Decent Royal Rumble. Noticed it wasn't too long but quick and eventful. A good result and entertaining from start to finish. I reckon WWE need to have fewer matches on their card. Seems like their universe is aiming to get bigger than the WWE universe itself with many matches. The main attraction should be the royal rumble and cut down 4 hours to maybe to two and a half hours. 7.5/10
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Royal Rumbles are entertaining by default, but some of the booking here is questionable at best
gridoon202430 January 2020
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The two Royal Rumble matches in this event are almost the opposites of each other: the women's rumble (***) is definitely more consistent, and reveals more overall depth of roster, but much of the NXT talent is underutilized, and the winner is questionable (as booking), to put it generously; the 2nd entrant, for example, would have made a glorious alternative winner and the crowd was ready for it. On the other hand, the men's rumble (also ***) has a WTF "let's see how far they will go with this" first half that makes most of the roster look weak, but a much better, much more audience-pleasing ending (the kind of ending the women's rumble deserved). One thing both rumbles do have in common is that they feature some welcome returnees. Elsewhere, Roman Reigns and "King" Corbin have a typical, slow Falls Count Anywhere brawl (**), Bayley's Smackdown title match vs. Lacey Evans proves that her heel turn simply isn't working....at all (**), the "Fiend" Bray Wyatt and Daniel Bryan have a Strap Match for the Universal Title which is OK I suppose if you like the stipulation (**1/2 ), and Becky Lynch & Asuka have a Raw title match which is definitely superior to Bayley / Evans; The Man and The Empress mesh well together in the ring (***).
Was an OK event until the end
ciclohexatrieno28 January 2020
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This is my first review about something that I actually liked.
I think that this event was between average, ok and good enough, until the end, when it started to get horrible, but ended up excellent.
The First match in the Kick-off, Sheamus vs Shorty G: nothing special, but nothing bad.
The Second Match in the Kick-off, Andrade (C) vs Humberto Carrillo for the US Championship: decent match that was entertaining.
The First Match, King Corbin vs Roman Reigns - Fall Count Anywhere: entertaining match that ended between the public (as it should be), the Usos also battled Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode.
The Second Match, Women's Royal Rumble Match: Interesting and the NXT wrestlers were good, actually I lose a lot of the match because of the wifi, but I watched enough and also the end of this, Santina's return was a bit funny also, but the result was a bit predictable because it seem like a Charlotte vs Lynch in Wrestlemania, and would have been incredible if Shayna Baszler won it, but despite that I think this one was good.
The Third Match, Bayley (C) vs Lacey Evans for the SmackDown Women's Champinship: decent match but I don't like the result because Lacey seems to get this kind of matches only for lose them.
The Fourth Match, "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt vs Daniel Bryan - Strap Match for the Universal Championship: good match, a bit predictable, but it's too soon for "The Fiend" to lose the title so it was the best result.
The Fifth Match, Becky Lynch (C) vs Asuka for the Raw Women's Championship: decent match but again I don't like much the result and what it would probably mean in WrestleMania 36.
The Main Event, Men's Royal Rumble: It divides in two part the first one is one of the most disgusting and horrible things I have seen in a while (talking about fiction), the second is one of the best moments in Royal Rumble's modern history, the first 14 entrants (except of course #1) were taken off by the INVINCIBLE (and for entire months also INVISIBLE) Brock Lesnar in seconds, that will be no problem, except for #5 John Morrison (00:09), #9 Cesaro (00:18), #11 Shinsuke Nakamura (00:20) and #12 MVP (0:24), lasting only seconds, less than half a minute, less than Elias, less than Santina, that was a SHAME, I know that WWE never treates Cesaro better than this, but Morrison has recently return and was the 2nd worst time of the entire night, Nakamura is the Intercontinental Champion because he already had some push before, so WWE should give him some respect right?,..., and MVP was in his return only for jobbing like this..., when # 14 Braun Strowman entered I thought the he was going to eliminate Lesnar finally, but nope, he was eliminated with #13 Keith Lee, so Lesnar tied the elimination record of 13 (with Strowman curioulsly) I started to get worried because I belived that the only ones with the credibility to eliminate Lesnar were Strowman, Reigns or Rollins (fortunetly I was wrong), and then... #16 Drew McIntyre entered and with the help of #15 Ricochet (with a low blow) throw off Lesnar, and from here it was clear that is SHOULD be the moment of McIntyre, and evething was good until the #21 and the countdown from 10 and then... EDGE returned, honestly I only saw him in his last phase (being a face) in the end of 2010 and the begining of 2011, and I enjoyed that moment a lot, the arena had a great pop and everything went excellent since that, #25 Randy Orton entered and for a moment Rated-RKO was back for some time, then #26 Roman Reigns entered and I think that a lot of people thought that WWE was going to do it again, next was #27 Kevin Owen, #28 Aleister Black, #29 Samoa Joe and of course #30 Seth Rollins (with AOP and Buddy Murphy), I originally thought that, because Vince McMahon is the Troll of Trolls, there wasn't going to be a return before and in the #30 was going to be Santino Marella, but maybe that wasn't going to be good, because the public surely would have boo him, but that didn't happened anyways, after a lot of eliminations only Seth, Randy, Edge, Roman and Drew remained, Drew eliminated Seth, and before Randy betrayed Edge, he eliminated him, and after that there was a "Spear duel" between Roman and Edge, of course Roman eliminated Edge, that was understable because if Drew and Edge were the final two, maybe the audience would have booed Drew, and also for making everyone think that Roman was going to win it again, also an interesting fact: Roman Reigns ALWAYS is between the final 3 in Royal Rumble and he was the last eliminated 4 times, fortunately Drew eliminated Roman and won the Royal Rumble, he deserved that, and was a great push to him to also eliminate Lesnar and being the Iron Man here with 34:11 in the ring, that was a GREAT ending that makes the Royal Rumble match and the PPV better, really a great and satisfying ending.
