Royal Rumble... after thought

Sunday night with my girlfriend away for the weekend, I had one of my best mates Wags come over for essentially a bit of a guy night... we watched a bit of the NFL pro ball (cheering on the NFC) but as soon as 1am came... we switched over and watch... THE ROYAL RUMBLE, now for me the Royal Rumble is my second favourite PPV of the Year, being behind Wrestlemania of course. The first match of the night... was simply the best of the night (who’d have thought that?) Del Rio vs Big Show in a rematch of their Last Man Standing match a few weeks ago on Smackdown. This was a really good match and for the last five months big show has been putting on the best matches of his career, one of the highlights of the match was when big show chokeslammed Del Rio off part of the rumble set through a table. The finish came from when Del Rio knocked show on the mat and Ricardo taped shows feet to the ropes so he couldn’t get up before the 10 count. A really good finish and a suspect will not be the end to this fued Just to quickly go over the tag match between Team Hell No and Rhodes Scholars it was a good match, I really did expect Kane and & D-Bry to lose the titles, but the hint of their implosion was seeded in the royal rumble match itself. So to quickly move on... this rumble for the first time in many many many years I had no real interest in, because as a ‘Smark’ I knew what was gonna go down John Cena was gonna destroy all and win and then go on to face The Rock in the twice in a lifetime match for the WWE title at Wrestlemania 29, But i really hoped I would be wrong especially since Dolph Ziggler earlier in the night gave a promo saying that he would enter at number 1 and win and then unify the world and wwe titles at mania... and the fanboy inside of me was excited, I honestly believed after that Ziggler would win.

And when he entered at numero uno I believed... I really believed that he would and well he didnt, Cena Won and I lost interest even my friend Wags who isn’t a major wrestling fan declared his hatred for Cena. And then I knew The Rock would go on to defeat Cm Punk, in what was really, I pretty boring, uninteresting match despite having two of the greatest wrestlers ever in it. I don’t know whether it really does show that The Rock is really rusty still in the ring (he’s wrestled 3 matches in 8 years) or that CM Punk really didn’t give his all especially since he’s been very vocal on his distain on The Rock coming and going on WWE TV, we got the screw job type of finish where the lights went off (me stupidly thinking that The Undertaker was returning) but instead we got The Shield attacking The Rock, Vince then coming out about to strip Punk of His title only for the rock to deliver a peoples elbow, get the win and become champion.

overall, this wasn’t a very good event, Cena winning killed the crowd, no one wanted to see it, and everyone knew after that, The Rock was going to beat CM Punk, the whole event itself was a little underwhelming with the highlights of the rumble being Jericho’s and Goldusts returns getting the biggest pops of the night. I just hope leading up to Mania season the WWE writers pull something better out of their asses.