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Section 8 Wrestling Podcast Presents: The 2026 Royal Rumble (02/04/26)
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Welcome back, H8ters! Your friends Killz Atwillz & Billiam are back to breask down to Royal Rumble.
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SPEAKER_04Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.
SPEAKER_01We are so happy to see you, and who are we? Well, we are your latest and greatest and hopefully favoritist wrestling podcast in the land. That's right. This is the Section 8 Wrestling Podcast. I am Kills at Wills. I am billiam. And today, tonight, whenever it is you're deciding to join our wonderful little corner of the internet, we're going to do what we always do, and we're going to talk about some wrestling. We had ourselves a little pop per view, a little PLA, a little uh big one of the big four, the Royal Rumble was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. And we're going to give you uh a little recap. We're going to uh give you uh some notes and some thoughts and give you the rundown because we have some thoughts on the Royal Rumble.
SPEAKER_04It was Royal Rumble Saturday as well as our big guy's birthday celebrated. It's it's what we do, it's like a two for now because it's usually falls on or around his birthday. So birthday party slash uh Royal Rumble watch fest. And it was a good one. Well, the party was a good one.
SPEAKER_01The party was a good one. Thank you all. Thank you all for tuning in that uh uh did show up, and thank you for making it super special. It was wonderful. Uh, we had ourselves a fun morning getting together, and we turned on the Royal Rumble to see what was going on. The very first thing I noticed was boy, this is a quiet empty stadium. Um where is everybody at? Quiet empty stadium. You know, I I I might have expected as much. They started off with the women's Royal Rumble, so I I almost kind of expected it because I feel like that, you know, just but I mean I will see you start off the Royal Rumble nowadays.
SPEAKER_04You're gonna start with the men's rumble? No.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_04So I mean you have to, but I mean they chose to put it in Saudi Arabia, so exactly. That's what it is.
SPEAKER_01So I'll just uh I won't go like uh point for point and and and person for person. What I'll just do is I'll just kind of go down and and give some of the highlights as they kind of went down, just some of the stuff that I wrote down. And feel free, uh Billy, to jump in and chime in whatever you want to jump in as you do. So uh right off the bat, I wanted to shout out Jordan Grace. She came in at number eight, and she had the first three eliminations because the first uh Yeah, and they were like off the bat, too. Yeah, uh, she came in and really showed out. She had herself a really good performance. So shout out to Jordan Grace. Um, she was coming in, she was on my short list of winners. I thought she maybe had a chance with the she'd been kind of building up with Jade. I figured maybe they'd kind of maybe maybe give her the shot.
SPEAKER_04Uh Charlotte Flair, who came in at number one and or number two, or Bliss and Flair were number one in the one and were like, oh man, wouldn't it be funny if like Alexa Bliss came in at two, and then you hear her music and we're like, well, here we go. It's like, what are they gonna do?
SPEAKER_01What are they going to do?
SPEAKER_04Because they've been kind of a little sketchy the last few weeks, kind of uh, are you are with is this a team? Is this a solo effort? Like, what are we doing here? So they actually had a lot of fun with it, which I thought, well, I thought it was a lot of fun, where uh they would like put each other in a move and then let each other go. And then somebody else would grab somebody else, put them in like like a headlock, and let them go. Like we could do something, but then like Alexa jumped on her back and they were just waiting for the next person. So it's it was a lot of fun. It was, it was, it was a good like was it 90 second? It's always between a minute and a half and two minutes in between each person.
SPEAKER_01It's been pretty consistent with 90 seconds now. Um, they the last time they had two minutes was when they had like the the super long, long ramp. And I think two minutes then. And now I think it just having them have having had gone back and watching a few of them, they stayed pretty consistent with 90 seconds. It's when they put a longer ramp, that's when they just gave it the two minutes because it's a long walk or run. So 90 seconds is pretty makes sense.
SPEAKER_04So yeah, so it was it was a fun opening 90 seconds to the match, uh, just with them will they want day kind of thing.
