JamieStevenson Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 The road to WrestleMania 34 starts here with Royal Rumble! It will take place on Sunday January 28th 2018 and will be following the 2 hour Kickoff Show (10PM), 4 hour main card format (Midnight). This year it is the 31st installment of Royal Rumble and held at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Both Raw and SmackDown superstars will come together for the 1st dual brand PPV of 2018. This year's show will feature the first ever Women's Royal Rumble Match! Confirmed Matches: Kalisto, Lince Dorato and Gran Metalik vs TJP, Gentleman Jack Gallagher and Drew Gulak. Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson vs The Revival. Bobby Roode vs TBD (Open Challenge) for the WWE United States Championship. Seth Rollins and Jason Jordan © vs Cesaro and Sheamus for the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship. The Usos © vs Chad Gable and Shelton Benjamin in a 2-out-of-3-Falls Match for the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship. AJ Styles © vs Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn in a 2-on-1 Handicap Match for the WWE Championship. The first ever Women's Royal Rumble Match for a Women's Championship Match at WrestleMania 34. Brock Lesnar © vs Braun Strowman vs Kane for the WWE Universal Championship. 2018 Royal Rumble Match for a Championship Match at WrestleMania 34. Confirmed Female Rumble Entrants: Naomi Asuka Ruby Riott Natalya Sasha Banks Bayley Mandy Rose Sonya Deville Carmella Tamina Lana Liv Morgan Sarah Logan Mickie James Nia Jax Becky Lynch Alicia Fox Dana Brooke Confirmed Royal Rumble Entrants: Elias Randy Orton Shinsuke Nakamura John Cena Finn Balor Baron Corbin Matt Hardy Samoa Joe Bray Wyatt Rusev Aiden English Apollo Crews Titus O'Neil The Miz Tye Dillinger Big E Kofi Kingston Xavier Woods Roman Reigns Royal Rumble Stats Most Wins: 3 - Stone Cold Steve Austin. Most Appearances: 19 - Kane. (17 under the Kane guise) Most Eliminations in a Single Match: 12 - Roman Reigns 2014. Most Cumulative Eliminations: 44 - Kane. (43 under the Kane guise) Longest Time Spent in a Single Royal Rumble: 1:02:12 - Rey Mysterio 2006 (Rey Mysterio is the only masked wrestler to win the Royal Rumble and is also the shortest to win) Most Cumulative Time Spent in Royal Rumbles: 4:56:00 - Chris Jericho. Quickest Elimination: Kane eliminating Santino Marella in 1.9 seconds. Luckiest Number: #27 with 4 winners. Most Appearances in a Single Royal Rumble Match: 3 - Mick Foley appeared in 1998 as Cactus Jack, Mankind & Dude Love . Most Competitors Necessary for a Single Elimination: 8 - in 2007 it took 8 of the participants to lift Viscera over the top rope to eliminate him. Two men have managed to win from the #1 spot: Shawn Michaels & Spoiler Chris Benoit #1-10 have produced 7 winners. #11-20 have produced 4 winners. #21-30 produced 20 winners (if you count #38 from the 40 man Rumble). If you are unsure why there are 31 winners so far but we're only just coming up to our 31st Rumble, please watch the 1994 Royal Rumble match. Official themes for the 2018 Royal Rumble: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Kane in a title match in 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Why bother with the Rumble match? Why not just save everyone's time and give the Mania shot to Reigns? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieStevenson Posted December 19, 2017 Author Share Posted December 19, 2017 Think it'll be another SD winner to allow Reigns to have a natural build towards the title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzle Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Yeah I imagine it's a smackdown winner at the rumble with Reigns winning elimination chamber to face Brock at mania. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieStevenson Posted December 20, 2017 Author Share Posted December 20, 2017 I'm going to try and get the Monday off for this. Probably won't be a good show but can't be arsed trying to catch up with it on a Monday night after work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forameus Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Yeah, can't see Reigns winning again (although it could happen) it's more likely to be a Smackdown winner to go up against AJ. Hopefully Nakamura, although the way they've booked him even that's a bit meh. I'd actually like them to think outside the box a little at this stage. Having a "top" guy win and challenge the champion is unlikely to yield anyone that interesting, especially if they're set on Reigns/Lesnar. I'd like to see them have the Rumble winner add themselves to a match. Give it to someone in the upper mid-card and build a story around them trying to prove themselves as worthy. Someone like the Miz winning would be great, but obviously only if they decide to tell the right story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyle Lanley Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Royal Rumble pool will be up and running by next week. We could do a women's rumble pool if there's enough interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 I'm feeling Nakamura for the Rumble at the moment if it's going to be AJ carrying the title into Mania. He's the one guy guaranteed to get a spectacular match out of Naka. