Caught Royal Rumble, it was pretty good! Even by Attitude era standards it was really good.
I didn’t know who half the people were, but they brought back a lot of the people I do recognize (they all lost, of course).
If this is what the shows are like these days, then I don’t know what everyone is complaining about. It was awesome!
A few notes:
• The idea of having the main event as a women’s Royal Rumble was spectacular. I really like how there’s a far greater amount of female wrestlers now, and that they aren’t treated like a sideshow - I’ve been watching the Attitude era and as good as some of the women are; women’s matches still (in 99/2000) still come off as side shows with the presentation that being a woman is a gimmick. 2018, the women seem WAY more integrated into the show.
• Both matches were full of fun stuff, and had satisfying endings that actually had a lot of suspense. Not sure if this is a term still, but I totally marked out in both matches (in case it’s not a term, as a viewer, you get so sucked into something that your imagination tricks you into thinking it’s real, and you get super tense/excited).
• Both winners coming from Japan is interesting.
• Sasha Banks barely broke a sweat in her almost 1 hour in there. I don’t recall ever seeing someone that active for that long in a match before. She impressed me the most all night.
• Braun Strowman, I don’t know a lot about him, but he reminded me a TON of the first year of De-masked Kane. Also, him and Lesnar were smashing each other. That was a stiff looking match. Even though Strowman fucked up one of the table shots and Cole called him out on it.
• LOVED seeing Molly (my old favourite of the women’s division), Trish, Jacqueline, Lita, and Micky James back in the mix. I would have loved to see Ivory too. Vicki Guerrero was funny.
• AJ Styles vs Shinsuke Nakamura at Wrestlemania makes me want to watch RAW again. The last time I watched a live RAW, Chris Benoit was still alive.
• I would have loved to see Rob Van Dam and Sabu in the match.
• I’m not sure why everyone hates Roman and Cena. Cena was really big when I used to watch, and from all reports and extremely stand-up guy. I know less about Roman, so I don’t want to comment. All I know is that he was a top guy for a while. They should play up the Rocky Maivia/Kurt Angle strategy (or are they?) - people really hated those two (Angle, for all his over-the top American heroism, was ironically FAR more liked outside the US than he was in the US in the Attitude era).
Last edited by Jumpin - on 29 January 2018I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