SPEAKER_01And then they tag team, I forget who number three was, and they just Keanu James actually came in and she knows that is because uh yeah, we made another.
SPEAKER_04She I think she stole uh the rumble for the women. Uh, I think she might have lasted the longest, if not close to it. Maybe no, Charlotte did, but uh Keanu James is pretty close. She lasted a long while and she put on a show. Like, whenever they gave her a little bit of room, like uh it let her boy Chala like it's like who's this girl? Because he does he doesn't watch SmackDown. So um I was like quoting Michael Cole and myself. Uh she is one of the most underrated women on the roster currently, and she showed that.
SPEAKER_01You definitely have an eye, it gets because it's not, it wasn't just you saying that, Billyum. Michael Cole was saying it. The WWE said it. Absolutely. He knows what he's talking about. Pay attention. That's what I do. We don't just talk about it, we know about it. We know y'all. We got y'all. Um at one point, all three women. Oh nope, before that, Liv Morgan comes in at number 14, and this is her ninth straight Royal Rumble, I believe.
SPEAKER_04So she's Naddie are the only two women to be in all of them.
SPEAKER_01There you go. So she's coming in at uh she's coming in with quite the quite the veteran. She's quite the vet when it comes to the rumbles. Uh, all three women of the judgment day uh are in at that point, or they they come in and they are the ones that eliminate uh Keanu James, and she had a great showing. So she came in at number three. It took three women, they all teamed up on her and tossed her out. But like Billy said, like Michael Cole said, pay attention to Keanu James. Don't forget that young lady.
SPEAKER_04Don't let her don't let her hide behind Julia, like they're kind of having her do right now, because I think she is the star of the two. But again, Julia, I she has potential, I've seen it. Yes. Uh she just she's I think she's finding her way more and more. Like she's getting more, she's finding her character more so. Yes. Because I think she's having like more fun in the ring and uh just kind of doing stuff like that. So uh cheers to uh I'm gonna say Chiana. That's the combination of the two. I mean, they're number one contenders, so we'll call that team Chiana, why not? Uh, but cheers to Keana for putting on a show and showing us that she can hang.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely. Speaking of Julia, uh, she came in at it was her in 1920 and 21 or 20, 21, 22, I forget. Uh, but it was Julia, Kyrie, and Asuka back to back to back. And when all three have gotten the ring, there was a whole little thing which unfortunately leads to Kyrie accidentally eliminated.
SPEAKER_04That was a great Oscar. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Poor, poor Kyrie. She just she just can't catch a break.
SPEAKER_04There were videos like she dragged Kyrie out, and then they because they were at the stadium, so they use golf carts to get to the locker room. They wouldn't ever, she wouldn't ever let her get in the golf cart. Drive!
SPEAKER_01Kyrie's running behind it, like, stop, wait! So much fun. Yeah. Um uh number 29. Uh, for for Aurora Rumble, that didn't have a lot of surprises. One surprise was we did get the much rumored and it's felt like anticipated return for some of Breed Bella. So the Bella Twins are back. We hear a little Bremen. So um, she's back, got a pretty good pop. She's you know, the Bella twins had their had their time. They were the most popular tag women's tag team, just one of the most popular two women on the planet at one point.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, so it's been the better part of a decade since they've both been in the ring at the same time. Yes. Um, so I mean, it was cool. Welcome back. Uh Bree. Looks like um, if you check out our raw recap, which is coming soon, uh, they will be going for the women's tag team championships together. Because I mean, they were like the first women's tag team, so or at least one of them. One of them. How can they not charge?
SPEAKER_01They're making a certain claim, like where's the OG tag team and something like that? I mean, it's it's I mean, where's Lake Hole? But that's besides the point. I mean, yeah, right, right. I mean, right, right. It's that could that could be you could argue, you could argue.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, so it looks like Brie will be back for a little bit for a little run for the tag team belts as well. So cool.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so whilst Brie mode was a good time, speaking of time, at number 30. Oh my, she's back, y'all. She's back, y'all. What time is it, Billy?
