Sorry guys, it's seven parts of the 2009 Royal Rumble. I will put up the shitty video quality 2012 Rumble after Smackdown and we'll finish this up next week with the final five remaining.
Looking at the numbers it's laughable because someone forgot to book eliminations. Rey Mysterio 49+ minutes, Randy Orton 48+ minutes, Triple H 49+ minutes, Cody Rhodes 37+ minutes, Ted DiBiase 45+ minutes, Chris Jericho 37+ minutes, MIKE KNOX (??) 32+ minutes, how the fuck does Mike Knox get 30 minutes in a Rumble?
I think there were like over a dozen guys in the ring at one point.
This Rumble did have some good stuff though. The surprise entrant is great, draws the biggest pop of the night. The legends entrant keeps the crowd entertained. The comedy spots are well done for the most part.
So here you go, seven parts of 2009 Rumble, you would not insult me if you didn't watch all seven.
Looking at the numbers it's laughable because someone forgot to book eliminations. Rey Mysterio 49+ minutes, Randy Orton 48+ minutes, Triple H 49+ minutes, Cody Rhodes 37+ minutes, Ted DiBiase 45+ minutes, Chris Jericho 37+ minutes, MIKE KNOX (??) 32+ minutes, how the fuck does Mike Knox get 30 minutes in a Rumble?
I think there were like over a dozen guys in the ring at one point.
This Rumble did have some good stuff though. The surprise entrant is great, draws the biggest pop of the night. The legends entrant keeps the crowd entertained. The comedy spots are well done for the most part.
So here you go, seven parts of 2009 Rumble, you would not insult me if you didn't watch all seven.
Who was the surprise? RVD? I forget.
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ReplyDeleteYou think you know him.
ReplyDeleteI thought so. The Duggan surprise was awesome, too.
ReplyDeleteShit, wrong year.
ReplyDeleteThat was 2010. Edge beat Hardy for the WWE title before the Rumble on this card.
ReplyDeleteI think they got the two biggest pops of the night. RVD surprise literally kept me from falling asleep by that point.
ReplyDeleteMike Knox does 32 minutes...Brian Kendrick, Dolph Ziggler and Santino do 36 seconds combined.
ReplyDeleteWeird ass Rumble for sure.
9:15 into Part 3, CM Punk's entrance gets a pretty great pop. Hard to believe he still hadn't been a heel yet, AND Triple H took a GTS within 30 seconds of Punk's entrance.
ReplyDeleteBoring ass rumble. Last ppv I bought
ReplyDeleteOh snap! He told you, 'llax!
ReplyDeleteDid Heyman ever have a hand in booking a Rumble match?
ReplyDeleteI consider myself having been put in my place
ReplyDeleteCurious what sort of dick things he did. He seems SOMEWHAT (but not terribly) entitled and bitter, but overall like a nice guy.
ReplyDeleteYou need to tack on the "slam her like a screen door" catchphrase. That's your gimmick!
ReplyDeleteI remember buying this show on my desktop because I was bored on a Sunday night and regretting it almost immediately after the show ended. I think Orton was doing a good job with the character, but the Orton-Triple H feud didn't need the title for WrestleMania, and including the belt actually managed to drag down the program.
ReplyDeleteI'll Slam her like I was an Onyx/Biohazard mashup!
ReplyDeleteStick her like an acupuncturist
ReplyDeleteI'm with the majority in saying that this one was largely forgettable due to the fact that Big Nose beat Mr. Charisma at Mania. Despite good wins over Punk, HHH/Cena Triple Threat, Orton lost the two biggest career making matches for him at Mania against Undertaker and Gonzo.
ReplyDeleteActually, other than Cena and Doane, who has she been with?
ReplyDelete(Oh, and Trish, but that one is only in dreams.)
ReplyDeletePunk. Joey Mercury. A few I'm forgetting, I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteyeah
ReplyDeletei win
*goes into the corner and cries*
*again*
Pound her like a cake
ReplyDeleteI upvoted you crying
ReplyDeletemy tears taste like victory
ReplyDeleteExcept for 1999, this was my least-favourite Rumble. There was no logical reason to have MORE long runs for Mysterio and Triple H since we'd already seen that story three years earlier.
ReplyDeleteI don't mind the story of Legacy working as a unit and carrying Orton to victory except there was no reason at all to have them in the ring for two-thirds of the match. If all the Legacy guys arrive around the 15-20 position, clean out the ring, look dominant and then the superfaces come in to challenge them and make them sweat out the ending, that would've made for a much better match.
'how the fuck does Mike Knox get 30 minutes in a Rumble?'
ReplyDeletethe same way that bruce pritchard handled tna contracts
'Big Nose beat Mr. Charisma at Mania.'
ReplyDeletehhh never faced dusty rhodes at mania. goldust, yes, but not duthty
thats what doc brown said after the delorean was struck by lightning
ReplyDeletehell yeah.
ReplyDeletethats why i'm so over
...
*goes and cries in the corner*
*again*
You scored a clean win over a top 5'er less than an hour ago!
ReplyDeleteWho's to say Sting wouldn't have gotten bigger again if he'd have gone to the WWF?
ReplyDeletehey, i just posted
ReplyDeleteand i'm sulkey
but with that win, you
can call me mulkey
I'm thinking it was a rib. I remember someone mentioning long Rumble runs by "unlikely" guys were ribs as often as they were legit booking.
ReplyDeleteThe worst Rumbles are the ones where you see a lot of guys were in there for 15-30 minutes. Rumbles at most should have 6-7 guys in at one time with guys getting thrown out and coming in left and right.
ReplyDeleteThe only time you should fill up the ring is if someone is coming down soon to clear the ring.
