>The time is upon us, we are officially on the Road to Wrestlemania now that the 2011 Royal Rumble has kicked off from Boston, MA where over 15,000 members of the WWE Universe packed the Garden. After the usual video package and awesome pyro display we kick off the show.
As predicted, Edge vs Dolph Ziggler kicked off the show. Bell went of at 7:08 after Tony Chimel introduced the competitors; Edge started of dominating the match and after almost 5 minutes of kicking Ziggler outside he turned the tables and imposed his will. 10 minutes into the match Edge got the crowd behind him and started a comeback. ---WOW the crowd is HOT, hope they keep it up for the whole evening---
King, Cole and Striker keep playing on the No-Spear rule, which still has done nothing for me.They keep saying asking if he has some other manuever, the seem to forget he used to use the EdgeCution (Impaler DTT). Pretty nice cross-body into a rollover for a close pin by Ziggler. A small "Let's go Ziggler" chant breaks out 15 minutes into the match. Vickie slaps Edge a couple of times... that usually is a DQ but WWE fails to use the same rulebook every match. Out of nowhere Kelly attacks Vickie ??? yeah Im lost to...
After a brutally bad ref bump spot Edge hits the spear followed by The Unprettier for the win after 22 minutes. I had predicted 20 to 25 minutes for these two. Got my wish, but instead of letting the two guys in the ring do their thing, the matched focused more on Vickie which is quite a shame.
Next up we get Randy Orton challenging The Miz for the WWE Title. Orton is out first to a pretty good pop, he is followed by The Miz who is received with pretty good heat. Seriously I don't get WWE's point to push Michael Cole's fetish with the Miz, I hope it goes somewhere otherwise I've been getting pissed off by him a lot for nothing.
So the bell sounds at 7:43. Orton starts out dominating until Riley helps out the Miz ---Cole please shut the F*CK UP, he just gets XPac, change the channel heat--- pretty standard match with the usual stupid Striker quote "Miz working on Orton's midsection setting him up for the SKULL Crushing finale" yeah it makes no sense.
At 17 minutes a RKO is blocked into a Skull Crushing Finales that gets blocked into an Olympic Slam. Nexus makes their way to the ring only to get thrown down by a flying Riley, on the other side CM Punk hits the ring and get Orton up and delivers a GTS. Miz covers and gets the W to retain after 20 minutes. Not a bad match, but again the focus is more on the action of other people instead of the participants of the match. I'm with Dave Lagana
#IWantWrestling.
So we can now take Punk out of the possible winners as he will be fighting Orton at Mania.
Up next we have the WWE Divas Title match with Lay-Cool take on Natalya in a 2-on-1 handicap match. Wait we get an Email from the RAW GM changing the match to a Fatal 4 Way adding Eve Torres to the mix. Marked out for the double Sharpshooter by Nattie on Layla and Eve. Pretty solid action by the 4 ladies (enjoy that the match focuses on the in-ring competitors unlike the other 2 matches). Nice Michinoku driver by Nattie and I find it sad that they make fun of Stiker for calling a move by it's name. After a double pin by Eve and Michelle with the ref focusing on Ms. Torres she gets the win and is crowned the New Divas Champion.
Unless they have a throw-in match, the Rumble is next!!!
The "By The Numbers" video package is pretty awesome, as always the WWE does a great job editing video montages... they are the best bar none.
The number
1 entrant is:
CM Punk!
The number
2 entrant is: ---the whole Corre come out and surround the ring... a huge brawl breaks out! And we get an email from the GM.---
Daniel Bryan!!!
Dueling CM Punk and Daniel Bryan chants, as we get our first countdown.
3rd entrant:
Justin Gabriel who goes after Punk, but is eliminated by Bryan.
4th entrant is:
Zack Ryder. Only a minute to be eliminated by Bryan.
The
5th man in is:
William Regal. Regal suplexing the crap out of Punk and Danielson. Uppercut fight between King and Daniel.
6th in is:
Ted DiBiase. We now have for men in the ring for the first time tonight.
