Heres my take on the Royal Rumble 2008
So i really was looking forward to the royal rumble, i mean i do every year from the random spots that happen within the rumble, to who’s going to eliminate who this year. Will we actually get a suprise this year rather than the obvious winner? Well this year we did, and what a big disapointment that was. John freaking Cena winning the damm rumble! Now the reason i hate Cena is because when he’s around we get him shoved down our throat, whether it be as the unstoppable WWE champion, or the challenger that you knows going to get the title back within a month of losing it, if we and the new champ are lucky. It just gets really bland and boring like Triple H when he dominated everything, Cena is basically the new Triple H except this time the writers are at fault rather than Cena just using politics backstage to get the title like Triple H does. I mean Edge was made to look like crap compared to Cena and Edge is a damm good wrestler and i happen to preferEdge and i think it was really bad that he never got a title reign longer than a month on Raw, yet he goes to Smackdown (the minor league of the WWE) and he gets a title reign of a few months straight away. What does that say about Batista compared to Cena, if Edge can hold the title for months on Smackdown but can struggle to keep it for a month on Raw you know Smackdowns obviously gotts be the minor leagues and that means ECW might aswell be OVW.
Anyway back to the rumble i felt that the overall feel of the ppv was quite rubbish to be honest, i mean the best match to me was Orton vs Hardy, to be fair i like both of these wrestlers and a win either way would have kept me happy. I would ghave slightly prefered Hardy to win, but with Cena back and winning the rumble he wouldn’t have made it to mania with the title especially now Cenas cashed in his match for No Way Out, which is a massive slap in the face to the tradition of winning the Rumble by the way. Ric Flair and MVP was disapointing as i thought it was a title match aswell as a career on the line match, however it turnt out not to be and i suppose that was for the best as i would definatly prefer MVP to be the U.S champ compared to Ric ’saggy boobs’ Flair. JBL vs Jericho should enver ever ever happen, im sorry but this really is wasting Jerichos time, he should be in the main event scene instead of Cena just bursting straight back on to it, but instead hes stuck in a feud with the former smackdown commentator. I really do question the writing of the WWE sometimes, im sure most of us do.
Im really glad Rey mysterio did not beat Edge, although i thought C.M punk would cost Edge the title to seek his revenge. However the writing here saved us the horror of having another Rey Rey title reign so kudos to them for that, but that’s just about all the kudos they’re getting from me! Another blatent show of disrespect to ECw was the fact they never had a title match on the show, they even shoved the champion in the royal rumble the first time a Heavyweight champion has been in the rumble i believe, can the writers show anymore disrespect to ECW, i shouldn’t really ask they’ll find a way won’t they. ECw is pratically OVW but on television really, i had high hopes that it would at least stay partially the same when it started again, those hopes have been dashed and dashed over and over again.
The actual rumble i guess wasn’t so bad, Batista stumbling before trying to eliminate Umage was a really bad bad spot of the rumble. Apart from that Shelton Benjamin should have been in for longer. I really hated the way when Cena came down he basically cleaned the ring, see what i mean about being the unstoppable champion i really hate that. Overall the engatives really did outweigh the positives again at the rumble, so last year we had a really bad Mania and Summerslam and this year we get a really bad Rumble, its really not looknig good for the WWE when they can’t even pull out a decent show at 3 of their top 4 ppvs. As Ron Simmons would say DAMM!
Matt
