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Old 01-29-2018, 09:05 PM   #33
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• I found the Men's Royal Rumble Match to be a bit "meh".

It's cool Nakamura won, I guess. I've never really been all that keen on him to be honest. I don't "get him". At times, I find him to be a bit irritating with his mannerisms and all that.

When it was just Nakamura and Reigns, you could tell it was Triple H's guy against Vince's guy, and when it was down to two, I knew Nakamura was going to win and choose to face Styles, because Nakamura/Styles at WrestleMania for the WWE Championship is pretty much every IWC member's wet dream.

The Hurricane was a pleasant surprise as was Mysterio. Both surprises surprised me when it came to their appearance. Hurricane has let himself go a bit and Mysterio looks better than ever.

Even though I'm not really a Nakamura fan, I will say that him winning was the right call and with the last elimination being Reigns, the Raw guy, this just opens up Reigns/Lesnar at WrestleMania. Either Reigns will demand the match claiming that he should face Lesnar because he was the last Raw guy in the Royal Rumble Match and be given it, or Reigns demands the match but so do other people so they all face each other in an Elimination Chamber match next month which Reigns wins.

Also, how bad was Ziggler's return? Nobody seemed to care. It probably would have helped if he didn't have that stupid record scratch noise before his theme, then maybe people would have known who it was and given a better reaction.

When I heard it, I thought "Who the hell is that?" then his theme played and I thought "Oh, it's Ziggler. Cool".

• The Women's Royal Rumble Match surprised me. I actually enjoyed it.

However, I think having 30 entrants for women is a bit too much as a good chunk of entrants were past wrestlers, which was fun for the nostalgia trip but it just showed how little the pool is when it comes to women.

Speaking of nostalgia trips however, the biggest surprise of the entire night for me was Molly Holly. I've always been a big fan of hers. It was also really good to see Beth Phoenix back in the ring too. Still looking as hot as ever. No Kaitlyn though, but there's always next year.

Most of the nostalgia entrants would have gotten a bigger reaction from the crowd and would have been a bigger surprise to me if we hadn't just seen them on Monday.

Torrie Wilson was a good surprise but when McCool came out, I was just waiting for Kelly Kelly, Jacqueline, The Bellas and Trish. I knew Trish would be last as "saving the best 'till last" and all that. Another nice surprise was Vickie Guerrero.

Back to the match itself though and I was actually really wanting Nia to win and I actually thought there was a chance for her but after her elimination, I was pretty sure it was going to be Asuka or Banks and I was praying to the Gods of every religion that it wasn't going to be Banks.

The ending was a bit flat however. The first ever Women's Royal Rumble Match ends with a big kick to the shins and a bad jump.

The end of the PPV itself though was another thing.

We've just had the first ever Women's Royal Rumble Match. Something that's taken thirty years to happen and the winner and the match itself gets overshadowed by Stephanie and her best bud, Ronda Rousey.

That clearly could have waited one more night and taken place on Raw. She also could have sold Ronda's "surprise appearance" a bit better.

Cole: Stephanie! What do you know about this!?

Stephanie: I'm speechless, Cole.

It reminded me of Todd Grisham's reaction to Christian's return in 2009.

"It's, it's Christian. "

Anyway, part of me just can't help but think that the Women's Royal Rumble took place and as the main event just so that Stephanie and Ronda could get all the attention. I also do think equality played a part in it too though. I'd say 52% - Stephanie/Ronda and 48% - Equality.
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