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizfit Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 I’m thinking Ziggler for the rumble. Don’t know why, I just always think he’s going to win it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Cena Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 When was the last time the actual Rumble match was good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 The rumble's always been at least decent IMO. It's usually booking that fucks it more than anything else. They seem to have no idea how to do it anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forameus Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Wasn't the one that was for the title actually pretty good, from modern standards at least? It at least had a bit of a wrinkle rather than just being a straight decision as to who they wanted to push to the main event. I don't really remember all that much about last years, apart from it being nowhere near as good as it likely should have been considering the line-up. The one Batista won was poor for obvious reasons, but the year after when they actively booked it terribly and watched as the fans shat all over it, was probably the worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Venom Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 When they book it that the last few remaining could go (in theory) any way it's at least interesting. Wasn't there one recently where the final 4 was Kane, Big Show, Reigns, and a hiding Rusev? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Give it to the Woken One Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 When they book it that the last few remaining could go (in theory) any way it's at least interesting. Wasn't there one recently where the final 4 was Kane, Big Show, Reigns, and a hiding Rusev? That was the worst one by some distance chiefly because Kane and Big Show eliminated everyone that was feasibly over enough to win so it was obvs big Reigns was going to win it. Sending The Rock out to try and turn a hostile Philly crowd was the icing on the cake.The actual matches have been decent enough just let down by screwy and stupid finishes. I've stuck a tenner on Naka and Asuka to win this year's ones heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Venom Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 That was the worst one by some distance chiefly because Kane and Big Show eliminated everyone that was feasibly over enough to win so it was obvs big Reigns was going to win it. Sending The Rock out to try and turn a hostile Philly crowd was the icing on the cake. That was it! Iirc the fans were chanting "we want Rusev"And years on they're still chanting [emoji23] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Just behind the 2015 debacle in terms of head in hands shiteness has be 2014 when Daniel Bryan, by far the most over guy on the roster, wasn't even in the Rumble match. Poor Rey got booed the f**k when he came out at number 30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forameus Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 5 hours ago, NotThePars said: That was the worst one by some distance chiefly because Kane and Big Show eliminated everyone that was feasibly over enough to win so it was obvs big Reigns was going to win it. Sending The Rock out to try and turn a hostile Philly crowd was the icing on the cake. The actual matches have been decent enough just let down by screwy and stupid finishes. I've stuck a tenner on Naka and Asuka to win this year's ones heh. 2 hours ago, Jeff Venom said: That was it! Iirc the fans were chanting "we want Rusev" And years on they're still chanting I was looking for something to watch, so decided to remind myself of the horror of this. Jeezo it was bad. - Bubba Ray returning, not getting D'Von, but making do with "any-old-black-guy" R-Truth. Then eliminated in short order - The fucking Boogieman - Bray completely fucking up the big cue on offering a square go, expecting DBry to come out but getting Zac Ryder instead. - Bryan getting eliminated in fairly bland fashion, and the crowd completely dieing until... - Reigns comes out, and everyone sees what's coming - DDP getting a big pop, but getting punted out fairly sharp - Sandow getting a bigger pop, but getting jobbed out even quicker - Bray not really getting any follow up to eliminating Bryan - Kofi Kingston not really getting much of a big moment before being eliminated - Rusev going from being booed relentlessly to being flavour of the month for just not being Roman - Come to think of it, the really weird way Rusev came back into it, almost like it was a bit of a botch. If he had gone on to win from there, fair enough, but just didn't seem to meh very well - Kane and Big Show being favoured over EVERYONE (except Roman) - Ryback, Swagger, Ziggler, Ambrose, Wyatt (a particularly tame elimination for what had gone before) all jobbed out by Kane and Show. - And to top it off, the finish, where they clearly thought that bringing in the Rock would solve everything. The look on his face was absolutely priceless. 8 minutes ago, DA Baracus said: Just behind the 2015 debacle in terms of head in hands shiteness has be 2014 when Daniel Bryan, by far the most over guy on the roster, wasn't even in the Rumble match. Poor Rey got booed the f**k when he came out at number 30 Poor Rey...I hope he realised when he came out why he was getting that reaction, otherwise that must've been horrible. I remember the pop when he got eliminated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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