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Extremely clever Royal Rumble booking

>
> I've got it! A Royal Rumble finish that's never been done before!
>
> The final two men in the ring are CM Punk and Daniel Bryan. Suddenly,
> the lights go out, and the Wyatt Family storm the ring, throw both
> Bryan and Punk out of the ring THROUGH the ropes, and kidnap them.
> The show goes off the air with the announcers wondering what the hell
> was going on.
>
> Immediately after the show, HHH releases a message on WWE.com saying
> that, because there was no winner to the Royal Rumble, they would redo
> the entire thing tomorrow night on Monday Night Raw to decide the
> person that will MAIN EVENT WRESTLEMANIA!
>
> Since there will be, in essence, no more PPVs to worry about selling
> after this show, this would be the perfect way to both end the PPV era
> and pop a rating for the next night's show (plus fill a large swath of
> three hours with some content)
>
> Thoughts on this brilliant, inspired idea?
>
> - Joe

I like the kidnapping, but it needs more HHH. Perhaps he wins the redone Rumble himself and then laughs at them, for being B+ players?

Comments

  1. NEEDS MOAR MANSERVANTS.

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  2. 7.0 on the Jesse Baker scale

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  3. The whole Battlegrounds ending worked so well the first time so let's do it again.

    You want people to buy the Network, and having your PPV to set up for RAW isn't it.

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  4. My mind has just been blown: My girlfriend and I are watching the 2001 Royal Rumble (she's not seen it before), as posted here a few days ago by Princess.


    Me: Why are they playing two pieces of music at the same time during the montage package? That's weird.


    Her: Weirder, why are they using the theme from Army Of Darkness in the package before that?


    And it is! Never noticed that before. Most curious.

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  5. Yeah, no Cena or Kane takes a bit off.

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  6. On one hand, the idea is lame. On the other hand, it earns points for no whoring out of Steph, sodomy jokes about HHH, or Bryan spanking HBK with a pool noodle.

    I think I'll give it a thumbs up.

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  7. If your mind is the only thing being blown by your girlfriend, then you are underachieving.

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  8. The sodomy's implied with the kidnapping.

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  9. After reading the emails that Scott gets, I'll go ahead and still give it a thumbs up - because implied sodomy is much better than detailed, scary sodomy.

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  10. Manservant and AIDS. TnA's hottest new tag team.

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  11. Up vote your girlfriend watching 2001 royal rumble with you. What planet is she from.

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  12. Who is buying the Network based on Royal Rumble booking? They're buying it for Wrestlemania, or all of the other shit that they offer.

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  13. Anytime you say your own idea is brilliant and inspired, it isn't.

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  14. I've been doing the math on this, and if the plan is to get around $190 million on rights fee from Raw/Smackdown PER YEAR.


    In 2012, for the year they made 83.6 million on ppv.


    They should be using the ppv to set up Raw. Raw is the more valuable commodity.

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  15. Umm, only if they give every PPV-buyer an immediate refund.

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  16. No way they have a non-ending like that for the Rumble and not expect horrible backlash.

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