The first WWE pay-per-view of the year is always their strongest one. The Royal Rumble is the beginning of the "road to WrestleMania," and although the event this year gave us a clear-cut picture of what will be coming up in regards to "the grandest stage of them all," the matches promised didn't quite deliver as they should've.
First match-up of the night was for the ECW Championship as new champion Jack Swagger defended against former champ Matt Hardy. My expectations of this match weren't high, and I was right. Nothing much exciting, no high spots, and the match had a boring ending. The only real noticeable thing was Matt Hardy's expression after the match, which gave us a glimpse about where he'd get involved later.
Next was the Women's Championship match between champion Beth Phoenix and Melina. Very general women's match, a couple of botched spots, but a surprising ending as Melina won the match and the title. Curious to see where this all goes.
After that was the WWE Title Match as JBL with Shawn Michaels in his corner challenged John Cena. Unfortunately, this match played out similar to their WrestleMania match from a few years ago. The end is where it got interesting as Shawn got involved by taking out both wrestlers, and leaving the ring and giving JBL the potential win. However, Cena came back and got the win in the end.
The best regular match of the night went to World Heavyweight champion Jeff Hardy defending against Edge. The match was made No Disqualification right before it started, so of course some high spots were expected. However, the match did drag on for a little until it finally came to the end where the unthinkable happened: Matt Hardy came out seemingly to help his brother Jeff, but instead turned on him and cost him the title. Edge became new champion, and now a Matt/Jeff feud is in the works.
Finally was the match that was worth waiting for: the Royal Rumble match. 30 of the WWE's best superstars competed for a title shot at WrestleMania. Usually there are some surprise participants, but this year only had one: the return of Rob Van Dam. He looked good, not missing a step, but didn't win the match in the end. This year they seemed content with filling the ring as much as possible, and there were on average about 15 wrestlers in the ring for most of the match. In the end, the winner was actually the man expected to win (based on his storyline from the last few weeks), and Randy Orton made it through the match by eliminating Triple H last. Orton now has a chance to fight for any major title he wants.
In the end, the event was good for one reason only: the Royal Rumble. Otherwise, you could take it or leave it. Moving on, I have a quick blurb from my TV Wrap-up now that I've caught up:
Smallville- Very general episode. Only a handful of characters got some spotlight, while the ones left out have been missing for a couple of weeks now. Only real revelations came at the end of the episode, but it doesn't seem major enough. Hopefully the show takes a step up next week, or at least shows some promise for the future.
That's your blog for today. Gonna keep the blogs the a surprise for the week (that's includes a surprise to myself.......random seems like a good option for the week). That's the signal......what do I always say at this time? Correct. Now what do I say next? Correct again. And yes, I'm sure you made up some goofy thing so that the "correct" response made you laugh. Oh well, whatever keeps you entertained.
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