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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Feb 1, 2024 18:51:18 GMT -5
Did you want Golga to win the Rumble in ‘99? There’s a difference between asking for the Rumble to be a little less predictable, and having it be “random.” You can’t have the winner be completely random. They have plans in place, and with a WM main event on the line, you can’t just have anybody win. It’s fun to see the current midcard guys have a shot, but you can’t expect Melo or Ivar to win. Now if you’re talking about being less predictable, I actually thought this years Rumble wasn’t that predictable. I watched with a group of five guys and we predicted 3 different people: Cody, CM Punk, and Gunther. I think that’s pretty good. Definitely way less predictable than last years Rumble. I’ve been watching since 2002 and I never once thought “anybody” could win. This year was unpredictable for sure...Punk,Cody,Gunther, even Drew etc.
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Post by shanieomaniac on Feb 2, 2024 22:20:21 GMT -5
As far as Men's rumble went, I figured Cody or Punk. They would be the final two and one would eliminate the other. The only wildcard for me would be if The Rock decided to show up.
But for the women, Bayley was straight up telegraphed. The way that Damage CTRL was made such an important focus of Smackdown, Bayley winning the rumble and then challenging Iyo I could see from a mile away. I never once thought anyone else would win the rumble except her. Hell, it was so telegraphed that one of my good friends who gave up on WWE years ago, but was still a lingering Bayley fan, watched the Rumble as her first show in about 3 years JUST because we all knew Bayley would win and she wanted to see it live.
But as for random winners? For me the wild thing is that it isn't even about that main event spot anymore. That seems to have been cast aside, at least for the women. With the way things are right now I don't feel like winning that Rumble for either side guarantees you that main event anymore, and that's sad. It's sad and it's missing the point. (Saying this as a person who loves that Sami and Kevin got their moment but also believes the women got screwed out of the main event by the WWE's obsession with The Bloodline.) And yet, even with that possibility of not being in the main event, the chances of a "random" person winning feels smaller than ever. As stated above, you know going into the rumble these days that at least 25 of the people there are just fodder for the few already established main eventers in the match. And this year was egregious. Making the title match with Roman, plus putting Kevin in the US title shot, I mean, I know they needed an undercard but with those two matches they wiped out pretty much their entire pool of "Believable Potential Winners" outside of the final two and Gunther at most. (Because Drew wasn't winning it I don't care what anyone says, they're still treating him like an upper mid carder who will main event Raw from time to time, but we'll see if that changes with Punk gone.)
Basically, me and my friends predicted the outcome of every single match at the Rumble, outside of not being sure if it would be Cody tossing Punk or Punk tossing Cody. It wasn't just the rumbles that were predictable this year, the whole CARD was.
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Post by RybackV1 on Feb 2, 2024 23:19:20 GMT -5
Did you want Golga to win the Rumble in ‘99? There’s a difference between asking for the Rumble to be a little less predictable, and having it be “random.” You can’t have the winner be completely random. They have plans in place, and with a WM main event on the line, you can’t just have anybody win. It’s fun to see the current midcard guys have a shot, but you can’t expect Melo or Ivar to win. Now if you’re talking about being less predictable, I actually thought this years Rumble wasn’t that predictable. I watched with a group of five guys and we predicted 3 different people: Cody, CM Punk, and Gunther. I think that’s pretty good. Definitely way less predictable than last years Rumble. I’ve been watching since 2002 and I never once thought “anybody” could win. Golga winning in 99, going on to reveal himself as Earthquake and going on a monster run to finally claim his first WWF Title would’ve been in amazing tbh. Austin and redacted could’ve had their Cage match at Mania instead of St Valentines Massacre
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Post by GreyHaze:Big Bad Booty Daddy on Feb 3, 2024 0:42:24 GMT -5
I pretty much said the same thing in the Rumble thread. These Rumbles are becoming more and more predictable. Part of the reason is because it’s filled with nothing but jobbers. You know damn well it’s either one of the four people main eventing that’s going to win. It’s kind of weird to think we had guys like Angle, The Rock, Undertaker, Kane, The Hardy’s, Edge, Christian and whole other set of superstars all in one era. Today’s wrestlers just don’t give off that aura or even imo, relate to the audience on a level to where we should care about them. Why should I care about Austin Theory? Why should I care about The shush squad or whatever they’re named? There’s a lot of talented guys (ring wise), but I just don’t see how they stand out. Bron Breakker is probably the only new guy that I like that is somewhat refreshing. I felt the same way about Bray. He was refreshing and brought something cool to the table. The only thing was I didn’t enjoy his in ring work too much.
