WWE Royal Rumble 2017

Is the Ambrose/Miz/Ziggler graphic supposed to be a IC Title triple threat?

Nope, that's appears to be WWEs way of saying that they're part of the Rumble match.

They were announced on Smackdown apparently. I must have missed it, but I checked and they are listed as being in the Rumble match as announced on Smackdown.

Guess with the 2 main title matches, 2 womens title matches, there's no longer room/time for the mid-card title matches now.

Joe is gonna cost Cena the match and face him at Wrestlemania. Calling it now. Beyond that, Roman wins his 28th World Title and continues to get booed every time anyone even thinks of him, Neville takes the CW, and Rollins wins the Rumble to disappoint everybody.

They were announced on Smackdown apparently. I must have missed it, but I checked and they are listed as being in the Rumble match as announced on Smackdown.

Guess with the 2 main title matches, 2 womens title matches, there's no longer room/time for the mid-card title matches now.

I haven't finished watching it yet, but Miz and Ambrose both announced they are in the rumble during the Ambrose Asylum.

They were announced on Smackdown apparently. I must have missed it, but I checked and they are listed as being in the Rumble match as announced on Smackdown.

Guess with the 2 main title matches, 2 womens title matches, there's no longer room/time for the mid-card title matches now.

I haven't finished watching it yet, but Miz and Ambrose both announced they are in the rumble during the Ambrose Asylum.

Yeah totally missed that. I did leave the room during that segment to go make some toast. It's a late night watching it over here, toast always helps 😄

The last time there was a brand split, didn't the winner get to pick what title he wanted to go for? Wonder if they'll do that this time or just stick with they get a shot for the belt of their brand.

The last time there was a brand split, didn't the winner get to pick what title he wanted to go for? Wonder if they'll do that this time or just stick with they get a shot for the belt of their brand.

Yup, Finn will choose to face Owens.  😉

Last edited by Reamer (Mon-16-Jan-2017 05:22:06)

The last time there was a brand split, didn't the winner get to pick what title he wanted to go for? Wonder if they'll do that this time or just stick with they get a shot for the belt of their brand.

Yup, Finn will choose to face Owens.  😉

You're going to be so disappointed when Finn doesn't even show up. 😉

The last time there was a brand split, didn't the winner get to pick what title he wanted to go for? Wonder if they'll do that this time or just stick with they get a shot for the belt of their brand.

Yup, Finn will choose to face Owens.  😉

You're going to be so disappointed when Finn doesn't even show up. 😉

You will be so salty when I am right.  😉

If Balor shows up, it's gonna be this huge thing where you think he's gonna win and then Triple H eliminates him.

So Rollins won't be in the Rumble apparently. Since I highly doubt they'd do the Triple H feud at the Rumble (why would you after all this time when Mania is right around the corner?), that means he'd be missing the PPV entirely? No, I don't think so.

He either gets another shot coming up to be in the Rumble match, or hes going to interfere in the Universal Title match, which is now a No DQ, costing Owens the title to get at Triple H for making him win it in the first place.

I still hope that Owens and AJ Styles retain, but there's so much talk of one of them dropping the belt that it's almost impossible to discount. Both deserve and are good enough to go into Mania as champion. Fans seem to want both of them to go there as champions as well from what I've been seeing around. It would ruin the PPV for me if either dropped the belt as my excitement for Mania would have dropped, and the Rumble is meant to be about building excitement towards Mania, not taking that excitement away.

He either gets another shot coming up to be in the Rumble match, or hes going to interfere in the Universal Title match, which is now a No DQ, costing Owens the title to get at Triple H for making him win it in the first place.

He'd have to get another shot at being in there during the Rumble night. It is an odd decision though, he's on of their star guys on Raw so to have no match and not be in the Rumble is a really weird choice. They'll have something planned for him, as unless he's injured, you can't leave him out of a PPV like this one. If he get's involved in the Universal Title match and costs Owens the belt, I'm blaming you.

So let's look at the positives:
Owens won 😄
They set up a feud for Strowman.
The two main title matches were good.
Unexpected winner of the Rumble (although it felt pretty obvious who would win when it came down to the final 2).
Cena vs Orton at Mania should be good as their matches together usually are and there's lots of history.
They actually sent out Dillinger as #10

The bad:
AJ Styles losing the belt. What does Cena winning do for him at this stage in his career? Nothing, as he's barely there half the time.
Pretty boring Rumble match.
Loads of missed opportunities in the Rumble match.
Just one NXT guy? Come on now, they could have inserted a few without "promoting" them and it would have made things more interesting. Samoa Joe instead of ?Mark Henry for example. Rawley? Get him out and put someone from NXT in there. And there was only one cruiserweight in there? I like the cruiserweights, but why bother with just one? Swap him for an NXT guy.
People keep talking about Big Cass being a favourite of Vince for his size. Didn't eliminate one person.
And the Rumble was pretty boring. Oh wait, I mentioned that. Well, it was.

But at least my boy Owens kept his belt. To me the main key to the Rumble is, did it make me excited for Mania? It did not, so in that regard this years Rumble was not a success for me.

Cena vs Orton, isn't going to happen at Mania... that title is dropping likely to Wyatt at Elimination Chamber, sounds nuts? maybe, but so did Orton winning the rumble.

