Sunday, January 26, 2014

WWE Royal Rumble

-The New Age Outlaws(Road Dog & Billy Gunn) d. The Brotherhood(Cody Rhodes & Goldust) win the Tag Team Titles; Cody hit the Beautiful Disaster kick on Road Dog, but Billy had blind-tagged into the match and hit the Fameasser on Cody for the win.
-Bray Wyatt(w/ Luke Harper & Erick Rowan) d. Daniel Bryan; Wyatt blocked a suicide dive attempt and hit the Sister Abigail into the ringside barricade, then hit his finisher again in the ring for the finish.
-Brock Lesnar(w/ Paul Heyman) d. The Big Show; Lesnar destroyed Show with a chair before the opening bell, but took a PUNCH after the match officially started.  Lesnar was able to recover and win with the F-5, then dished out more chair abuse after the match.
-Randy Orton d. John Cena to retain the WWE Title; Cena had Orton in the STF when the Wyatt Family members appeared to distract him.  That led to Orton hitting his second RKO of the match and getting the pin.  The Wyatts beat down Cena after the match, ending with Bray's Sister Abigail.
-Royal Rumble:
#1 C.M. Punk
#2 Seth Rollins
#3 Damien Sandow
#4 Cody Rhodes; Punk eliminated Sandow(1).
#5 Kane; he went after Punk but Punk eliminated him(2).
#6 Alexander Rusev(making his main-roster debut)
#7 Jack Swagger(w/ Zeb Colter)
#8 Kofi Kingston
#9 Jimmy Uso
#10 Goldust; several wrestlers ganged up on Rusev to get him out(3).  Kofi was thrown out but Rusev caught him and beat him up, leaving him laying on the edge of the ringside barricade.  Kofi was able to stand up on the barricade and make a running leap to the ring apron to avoid elimination.
#11 U.S. Champion Dean Ambrose
#12 Dolph Ziggler
#13 "R-Truth" Ron Killings; Ambrose(with help from Rollins) eliminated R-Truth(4) and then Jimmy Uso(5).
#14 Kevin Nash; he eliminated Swagger(6).
#15 Roman Reigns; Reigns threw out Kofi(7), Ziggler(8), and Nash(9) in succession.
#16 The Great Khali; the unified Shield trio ganged up on him and Reigns threw him out(10).  Goldust accidentally eliminated Cody(11), then Reigns tossed out Goldust(12).  Punk was left alone with The Shield...
#17 Sheamus O'Shaunessy(returning from injury)
#18 Mike Mizanin
#19 Johnny Fandango(w/ Summer Rae)
#20 El Torito(w/ Los Matadores); the midget hit some highspots and actually eliminated Fandango(13) before Reigns threw him out(14).
#21 Antonio Cesaro(w/ Zeb); Giant Swings ensued.
#22 Luke Harper
#23 Jey Uso
#24 John Bradshaw Layfield; he made a big deal out of removing his suit jacket only to get eliminated right away by Reigns(15).
#25 Erick Rowan; Harper eliminated Miz(16), then the Wyatts double-teamed Jey Uso and threw him ou(17).
#26 Ryback
#27 Alberto Del Rio
#28 Batista; bye Rowan(18), see ya Ryback(19), adios Alberto(20).
#29 Intercontinental Champion Big E Langston
#30 Rey Misterio Jr....the fans(who had already expressed their displeasure with the title match) were NOT happy about Daniel Bryan's absence from the Rumble.

Sheamus eliminated Langston(21) and Rollins eliminated Misterio(22).  Reigns took out Harper(23).  Ambrose suddenly tried to dump Reigns from behind, sparking an argument between the Shield members.  Ambrose and Rollins tried to work on Cesaro but Reigns dumped all three of them at once(24/25/26)!  Rollins gets the endurance honorable mention with a time of 48:30.

The final four were Punk, Reigns, Sheamus, and Batista.  Kane resurfaced at ringside to pull Punk out(27; endurance mark of 49:25), then chokeslammed him through the Spanish announcers' table.  Reigns blocked a Brogue Kick and dumped Sheamus(28), thus breaking Kane's elimination record with twelve.  Batista and Reigns traded spears, but Batista finally threw out Reigns for the win(29).

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