, Roddy Piper etc, then I really couldn't care less.