Quick post rumble posting

Just thought that before we hear the results of this friday's Smackdown I should make a few theories and ideas before they are all thrown in the water.

Del Rio winning the Rumble... Edge retaining the Heavyweight Championship.

I am happy that Del Rio won the Rumble he has received such a push in recent months and he suits the title chase. We've seen on Monday's Raw that he has chosen to face the world heavyweight champion at Wrestlemania in his title match... and everybody is assuming it's going to be Edge... WELL ladies and Gentlemen... I think you're wrong. After Edge won his bought against Dolph Ziggler at the Rumble using a spear... Vickie Guerrero has created a rematch on this Friday's edition of Smackdown... It's Edge and Kelly Kelly vs Dolph Ziggler and Laycool... and I think Vickie is going to make Dolph win at any cost! (on a side note... the referee should not have allowed Edge to win over the Miz on Raw as he used a supposedly illegal move in the WWE... The Spear) This leaves Ziggy with the title... UNTIL Elimination Chamber. On Raw we saw teaser virals hinting at a return on the 21st of February 2011... the day after Elimination Chamber... it has been reported that the arena where the Raw show will be held the day after Elimination Chamber is promoting the return of the Undertaker. SO Undertaker returns at Elimination Chamber to then make his 'official' return at the following day's Raw... Taker wins the Heavyweight title at Elimination Chamber at what I'm guessing will be an Elimination Chamber match... goes on to Wrestlemania to fight Del Rio and Del Rio loses!

BOOM

And if i'm right you all owe me a fiver!

If i'm wrong... (which I may be) Tough shit.

I just thought i'd get this in before the smackdown results are posted later... I'll talk more about the Rumble and subsequent fallout soon.

Shughes

Jim Ross posting on twitter regarding Royal Rumble

Jim Ross has commented on twitter regarding the WWE's decision to make the Royal Rumble match a 40 man (or woman) competition. He has stated on his twitter page:

"If having 40 men in the Royal Rumble match helps sell ppvs, then its a really good idea. 40 sounds good to me. Makes the main event bigger. Watch what I say, the 40 man royal rumble match will be over analyzed by many. Gives 10 more paydays & adds 'biggest ever' mkt'ing hook. Bitching, moaning & complaining re: 40 man RRumble match underway. When has there EVER been more than appx 10 potential, viable winners? I would be interested in seeing tv competiton to see who earns #1 & #40 entries into the RR match. Do odds favor a Raw RR winner?"

Shughes' Views: I'm kind of torn on this decision, I can understand why Jim Ross is sticking up for the company's decision to make it a 40 man Rumble, in as much as he is an employee and representative of the WWE... but apart from giving ten more guys a pay day does adding them into the mix really give us a better event if there are never more than 10 viable winners anyway? Hopefully as we get closer to the Rumble event and learn more about the entrants we can begin to see how this decision will evolve leading the way to the grandest stage of them all.

The Royal Rumble

So I've just heard via prowrestling.net that this years Royal Rumble will feature 40 WWE Superstars instead of the usual 30. The news was broken via Joey Styles' Twitter page stating that this would be "The biggest Royal Rumble match in history".

I'm kinda with Jason Powell on this one I'm not sure bigger is going to be any better... for starters I didn't know the WWE even had 40 superstars on it's roster... secondly how long is this match going to go on for if they keep the timings the same? and if they shorten the entry timings were just going to have a ring full of bottom card talent and big show and kane just coming in and chucking them all out in one go... humph...

I guess this could mean a few more surprise entries? Triple H and Evan Bourne are both listed for events in March at MSG and after that as well... so we could see the imminent return of both of these superstars.... The Undertaker made an appearance at a Smackdown show a fortnight ago... maybe he's well enough to head back to the WWE, there have been rumblings of Batista... would that happen? or my personal hope Y2J Chris Jericho makes a well earned come back!

We shall see I suppose....
T'ra for now!
Shughes