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Who will win The Royal Rumble? This poll is closed. |
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 Antonio Cesaro |
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29 | 7.44% |
 Daniel Bryan |
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47 | 12.05% |
 The field |
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28 | 7.18% |
 John Cena |
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114 | 29.23% |
 Kane |
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5 | 1.28% |
 Randy Orton |
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4 | 1.03% |
 The Ryback |
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33 | 8.46% |
 Sheamus |
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4 | 1.03% |
 Wade Barrett |
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17 | 4.36% |
 Us, the viewers! |
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109 | 27.95% |
| Total: | 390 votes | ||
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SHOULD YOU WATCH THIS? YES! YES! YES! The Royal Rumble gets an exuberant AJ Lee circling around Daniel Bryan on the Unofficial Daniel Bryan Excitement Rating Scale.  Relevant links for tonight: Royal Rumble Roulette Teams: Now with added patriotism for a country that probably isn't yours! Royal Rumble TOXX Thread: Don't Bet on Pro Wrestling Appreciate THE ROYAL RUMBLE with goon friends here! Make your dumb and wrong picks in the WH2KPSP Prediction game! Make your stupid and awful picks, but on Fourdown! This is a PPV, so make sure to let everyone know where your cool streams are at. (don't do this)  30 men enter. One hour and 29 men later, one man leaves, destined for a world championship fight of his choice at WrestleMania. Welcome to The Royal Rumble. Tonight, live from Phoenix, Arizona comes the best event of the year to be a WWE (or any kind of wrestling, really) fan, The Royal Rumble is a time that brings adults all over the world back to their childhood roots. There's something special about this old people coming in to clean house, our favorite wrestlers taking other people to task, and the pure excitement and joy of finding out exactly who the seventeenth entry in the Rumble is. Oh, and did I mention that the Rock and CM Punk are wrestling for the WWE Championship? Yeah, this isn't going to need much of a sell. Regardless, let's look at what we have scheduled for tonight's event:  Starting at 7:30 EST, the YouTube preshow contains a match between The Miz, who has no supporters in PSP, and United States Champion Antonio Cesaro, who has everybody as a supporter. Recently these two have been feuding on Main Event, which has lately become Cesaro's Funtime Hour of Great Matches. The Miz repeatedly attempts to attack Cesaro, only to be beaten back and posed over with the American flag because he is a worthless loser. The Miz, in an effort to show that he's not a worthless loser (even though he is), partnered with Ric Flair and was bequeathed the worst looking Figure Four Leglock ever (seriously look at this loving thing). Regardless, Miz also has a vaguely patriotic movie coming out, and what better way to promote that than with wrestling championships? Will he gain the illustrious US Championship for a third time? Or will Cesaro retain the title he so rightfully has made great? (this is the correct answer)  WWE, not content with just running things into the ground, has made a fifth title match between current TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS Team Hell No and their challengers, the Rhodes Scholars. It all started when there was a supposed "resurgence" with the tag team division. Believe us, they said! We'll make sure that the tag teams stay revitalized and it'll just be like the days of the Dudleyz, the Hardyz, and the Edge and Christianz, they said! There sure won't be a rehash of the same old plot over and over! Well, bad news. There has been. And thusly we get another rematch where maybe some storyline development will happen. Or maybe it won't.  After a whirlwind month that included taking one for the good guy (Ricardo Rodriguez), running over Santas, and making amends with everybody on the roster, on a SmackDown taping in January, Alberto Del Rio became the World Heavyweight Champion. This was a title which had eluded him since winning the Royal Rumble two years ago and after endless feuds with Sheamus. With that victory, though, he awoke a sleeping giant. The Big Show, after taking it to Sheamus for three months straight, had lost the championship which had finally validated him as not a 45-second clumsy oaf, a joke of a man. Big Show lashed out the only way he knew how: blaming the goddamned Mexicans and invoking his rematch clause for tonight, in a Last Man Standing match. This promises to be a brutal affair, and the two competitors will undoubtedly throw everything they have at one another.  FINALLY! THE ROCK HAS RETURNED... TO BECOME THE NEWWWWWWW WWE CHAMPION! A feud featuring two of the best people to ever pick up a microphone in company history has delivered just that. The two's interactions on the mic together have been golden, as expected. For 434 days, CM Punk has retained the title by hook or by crook, "unexpectedly" getting help from rogue referee Brad Maddox or The Shield, in order to set up this match, which has been seven months in the making. Because of The Shield's constant interference in Punk's title matches, if The Shield interferes, CM Punk will be stripped of his title. Even though The Rock only comes around now once in a blue moon, and especially when he has five (FIVE) movies this year to promote, this match will certainly be one for the ages. What will happen in the clash of the music genres? Is the Rock just a Minor Threat to CM Punk? Or will The Rock just Rage Against the Machine? Will Punk's historic title reign continue? Are Rock's arms too short to box with God?  “Ladies and Gentlemen, it is now time for the Royal Rumble! Earlier today the 30 participants who entered, drew numbers at random. In just a few moments the individuals who drew number one and number two will be in the Royal Rumble and every two minutes thereafter another individual will enter the ring according to the number he drew. Remember, in the Royal Rumble it is Every Man For Himself. And elimination occurs when a wrestler is thrown out over the top and both feet touch the floor. The one man remaining in the ring after all 30 participants have entered will be declared the winner of the Royal Rumble and will go on his way to face whoever the champion is at Wrestlemania!” These are the wrestlers who are currently confirmed for the Royal Rumble (by WWE themselves, so shut up): John Cena Sheamus Randy Orton Dolph Ziggler 3MB Antonio Cesaro Wade Barrett The Miz The Ryback Team Hell No The Great Khali Kofi Kingston The Primetime Players Winner of NXT Tournament (winner in picture) And many more! Also, please keep the spoilers out of this thread. One of the many best parts of The Royal Rumble are the surprises. That's right, it's THE ROYAL loving RUMBLE and it's coming to you, live, tonight!
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This is my first time watching a WWE PPV in 4 or 5 years. I think I saw every single one from 1999-2005, but PG WWE and the emergence of the UFC killed it for me. However, how do you pass up on Rock vs Punk for the title, no matter what era it's in? Plus the Rumble rules.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 17:06 |
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This is up kinda early.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 17:13 |
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Ziggler wins the Rumble, realise he's losing when facing Del Rio at Wrestlemania and starts beating Del Rio with the briefcase/a chair. He will then cash in the briefcase and win.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 17:18 |
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Atticus Finch posted:This is up kinda early. Normally I'd agree, but it's the Royal freaking Rumble!
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 17:30 |
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Paulocaust posted:This is my first time watching a WWE PPV in 4 or 5 years. I think I saw every single one from 1999-2005, but PG WWE and the emergence of the UFC killed it for me. However, how do you pass up on Rock vs Punk for the title, no matter what era it's in? Plus the Rumble rules. You picked a good one to come back to 
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 17:35 |
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I'm going to be there! I know at least a couple other goons are attending, too. I'm sitting in section 214. What are your seats, fellow goon attendees? I am so pumped. Two PPVs in six months. MITB was awesome; this is going to be even better.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 17:38 |
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lets go bo
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 17:42 |
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Love the Rumble. Of course my dish is playing up so who knows what's going to happen. I did manage to dig up my original Royal Rumble Bingo card though, here's hoping I get a chance to play it live. 
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 17:53 |
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Tonight Big E Langston will enter the Rumble at position number FIVE, eliminating FIVE opponents and lasting for FIVE minutes before walking out on his own accord.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 17:56 |
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golden oldies pete posted:lets go bo Bo Dallas making a believer out of me.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 17:57 |
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Hey guys. I'm hype, are you?! 
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 18:06 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG12iZPH8oc My condolences are still there for whichever team gets Bo Dallas.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 18:07 |
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Ahaha he won with that Powerslam? Well at least it is better than that spear he does, people need to stop using spears as finishers, go back to DDT variations.  Also no video of Adrian Neville vs Corey Graves  Why is WWE so against people filming matches that no one is going to see?
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 18:14 |
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achillesforever6 posted:Ahaha he won with that Powerslam? Well at least it is better than that spear he does, people need to stop using spears as finishers, go back to DDT variations. Blu-Ray Extras.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 18:16 |
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Hey guys. I'm hype, are you?! Hyped as gently caress for    THE ROYAL FUCKIN' RUMBLE!