SPEAKER_04Oh, it's Tiffy time. It's always Tiffy time over here, buddy.
SPEAKER_01Uh, we get Tiffany Stratton coming back, everybody. Looking good as y'all ways. Does um last legend who came in at number 15, didn't get eliminated until kind of towards the end. And she also had a really good rumble, just like she did last year. She was in the finals, final four last year. Got another one, say like final six, final seven, I think something like that. This this past time. But another one, another great showing last legend. Um Morgan, Liv Morgan eliminates Raquel Rodriguez um in a move that I did not see coming. No, just straight up, and then it's you usually it's one of those like, sorry, or whatever, but Liv just straight up laughs at her face. She laughed at her.
SPEAKER_04But I also figured it out because people were like, she's a strong favorite. I was like, she can't be because she literally has a title match two days from now. So I was like, they're not gonna have her be a number one contender twice. She so maybe next year, perhaps, but Raquel Rodriguez could have been definitely could have been a favorite to take that because she's she's taken off. Her star is definitely on the rise.
SPEAKER_01I agree. I agree, man. Uh, this brings us to uh our our final three in the ring were Liv Morgan, Tiffany Stratton, and let's give a shout out to who I thought was my my personal MVP of the Women's Royal Rumble, Sol Ruka, who came in at number 10 and did not disappoint at all. She even had a cool moment where it looks like she was going to be eliminated, and she stuck her feet on the ropes and kept herself up, and uh she she knocked out some soul snatchers, soul snatched two people. Um she just showed up, and for her to be one of the final three, cheers to Soul Ruka. I hope this just means that they keep uh trending her upwards. She is still on NXT, she should be getting that call up any day now. Um, but of these three, when I saw these three, I honestly thought it was gonna be Tiffany Stratton, but I also thought I am happy with whichever one of these three women win this rumble. Uh turns out it's live Morgan time, everybody.
SPEAKER_04Yep, she finally nine rumbles in, and she finally got hers. So good for her. Like you said, too. I was, I mean, I was leaning Tiffy, I'm a little biased on that point. Um, and they put soul in there just to be like, hey, you were in the final three. Like, that's that's a big move. They did that with Roxanne the last two years. She was in the final two the last couple years, so that's kind of like, all right, uh NXT uh rookie, like here's your kind of main stage, like you're hanging with these two main eventers, and it was a great uh final three, but it it could have gone either way, and I was glad it was happy as Liv. So we'll see who she picks.
SPEAKER_01I'm happy like and I'm I'm happy that Liv Morgan is back, and uh we'll we we do not know as of now who she who she's picked. Uh well, we kind of do, but we can we can talk about that if you want to check out the recap because little you know.
SPEAKER_04Well, I mean I mean it was just kind of like she stood over, held up the bell, but she never officially said something. She's just I think just establishing a little dominance, like I could choose you, like this could be the future, but we'll see.
SPEAKER_01We'll see. That brings us to the ring general Gunther versus AJ Styles, the phenomenal one. If Styles loses, he is retiring from the WWE. This was a back and forth match with the two stars even going as far as exchanging sleeper holds at one point. AJ Styles going ahead and looking like the phenomenal one, uh breaking out all the big moves. Um but uh after a failed phenomenal forearm, Gunther counters and gets him into a sleeper, to which AJ Styles fades, fades, goes down, ref, even ref, come on, AJ, come on, man, lifts his arm, aids to block him goes down. Chalk up another one, Gunther can add another one to the list. Your winner is Gunther. So that means everybody. No more styles.
SPEAKER_04No more AJ Styles in the WWE.
SPEAKER_01The WWE. AJ Styles stands up and gets a very great standing ovation from the Saudi Arabia crowd. He starts to take off his gloves. Nope, we're not doing that, puts his gloves back on, pops out to the crowd, and he walks off. And we will see what happens next with the phenomenal one. AJ Styles, if this is in let's just say it's his last time, actually wrestling, hats off to you, AJ Styles. I know that I didn't follow him up until he made that debut in in 2016 at the Royal Rumble, but I'd always heard about how good he actually was. And so to be able to watch him get down these last 10 some odd years has been phenomenal. Okay.
