January 25, 20169 yr comment_5723310 Do you think the DX crotch chop was planned all along or improvised based on the crowd reaction?
January 25, 20169 yr comment_5723314 What I don't get is Reigns being tossed so conclusively before the finish. How does that build towards Hunter-Reigns at Mania?
January 25, 20169 yr comment_5723316 You've got Lesnar tangled up with Bray Wyatt, you're cutting the nuts off Reigns every single week but at least HHH gets to headline a stadium
January 25, 20169 yr Author comment_5723318 No surprise for the finish but I did like that it came down to HHH and Ambrose, and not Roman at least. A really fun Rumble overall. I enjoyed this show a lot.
January 25, 20169 yr comment_5723319 So yeah, that went just as expected. Well, at least the expected winner.
January 25, 20169 yr comment_5723320 Funniest thing since that skull mask and the Sting match. Starting to love HHH for these moments.
January 25, 20169 yr comment_5723321 I really don't understand this company Of course you do. You just don't want to because deep down you're a humanist.
January 25, 20169 yr Author comment_5723322 No surprise for the finish but I did like that it came down to HHH and Ambrose, and not Roman at least. A really fun Rumble overall. I enjoyed this show a lot. I'm not huge on the finish BUT I cannot name a single finish I'd have been huge on, so that's par. The rest of it was a lot of fun.
January 25, 20169 yr comment_5723324 Yeah, I will say that I dug the Rumble a lot and the majority of it made logical sense and set up future Mania plans, made Styles look hot etc but man, they just don't seem to plug these plans into any kind of context whatsoever.
January 25, 20169 yr comment_5723325 So basically, they did everything right with the Rumble except the booking of Reigns.
January 25, 20169 yr comment_5723326 So basically, they did everything right with the Rumble except the booking of Reigns. Pretty much. Didn't like Brock just taking the L and leaving though.
January 25, 20169 yr comment_5723327 That's the first full WWE show I have watched in a while. -Holy smokes that crowd was dead. Even when they were "hot" (Styles coming out, Ambrose vs HHH) it was so weak. There was no heat at all for HHH vs Reigns, just apathy...they weren't even booing Reigns that hard. Just dead. -Michael Cole and JBL are so terrible it boggles the mind. Screeching, annoying, they sound so bored. Cole would just read off his script. Terrible. -Reigns is not good. No way will he ever be a permanent ace. He just can't be. He had to lie in the ring all last year, this year he took off for half the match but he spent the beginning just lying around. He isn't good enough. You could see it vs HHH, Reigns just doesn't have the presence that someone like HHH, Brock, or even Owens has.
January 25, 20169 yr comment_5723328 Fuck that shit. It was a really good Rumble outside of the Roman/HHH bullshit. Brock and Styles were the MVP's. They did a good job setting up feuds, but fuck that main event feud.
January 25, 20169 yr comment_5723329 -Reigns is not good. No way will he ever be a permanent ace. He just can't be. He had to lie in the ring all last year, this year he took off for half the match but he spent the beginning just lying around. He isn't good enough. You could see it vs HHH, Reigns just doesn't have the presence that someone like HHH, Brock, or even Owens has. Reigns is great and when you remove him from the bullshit surrounding him, he's capable of putting on awesome matches and connecting with the crowd. You make him look like an idiot, a weakling and have him be eliminated CLEANLY by the evil Authority and yeah, nobody is going to give a shit. Once again, we're told that HHH is the only guy that matters so of course he's going to look like a star.
January 25, 20169 yr comment_5723330 Man, I dunno if Triple H main eventing Wrestlemania is gonna break their attendance record? I don't really mind Triple H winning but he definitely didn't look like he could go anymore to me. He looked... old and broken. There were some cool spots in that match though. Nice to see how over Styles was. They didn't really let him show much though. I assume he'll feud with Owens now? That could be fun.
January 25, 20169 yr comment_5723333 Nah, they set up him vs. Sami. Can't believe they had some of the more awesome spots they did with so much bullshit.
January 25, 20169 yr comment_5723334 - Brock's elimination was awful and didn't even seem to fit the rules of the match? Wasn't he tossed out by three previously eliminated dudes? For those debating it, match died with Brock's elimination. - Ambrose as the last man would have been better if he didn't have the IC title. - Smark bar crowd cheered the HHH win and threw a roomful of crotch chops. The moment prepared me for the possibility of a Trump presidency, so not a total loss. - Never bought into the idea of a full-scale Roman assassination conspiracy and still don't, but all must bow down to the king and it happened again tonight. Reigns wins overblown epic at Mania, gets Orton-sized pop, ice caps keep melting.
January 25, 20169 yr comment_5723335 Agreed with the seeming consensus that this was pretty fun until Lesnar's elimination. I was clocking entrants at 1 minute 45 seconds. Show was running a little long. Credits came up at about 11:01 EST.
January 25, 20169 yr comment_5723336 Yeah that is the biggest issue is that they made Reigns look like a complete bitch. if they think he is going to get this huge babyface reaction at WM winning the belt then I don't like his chance They are really booking Reigns like he is a heel but the problem is that he is supposed to be John Cena 2.0
January 25, 20169 yr Author comment_5723337 Man, I dunno if Triple H main eventing Wrestlemania is gonna break their attendance record? I think you are underestimating how powerful the mere name of Wrestlemania is as a pop culture brand that extends way further than anything else in wrestling. Granted, I could be proven wrong. But I honestly believe some people are underestimating how powerful "Come be part of THE BIGGEST WRESTLEMANIA EVER" will prove to be as a marketing tool pretty much regardless of the card.
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