Official WWE Royal Rumble Thread - January 27, 2013

Matches announced so far:
WWE Championship Match - WWE Champion (presumably CM Punk) vs Dwayne Johnson

There will probably also be a Royal Rumble match.

What do you want to see at the Royal Rumble? Any surprise entrants you're hoping for?
Hard mode for TruthTellers: Any surprise entrants you're hoping for that aren't Japanese?

Hard mode for TruthTellers: Any surprise entrants you're hoping for that aren't Japanese? JML897

Always fun to see the special entrants... maybe this is where those mentioned "returning midcarders" come into play

My buddies are all HUGE Rock fans and constantly berate me for being such a loyal Punk fan... This may be the best or worst PPV EVVVVVVVEERRR... no doubt, it'll be fun... Will Punk get a good wrestling match out of Rock? We all know the atmosphere will be fantastic 

I'm praying that they suprise us and let Punk win, that would be awesome!

I really should not be buying a non-WrestleMania PPV any time soon given all of the money I have spent in the last two weeks...but I really do want to see Punk-Rock and the Rumble. I'm doing it.Razor-Lazor

That a baby!!! 

Cena wins Rumble, faces Ziggler for WHC

or

Chris Jericho returns to win, faces Dolph Ziggler for WHC

or

Camacho wins, faces Undertaker, ends the streak.

I'm banking on Camacho. 

The Deadmanvs. The dead...man...?

 The Cena win to set up a Cena/Ziggles WM match sounds like a winner to me

 i dont care though...PUNK vs. ROCK

1. CM Punk is retaining

2. Super Sheamus is winning the Rumble (dirtsheetz~!)

3. BEST IN THE WORLD!

Looks like it is now official who will win out of CM Punk and The Rock at the Royal Rumble. Don't read on if you do not wish for spoilers:

http://www.sescoops.com/royal-rumble-2013-main-event-spoiled-by-dvd-promo-material/

Completely sucks doesn't it, in the sense that they give it away in a rediculous manner. I'm kinda mixed on the winner. I'd rather a rematch between Rock and Punk at Wrestlemania.

It might be Ziggler vs Rock at Wrestlemania. I have a feeling Ziggler will cash in on The Rock, that is 'if' The Rock wins. If The Rock doesn't win then Ziggler may cash in on Punk and face him at Wrestlemania.pokajabba

Come on dude. The whole Money In The Bank thing has no official rules of any kind. I don't understand why people pretend that this is some official thing that is used in the way it should be used. YOU CAN CASH IN WHEN SOMEONE HAS HAD THEIR HEAD REMOVED!!! I like how me merely saying it can be cashed in against the WWE Title is completely WRONG and a NO NO. Yet, having a singles match for the Money In The Bank on the line (When it's contracted to a WWE Superstar already) and it being cashed in on people who are already dead from a match, is somehow completely fine. That makes logical sense... Right?

All WWE has to do is say:

'Oh, but it says here in the contract that you can actually use the match against whatever champion you want'

And then that would be that. I don't see any reason why WWE wouldn't say something stupid like that. However, it's no less stupid than cashing on an already downed opponent. Now give me a damn cookie!

Ziggler should win the RR, challenge for the WWE Title, win it at WM, then cash in on the winner of Sheamus/Orton.sephy37

If anyone wins clean it'll be Rock.

My prediction: Nobody wins. Punk does something that Vince deems as "cheating" to win so he strips Punk of the title (as he said he would last night on Raw). This would normally be seen as a cheap way to end a PPV but with the Rumble going on afterwards it wouldn't be as big of a disappointment to many fans. Then the title gets put up at Elimination Chamber where the winner goes on to face the Royal Rumble winner (Cena) at WM. Rock wins the EC.

By doing it that way, Punk never actually loses a match "cleanly". Let's say he enters the EC first and then the faces gang up on him to eliminate him. He can still play the heel who complains about getting screwed over and he never truly looks weak when losing the championship.

Maybe my idea is a bit farfetched but I think it makes sense

No, I didn't write it down. I just had that 'feeling' to myself that this would happen. It's completely 'your' idea, but I still found it funny that you wrote down exactly what I was predicting in my head lol

My current, boring prediction is that Brad Maddox interferes for Heyman.

Only reason I don't believe that is because they don't really have anywhere to go after that. Rock would squash Maddox on Raw and that would be it. 

The Rock won't win. EC is when he'll win it.

As for the winner of the Rumble, yeah its gotta be Cena. I hope its Lesnar tho. 

I still think Wrestlemania does not feel the same without Shawn Michaels (With the exception of Wrestlemania 17). You were always guaranteed at least one 4 Star match (Or higher) if he was on the card.

Top 5 Wrestlers who deserved to win the Royal Rumble:

5) Christian - Come on now, if Edge won it then Christian ought to as well. I don't think Christian is quite past the point of no return, yet. He should be given a last chance to shine.

4) Randy 'The Macho Man' Savage - I'm thinking he should have won at either the 1991 Royal Rumble (Where Ultimate Warrior should have been champion instead of Slaughter, so we would have gotten a retirement match with the Title on the line. This would have added even more emotion to the already emotional end) or the 1992 Royal Rumble (Where Ric Flair should have been the champion, meaning it would have been Savage vs Flair at the Main Event of Wrestlemania VIII. Instead of that pretty forgetable match between Hogan and Sid).

3) Eddie Guerrero - Guerrero was being considered to win the 2006 Royal Rumble Match. So when he died they ended up giving it Mysterio (for obvious reasons). I believe Eddie would have made that Rumble win extremely memorable in some fashion. It's shame we didn't get to see him win one, even if it was/wasn't going to be the 2006 one.

2) Kurt Angle - Kurt Angle really should have won the 2002 Royal Rumble Match. I think this was one of the greatest missed opportunities I've ever seen in the WWE. Imagine Chris Jericho vs Kurt Angle being the Main Event of Wrestlemania 18. Not only would the match have been a million times better than the one Triple H and Jericho had (It's still not a bad match, all things considering), but it would have given more opportunities in the long run. Instead we got Triple H dominating that damn Title for far too long. Kurt Angle and Jericho could have done some amazing work in the Main Event section; far sooner if it weren't for that blunder at the 2002 Royal Rumble.

1) Chris Jericho - Now from my point of view, Jericho should have won a Rumble match even before it was taken away from him last year. Perhaps the 2003 Rumble Match, although that would have meant we would never have seen Jericho vs Michaels at Wrestlemania. The point being that with incredible talent such as Jericho; why would they not let him win one? He most certainly should have one it last year (Completely wasted to Sheamus who won the Title at Wrestlemania in a joke Match) and in doing so would have made his match with Punk even more epic. Both competitors would have looked really strong. Jericho coming off from a strong Royal Rumble win would have added that extra emotion the match he had at Wrestlemania needed, and would have made him believable in being a threat to the champion. Due to this, I also believe the crowd would have been far more into the match than what they ended up being like. There would have been a much deeper level of substance within the match if all this had happened. It's a real shame.