WWE Royal Rumble 2018 Review

WWE Royal Rumble 2018

Results from the show, live on PPV, Sunday 28th January, 2018, below.

AJ Styles defended the WWE Championship in a poor and pitiful 2 on 1 Handicap with fluffer friends Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn to no compelling avail. Styles retained the worthless strap which is meant to be WWE’s top prize. There was also rotten competition, if you can call it that in two inseparable herberts who offer nothing to anyone or anything in WWE.

The Uso’s kept their tag titles for Smackdown dropping Chad Gable and Shelton Benjamin in a pointless tag battle of 2 falls to nil. Gable, at one point performed a dreadful move that could have snapped someone’s neck. It was also boring amid the spot monkey flips and all that.

The Men’s Royal Rumble came next. What a mess it was. Everyone did the same routine, with better layout than previous encounters but still reverted to the same tired formula. One in one out, fodder first and favourite Indy luvvies early on to do a few crow warming fluffing up first. 

It was another wasted opportunity which saw its top stars in John Cena, Roman Reigns and Shinsuker F**kamoron in the final three. Shinsuke Nakamura eliminated Reigns to take the title opportunity in another worthless fail that has yet to create a new performer for well over ten years.

Nakamura is boring, gymnastically flawed and spot monkey driven only, which highlights a lacking level of talent and booking/hiring from the WWE ranks above. Exciting it was not.

Next was a tag team loss for Raw champs and injured Jason Jordan and Seth Rollins back to Cesaro and Sheamus, after WWE’s new tag team thrown together failed to excite or maintain position. The match, as god as it was, could not stand out and was forgettable once again.

Brock Lesnar returned in a catastrophic brawl to defend his WWE Universal Championship in a shambolic main event with two jobbers. Braun Strowman recklessly mishandled Lesnar, who potatoed him in return. The match itself was all over the place, dangerous and exposed how awful it was. Kane was there to take the pinfall, as Lesnar retained the strap in a waste of time yet again.

Stephanie McMahon in a leather bin liner.
Luv, those legs are bloody
awful in that rag.

The final match was the grand new idea of the Max Waltham Women’s revolution (stolen as conceptual by Stephanie McMahon and Triple H) to produce another “Women can do what the men can do” match. Namely the Women's Royal Rumble match. It’s getting boring now and WWE manage to zap all the life from everything the attempt to achieve. They do not know how to get it moving forward and think they are exceptional with it. The results speak differently.

This “revolutionary” match was a clearly obvious victory for Asuka, who last dumped Nikki Bella, who turned on her returning sister Brie beforehand. Filled with returning “legends” and resident football team bed post scoring sleeper with the staff, Kelly Kelly, was another pitiful shame that made it all look redundant than amazing. WWE haven't got a clue.

After Asuka won, ringside champs for Raw and Smackdown, Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair, respectively, meet her in the ring. Stephanie McMahon was calling the action from ringside the whole time, which was also blooming dreadful and unnatural in commentating.

Instead of Asuka’s moment of victory, which should have gone to Sonya Deville, WWE’s new signee and UFC women who no one really cares for, Ronda Rousey, arrived. She did her job and pointed to the Wrestlemania sign as everyone does. We had no answer to Asuka’s champion match opponent and Rousey, who overshadowed her moment, wanted to clearly pick up the scraps Asuka wouldn’t want. 

Yeah, just point at the sign, luv.

Again it was another waste that was simply all fluff and another wasted opportunity of nothingness.

We are glad we didn’t waste our full time on it and if WWE can’t be bothered, we aren't going to waste our time either. 

PPV Rating - 2/10

Men/Women of their matches - No one was good enough, Jimmy Uso, Rusev, Cesaro, Brock Lesnar, Sonya Deville

Man/Woman of the PPV - Ronda Rousey

WWE has landed right back to square one. Empty, clueless and devoid of any creativity. No angles, ways forth or credibility tars to utilise and hand me downs from Triple H’s obsessively ignorant Indy love-in has proven another drastic failure.

Losing millions of dollars over just two years alone on NXT, not counting main or house shows, PPV or merchandise, WWE, under Triple H’s mark fandom approach to business has not and does not hold out for a strong future at any rate. 

WWE is a bust, that still hasn't got the ability to put its company values first. All Triple H’s insanely obsessive ego and hatred continues to lead the show to self implosion on Dixie Carter-TNA standards. This is officially the airhead era for WWE under Triple H’s delusional wing. If anyone thinks Vince McMahon is doing a terrible job (and he is) Triple H’s takeover of WWE will be far worse at crashing the business thorough the floor. WWE simply want to be defiant instead of deal with incoming damage limitations which will implode.

Meh.

With ratings and hirings under Triple H’s loose ideas of success, propped up by the wife to feel important, and the McMahon family trying to make him feel a contribute asset at his grand delusions, WWE have serious flaws that won’t seem to be ironed out any time soon. WWE and Triple H are about to crash the business worse in 2018 just to survive.

TNA/Impact Wrestling and the Dixie Carter/Jeff Jarrett route took this path. WWE are following the exact same path, by Triple H’s misguided choice than respectable credibility as a businessman.

Trips just wants to be one of the guys instead of a business man who can hold favour with people for stabilising the business and workers for a future. 

WWE has none coming forward at this rate. No business acquisitions, self topping up of stock or bribes to media curators of rating numbers ‘bought’ by WWE can change that.

WWE is much the same as it was in the murky steroid era.

It’s all coming around again, with disastrous business consequences for all involved with such ignorance. Retribution will deliver.

You’re Welcome.

© Max Waltham 02nd March 2018

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