First of all. What a terrible Rumble. Zero returns, no surprises, and it was just bland. Like even that action was boring. Half the time the other people in the ring would just lay there not doing anything, while the main people at the time would do stuff. In other Rumbles they would atleast pretend to be doing something. Randy Orton winning isn't bad, for a split second I thought Roman was going to win, I was like they wouldn't do this again would they?!?!?! Him coming out at #30 was so disappointing. The whole thing was disappointing.

Owens vs. Reigns was really good. Reigns is starting to grow on me a bit. I can't keep hating the dude when he has matches like this. Owens really took a beating in that match didn't he? That fall through the pyramid of chairs was brutal af. I still don't buy Owens going into Mania as the champion.  He'll drop the belt before Mania. He's about due anyways.

Cena vs. Styles was heartbreaking because I hate to see my boy Styles lose the belt. But it was a insanely good match. I think their one at Summerslam was a bit better, but this one was pretty damn good in its own right! So we have the Elimination Chamber in two weeks already.... I can't help but wonder what AJ is going to be doing at Mania at this point.

Everything else was kind of forgettable. The womens match ended so quick it felt like it never got started. The show ended like a half hour early, they definitely could have given the women more time. The cruiserweights match didn't do it for me. I feel like they are wrestling slow on purpose. That isn't how the cruisers are supposed to wrestle. Also the Club are such terrible champions. Also they are insanely boring.

The Rumble was shit. Orton winning it wasn't even the problem. Orton could have won the Rumble that was better. Instead we got not a single surprise entrant, boring periods and just poor booking decisions with the order of the entrants and the way they did certain things.

And no, Dillinger wasn't really a surprise. We all saw it coming a mile off, and we all knew it would be entrant #10.

Very disappointed with the Rumble match;. However, Cena v Styles and Reigns v Owens were  two great matches and I commend them all on a great showing.

With how many times they mentioned that it was the 30th annual Rumble, you'd have thought that they'd have made it feel special. Add some good surprise entrants, etc. Instead of felt like they've hit 30 and ran out of ideas.

Disappointed that Styles lost. Great match though. I just hope that they give him a good Mania match to make up for losing the belt.

Cena vs Orton, isn't going to happen at Mania... that title is dropping likely to Wyatt at Elimination Chamber, sounds nuts? maybe, but so did Orton winning the rumble.

Also, I hope not. I was expecting to see Orton v Wyatt at Mania anyway, but if Bray wins the belt at Elimination Chamber that means Cena's title win lasts 2 weeks. They might as well have left the belt on Styles and had him lose it in the chamber - have Cena pin him in that mid match or something.

There hasn't been a really good Rumble since 2010, and every one since 2012 has been bloody awful.

I'm sick of the modern booking (starting 2005 I think)  that sees half a dozen guys laying around the edge of the ring while there is a stare down in the middle.   It's lazy.  It doesn't pop a crowd.  If you think of Warrior/Hogan (1990), Piper/Flair (1992), Savage/Diesel (1994), Kane/Rock (2001), Austin/Triple H (2002) etc - these showdowns worked because they had the courage to clear the ring.  These days the showdowns occur with 8 guys snoozing in the corners.  Rubbish.

I hate that someone HAS to go from number 1 or 2 to the end EVERY YEAR.  Reinforce the "luck of the draw" by making it damned hard for anyone to last that long.  Aside from 2015 it's happened every year since 2012.  Even worse - these guys seem to spend the entire match doing NOTHING.  Reigns (2016) and Jericho (2017) spent half of the time out of the ring!

Pacing has become absolutely awful.  The Strowman portion of the match was the best paced section.  Between him being eliminated and Brock entering, the match was dead.  If Brock and Goldberg are going to last  4 minutes each and not last until the end, do that segment in the middle of that dead portion instead!

It is possible to have fun storylines and fun spots in a Rumble match without it being a "build up lots of jobbers, have big guy eliminate jobbers".  It really is.  Look at the first half of 2005 or the second half of 2010.  Or the whole of 2004.   Use some imagination and book some stories in the match.

I just haven't enjoyed a Rumble in years.   I've pretty much given up.

With how many times they mentioned that it was the 30th annual Rumble, you'd have thought that they'd have made it feel special. Add some good surprise entrants, etc. Instead of felt like they've hit 30 and ran out of ideas.

Disappointed that Styles lost. Great match though. I just hope that they give him a good Mania match to make up for losing the belt.

Next year is the 30th Rumble.  At least that's what they said during the promo for next year's rumble.

30th was definitely this one. A huge wasted opportunity to do something fun with big moments. Got none of that in this year's Ruble though. Bland as anything. Nothing to celebrate its 30th year.

Yeah, they mentioned this years being the 30th Royal Rumble like 100 times during the PPV. We get it already Cole, stop fucking mentioning it!

Also, what the hell was up with them constantly calling Reigns the "big dog" or something like that. Was repeatedly said during the title match. Was bloody annoying, like they're trying to give him a new nickname by shoving it down our throats non-stop.

I couldn't imagine being at a Rumble event live. Sat near the front you wouldn't be able to help but be drawn towards the guys that are laying around the ring either doing nothing or having weak ass punches thrown their way to make it look like they're kind of trying to stay active. They really need to have the guys do more during a Rumble.

I did laugh at Miz throughout though. Was on the mat for most of it and when he did get up someone either hit a finisher on him or just immediately beat him back down. Was in there for ages and was just wailed on the whole time.

This was the 30th Rumble, but not the 30th anniversary like they kept saying which really bugged me.