OFFICIAL Royal Rumble TPWW 2018 Thread
 

Thread for Kickoff talk/Royal Rumble!!

Starts in 10 mins.

United States Championship Open Challenge Match
Bobby Roode (c) vs ???

Tag Team Match
The Revival vs. Gallows & Anderson

6 Man Tag Team Match
Some guys from 205Live

Resisting all temptation to open stuff about "so and so spotted in Philadelphia"

Final 4 : Dolph, Nakumara, Roman, The Miz

Women Final 4 : Becky Lynch, Sasha Banks, Nia Jax, Bayley

Dolph and Becky Lynch win

Arrriba McIntyre as Col. Sanders

IT'S TIME TO RUMBLE. IT'S TIME FOR THE ROYAL RUMBLE*

KICKOFF*

who is ready for the worst Royal Rumble ever? Vince is gonna cause Philly to burn to the ground tonight.

I’m actually feeling “daunted” by the prospect of watching this for 6 hours. Especially knowing it’ll probably be a total letdown.

Izzy. Ugh.

Least with the Women’s Rumble we get 12 surprise entrants. In the men’s we might get 2-3 surprises but we’ll also get Curt Hawkins.

I wonder who'll enter the Men's Rumble at #3...

My prediction right now after hearing this round table, Asuka wins the rumble, challenges Charlotte instead and Alexa will face Nia Jax at WM.

So who debuts to face The Glorious One tonight? My guess is Roderick Strong.

Heh, WWE rarely mention the age of their performers but they just said on the pre-show that today is Sheamus' 40th birthday.

Semi empty arena match

Power point!

Roman Sucks chants already lmao

I am enjoying the Lucha Trio. It’d be wise to add Cara to the mix.

Not sure why the ropes are blue.

That was a pretty sick triple moonsault spot.

Liked the triple moonsault

Might as well make this the Royal Rumble thread and not just for KickOff.

Likely upwards of five hours from the men's Rumble winner being decided.

Boy I can't wait to see how tone deaf the company will be tonight.

Kickoff is 2 hours long?

Wait kickoff already started? lol

What match is happening now? Seems weird to have a 2 hr kick off

Kalisto gets the pin over TJP with Salida Del Sol

Nice way to start off the Tipsters year

KO with an Edge shirt :cool:

Yeah Kickoff at 5 PM ET, main card at 7 PM.

Kickoff is being streamed on YouTube:

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Dunno what I am looking g forward more too. The RR match or everyone bitching their person didn't win the RR.

I like TJP's work in the ring, he's just insufferable out of it. Glad he took the pin here. He threw a temper tantrum on Tuesday and again tonight. Throwing a temper tantrum suits that MRA douche well.

Neck beard behind Renee is winding me up.

Charlotte always comes across really friendly and likeable unscripted/out of character, then they give her lines and, even as a babyface, she comes across as terribly unlikeable.

Pretty sure Charlotte just totally spoiled that Nikki Bella will be in the Rumble.

I figured she would be anyway, but yeah.

I hope Santino Marella is a surprise entrant

(To the men's Rumble)

I also hope James Ellsworth is a surprise entrant.

I'm hoping for Christian

Who will then be eliminated by another surprise entrant in Rob Van Dam

:shifty:

(To the women's Rumble)

:mad::rant::fu:

Probably see Big Show making a return tonight as he's only meant to have a few months left on his contract.

Yeah, really bothering me.

Hope we get the women rumble first and then all the matches before the men's rumble.

That got spoiled on last week's episode of Total Divas as well I think. There might be just 1 non-NXT surprise entrant that didn't get spoiled or revealed early yet.

Owens and Zayn social media segment great

nope

aj vs ko/zayne first up

Just announced that the Smackdown title match will open the show.

Which Rumble goes on last guys?

Uh oh, WWE Championship match first... I smell a title change and AJ winning the Rumble now.

I've been avoiding entrant spoilers

I miss the super long ramp from last year.

:yes:

HBK talks about how hard it was going the distance in 95 and that match was like 30 minutes long

GOOD BROTHERS

I am not okay with The Revival jobbing out to anyone.

Revival getting their W back, or another squash to teach them not to get injured?

via Meltzer:

Yeah that was really stupid. Its like WWE didn't learn having the Legends destroy the Ascension damaged them from the start so they decided to just do it again with a much better tag team.

Fancy trunks for the Revival. GIMMICK DESTROYED

Keep thinking they are cavemen

They have "JUST FISTS" in big letters on their asses.

Interesting choice.

:lol:

I don't like the trunks one bit :-\

Just like Smackdown, they're all about "fisting".

Revival wins via chopblock. I picked them to win, but don't know how I would ever have guessed chopblock for the finish.

I love that WWE is clearly saving money by having wrestlers do promo's via twitter with there phones.

Time has defeated Alundra Blaze

Alundra Blayze looks elegant.

I like it. Feels more "genuine" for our modern world. I'm never actually gonna watch them on Twitter, but I like them playing it on air.

Alundra Blayze now looks like Kelly Anne Conway

Blayze attempting to bust JBL's balls is adorable.

Alundra looks like she's about to beat the crap out of JBL for the constant interruptions.

I am glad JBL is not doing commentary anymore.

Kill me.

That segment was the exact inverse of Gargano/Almas.

Sam Roberts looks like he should be bald.

That was a trainwreck

With how hot the crowd is for Rusev tonight, whoever eliminates him is going to get Reigns/Cena level of booing. If Reigns or Cena eliminates him then its going to be like Vickie Guerrero level of booing.

They should have Steiner on the pre-show to analyze Brock, Kane and Brauns chances.

They botched the Stone Cold Royal Rumble highlights :nono:

Reminds me of Poit a lot.

Rooooooooooooode

Wish there was an option to mute Byron.

Does this mean that the Usos are going to be on the actual show?

obviously Dolph is answering the U.S. title Open Challenge

Is anyone else tired of Bobby Roode's glorious shtick and "open challenges" for the secondary titles in general?

Why is there a man dressed as a taco in the front row?

Whooo whoo whoo is challenging the glorious one

Mojo's new theme sounds really similar to Eva Marie's theme the more I hear it.

Legitimately expected Dolph Ziggler to come back to answer the US Open Challenge for the title he threw away because WWE.

Mojo sucks

counting down the hours until LOLROMANROIDSWINS kicks off sign pointing season :nono:

"Watch out Bobby" - fan around 5 seconds after Mojo pounces Roode into the barricade

Mojo answering the US Open Challenge setting the bar for “Disappointing Surprises” tonight.

i found waldo.

or maybe getting disappointing surprises out of the way. Wishful thinking.

I dunno, I enjoy heel Mojo a lot.

Dunno why they couldn't have just booked the match outright, though.

Rip mojo wat a horrible match

that doesn't seem like that was the finish

It was. He's done the tornado out of the corner into the lifting Gorious DDT before. Mojo just didn't get up for the Glorious DDT.

:-\