Royal Rumble 2023 *Spoilers* *NO BETTING ODDS*

Well. Had been wondering who Hardy was after his weird appearance before. Seems he's just a terrible generic country musician ticking off the boxes of referencing his truck and drinking with his buds.

PPV is too long. I love wrestling but watching anything for 5 hours (including preshow) is too much.

hmmm... was disappointed with the Sami turn, as didn't feel like the best way to end the Sami/Bloodline story - but the Jey turn makes it potentially quite interesting. There was proper tension in both moments, really well handled performances by both Sami and Jey.

Cody speaking very well at the presser after, really fitting the part of the statesman stepping up to the big seat. Speaking like a future champ. (And did a bit of Mtn Dew promotional stuff too)

Very Very good PPV.

the men’s royal rumble was great and Walter aka Gunther in my eyes was already a star but is even more so now. Even though it was obvious Cody was winning the final two did a good job of not having it be a quick ending helped Cody.

the pitch dark match was interesting but not good. I feel so bad for LA Knight having to go through this bray Wyatt BS. I liked original Bray Wyatt but the fiend and firefly funhouse stuff was the drizzling ****. Also Uncle howdy missed by a mile.

Alexa bliss I don’t think will be an in ring wrestler much longer. She doesn’t seem to be able or want to wrestle.

Overall a good PPV.

The post main event was well done.

I forgot Logan Paul was an officially signed WWE Superstar. I noticed they got a lot of the big Superstars out there early enough, like Sheamus, Drew, Brock, Lashley. Usually they save them for closer the end. Good showing for Gunther. And was surprised Rey won overall with Cody just eliminating himself at the end.

Kofi messing up for the second year in a row. Looked like he missed the chair and Woods was meant to help as well. Cole even tried to cover by saying both feet hadn't touched, but I guess HHH called out to tell him to leave it now. Also seemed Kofi was hurt.

Didn't even really watch the Bliss/Bianca match. Just skipped through it. No interest and as said above it seems like Alexa has no interest either.

The Wyatt match seemed more as a way to bring back/reintroduce the Wyatt 6. He even had the VI on the side of his head.

Rhea winning was kinda expected though did expect more from Beth. Hope the Nia appearance was a once off. Thought since he wasn't in the men's Rumble that Dexter may have come out from under the ring for Indi to land on. Expected Katana/Kacy or Sol Ruca to be in it to do the elimination save spot. I never understand why ones involved in feuds fight outside the ring then leave the person lying there. Like why didn't Damage CTRL bring Becky back in and eliminate her instead of letting her sit out a chunk of the match?

One thing the women's Rumble match shows is how badly booked that division is. You watch the men's match and you have multiple feuds being continued in it and pretty much everyone in it has some sort of beef with someone else in it. Then watch the women's and some of the entrants have been on tv about as much as the surprise entrants. How many women in that match are involved in storylines on the main roster at the moment? I can think of just Becky, Bayley, Iyo, Dakota and Sonya. Iyo and Dakota are tag champs and they don't even have a feud using that fact. I guess could say Rhea as well.

So who will Rhea go for? I would think Charlotte since Charlotte's beaten her for a title a few times. But will probably be Bianca. Depends on who they want for the other title match.

Nope, no one took Rey's place.

If only they allowed Blood, if so could see a right blood bath for SamI

Loved Lesnar just cleaning out Corbin.

And as much as I dislike Logan Paul that set up with Ricochet was excellent

Rhea teasing going after Roman.

They should have left that chair shot for the elimination chamber with it being in Montreal, Sami doing that in his home town would have blown the roof off, guess now it is going to be a major beat down there to get some big heat instead.

That was one of the biggest pops ever last night.

It's like HHH got fed up with people criticising the decision to bring back Hit Row so decided to go even worse and bring back Nia Jax.

I think I remember an NXT champ in it before.

You'll get Mysterio vs Mysterio at WrestleMania (guest ref Jake Gyllenhaal?) and like it!