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@tso and @Connoisseur, what did you think of this year's rumble?
Unfortunately, I was quite disappointed. Here are my match grades:
Women's Rumble: B
Fatal 4 Way: C-
Logan Paul vs Kevin Owens: C+
Men's Rumble: C
The main things that I was disappointed in were:
*the lack of suspense/uncertainty in the fatal 4 way (I felt more during the Rollins vs Mahal match on Raw)
*A lacklustre finish in the Paul vs Owens match
*Not enough returns or legend entries in the Men's rumble e.g. No Rey Mysterio, Sheamus, or Shamrock
*Wasting a rumble spot on Pat McAfee eliminating himself in less than a minute
*Cody winning back to back didn't make sense to me from a storytelling perspective
Unfortunately, I was quite disappointed. Here are my match grades:
Women's Rumble: B
Fatal 4 Way: C-
Logan Paul vs Kevin Owens: C+
Men's Rumble: C
The main things that I was disappointed in were:
*the lack of suspense/uncertainty in the fatal 4 way (I felt more during the Rollins vs Mahal match on Raw)
*A lacklustre finish in the Paul vs Owens match
*Not enough returns or legend entries in the Men's rumble e.g. No Rey Mysterio, Sheamus, or Shamrock
*Wasting a rumble spot on Pat McAfee eliminating himself in less than a minute
*Cody winning back to back didn't make sense to me from a storytelling perspective
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I can't believe that Ronda Rousey commented on Vince McMahon resigning. I don't imagine that anyone at TKO/WWE will have her back in WWE again.
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A news segment discussing the legal aspect of the McMahon allegations.
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https://www.f4wonline.com/news/wwe/...-bron-breakker-in-wwe-mens-royal-rumble-match
Apparently, Bron Breakker was the late rumble substitute for Brock Lesnar.
What I don't understand is, if Bron Breakker followed the complete script that the WWE had for Brock, why was Bron eliminated by Dominik Mysterio? I find it hard to believe that Brock was scripted to be eliminated by Dirty Dom.
Apparently, Bron Breakker was the late rumble substitute for Brock Lesnar.
What I don't understand is, if Bron Breakker followed the complete script that the WWE had for Brock, why was Bron eliminated by Dominik Mysterio? I find it hard to believe that Brock was scripted to be eliminated by Dirty Dom.
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Thanks for asking both of us for predictions as I thoroughly enjoyed having a longer ponder about what might transpire. Nearly got 4/4 winners (missed the Men’s rumble with Punk), 3/7 with returns and debuts (Andrade, NaomI and Jade), picked the final five in the Men’s and Bayley as the ironwoman.
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Soon as Jey came out you kinda knew Jimmy would be 2 
Did not see that coming but helps when you can catch your breath in the corner on a regular basis. Would have thought one would have been involved in the elimination of the other to further progress the story, if the endgame is a mania match and thus seemed to be a fizzer.
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I used to run both a prediction and fantasy comp on digital spy.
They still do the prediction one on their.
Just found the original fantasy comp which i romped 2011
https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/1428966/wwe-fantasy-comp-starts-30th-jan-win-a-prize/p1
Quite a few still active
A few i don't remember at all even after googling them
Women's roster looked quite weak too.
They still do the prediction one on their.
Just found the original fantasy comp which i romped
2011 https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/1428966/wwe-fantasy-comp-starts-30th-jan-win-a-prize/p1
Quite a few still active
A few i don't remember at all
even after googling them Women's roster looked quite weak too.
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I stand corrected. Apparently, Brock was meant to be eliminated by Dominik Mysterio in order to set up a clash between the two at Elimination Chamber.
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Great work, @Connoisseur. đź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Ź
I missed both rumble winners, but picked the title match winners. I didn't pick Bayley to win because I thought, and still think, that the damage control mutiny storyline wasn't developed enough yet. I didn't pick Cody because back to back wins are so rare, The Rock being on the scene, and because I feel that it would be better from a storyline perspective for him to have to go through EC or something else to get to Reigns again.
I missed both rumble winners, but picked the title match winners. I didn't pick Bayley to win because I thought, and still think, that the damage control mutiny storyline wasn't developed enough yet. I didn't pick Cody because back to back wins are so rare, The Rock being on the scene, and because I feel that it would be better from a storyline perspective for him to have to go through EC or something else to get to Reigns again.
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Pretty much similar to my thoughts with the women’s rumble the highlight. Jade’s debut and spot with Nia, Naomi’s return and Grace’s debut (TNA mentioned), Chelsea Green on the wrong end of many moves, Truth’s comedy spot, quick elimination at the end for Bayley to be champ and so on. Felt like more thought was put into the spots or setting up future battles than the men’s rumble.