SPEAKER_04The uh I I remember one match that I saw him in TNA and he actually fought Kurt Engel, and it was like a it was like a main event. I think it was for the title, and I think it was like a false count anywhere match, but it was a match where they hit so many finishers on each other and they just wouldn't stop. And I'm like, okay, this is getting a little boring. But I was like, who is this AJ Styles dude? Like he was flying all over the ring because the ring was still the six-sided at the time.
SPEAKER_03So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Um, so I was very excited when he came over to the WWE, the the big leagues, if you will. Um, but he has been very fun to watch, and I look forward to seeing what comes of him in the future. Uh, I saw a thing, it was pretty cool. It said we didn't know it, but we already lived his uh his goodbye like year. Yeah, you said victory tour, and and it was like him and Shinsuke. I picture him and Cena. Uh I was like, oh, oh, we kind of did. Yeah. Made me think. So yeah, anyway, uh, hats off to AJ Styles, a hell of a career in the WWE 10 years.
SPEAKER_01Phenomenal 10 years. Absolutely, absolutely. So that brings us to Boo Boo, our next match, which is Drew McIntyre, the chosen one, putting his WWE undisputed championship up against the hometown hero. Oh, let's go, Sammy Zane. And let's see. Um, well, coming into this match, I know that we were were both, I feel like we were both kind of on the same page of yeah, they could give it to Sammy, but boy, we don't want them to. I don't want them to take the truth. Yeah. And like we like we were kind of saying on one of our last things, like it's it's you know, I just think you had a whole you had a whole career to push Sammy. Like he was he was sitting there cooking, and then you know, so nothing but uh yeah. Drew focuses on Sammy's back early, a lot of hard shots to the back, a lot of slams, so that's gonna hinder Sammy early. He even I know he I remember he hits Drew with his big blue thunder, and it's yeah, so he's he's favoring that. Uh Sammy Zayn kicks out of three future shocks DDTs for a long two, a lot of big moves. Uh Zane gets put through an announce table. If anything, a lot, I mean Sammy Zayn showed up and did pretty well, but always does. If anything, they showed why Drew's that dude. Really good. Um they let Sammy kick out of that first Claymore. Well, he doesn't kick out, he puts his foot up on the ropes. Uh, but then uh by the end of the match, two claymores later, get him with the get him with the three count. And still your WWE, undisputed champion, still the king of the king of the castle. Drew McIntyre, everybody. Big Drew McIntyre.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, he's pretty good.
SPEAKER_02Uh Drew's getting better about it.
SPEAKER_00Go true. Go true. Which brings us to our main event of the evening.
SPEAKER_01It is the Thirty Man Royal Rumble. It's the big match that you know, no, no disrespect to the ladies at all, but this is the match that we all came to see.
SPEAKER_00It's it's it's it's meat and potatoes time, it's time to see who is gonna be going to WrestleMania to main event.
SPEAKER_01And number one, we start off with a bang because the ruler comes out at number one. We knew he was gonna be in the rumble, but we did not know when he was showing up, and we gotta tell you number one is overfeming. Let me tell you, it got real exciting in the house, real quick, man. Yeah, you guys were like, oh my god, he's gonna win it all, man.
SPEAKER_04And he had a very he he was a top contender, boy. Tell me. Uh who came out at number two? We found out earlier in the show.
SPEAKER_01Number two, number two, everybody. Uh we kind of knew from the pregame show, and all this, that, and third, who might be coming out. It is none other than the future of the WWE. It's brawn breaker, future Hall of Famer. It's his time. He's his time, he's ready to event, and he gets to the ring, and a a masked dude comes out, curb stomps him, and attacks him, throws him in the ring, and Obafemi throws him out, and brawn breaker's eliminated from the Royal Rumble. And the masked man pops over the barricade and doesn't show his face. Right. It's like, and I was like, we're doing this again. It's been a month. And there we go. I mean I when we talk about from like a big high to a big just the air kind of getting sucked out, yeah.
