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Who will win The Royal Rumble?
:krakken: Batista
:mrapig: Bray Wyatt
:lol: Cesaro
Daniel Bryan
:fut: Dean Ambrose
:gay: Randy Orton
:chillout: Roman Reigns
:ussr: Rusev
:fella: Sheamus
:wcw: Sting
:waycool: Us, the viewers!
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Basic Chunnel
Sep 21, 2010

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Bluecena

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Sep 21, 2010

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fwiw Brock's chest tattoo is a trench knife, it's just badly drawn

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Sep 21, 2010

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Hahaha Brock was definitely kicking out there

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Sep 21, 2010

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holy poo poo

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Sep 21, 2010

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John Cena actually looked like the weakest guy in there and he was booked in his typical fashion. Great match

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Sep 21, 2010

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That wasn't a very good ad

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Sep 21, 2010

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I'm putting myself in Team #7. Let's go Americium :911:

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Sep 21, 2010

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R-Truth is catchphrase over in Philly

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Sep 21, 2010

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AMERICIUM BOOGEYMAN LETS GO LETS GO

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Sep 21, 2010

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:911:

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Sep 21, 2010

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They're making Bray look pretty strong, too bad he's not actually getting pushed

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Sep 21, 2010

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They made Rose lose his Bullet Club tee :(

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Sep 21, 2010

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TBQH I don't really care who wins the Rumble as long as it's not, like, Orton

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Sep 21, 2010

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I'm not mad that the three guys in there right now are pretty much going to be our new high card in a few years

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Sep 21, 2010

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THAT'S how you wake the crowd up, at least til he gets eliminated

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Sep 21, 2010

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I love the WWE

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Sep 21, 2010

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So many dudes in the ring the camera's missing spots

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Sep 21, 2010

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Big Show is really huge, ain't he

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Sep 21, 2010

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Reigns got bloodied

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Sep 21, 2010

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Kane / Show money match at Mania yesssss

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Sep 21, 2010

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BigRed0427 posted:

Hey NJPW, you wan't to break into America? Just have The Young Bucks
:laffo:

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Sep 21, 2010

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Strawberry Panda posted:

It's funny cause at least when Cena wins we loving get it. Is Roman worth any loving buys at this point? He's probably negative buys.
I think the only reason he wouldn't be is because he was out for so long. Reigns has the look and is booked strongly, he should be appealing to the same people who Cena appeals to, and there are a lot of those people. If Roman Reigns is a negative draw then Cena should be one, and he isn't

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Sep 21, 2010

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The strange thing is that if you take out the Kane / Big Show punchline, the guys who came out looking strong were all young up-and-comers. Wyatt, Rusev, and all the Shield guys, even Big E to some extent. But only Reigns (and Rollins, though he would've met the same fate as the others were he in the Rumble obviously) can come out strong in the end. Everyone else held on for a long time and then were made to look helpless

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Sep 21, 2010

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It's too bad the Rumble match itself is traditionally last on the card cuz that title match was really very good and would have salvaged the crowd. It reminded me of the NXT Fatal Four Way main in that everybody in the match came out looking awesome, which is not something you can often say for WWE booking (understatement). Even if Cena's spots were rather perfunctory, he didn't make anybody look like poo poo

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Sep 21, 2010

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Kane is, as is often said, generally a very safe worker, is in good shape for his age, and sells the "executive brute" character pretty well. The problem with he / Show at the Rumble (one of many, at least) was that it stole the spontaneity from the ending of the match. They could still could have pulled out an exciting finish even if it was fairly obvious that Reigns is going to win it. It's like they anticipated that winning the RR wouldn't have put Reigns over enough, so they got rid of the final RR sequence, which usually generates excitement no matter what, and replaced it with a handicap match against two giant goons so that Reigns would ostensibly look even stronger coming out of it. The RR was all about Reigns, yes, but they forgot to give fans the match they wanted to see even leaving aside who they wanted to win.

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Sep 21, 2010

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Charles Gnarwin posted:

Sami jumped Tye Dillinger before a match this past week and beat the poo poo out of him before the bell even rang. The crowd popped huge for it.
Yeah I was gonna say, Zayn's been taking the same aggressive tack that Neville took after he won the strap. It works because NXT is such a heavily championship-oriented fed that faces can go "gently caress you I'm the champ" without much dissonance. It also works because fans like to see over workers do cool and manly poo poo.

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