As we have all raised previously the Bloodline story seems to have run its course and thus is mainly filler until the title change. Doesn’t help when the faces/competitors never realise that putting their differences aside and teaming together to take full advantage of the no dq rules would have removed Roman from the equation and made it a triple threat.
I did like the finish in Paul VS Owens with the ref spotting the brass knuckles as usually it makes the babyface look weak by not adopting the “heel” tactics to hide them but since Kevin is a tweener it feels like it matters less.
At least Pat played his dumb character to a T by going over the top rope instead of through the middle. Feels pointless when you have the likes of Chad Gable missing out entirely.
As @tso mentioned it seems wise to be flexible with the secondary title in case Rollins cannot make it to mania and it needs to be vacated, Priest cashes in prior, match becomes a triple threat depending on results at the Chamber, etc to ease him back and so on. Other than Cody, options were limited for Reigns and with the Netflix deal I wouldn’t be surprised to see Rock set up the match at Mania or the Raw after mania for the following years event, similar to the Rock VS Cena build over a year. Mainstream star involved to attract those new subscribers to start their time with Netflix.
As we have all raised previously the Bloodline story seems to have run its course and thus is mainly filler until the title change. Doesn’t help when the faces/competitors never realise that putting their differences aside and teaming together to take full advantage of the no dq rules would have removed Roman from the equation and made it a triple threat.
I did like the finish in Paul VS Owens with the ref spotting the brass knuckles as usually it makes the babyface look weak by not adopting the “heel” tactics to hide them but since Kevin is a tweener it feels like it matters less.
At least Pat played his dumb character to a T by going over the top rope instead of through the middle.
Feels pointless when you have the likes of Chad Gable missing out entirely.As @tso mentioned it seems wise to be flexible with the secondary title in case Rollins cannot make it to mania and it needs to be vacated, Priest cashes in prior, match becomes a triple threat depending on results at the Chamber, etc to ease him back and so on. Other than Cody, options were limited for Reigns and with the Netflix deal I wouldn’t be surprised to see Rock set up the match at Mania or the Raw after mania for the following years event, similar to the Rock VS Cena build over a year. Mainstream star involved to attract those new subscribers to start their time with Netflix.
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Pretty much similar to my thoughts with the women’s rumble the highlight. Jade’s debut and spot with Nia, Naomi’s return and Grace’s debut (TNA mentioned), Chelsea Green on the wrong end of many moves, Truth’s comedy spot, quick elimination at the end for Bayley to be champ and so on. Felt like more thought was put into the spots or setting up future battles than the men’s rumble.
As we have all raised previously the Bloodline story seems to have run its course and thus is mainly filler until the title change. Doesn’t help when the faces/competitors never realise that putting their differences aside and teaming together to take full advantage of the no dq rules would have removed Roman from the equation and made it a triple threat.
I did like the finish in Paul VS Owens with the ref spotting the brass knuckles as usually it makes the babyface look weak by not adopting the “heel” tactics to hide them but since Kevin is a tweener it feels like it matters less.
At least Pat played his dumb character to a T by going over the top rope instead of through the middle. Feels pointless when you have the likes of Chad Gable missing out entirely.
As @tso mentioned it seems wise to be flexible with the secondary title in case Rollins cannot make it to mania and it needs to be vacated, Priest cashes in prior, match becomes a triple threat depending on results at the Chamber, etc to ease him back and so on. Other than Cody, options were limited for Reigns and with the Netflix deal I wouldn’t be surprised to see Rock set up the match at Mania or the Raw after mania for the following years event, similar to the Rock VS Cena build over a year. Mainstream star involved to attract those new subscribers to start their time with Netflix.
As we have all raised previously the Bloodline story seems to have run its course and thus is mainly filler until the title change. Doesn’t help when the faces/competitors never realise that putting their differences aside and teaming together to take full advantage of the no dq rules would have removed Roman from the equation and made it a triple threat.
I did like the finish in Paul VS Owens with the ref spotting the brass knuckles as usually it makes the babyface look weak by not adopting the “heel” tactics to hide them but since Kevin is a tweener it feels like it matters less.
At least Pat played his dumb character to a T by going over the top rope instead of through the middle.
Feels pointless when you have the likes of Chad Gable missing out entirely.As @tso mentioned it seems wise to be flexible with the secondary title in case Rollins cannot make it to mania and it needs to be vacated, Priest cashes in prior, match becomes a triple threat depending on results at the Chamber, etc to ease him back and so on. Other than Cody, options were limited for Reigns and with the Netflix deal I wouldn’t be surprised to see Rock set up the match at Mania or the Raw after mania for the following years event, similar to the Rock VS Cena build over a year. Mainstream star involved to attract those new subscribers to start their time with Netflix.
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Do you remember when tag title feuds were awesome? Bring back the days of The Dudley Boys vs Edge and Christian vs The Hardy Boyz.
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