WWE Royal Rumble (2019 TV Special)
9/10
GREATER THAN NXT TAKEOVER PHOENIX AND THE ACTION WAS EXHILARATING AT THE RUMBLE IN THE VALLEY OF THE SUN!
28 January 2019
Warning: Spoilers
I Would like to state that I can understand the dissatisfaction with wanting huge superstar names in this year's Rumble match for the women and men's. However do you realize that those stars such as Lita, Trish Stratus or even perhaps Sable and for the men's: Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Batista or The Rock would debase the current man and woman's roster whom are underutilized and not pushed at all even more. So just maybe it was a good call to not have any shocking or surprise entrants to the Rumble matches that have not been seen in a while or with the main team. I must say that the Royal Rumble was very much enjoyable and despite a couple of booking decisions with the order of matchups to the conclusion I believe this is in the top five to ten of the Rumble events.

Matches I loved: Asuka vs Becky Lynch Smackdown Woman's Championship and the Woman's Royal Rumble Match( Maryse and Melina and Victoria should have been in it) and even though it was short Brock Lesnar vs Finn Balor WWE UNIVERSAL CHAMPIONSHIP AND ON THE KICKOFF THE CRUISERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP WITH BUDDY MURPHY, AKIRA TOZAWA, HIDEO ITAMI AND KALISTO

Matches that were great and surprised even if not thoroughly interested or booked wrongly: The BAR VS Shane McMahon and The Miz WWE Smackdown Tag Team Titles #1 Was very stunned at how great the four put on an excellent contest Ronda Rousey vs Sasha Banks #2 Great fight just was concerned at how it was going 2 go but Sasha did her best and Ronda wins for the first time with her signature Piper's Pit not her famous finisher The Arm-breaker

Matches that were disappointing(botches or a bad start/middle or end or boring) or maybe at fair: #1THE NEW DANIEL BRYAN VS THE PHENOMENAL AJ STYLES WHY DO THIS TO AJ STYLES OR EVEN HAVE THE MATCH? THESE TWO HAVE FOUGHT FOR THE FOURTH TIME FOR THE TITLE IN FOUR MONTHS SO IT DID NO FAVORS TO HAVE THIS ESPECIALLY AFTER THE WOMEN'S RUMBLE TO BORE THE CROWD-THEY DID, IT WAS SO DEAD YOU COULD HEAR THE NEXT GUY WIPE HIS OR HER EYES(TEARS) I ALSO BELIEVE IT WAS ENTIRELY TOO LONG SHOULD HAVE BEEN OVER IN 12 MINUTES INSTEAD IT LASTED SLIGHTLY OVER 25 MINUTES JUST FOR AJ TO LOSE TO DANIEL WITH HELP FROM A RETURNING ERICK ROWAN- THE MATCH SHOULD HAVE BEEN WITH MUSTAFA ALI CHALLENGING DB ANYWAY HE PINNED THE CHAMP IN A TAG TEAM MATCH #2 The Men's Rumble Match: Even though they somewhat attempted the actual Men's Rumble match fell short of outstanding a quite bit there were no huge surprise appearances but I was not to devastated by that it was the order of entrants, the order of eliminations and who the superstars were eliminated by and the horrible booking for Drew Mcintyre and Braun Strowman both deserve more and preferably should have won. I am not to enthused by the suspected ME OF WRESTLEMANIA 35 BEING BROCK LESNAR VS SETH ROLLINS FOR WWE UNIVERSAL TITLE- WE HAVE SEEN THESE 2 COMPETE BEFORE AND I JUST DONT THINK IT IS WORTHY OF WM MATERIAL PLEASE GIVE IT TO STROWMAN AND MCINTYRE AND LET SETH CHOOSE DANIEL BRYAN OR AJ STYLES , IF HE CAN WIN BACK HIS TITLE PLEASE! The Men's match had a bit of entertaining offense but it still just either started and then died and picked up and then died again and got momentum because of anticipation to number 30 and died for the Final Time

Matches that completely sucked and had terrible or unexpected outcomes: Kickoff show matches: Bobby Roode and Chad Gable vs Rezar and Scott Dawson WWE Raw Tag Titles Break Time or Wait I didn't even know this match was going to happen because it was impromptu and just sucked Rusev vs Shinsuke Nakumara WWE United States Championship Lana should not have got on the apron to begin with- what did she think Shinsuke was going to do to her? and because of her stupidity we saw a quick US Title change in a match that was lackluster and boring. Poor Rusev it took him forever to get a belt back and he lost it in a month time now he might turn on his wife Lana soon!

WWE Royal Rumble 2019 could have been marvelous and I did enjoy it for the most part even though I believe a lot of calls should have been different but I liked my view in attendance in Section 220 Live at Chase Field
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