SPEAKER_00It's just like, ah yeah.
SPEAKER_01That's annoying. Yeah. But uh certain things I can get over kind of quickly in the moment, because I tell you what, man, after that we get to see an absolute clinic from Oba Femi. He throws out like the first the next five people that decide to come in, including Rey Masturro, who hits him with two 619s. But it does not matter. Oba Femi's that dude, he's the ruler. Get him on out of here. Get him on out of here, man. Uh, we do get at number eight, Javon Evans. Bouncy comes in, and uh, we'll get to Javon Evans later. I'll I'll throw his note in later, but hey, bouncy's in the building. The young OG uh uh showing in and showing out. Um at number 12, we get El Grande Americano. Then at number 13, which which we so I coming into everything, we'd heard rumors that Chad Gable was was probably going to make a return and we he might have been okay. Uh uh, so we didn't know how he was going to come back. I honestly expected it to be Chad Gable, honestly. But no, at number 13, everybody.
SPEAKER_04The original El Grande Americano with the original music, which is funny because I was just talking about, I was like, Man, I missed the old music. I wonder why they got rid of it and gave the new one, and then all of a sudden his old one hits, and we're like, Yeah, there's a reason for it, and he comes out super tan, like just like ready to go. Bad rehab hard. Uh but Chad game, I mean original Grande Americano. Right. Uh what's it OGA? Original Grande, yeah, OGA. Uh comes out and they just have it stare down the whole Spider Man kind of meme. We're on each other and don't know what to do, just so we'll see where this goes. Obviously, it will be a match at WrestleMania, I'm sure. But uh great. I'm excited Chad Gable's back.
SPEAKER_01The OG El Grande America the OG El Grande Americano tossed out the new El Grande Americano. Yeah, the new El Grande Americano. And don't be surprised, everybody. These two are going to square down again. I'm predicting an unmasking uh match at WrestleMania. I think that'd be great. Why not? Right. Uh after OG tosses out New El Grande, Trick Williams goes on ahead and tosses him out. Trick came in at number 10, but he was eliminated a little quick a little quicker than I would have liked. I forget who eliminated him, but he got a chance to show out a little bit, but again, he tossed out quicker than I'd like for the buzz that he'd be getting been been getting. Speaking of the buzz that people have been getting, one big snub from this Royal Rumble, or probably a couple, uh, but one big snub, no Carmelo Hayes in this Royal Rumble.
SPEAKER_04No Carmelo Hayes, no Finn Balor.
SPEAKER_01No Finn Balor.
SPEAKER_04And yet we had both Grande Americanos and yes uh La Parca later on.
SPEAKER_01We got a mystery iguana.
SPEAKER_04Um yeah, it's like, but no Finn Balor.
SPEAKER_01Hey, it could have been worse. We could have gotten like Michael Cole or like true three graves, or like, you know what I mean? Somebody coming out beside, and just you know, so yeah, but that's some of the talk online. Yeah, it it it looks it looks rough to tell someone on the air, like Finn Balor, like, no, we're at capacity for you, yeah, we're full, and then go out and no offense to Mr. Iguan and La Parque and some of the other people that were there. Yes, it's a time to showcase them because I do believe they're gonna be on the game. I know Mr. Iguan is gonna be, so I get that. But if we're just looking at from a story from just a straight storytelling standpoint, you put you you kept somebody out of the rumble where people could legitimately think yes, he could win, to putting people that yes, it's cute, it's gimmicks, people get to see them, but they're not going to win. So it's like, you know, speaking of people not going to win, number entering at number 21. LA Knight, yeah. Uh welcome back. He got tossed out real quick.
SPEAKER_04Why would you introduce the man like that?