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 18:17 |
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I'm fairly sure Dolph is cashing in after a strong showing in the Rumble on a weakened Del Rio, and Sheamus will win the Rumble.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 18:18 |
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Any one know of a place that'll be airing it in the SF Bay Area (East Bay, preferably)? Normally I'd order a PPV, but this seems like it would be a lot better in a large group.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 18:24 |
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Dolph is going to win the Royal Rumble, then immediately call out Big Show and cash in his MitB briefcase, win the title, and announce his intentions to unify the world titles at Wrestlemania, while I slip in to an opium coma and embrace the sweet release of death.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 18:29 |
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Voting DB solely because of his corresponding emote. First Rumble I'm watching in five years, too.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 18:31 |
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Meat Recital posted:Dolph is going to win the Royal Rumble, then immediately call out Big Show and cash in his MitB briefcase, win the title, and announce his intentions to unify the world titles at Wrestlemania, while I slip in to an opium coma and embrace the sweet release of death. LOLJK there's no way Big Show regains the belt tonight even for a few seconds, let alone until the end of the Rumble
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 18:37 |
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How much does the web broadcast cost? I'm not paying $65 for a PPV. I don't even really want to split the cost, since I know my friends are broke anyway. E: It's $45. Going to Hooters and spending that amount on wings and beer then! Flameingblack fucked around with this message at Jan 27, 2013 around 19:04 |
| # ? Jan 27, 2013 18:40 |
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There's nothing about this I don't like.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 18:57 |
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THE GAYEST POSTER posted:There's nothing about this I don't like. It's the Royal Rumble, even I like the Royal Rumble.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 19:05 |
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No Mark Henry option in the poll. 
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 19:09 |
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The royal loving rumble.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 19:21 |
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If The Miz wins it will be to clear Antonio for the main event, or that is what I'm going to tell myself. It's all good tonight.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 19:22 |
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Sadly I can not watch the show due to obligations. But that will not change the level of hype that I feel. #2. Choice of Champions.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 19:27 |
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Living in Europe it will be Monday already before the Rumble. BUT...I got this monday off, so I will record the show, then shop a ton of unhealthy food and watch it later on the afternoon, best possible start of a work week.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 19:30 |
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Pina Coladas posted:Tonight Big E Langston will enter the Rumble at position number FIVE, eliminating FIVE opponents and lasting for FIVE minutes before walking out on his own accord. I have him in Rumble Roulette and I'd be okay with this
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 19:30 |
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Hammerstein posted:Living in Europe it will be Monday already before the Rumble. BUT...I got this monday off, so I will record the show, then shop a ton of unhealthy food and watch it later on the afternoon, best possible start of a work week. Don't be a wuss. I have to be in work for 8 tomorrow and I'm still watching THE ROYAL RUMBLE live this morning. You have no excuse
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 19:34 |
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jeffersonlives posted:It's the Royal Rumble, even I like the Royal Rumble. Truly the Royal Rumble unites us all. 
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 19:40 |
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Truly the Royal Rumble unites us all. Until Cena wins of course
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 19:43 |
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 Flameingblack posted:How much does the web broadcast cost? I'm not paying $65 for a PPV. I don't even really want to split the cost, since I know my friends are broke anyway. Blast areas, the best areas for the Rumble. Why? Because you get a giant crowd of people that are all but bouncing off the walls and it's practically like being at a live event. Plus, if you go alone, you always have something to talk to everybody else about. The only other time that's better for blast areas is Wrestlemania. RR is awesome and I am so pumped for tonight. If Cena wins, the blast area I go to very well may explode. Nobody there likes Cena.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 19:45 |
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jeffersonlives posted:Until Cena wins of course 
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 19:45 |
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Oatgan posted:Can't wait to read this thread when it happens Is there even an acceptable winner this year? Everyone in the prediction thread is going Cena or Ryback
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 19:47 |
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jeffersonlives posted:Is there even an acceptable winner this year? Everyone in the prediction thread is going Cena or Ryback
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 19:48 |
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Smart money is on a returning Basham Brother(sophie's choice) to win it all this year
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 19:49 |
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jeffersonlives posted:Is there even an acceptable winner this year? Everyone in the prediction thread is going Cena or Ryback Maybe somebody like Orton, for a final title run before retirement or something (or am I confused? I think Orton's leaving soon?). PSP would basically explode if Cesaro got it.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 19:50 |
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| # ? May 24, 2013 06:16 |
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This will be the first Rumble I've watched live since scramble-vision in 2000, so I'm relatively pumped for this.
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