TheShape Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 Cena vs Drew at Mania, surely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam O'Rourke Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 That Women's Rumble took fucking forever, and if it wasn't for the finish, it would rival the all time worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Of Swing Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 At the risk of facing the mods wrath for life chat. I enjoyed it. Nowhere near all time worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Rob Lowe Posted January 28, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 28, 2019 I'm exhausted, still have another rumble and two title matches to go. edit - I'm not the only one, crowd for the Smackdown title are near silent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d-d-d-dAz Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Oof. I’m sure a lot of people are going to retrospectively talk shit about this event, which is probably unfair. I quite enjoyed it throughout, but the men’s Rumble was just wrong. It wasn’t bad per se, it just felt like the most mid card of things and then by the end I had this massive realization - they are out of big cards to play at Mania season. The WWE model pretty much revolves around Jan - April, and the ability to pull gold bunnies out of platinum arseholes. Yet... they’ve got nothing. Nia Jax? Fucking hell. ...and Nakamura dresses like a cosplay Kane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSeaTiger Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 So they book Finn to give Lesnar a fairly serious kicking, sell his real life stomach issues, then he gets submitted. Sure he looked good in defeat, but fuck me, can’t they book ANYONE to go over him clean? That title means nothing to me as he has devalued it.  And Drew gets eliminated by fucking Ziggles? When is he gonna actually carry out his threats and just fuck off? My kid will be happy Rollins won, so there is that.  Theres just no big stars anymore. Sure, there’s names like Hardy,Orton, Mysterio...but they’ve had their time at the top. Drew, Rollins and Strowman are pretty much all they have , for me, and they just seem too reluctant to pull the trigger on them properly.  AJ/Bryan was ok. Despite their talents, the match just didn’t click for me.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfoote Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Rumble entrants in spoiler tags below - CAUTION, NOT spoiler free completely  1. Lacey Evans 2. Nattie 3. Mandy Rose 4. Liv Morgan * 5. Mickie James 6. Ember Moon 7. Billie Kay 8. Nikki Cross 9. Peyton Royce 10. Tamina 11. Xia Li (NXT) 12. Sarah Logan * 13. Charlotte 14. Kairi Sane 15. Maria * 16. Naomi Uso 17. Candice LaRea 18. Alicia Fox 19. Kacy Cantazaro 20. Zelina Vega 21. Ruby Riott 22. Dana Brooke 23. Io Shirai 24. Rhea Ripley 25. Sonya DeVille 26. Alexa Bliss 27. Bayley 28. Lana (injured earlier, didn't make it in) 29. Nia Jax 30. Carmella SWERVE - 31. Becky Lynch 1. Elias 2. Jeff Jarrett 3. Shinsuke 4. Kurt Angle 5. Big E 6. Johnny Gargano 7. Jinder Mahal 8. Samoa Joe 9. Curt Hawins 10. Seth Rollins 11. Titus O'Neill 12. Kofi Kingston 13. Mustafa Ali 14. Dean Ambrose 15. No Way Jose 16. Drew McIntyre 17. Xavier Woods 18. Pete Dunne 19. Andrade (Cien Almas) 20. Apollo Crews 21. Aleister Blsck 22. Shelton 23. Baron Corbin 24. Jeff Hardy 25. Rey Mysterio 26. Bobby Lashley 27. Braun Strowman 28. Ziggles 29. Randy Orton 30. R Truth (taken out by) 31. Swerve - Nia Jax  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted January 28, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 28, 2019 As a show top to bottom, I really enjoyed it. I could have done without Becky tapping out, without the middle of the women's rumble and without the men's being so utterly obvious and definitely without No Way Jose and the NXT overkill. They're gripes though, this was as good as it could be. Ronda Rousey is amazing. Simply incredible. Believe every move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bus Surfer Posted January 28, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 28, 2019 Seemed a bit shit that have Becky tap clean then get lucky that a spot opened up in the Rumble. Without getting all wanky smart, could they not have just had her pass out, rather than admit defeat. Would have been a better story going into the Rumble.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Nick James Posted January 28, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 28, 2019 Had some spare time this morning so watched both rumbles. Katy Catanzaro, though green, was quite impressive in how agile she is. The handstand on the ropes was a good spot, however, the whole 'both feet haven't touched the floor' shtick is getting very tiresome, especially as they're not even trying now by having people land on their back with their feet in the air. I winced at Ember Moon kicking Rhea Ripley square in the face. Rhea seemed to stiff her a few times afterwards from what it seems. Was very impressed with Rhea and how much bigger and imposing she looks compared to others. There's something very unlikable about Lacey Evans (not in a heel way, just in general), I cant quite put my finger on it. It may be the whole 'patriotic military veteran' gimmick that WWE have a hard on for. Mens Rumble was quite lackluster as well and seemed to highlight the difference in style and presentation that the NXT / NXT UK lot have compared to those from the main roster. Pete Dunne and Alaister Black in particular looked great. Black seems to have gotten in tremendous shape over the last year. I was getting rather giddy waiting for Velveteen Dream at number 30 before i remembered that R-Truth had that spot. As soon as he started performing at the top of the ramp i was waiting for someone to take him out. Highly disappointed that it was Nia bloody Jax that did it. She took a good RKO, though in fairness to her. Pete Dunne and Samoa Joe having some interaction has made me really want to see a feud between them. Will give the other matches on the card a viewing at some point, but 5 hours for a PPV is ridiculous (7+ including the preshow). EDIT: Its 2019 and we had both Finlay and Hornswoggle on the show, brilliant. Who would have thought that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bohan Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 7 minutes ago, Nick James said:  EDIT: Its 2019 and we had both Finlay and Hornswoggle on the show, brilliant. Who would have thought that? WWE clearly doing their bit yesterday for American/Irish relations, after the Azelia Banks controversy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK Kat Von D Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Meh, was okay I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted January 28, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 28, 2019 Far too long. Almst 5 hours for the main show and a pre show. Balor losing and Rollins winning were the low points for me. Rollins just doesn't do it for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bohan Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 My major problem with the two Rumble Matches was the commentary. Nothing was made to feel special or a big deal, it was truly reminiscent of listening a rumble playout on a 2K video game. Eliminations just occured without any selling from the announce team and no emotion or hype was put forward for anyone that entered. On a sidenote - is there any recovery for Dean Ambrose now? Looked like a massive afterthought out there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TildeGuy~! Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Dolph Ziggler ruins another rumble! When it gets down to the last 6 or so entrants I generally start to count up whose been announced left to enter, the men’s rumble left me with one entrant left who was a complete mystery to me, this happened last year to with Dolph coming in at No.30 2019 and he’s in your final 3?  Fuck Off. Buddy Murphy wants to be Kenny Omega so much it annoys me. Show felt very tiresome at times, I fell asleep during the Bryan/Styles match and woke up to a close up of Erick Rowan In Daniel Bryan cosplay and wish I didn’t. Enjoyed Ronda/Sasha The Male Rumble had a few NXT surprises but other then that it felt like a bunch of mid careers fighting it out for a US Title Shot in a battle royal. They have Kacy a lot of time in the women’s rumble, she’s green but when she finally puts it all together she’ll be a star.  Glad to see Io for a bit and Kairi square off with Charlotte. What was this big surprise that was supposed to happen then? I avoided the internet in the hope I’d get a shock at some point but nothing happened. Also the old biddy in the front row dancing and clapping along to everyone’s themes like she was at a wedding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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