WWE Royal Rumble 1/28/18

[Majingir]

Universal Championship
Brock Lesnar (c) (with Paul Heyman) vs. Braun Strowman vs. Kane

WWE Championship Handicap Match
AJ Styles (c) vs. Sami Zayn & Kevin Owens

Raw Tag Team Championship
Seth Rollins and Jason Jordan (c) vs. Cesaro and Sheamus

Smackdown Tag Team Championship
The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso) (c) vs. Chad Gable and Shelton Benjamin

Mens 30 Man Royal Rumble

Womens Royal Rumble

Cruiserweight 6 Man Tag (preshow)
Kalisto, Lince Dorado, and Gran Metalik vs. TJP, Gentleman Jack Gallagher, and Drew Gulak

United States Championship (preshow)
Bobby Roode (c) vs. TBD

Tag Team Match (preshow)
Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson vs. The Revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder)

My early picks for rumble winners are Asuka and Nakamura. Nakamura-AJ for WWE title at WM?!? And Asuka basically has to win this match or her streak is over.

[SmashMan]

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And Asuka basically has to win this match or her streak is over.

They haven't counted battle royals as part of her streak.

https://youtu.be/jp6OlkgKkBE?t=1m33s (1:33)

[dubcity]

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Not sure I wanna see Asuka lose to Alexa at WM to build heeeet tho. That would be the negative of her winning the RR.

[Majingir]

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In terms of people wondering about number of entrants in womens rumble, I think 30 would be fine.

Raw:
Alicia,Asuka,Bayley,Dana,Mandy,Mickie,Nia,Paige,Sa sha,Sonya

SD:
Becky,Carmella,Lana,Liv,Naomi,Natalya,Nikki,Ruby,S arah,Tamina

That's 20 right there.

Of the remaining 10, I'd say:
2 from NXT(not a main roster promotion, just a Rumble appearance)
2-3 celebs(Rousey for sure, and 1-2 others)
Multiple returning superstars(names like Trish,Lita,Eve,Brie,Beth,Kelly,Alundra,Jacqueline, and so on)
Steph probably enters also


So there's more than enough to fill a 30 women rumble. 20 alone from main roster, and remaining 10 will be no issue to fill. Just from returning superstars alone they could get enough, but I think celebs/nxt also would help with this.

[DJ]

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Rousey entering at No. 30 and winning the Rumble would be something. Could see WWE going this route for the media attention.

[redsox4evur]

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Rousey entering at No. 30 and winning the Rumble would be something. Could see WWE going this route for the media attention.

Except it doesn't fit in with their plans...

[dubcity]

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Kelly

Please no.

[Rocky]

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I got Becky winning the Women's Rumble and facing Charlotte at Wrestlemania.

I got Cena winning the men's and either facing Lesnar and Reigns or Styles and Nakamura in a triple threat match.

[Majingir]

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Please no.

Not that I think it'd be a good use of a free spot, but apparently she's an ambassador for WWE and appeared in a table for 3 a few months back. So she's one of the most recent women on wwes call list.

I got Becky winning the Women's Rumble and facing Charlotte at Wrestlemania.

I got Cena winning the men's and either facing Lesnar and Reigns or Styles and Nakamura in a triple threat match.

Becky I don't see being as iconic a first rumble win compared to Asuka. And there's a chance we have 4 horse women tag match too(not a spoiler, but this has been rumored at diff big events for a year or so now).

If Cena wins again.... There's literally no reason he needs to. He could just show up one night, be like "I want to face the champ at Wrestlemania" and it happens.

[dubcity]

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Not that I think it'd be a good use of a free spot, but apparently she's an ambassador for WWE and appeared in a table for 3 a few months back. So she's one of the most recent women on wwes call list.

I'm sure she is. If they thought they could get away with it in 2017 they'd probably make her champion. Alexa Bliss is as close as they can go, I guess.

At least in a RR she won't have to run the ropes.

[Majingir]

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I'm sure she is. If they thought they could get away with it in 2017 they'd probably make her champion. Alexa Bliss is as close as they can go, I guess.

At least in a RR she won't have to run the ropes.

In nxt, I thought Alexa would be nothing more than Kelly Kelly 2.0. Glad she turned out nothing like that. Kelly Kelly was fine for divas era(not better than Beth, Natalya, eve, but better than Bella's, Alicia and others) , but that's it.

And that's good thing about rumble too, you could bring back people who even if they can't wrestle or go for a long time, can still appear, give people some kind of interesting matchup in the ring, and most notably the pop when music hits.

[Rocky]

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If Cena wins again.... There's literally no reason he needs to. He could just show up one night, be like "I want to face the champ at Wrestlemania" and it happens.

I think the smart money is on Nakamura but with the way they've been booking lately, it seems WWE wants this Mania to really be huge commercially. Cena going for 17 is arguably the biggest storyline out there and the Royal Rumble would be the most impactful way to kickstart that.

[cima]

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I think the smart money is on Nakamura but with the way they've been booking lately, it seems WWE wants this Mania to really be huge commercially. Cena going for 17 is arguably the biggest storyline out there and the Royal Rumble would be the most impactful way to kickstart that.

Does the Universal title count for lineage? Cause a Cena redemption against Brock story is more enticing than a Roman redemption Brock story IMO. Headline WM with:

Cena vs Lesnar for Universal Title
Shane McMahon vs Daniel Bryan
AJ Styles vs Nakamura for WWE Title

[dubcity]

Re: WWE Royal Rumble 1/28/18

I feel like you guys are giving WWE way too much credit on how they value Nakamura.

[cima]

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I feel like you guys are giving WWE way too much credit on how they value Nakamura.

Yeah I mean knowing WWE, it's probably gonna be Styles vs Orton for the title, assuming Styles still has it.