WWE Royal Rumble 1/28/23

[Majingir]

Undisputed WWE Universal Championship
Roman Reigns (c) w/ Paul Heyman vs. Kevin Owens

Mens Royal Rumble
Kofi Kingston, Santos Escobar, Ricochet, Austin Theory, Seth Rollins, Bobby Lashley, Baron Corbin, Rey Mysterio, Gunther, Cody Rhodes, Drew McIntyre, Sheamus, Braun Strowman, Karrion Kross, Dominik Mysterio, Xavier Woods, The Miz, Brock Lesnar

Rest of participants TBA

Womens Royal Rumble
Liv Morgan, Candice LeRae, Rhea Ripley, Raquel Rodriguez, Shayna Baszler, Zelina Vega, Emma, Bayley, Dakota Kai, Iyo Sky, Lacey Evans, Xia Li

Pitch Black Match
Bray Wyatt vs. LA Knight

Raw Women's Championship
Bianca Belair (c) vs. Alexa Bliss

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Re: WWE Royal Rumble 1/28/23

RTWM season begins! First ever non McMahon RTWM season ever. We'll see how different this one feels vs past ones.

The Rumble is one of the big tests for HHH/Stephanie since we know how much this sets the tone for the next few months.

Any guesses on rumble winners?

As unpopular as this pick is, I do hope Rock returns and wins the rumble.

For the Women's side, I could see it being Bayley, with Becky winning the title at elimination chamber which sets up Bayley vs Becky at WM.

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Re: WWE Royal Rumble 1/28/23

As unpopular as this pick is, I do hope Rock returns and wins the rumble.

This is the first I've heard of that being unpopular, most everything I've seen seems to show it'd be an incredible disappointment if it's not him (or Cody)

[Bard]

Re: WWE Royal Rumble 1/28/23

Cody Rhodes and Bayley or Rhea Ripley are my picks.

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This is the first I've heard of that being unpopular, most everything I've seen seems to show it'd be an incredible disappointment if it's not him (or Cody)

I've mainly just heard people wanting Cody and that's it.

Rock doesn't need to win the rumble, he could show up and immediately ends up facing Reigns at WM, but him winning the rumble would be so much cooler, especially if this is how his career ends.

I'm not sold on Cody being the one to end the title reign, but you never know, guess it depends on how they book him, especially with him being one of the guys who hasn't been booked by HHH yet.

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If The Rock comes back and wins, they need to make Big Show the official 2000 Royal Rumble winner. I'm tired of these 2x winners recently with Edge and Lesnar (heck and Triple H).

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[Majingir]

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they need to make Big Show the official 2000 Royal Rumble winner.

I mean, he already admitted Big Show technically did win.

(2 min mark)

https://youtu.be/v_mwKJ-SMCA

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Re: WWE Royal Rumble 1/28/23

Based on past cards, we will probably have 3 or 4 non Rumble matches on the card.

We have 2 already, and Charlotte vs Sonya could be another.

I wonder if Raw will have any match or not. Judgment Day vs Usos is only thing I can think of since that makes more sense at the rumble than on Raw.

[Bard]

Re: WWE Royal Rumble 1/28/23

Always invite my in-laws and friends over and we bet on numbers for who'll win the Rumbles.

$10 buy in for a number of your choice and an auto generated. If you only want to do the men's/women's Rumbles it is $10, if you want in both Rumbles it is $20 for the pool.


This year it'll be;
Myself
Wife
MIL
FIL
F1
F2
F3
F4


Few friends couldn't make it this year, but it's always a great and fun time.

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Re: WWE Royal Rumble 1/28/23

I feel like the RR is the only big WWE show left that resembles an old school PPV, in terms of specialness. At least based on how excited I notice other people getting for it. WM and SS both, at the end of the day, are regular PLE but in larger venues. They rely more on crossover celebrities. The RR match itself still feels unique.

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Re: WWE Royal Rumble 1/28/23

14 men's participants named already.

Based on the rumble card already, I'll leave off names already competing in terms of who I think could compete.

Lesnar
Edge
Gable or Otis
Priest
Balor
Dominik
Lumis
Ziggler
Elias
Miz
Zayn
Nakamura

Which leaves 4 open spots. Could see a few Legends returns, NXT talent, or maybe some spots just get filled with 1 member of a tag team?


As for the Women's, not many names announced.

Asuka
Bayley
Becky
Dakota
Dana
Iyo
Mia
Nikki
Tamina
BFab
Emma
Lacey
Ronda
Tegan
Valhalla
Xia

And that leaves 8 spots open. Maybe we see returns like Doudrop,Natalya,Shotzi,Aliyah,Carmella? Or just fill most of remaining spots with Legends returning.

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Re: WWE Royal Rumble 1/28/23

Not as special as the ones we saw a decade ago, but still nice seeing the "by the numbers" videos.

https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1618746411536842753?t=bCfHCjvO-9o9Iya9ZVesAg&s=19

This one was my fave version of that

https://youtu.be/6efIBIT0XdY

The same amount of time has passed between that and now vs the austin/McMahon rumble and 2011.

[reyes the roof]

Re: WWE Royal Rumble 1/28/23

They did one of those inside the numbers videos on smackdown to hype up the rumble and I still can’t watch Titus’ botched entrance without laughing

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Re: WWE Royal Rumble 1/28/23

Is the men's rumble going to be the main event or will it be Reigns vs Owens?

[dubcity]

Re: WWE Royal Rumble 1/28/23

Is the men's rumble going to be the main event or will it be Reigns vs Owens?

Men's Rumble is my guess