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Royal Rumble 2022. Sponsored by a Logic song from 9 years ago, you know, before his corny arc.  It's my 4th year reviewing the annual Royal Rumble show and so, a question you may be wondering (you weren't but for the sake of it), how does this PP…….excuse me, premium live event hold up compared to the recent Royal Rumble shows?  It was just kinda there. Other than the opening contest, the program didn't do much for me.  Images via WWE.com Roman Reigns vs Seth Rollins For The Universal Championship.  What a way to kick this PLE (doesn't have a ring to it) with this absolute banging of bangers.  While yes, the bout ended via a DQ due to Roman Reigns still locking on the guillotine, the context of the story being told with Rollins wearing the Shield attire and the way the former universal champion disrespected the current universal champion last night, made a whole lot of sense.  In other words, I thought the entire thing was f**king brilliant storytelling if ...

Royal Rumble 2019. Was it all that good? The answer is nope. Wasn't awful, it just made some booking mistakes or as I like it to call it, They've made some booking holes (this joke is as clever as WWE's booking these days). Without further ado, on with the review.   PRESHOW: Rusev vs Shinsuke Nakamura for the United States Championship.  The match itself was decent but Nakamura’s win made Rusev’s title reign a complete waste of air time at this point. Like why Rusev capture the US title only for a month later for Nakamura to get the championship right back? Makes no sense to me.  Speaking of a complete waste of time. The creative team decided to pair Scott Dawson and Rezar (because Akam got injured and recently had knee surgery) to face Bobby Roode and Chad Gable for the RAW tag team championship only for Dawson and Rezar to lose the match. Gotta love WWE's “creativity”.  Buddy Murphy vs Hideo Itami vs Kalisto vs Akira Tozawa for the Cruiserwe...