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Post by shanieomaniac on Feb 3, 2024 4:22:21 GMT -5
I pretty much said the same thing in the Rumble thread. These Rumbles are becoming more and more predictable. Part of the reason is because it’s filled with nothing but jobbers. You know damn well it’s either one of the four people main eventing that’s going to win. It’s kind of weird to think we had guys like Angle, The Rock, Undertaker, Kane, The Hardy’s, Edge, Christian and whole other set of superstars all in one era. Today’s wrestlers just don’t give off that aura or even imo, relate to the audience on a level to where we should care about them. Why should I care about Austin Theory? Why should I care about The shush squad or whatever they’re named? There’s a lot of talented guys (ring wise), but I just don’t see how they stand out. Bron Breakker is probably the only new guy that I like that is somewhat refreshing. I felt the same way about Bray. He was refreshing and brought something cool to the table. The only thing was I didn’t enjoy his in ring work too much. The issue is that the guys who the crowd gets behind the most keep getting shafted Sami had the sort of electricity coming out of the Royal Rumble in 2023 that most wrestlers could only dream of. Given his WrestleMania moment with Kevin, the tag run was squandered, he was rendered absolutely meaningless after that, went on leave, came back and now is even more meaningless. Jey had the makings of a major star. Main Event Jey Uso and all. So friggin over. Immediately put back in the tag picture for a meaningless AND short reign, then put into the 'group effort' scene, and when that ended, he's now got nothing left at all except for the match against his brother we all saw coming ages ago. LA Knight has the fans, has the look, has the charisma. What he doesn't have is the support of the company. Even in the main event picture he's being overshadowed by everyone else, constantly being put in multi-man matches and programs because I guess they don't trust him to shine on his own? Damien Priest has held that briefcase for so long they apparently forgot about it and put him in the rumble. If he ever does cash in successfully, I don't trust WWE to give enough of a crap about him to make it matter. Kevin Owens main evented night one of WrestleMania last year and won the titles. At Rumble this year he faced what most people still consider a glorified celeb wrestler for the lowest ranked men's title in the company. And LOST VIA THE DUMBEST DQ EVER. Seth has the crowd support but after tonight, short of them backtracking entirely on Rock vs Roman, Seth is gonna end up a heel by mania And Cody? They just turned the one mega babyface they had into a CLOWN. Time and time again WWE has squandered it's stars. People get behind a wrestler only for said wrestler to get screwed over. When Hunter took over, everyone was so certain that things would change. And they did. The *storylines* got more interesting. But as far as the overall booking goes, the wrestlers get themselves over, and then WWE proceeds to bury them.
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Feb 3, 2024 18:56:41 GMT -5
Surprised Rock never won it this year now lol
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Post by LA Times on Feb 5, 2024 16:07:06 GMT -5
If this Year's Royal Rumble winner wasn't going to main event Wrestlemania, they should've had someone like JD McDonough or Bronson Reed win it and have The Rock force them aside instead of Cody
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Feb 5, 2024 16:14:47 GMT -5
If this Year's Royal Rumble winner wasn't going to main event Wrestlemania, they should've had someone like JD McDonough or Bronson Reed win it and have The Rock force them aside instead of Cody LOL 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 sounds good tbh
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