#
7 is
John Morrison. He pulls out an awesome C4 on Bryan. Regal is eliminated by Dibiase. Morrison pulled of some crazy shit, he was thrown out but grabbed on to the barricade and then jumped back to the ring steps (AMAZING!!!, and anything I say will not do it justice)
#
8 is Yoshi Tatsu. 5 guys in the ring.
The
9th is Husky Harris. He sure comes to help out Punk
The
10th entrant is Chavo Guerrero! We are 25% into the entrants. Chavito now wearing boxer trunks. He pulls out the 3 amigos only to be stopped by Punk. Nice tribute to Eddie.
#
11 is
Mark Henry. Henry eliminates Chavito. Tatsu is thrown out by Henry.
12th man in is:
JTG.
#
13 is Michael McGuillicuty. He eliminates JTG. DiBiase is elminated by Mike and Husky
The
14th entrant is
Chris Masters. The number
15 entrant is:
David Otunga. So we have all Nexus helping Punk. Nexus eliminated Bryan, Masters and Morrison. We got the 4 Nexus members against Mark Henry, who is now eliminated.
#
16 is Tyler Recks. Who gets quickly eliminated by Nexus. They are looking good.
The number
17 entrant is:
Vladimir Kozlov. He lasts 45 seconds and is kicked out.
Up next at
18 we have R-Truth. I hope he gets thrown out in 5 seconds. K-Kwik is out!
#
19 is none other than
The Great Khali. Husky Harris is out!
#
20 is
Mason Ryan! We are halfway through the entrants. Ryan kicks out Khali!!! Again we have Punk and 3 members of Nexus alone in the ring.
The
21st entry is: CAN YOU DIG IT SUCKA?!!?!?
Booker T. Striker goes nuts and, as he says, is marking out!!! Great showing by T but Ryan throws him out!
At #
22 we have
John Cena! Business is about to pick up! He throws every Nexus member over. We now have Cena vs Punk!!! Crowd is HOT...
For
23 Hornswoggle is out. Tell me I did not just see that! Stiff kick by Punk to Horny. Cena and Punk battle it out until Cena AA's Punk out of the ring.
#
24 is
Tyson Kidd. He'll last 2 seconds. Horny AA's Kidd!!! WTF!?!? And he gets kicked out by Cena
The next man in is #
25 Heath Slater. Tadpole splash after a double 5 knuckle shuffle. Slater is out!
#
26 is
Kofi Kingston... Staredown and they see the WM sign before battling it out. As they are going at it
#
27 Jack Swagger is out.
The #
28th entrant is
Sheamus! Bicycicle Kick to Horny to eliminate him.
Rey Mysterio is in at #
29. He eliminates the All American American.
At 75% of the entrants we get #
30 Wade Barrett. #31 is Mr. Perfection
Dolph Ziggler. This has been slooooow...zzzz....
#32 is
Big Daddy Cool Diesel!#33 is
Drew McEntyre#34 is Alex Riley. Barrett eliminates Nash!
The next entrant at #
35 is
The Big Show. Big Show eliminates Ziggler.
#
36 is
Ezekiel Jackson. Drew is gone. Big Zeke eliminates the Big Show. 6 superstars in the ring: Cena, Mysterio, Barrett, Zeke, Kofi and Sheamus
37 is
Santino. He is kicked out, but goes under the bottom rope so he has not been eliminated.
Entry #
38 is
Alberto del Rio. Riley has been eliminated during Del Rio's entrance. Did Miz call him Roberto del Rio.
Entrant #
39 is
Randy Orton. RKO for Del Rio and everyone. Kofi out, Sheamus out. Cena and Orton come face to face
The final entrant with #
40 is
Kane. Zeke is eliminated! Rey eliminates Kane! Barrett eliminates Mysterio.
We are down to 4: Cena, Del Rio, Orton, Barrett. Attitude Adjustment from Cena to Del Rio. Riley distracts Cena so Miz eliminates him!!! Orton eliminates Barrett and DEL RIO ELIMINATES ORTON!!!
Alberto Del Rio wins!!!
Nothing like Del Rio saying A HUEVO PUTOS!!!
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