It's funny because Triple H's nose is bigger than a normal sized nose.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad this just happened
ReplyDeleteZahorian?
ReplyDeleteJust rewatched almost all of it and by gawd is it boring. One of the worst ones I've seen
ReplyDeleteeven if there was a she, that is definitely not what she would say :(
ReplyDeleteHey for all you know you could be a fantastic fuck
ReplyDeletethats not what my hand said
ReplyDeletein fact, my hand slapped me right after i was done, partially b/c it was bad and partially b/c i promised not to get any on it
...what?
This escalated quickly
ReplyDeletetoo quickly
ReplyDeleteprematurely, you might say
Likely 2002 as he was on the booking committee at that point.
ReplyDeleteOk this is stupid OCD me talking but didn't Brother Love show up on Raw 2 or 3 years later to interview Bret Heart? They tried bringing the character back but it only lasted one or 2 episodes and then he just disapeared again?
ReplyDeleteMagnus too. I think she was also with someone when she first started out in TNA and in OVW I believe.
ReplyDeleteWhen did Triple H beat Christian at Wrestlemania? And isn't he "Captain" Charisma?
ReplyDeleteWhat's hilarious about this Rumble is that it took place a week after Orton punted Vince when Vince was about to fire him.
ReplyDeleteMan, if there's one thing I never want to read about again from Mick Foley, it's an ENTIRE CHAPTER dedicated to how his feud with Flair was supposed to help get MELINA over as a mega-heel.
ReplyDeleteWhat in the actual fuck.
I remember this being the last bit of wrestling I watched before I went into basic training for the Army until like July of that year :/
ReplyDeleteAnyways, totally below average rumble although I do like the ending sequence
Like Fandango? That turned out great.
ReplyDeleteWasn't Jericho's fault that didn't pan out. After his concussion, Fandango was booked as a joke
ReplyDeleteGuys like Rollins, Reigns, Ambrose, Langston can all use someone like Jericho to help them get over/look good
Not sure what you mean by it being hilarious. In the sense that 1 week was too long in between the 2?
ReplyDeleteHilarious in the sense that the guy is clearly about to get fired, punts the guy about to fire him, and the boss's daughter doesn't make any attempts to resume said firing. Especially after she had no problem doing the same to Jericho a couple of weeks prior.
ReplyDeleteNext year's Rumble was the exact opposite where we were lucky to get 4 guys in the ring at the same time.
ReplyDeleteI don't know that I'd call Super Dragon flippy...he's more about dropping guys on their head then jumping of the top.
ReplyDeleteI will sign off on "Indy wrestler is Indy"
His RAW match with RVD was great.
ReplyDeleteWe have to add a segment where Steiner answers math questions.
ReplyDeleteI just remember that Orton was billed as a "dead man walking", and winning the Rumble saved his career. I'm not sure if they went into details, like they wanted Vince to recover first or something? Like he wanted to do the firing himself? My memory's kind of cloudy right now, but I kind of remember them mentioning something about that.
ReplyDeleteAnd one was a top 3 worst ever, and the next one was arguably one of the top 3 best ever. Coincidence?
ReplyDeleteHe's such a blast to watch, a shame that guys like him will probably never make out of the indies
ReplyDeleteStrong point. There's no excuse for Rumbles to ever turn into layabout battle royal schmozzes, short of setting up the Diesel run.
ReplyDeleteI made this same point. FOUR HOURS LATER. Whoops.
ReplyDeleteHey Princess - a suggestion for these type of posts in the future. It might be fun if you also include a link to Scott's rant about the match or PPV in question (I know not all of them are on this site yet). It's kind of fun to read them right before or after seeing them and seeing if you agree or disagree.
ReplyDeleteregarding Terry Funk: if I recall correctly, the ppv he was talking about was ONS2, not Vengeance.
ReplyDeleteNot a bad idea at all.
ReplyDeleteCarrying on conversations with people not in line and not even acknowledging of in some cases even looking up at the person at the table. Contrasted with Piper who was cool as hell, gracious and attentive he just seems like kind of a fuckface
ReplyDeleteSoda Pop approves.
ReplyDeleteYeah, because "blog otter" is the height of hilarity. I'm thinking you type just to see your words on the screen at times.
ReplyDeleteHis whole thing with Melina was so sad. Like, he really wanted her to want to fuck him...
ReplyDeleteUh, have we even met before?
ReplyDeletenot that *you* know about
ReplyDeleteo_0
A few years ago, I enjoyed this Rumble very much because it had a ton of guys in the ring as I thought a Rumble should be about. My opinion has since changed to the complete opposite.
ReplyDeleteYes!
ReplyDeleteUgggghhhhhh, don't remind me. That whole storyline was FUCKING STUPID.
ReplyDeleteThen the IWC acted like it was some collasal huge deal that Orton punted Vince. But I was like, "Really? Vince has been getting his ass kicked for years by the top faces. Why is it suddenly the biggest thing to happen on Raw in a long time, just because FUCKING Randy Orton does it?"
Maybe Eric Bischoff was right about wrestling being no place for people with long term memories.
"Too short" says the company who still employs Rey Mysterio on the payroll, who is probably 4'8" from all the knee replacement surgeries at this point.
ReplyDeleteThe thing is, her supposed affair and obsession with Cena that led to her release aside, women in wrestling are basically restricted to wrestlers in their organization for dating options. It's rare for someone like Kaitlyn to actually find a mate outside the business and when that happens, the woman usually retires from the business.
ReplyDeleteHis whole interaction with the diva is gross. He comes off as the textbook creepy "nice guy."
ReplyDeleteHell yes.
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