I think that this event was between average, ok and good enough, until the end, when it started to get horrible, but ended up excellent.
The First match in the Kick-off, Sheamus vs Shorty G: nothing special, but nothing bad.
The Second Match in the Kick-off, Andrade (C) vs Humberto Carrillo for the US Championship: decent match that was entertaining.
The First Match, King Corbin vs Roman Reigns - Fall Count Anywhere: entertaining match that ended between the public (as it should be), the Usos also battled Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode.
The Second Match, Women's Royal Rumble Match: Interesting and the NXT wrestlers were good, actually I lose a lot of the match because of the wifi, but I watched enough and also the end of this, Santina's return was a bit funny also, but the result was a bit predictable because it seem like a Charlotte vs Lynch in Wrestlemania, and would have been incredible if Shayna Baszler won it, but despite that I think this one was good.
The Third Match, Bayley (C) vs Lacey Evans for the SmackDown Women's Champinship: decent match but I don't like the result because Lacey seems to get this kind of matches only for lose them.
The Fourth Match, "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt vs Daniel Bryan - Strap Match for the Universal Championship: good match, a bit predictable, but it's too soon for "The Fiend" to lose the title so it was the best result.
The Fifth Match, Becky Lynch (C) vs Asuka for the Raw Women's Championship: decent match but again I don't like much the result and what it would probably mean in WrestleMania 36.
The Main Event, Men's Royal Rumble: It divides in two part the first one is one of the most disgusting and horrible things I have seen in a while (talking about fiction), the second is one of the best moments in Royal Rumble's modern history, the first 14 entrants (except of course #1) were taken off by the INVINCIBLE (and for entire months also INVISIBLE) Brock Lesnar in seconds, that will be no problem, except for #5 John Morrison (00:09), #9 Cesaro (00:18), #11 Shinsuke Nakamura (00:20) and #12 MVP (0:24), lasting only seconds, less than half a minute, less than Elias, less than Santina, that was a SHAME, I know that WWE never treates Cesaro better than this, but Morrison has recently return and was the 2nd worst time of the entire night, Nakamura is the Intercontinental Champion because he already had some push before, so WWE should give him some respect right?,..., and MVP was in his return only for jobbing like this..., when # 14 Braun Strowman entered I thought the he was going to eliminate Lesnar finally, but nope, he was eliminated with #13 Keith Lee, so Lesnar tied the elimination record of 13 (with Strowman curioulsly) I started to get worried because I belived that the only ones with the credibility to eliminate Lesnar were Strowman, Reigns or Rollins (fortunetly I was wrong), and then... #16 Drew McIntyre entered and with the help of #15 Ricochet (with a low blow) throw off Lesnar, and from here it was clear that is SHOULD be the moment of McIntyre, and evething was good until the #21 and the countdown from 10 and then... EDGE returned, honestly I only saw him in his last phase (being a face) in the end of 2010 and the begining of 2011, and I enjoyed that moment a lot, the arena had a great pop and everything went excellent since that, #25 Randy Orton entered and for a moment Rated-RKO was back for some time, then #26 Roman Reigns entered and I think that a lot of people thought that WWE was going to do it again, next was #27 Kevin Owen, #28 Aleister Black, #29 Samoa Joe and of course #30 Seth Rollins (with AOP and Buddy Murphy), I originally thought that, because Vince McMahon is the Troll of Trolls, there wasn't going to be a return before and in the #30 was going to be Santino Marella, but maybe that wasn't going to be good, because the public surely would have boo him, but that didn't happened anyways, after a lot of eliminations only Seth, Randy, Edge, Roman and Drew remained, Drew eliminated Seth, and before Randy betrayed Edge, he eliminated him, and after that there was a "Spear duel" between Roman and Edge, of course Roman eliminated Edge, that was understable because if Drew and Edge were the final two, maybe the audience would have booed Drew, and also for making everyone think that Roman was going to win it again, also an interesting fact: Roman Reigns ALWAYS is between the final 3 in Royal Rumble and he was the last eliminated 4 times, fortunately Drew eliminated Roman and won the Royal Rumble, he deserved that, and was a great push to him to also eliminate Lesnar and being the Iron Man here with 34:11 in the ring, that was a GREAT ending that makes the Royal Rumble match and the PPV better, really a great and satisfying ending.
Less Suspance more action..
bhandariinsy27 January 2020
Yes i agree, It might have been better, But we need to accept the fact that WWE has done some terrible booking in recent times. Keeping that on mind this year's rumble was fine. Deserving winners and good story telling.
Good.
coti-0955327 January 2020
Royal Rumble
bobcobb3011 February 2020
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Edge returning was a big deal, but he wasn't even having good matches in 2011 so I am not sure what he can do now.
Drew McIntyre is not someone who can carry the show, but we'll see what he can do at WrestleMania. The women's Royal Rumble did not work though. Bianca should have won.
Drew McIntyre is not someone who can carry the show, but we'll see what he can do at WrestleMania. The women's Royal Rumble did not work though. Bianca should have won.
A lot of good Wrestling!
magicainter-5527129 January 2020
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Finally a respectable wwe event, but above all a show worthy of the name it bears. Lots of good matches, fun and never boring, except for the one between Lacey Evans and Bailey that didn't live up to expectations. It's the first time since i remember, that not only i've guessed the winner of the rumble, but he also was my favorite! You deserve it, great job Drew!
Putting the Royal 👑 back in the Rumble
paudieconnolly23 October 2020
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