SPEAKER_01Why would you do that to the man? It was it was uh it was and and this and the people were not happy. You could tell, you could tell he got such a big pop. We were all good to see him. Uh, and and no, just nope. Number 22, Rock Lesnar shows up, beast incarnate. He popped up because he's got to, right? He comes in doesn't have to, right? He comes in, wrecks some shop, stares across at Oba. You think something's gonna happen, then somebody else comes out after Jay Uso comes out and he gets eliminated in Jay Uso's entrance. Yeah, well, so well that was at 25. So somebody comes out of like 24 or two people come out after Brock, and then yeah, because they because I remember they do it like Brock tosses a bunch of people out, then him and Oba stare at each other, and as you as they're staring at each other, the timer goes down, then somebody else comes out, something else happens, then they stare at each other again, then they kind of get into it, then yes, you hear oo so guess what, everybody? It's time to yeet. We're gonna be yeeting because that's what we do when Jay Uso comes out with a half empty stadium, white slightly right before and whilst this is happening. LA Knight gets eliminated, and then while Jey Uso's entrance is happening, pretty much Obafemi and Brock Lesnar get tossed out.
SPEAKER_04Ridiculous.
SPEAKER_01What are we doing? I think well, I think LA Knight might have tossed one of those gentlemen out. So maybe LA Knight didn't go that quick, but he went somewhere. But either way, I just expect LA Knight to be like at least in the final four. I'll I'll be very honest.
SPEAKER_04Again, like what are they doing with this guy?
SPEAKER_01Coming in at number seven was Jacob Fatto. Speaking of people who also didn't win, or last very long either, or last very long. I mean, because you're already at 27, number 29, Randall Kennedy looking for his third uh Royal Rumble win. And then at number 30, believe it or not, everybody, the Ring General. After already going through and putting out AJ Styles, Gunther limps his way into number 30 uh at the Royal Rumble. So at this point, when I saw the people that were in the ring, I got real nervous. Because also at one point, remember, uh, we we didn't say it, but at one point, I didn't write down what number he came in, but we did see the OTC, everyone. Uh Roman Reigns does enter. You know who else we didn't see? Who else didn't we see, billion? We didn't see Chris Jericho, which at this point I think it's it's kind of one of those things where uh it they very clearly have kept stringing this along to try to build some interest and get people into it. Um I want you know, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04That's all he that's all he needs. That's all I need. Correct. I need to see him point to the WrestleMania sign in January. I need to see that before I die.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, from there, RKO tosses out Javon Evans. Shout out to Javon Evans, he lasted 40 minutes in the row. The Iron Man of the match, Iron Man. Good job, Javon Evans.
SPEAKER_04And he made up for it. He uh he hit that springboard RKO when he tried it a couple years back. That's been going around too, where he hit it back in NXT or tried, and Orton missed him because he like spun around too much or something. So it's kind of like a redemption thing where he did it and he hit it hard and it looked great. But another hats off to Javon Evans for uh definitely the bouncy. Yeah, he was the guy of the rumble for the men.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I agree. I agree, I agree. Good job for Javon. I mean, uh, but still my MVP because what a what a for sure showing too. What an amazing showing. What a what a statement, what a statement to make. Uh then we got Rhodes. Cody Rhodes is in there. Looks like he's you know he's holding on to the top rope. And who comes out of nowhere, Billy? Drew McIntyre, baby. You're WWE undisputed champion because as far as Drew's Drew McIntyre is concerned, Cody Rhodes.
SPEAKER_04Cody is starting at the very bottom.
