Royal Rumble 2015 Talk

I give the WWE the benefit of the doubt and they pull this sh*t.

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I the Shaman of Animation back again with another wrestling review. Today's subject: The Royal Rumble...oh who are we kidding, besides the last two matches on this card, no one could give two sh*ts about the Royal Rumble. So let's just talk about those two matches.

Lesnar vs. Cena vs. Rollins

This match was easily the match of the night, these three guys were going back and forth and it was pretty hard hitting. I have to give props to WWE for really showcasing Brock as this unstoppable monster as he kept taking everything Cena and Rollins threw at him and he still came back for more. Plus that double German Suplex was AMAZING!. But to be frank, we all know who the real MVP of this match was: Seth Rollins! The reason he was in the match in the first place was to mix things up in the Cena/Lenar match/feud and he definitely did so. He and Cena had great in ring chemistry going into this match and he also made Brock look impressive. Not to mention, he was doing his own thing in the ring and it was fantastic to see! Seth had the two biggest spots in the match: The first being his splash to Lesnar through the Spanish announce table and the second was the Phoenix splash dive he performed on Cena near the end of the match. Quite frankly, this match cements Seth Rollins's position as one of the guys that will carry the WWE forward heading into the future. And now...let's address the giant ass elephant in the room...The Royal Rumble match.

Now the Rumble started off pretty good, with a surprise return from Bubba Ray Dudley making a surprise return along with returns from DDP and...The Boogeyman? And Bray Wyatt looked really strong early on in the Rumble. But then, everything took a turn for the worse when Daniel Bryan got eliminated. That alone told everyone who was going to win; and that winner was...Roman Reigns

Most of you don't think I deserve to win but...Oh F**K it...

Of course when this happened the internet took this about as well as they take everything...that is, not well at all, the backlash was so bad that Cancel the WWE Network was Trending on Twitter...twice. The two most frequent arguments on Twitter I've seen defending the fact that Reigns won the Rumble were: 'You wanted Reigns to win last year but you're mad he did this year' and 'Why are you guys mad, this is what you wanted: A fresh, young talent to get put over.'

1) The only reason Fans wanted Reigns to win last year was because they didn't want Batista to win and Reigns was the only guy they could latch on to in hopes of that NOT happening.

2) I said this on Twitter and I'll say it here: There's having a fresh young talent getting a push and winning the Rumble and then there's having someone who CLEARLY isn't ready for the main event spot and FORCING him into that position. Roman Reigns is the latter: His mic skills aren't up to snuff, his in-ring work needs some more fine tuning, and his character has just been handled BADLY; and while he did show improvement in the last two or three weeks, it's nowhere near enough to warrant this Rumble win. He needed another year before this jump.

And it's not just the fact that Reigns won that's bad about this, it's just the poor way this Rumble match was executed period. This match, excuse my crudeness here, made every face besides Reigns a little bitch and it pissed on EVERYTHING the WWE had been doing with their "big" faces up to that point. Again, Daniel Bryan, he came back from this life threatening, career ending injury and made this vow to win the Rumble and what happened? He was eliminated early in the Rumble in an anticlimactic manner. It's like they KNEW what was going to happen and try to get it over with as soon as possible just to make Roman look good.

But it's not just about Bryan, it's about Ziggler, and Ryback, and hell even Dean Ambrose. You had the Authority fire Dolph and Ryback, then you bring them back the Raw before the Rumble and THEN you made them compete in matches just to get in the Rumble and what do you do with that? You have Ryback eliminated by some nobody and then you have Dolph get eliminated a minute after he enters the Rumble. If that was what you were going to do, then what was the point of having Bryan come back? What was the point of Ziggler and Ryback coming back if you were just going to have them be throwaways in the Rumble match? And then you had Ambrose get bitched out as well By Kane and Big Show only to have Roman go and eliminate both of them at the same time!!

Then, you have Show and Kane after getting eliminated and start beating up on Reigns and who comes out to help his little cousin? The Rock. Of course, being the Rock, he got his pop from the fans when he showed up...and then the fans went right back to Booing Reigns. 

It was this moment here when The Rock realized...the WWE F**ked up...

So yeah, if you couldn't tell, I'm not happy about this Royal Rumble. Aside from the Triple Threat title match, it was a train wreck. The only positive I can think of besides that match is that Billy Gunn's still got it. I hate to sound like one of those guys but, the wrong guy won the Rumble.

And the worst part about all of this? This isn't Roman's fault, this is the WWE's fault for forcing him into this terrible position he's in. This is Vince McMahon's fault, for being out of touch and letting his ambitions get the better of him. Because of that, not only did a lot of faces look bad last night, he might have also put the nail in the coffin of Roman Reigns before he got the chance to improve and get to the level I know he can be at.

But that's all I have to say about this. Till next time everyone, I'm the Shaman of Animation saying: CM Punk must be at home laughing at this. 

That diss at me on Smackdown was cute Dolph. I'll just be over here training for UFC and writing for Marvel while you go job out at the Rumble.

Take care...