WWE Royal Rumble 2015 Review

Match 1: The New Age Outlaws vs. The Ascension
Starting off the 2015 Royal Rumble event in Philadelphia is a tag match with the newbies and the oldies. After being embarrassed on the last edition of Monday Night Raw which also saw JBL land a Clothesline from Hell, The Ascension look to rebound by beating one of the best teams of all time. More of a match featuring lots of nostalgia to get the crowd going but also gave The Ascension their first legit win. However, the crowd still can’t seem to buy into these guys.
Winners: The Ascension
Rating: *¼

Match 2: WWE Tag Team Championships - The Usos © vs. The Miz & Damien Mizdow
Mizdow is fire! The crowd is popping big time for this dude, just imagine him turning on The Miz at WrestleMania! Anyway, the second match of the night is another tag match with this one being for the titles. Much better and faster action than the first match as expected and the crowd was definitely hot for this one. Love Miz being the jerk heel by not tagging in Mizdow and ultimately, it cost him the match despite Mizdow nearly scoring the win. Fun tag match as we can finally get signs of Mizdow turning on Miz.
Winners: The Usos
Rating: **¾

Match 3: The Bella Twins vs. Natalya & Paige
I’m totally fine with Divas wrestling on PPV, but come on. This match went on for about five minutes too long and was basically the same exact match you would be able to see on a Raw or SmackDown. Bella Twins get the win and we will likely forget this match by next week.
Winners: The Bella Twins
Rating: ½*

Match 4: WWE World Heavyweight Championship - Brock Lesnar © vs. John Cena vs. Seth Rollins
Finally getting into the meat and potatoes of the show with the first match that isn’t a tag match! This was originally supposed to be Cena vs. Lesnar III but Rollins weaseled his way into the match. Crowd is hot for this one and this looks to be good. Great start to the match with Lesnar destroying everyone with Suplexes which even saw him hit J & J Security in one go. Lesnar looks like a legit beast and it is awesome. Action was hot and never really skipped a beat, I had my reservations about this being a triple threat but I was easily convinced once it started. This was chaos from start to bottom and I loved it. Lesnar was the star here, kicking out of three Attitude Adjustments and a Curb Stomp! The pins all were believable and the crowd was so enthusiastic. A couple of my favorite spots included Lesnar slamming a television monitor into the steel steps and him walking outside the ring like a zombie before Cena rammed him through the barricade. The subtle things Lesnar does make him who he is. But let’s not forget about Rollins, he jumped off the top rope and drove Lesnar through the Spanish announce table. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Lesnar looks to be out and it is now between Cena and Rollins. So many close calls that had me on the edge of my seat here but Lesnar roars back into the match and destroys everybody. Rollins nearly scores the win as he went for a Curb Stomp on the Money in the Bank briefcase but Lesnar reversed it into an F5! Literally one of the best triple threat matches I have ever seen. Lesnar looks like a beast, Cena is still Cena, and Rollins still has his briefcase. We have a winner but for how long? Go ahead and debate my rating of this match but to me, it had it all. Drama, psychology, chaos, and one hot crowd. Whether you agree with my rating or not, watch this match.
Winner: Brock Lesnar
Rating: *****

Match 5: 2015 Royal Rumbl
Random two guys to start the match in The Miz against R-Truth but I guess it makes the Rumble the Rumble. You never know who is going to enter when. And that includes the third entrant, Bubba Ray Dudley! This is unreal! This is why this is my favorite match! He teams up with Truth but quickly disposes of both him and Miz. I also want to quickly note that JBL is the best at commentary when it comes to statistics and experience, gives great insight and facts about what is going on. However, Luke Harper and Bray Wyatt enter next and team up to eliminate Bubba as they now look to form an alliance. Erick Rowan takes out Curtis Axel who was scheduled to enter the match next and enters the ring for a Wyatt Family reunion. Wyatt eliminates both and The Boogeyman enters next! Cole calls it The Eater of Worlds vs. The Eater of Worms. How awesome is this? Wyatt quickly takes him out and he stands as the only one in the match. He then takes out both Sin Cara and Zack Ryder quickly as he grabs a mic and puts himself over. But guess what, here comes Daniel Bryan! Yes! Another surprise entrant was DDP who landed Diamond Cutters for everyone before Rusev appeared. Rusev took care of DDP and Bryan tried to take out both Rusev and Wyatt but Wyatt eliminates Bryan! Crowd gets angry and continue to boo even minutes after his elimination. However, it makes considering if they want someone else to win like a Roman Reigns, you would want all the Daniel Bryan chants killed by then. But even still, the crowd refuses to chant for him. The dude is over and the crowd wanted him to win. Badly. They even stop counting when the timer shows up on the screen. It’s almost as if they could care less what happens unless it involves Bryan which in my opinion, gets really annoying. He isn’t the whole show. On the positive side, Kofi had another cool Rumble moment when Rusev tossed Kingston out of the ring who landed on Adam Rose’s group who ended up lifting him back into the ring. And then enters #19, Roman Reigns. Crowd is giving him heat as if he was the main heel. This is very reminiscent of last year’s Rumble when Batista entered and received the same amount of heat. But you know who received a huge pop, Damien Mizdow! And then The Miz came out and tried to take his spot but Mizdow still entered and was quickly eliminated by Rusev. Miz gets into it with Mizdow and I love it. I think every Rumble needs a comedic spot like that. The only two guys to get over with the crowd are Dolph Ziggler and Dean Ambrose. And they manage to inject a little more life into the crowd and the match for that matter which has seemingly slowed down tremendously since Bryan’s elimination. And about 90 percent of that has to do with the crowd crapping over everything. Things don’t help when Ziggler and Wyatt both get eliminated by Kane and Big Show. The final four is down to Kane, Big Show, Ambrose, and Reigns. Ambrose and Reigns psych each other up as blood is stained on the face of Reigns and they bring it to The Authority. Crowd hates it, I love it. I love when the Rumble intertwines old friends and old rivalries. Kane and Big Show casually throw Ambrose out and it is up to Reigns to save the day. I guess. Animosity builds between Kane and Show as they fight each other before Reigns eliminates both to win the Rumble! Just like last year with Batista winning, they hate it and I love it! Kane and Show get back into the ring but The Rock appears! What the!? Rock takes both of them out and Rusev enters back into the match! He was never eliminated! But Reigns lands a Spear and eliminates him! He celebrates with The Rock as Brock Lesnar looks on with Triple H & Stephanie McMahon coming out to stare down Rock and Reigns. Reigns was the obvious winner so they needed to pull out all the stops to get him over but even The Rock couldn’t help. Either way, I enjoyed this year’s Rumble and I feel like Reigns was the right choice. Roman Reigns is headed to WrestleMania!
Winner: Roman Reigns
Rating: ****

Overall Show Thoughts and Rating:
It’s hard to rate this show considering I’m basically judging the show on the last two matches. But they both delivered, the WWE World Heavyweight Championship was insanely awesome and the Rumble was great and full of surprises despite the annoying crowd! But in the end, that's what professional wrestling is all about, everybody has their own opinion. Except mine is right, right?
Rating: 7.75/10