SPEAKER_01Like Drew keeps reminding us, he no rematch, he's starting to read the bottom, so he is making sure the very moment where so Drew hits Cody in front of Fatou, like Fatu was gonna get the elimination. Drew takes him out, and Drew's looking at at Fatou like, I'm just I'm just trying to ruin Cody's day. Like, it's just about cody. Like, because Fatou was giving him the grill, like, bruh, you nothing on you, man. Yeah, uh, so your final four end up being Gunther, the ring general, Randall Kennedy Orton, RKO, the tribal chief, Roman Reigns, and the Maverick Logan Paul. Which honestly, I was okay with all of them. Yeah, honestly. I I accept Logan Paul because I know at a certain point they're he's going to get it eventually. He's gonna be the guy. I just keep waiting, I keep waiting for it. It's one of those things where okay. In fact, the sooner he wins the Royal Rumble, the sooner we can get it out the way. Like, give it to him. Because it's gonna happen, right? Like, give it to him now so we can we can just go not this year, not this year. Roman Reigns tosses Logan Paul out, Gunther tosses Randy Orton out, and we are down to our final two: the Ring General and Roman Reigns. And at this point, I did not think it would go to who it went to. Uh, I honestly thought I was like, man, I feel like they're going to create this story where not only Gunther retired AJ Styles, but then in the same night wins the Royal Rumble to punch his ticket to WrestleMania. But uh the WWE has bills to pay, boys and girls. And when you have bills to pay and you have ratings that need to go up and you need to silence some haters, who else are you gonna call but the head of the table, the tribal chief? Acknowledge him for his second Royal Rumble win, ladies and gentlemen, your 2026 Royal Rumble winner. Roman Reigns. Respect the aura, acknowledge the man. That's off back on top of the mountain is Roman Reigns. And hey, boy, I cannot wait to talk about, I can't wait to do our raw recap because I gotta tell you, whilst the show was nothing to write home about, the segment between Roman Reigns and Skid Punk, I've watched about five, six times already. Fantastic. It is already the best promo of the year, and it's it's yeah, it's I don't know who you're going to get to top something like that. It it I almost want to talk about it now, but that's what the recap and and it's it's just beginning, it's only gonna get better.
SPEAKER_04Right. Let me let me say something, a couple things. Um, I was overall disappointed with the man's white rumble. Um, there were not as many surprise entrants or returns as usual. Um, honestly, the women's rumble was better overall. Facts. Um, I would have swapped them around, but couldn't do that, and definitely not in Saudi Arabia. Um but other overall, I it was a pretty good match. I or pretty good show. I did I did run to the corner store and grab something to drink during the uh championship match, but I came back before, so I saw the end of the match. But we'd seen that match before, and I just I had a feeling Drew was gonna win, but uh overall I th the I'd give the rumble like a B minus overall.
SPEAKER_01That's a fair grade.
SPEAKER_04That's a fair grade because the A the AJ Styles Gunther match was fantastic, the women's rumble was great, had a bunch of uh big pops, uh Javon Evans and Keanu James. Yeah, Javon Evans, Keanu James were definite standout, so it was fun to watch them showcase her stuff.
SPEAKER_01Um so it was overall it was good. Yeah, uh overall I I say B minus uh Oba Femi, Javon Evans, Sol Ruka. So I got I got two guys. I should I should pick two girls, and last legend. I'll say those were my those were my my four uh uh picks for uh best best show. Yeah, all in all, you just yeah, the the men's rumble left me a little flat at the end. Just left me a little flat. A lot of disappointments, man. Just I wanted L I wanted LA Knight to do better. I wanted to see a little more trick. Yeah, all the all the big names just didn't last like very long. And they all stacked them right at the end. It was like right at the end, it was like all in the 20s. It was Roman, Faktu, Orton, Gunther. Like it was like, man, like yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Brock, they were all in where like it started real strong, the middle was a big lull, and then it the end was backloaded with a lot of big big names, so it was I don't know, it was it was balanced weird.
SPEAKER_01I hate to say maybe too backloaded, but it may be because like some bigger kind of names had to get pushed out the side really early, I think. So but you hate to say that because you want to see, you know, you want to see some stars, but but yeah, like I was watching, you know, shout out to WrestleMania. That's another just another channel watch, but like, yeah, so simple thing. No, no, Joe Hendry, no, no Jeff Hardy, like some names that were rumored to be like, yo, we're gonna get some some kind of pop in here. Yeah, so yeah, just let me left me a little flat. Definitely shout out to the ladies, but hey, that was our Royal Rumble recap, y'all. That's it. We don't want to keep you. I have things to do, he has things to do, y'all have things to do. So hey, Bill, yeah, go ahead and let them know how they can help us out over here.
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