The Official 2009 Royal Rumble Thread

[Hugh Mungus]

Discuss.

**UPDATED (25 Jan 2009)**

*30-man Royal Rumble

Entrances so far (courtesy of Disco Stu):

1: Triple H
2: Big Show
3: Vladimir Kozloff
4: Shelton Benjamin
5: Undertaker
6: Randy Orton
7: Kofi Kingston
8: Rey Mysterio
9: John Morrison
10: The Miz
11: Kane
12: Ted Dibiase
13: Cody Rhodes
14: Santino Marella
15: R-Truth
16: Brian Kendrick
17: Carlito
18: CM Punk
19: Finlay
20: Mark Henry
21: Chris Jericho
22: Chavo Guerrero
23: The Great Khali

*World Heavyweight Championship: John Cena vs. John "Bradshaw" Layfield (with Shawn Michaels)

*WWE Championship: Jeff Hardy vs. Edge

*ECW Championship: Jack Swagger vs. Matt Hardy

*Women's Championship: Beth Phoenix vs. Melina

[CM Crünk is teh 'CRAP!]

It's offcial!!!!

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

I don't know who is going to win this thing now that Hardy (my pick) is actually the champ.

[Pooh Carlson]

Dec 14, 2008 22:55:21 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

I don't know who is going to win this thing now that Hardy (my pick) is actually the champ.

Same here. Unless Vicki screws him out of the belt before the rumble.

[ChitownKnight]

I think trips is gonna win the rumble now

[Chuckie Finster]

Triple H is the early Rumble favorite.

[Dave at the Movies]

I'm guessing it is going to be a heel that wins this year. I hope this year they have a few surprise entrants. It would be awesome if Christian came back in this. It would be so unexpected because everyone is looking for him to come back and be the guy that attacked Hardy.

[Stu]

We can finally start this thread. And by the looks of it, apparently others were also eager to get it going.

[Nacho STAYS Hyped]

I predict that Triple H or Mr. Kennedy will win.

[Joekishi]

Here's the top 5:

1) CM Punk, regardless of what the interwebz thinks he's been the most consistently booked wrestler on the whole roster. He got cheered over Rey Mysterio tonight, the guy has so much merchandise it's insane, and I think if WWE wanted to solidify somebody new as the TOP DAWG he's the man.

2) Batista, what better way than to build Batista/Cena 2, than with a Rumble win, and 2 months of build to the super rematch. Batista put Cena out with a Broken neck, now he's not only coming for "his' title he's coming to finish off Cena.

3) Edge, the guy just lost his title and with a wife GM to insure his spot, who knows how the Ultimate opportunist may win the Royal Rumble

4) HHH, well he's HHH and he should have won Last year's.

5) The Big Show, there's nothing going on with the guy at all right now. Should they choose to put the strap back on the World's Largest Athlete I don't think anybody would mind.

[Hugh Mungus]

My predictions for surprises would have to be either Christian, Tomko, or both.

Unless it's the trademark Russo swerve~!(TM), and Christian stays with TNA.

[The Line]

since I'm at college, this will be the first Rumble I'll have to miss in a 3 or so years. Tis a shame

[Stu]

Things could still change if Hardy loses the title at the Rumble or at No Way Out. Thus, this will be a hard thing to predict. So in the meantime, how about predicting this year's Iron Man and guy with most eliminations?

I predict MVP will get either award just to tease the end of his losing streak.

[Lara]

Punk to enter at #1 and break the faces of the entire roster with the GTS.

[Childish Gambino]

So that poster wasn't just a filler?

[Tim]

I'll be there!

[rrm15]

I haven't been following closely the last 2 months or so, but looks like my favorite time of year is here!

I want Edge to win just because it's the only thing missing from his resume. I'd love it.

[Mayonnaise]

Dec 14, 2008 23:05:57 GMT -5 Joekishi said:

Here's the top 5:

1) CM Punk, regardless of what the interwebz thinks he's been the most consistently booked wrestler on the whole roster. He got cheered over Rey Mysterio tonight, the guy has so much merchandise it's insane, and I think if WWE wanted to solidify somebody new as the TOP DAWG he's the man.

2) Batista, what better way than to build Batista/Cena 2, than with a Rumble win, and 2 months of build to the super rematch. Batista put Cena out with a Broken neck, now he's not only coming for "his' title he's coming to finish off Cena.

I don't see it being Punk since he is moving into an IC title feud. Batista is a damn good possibility since he beat Orton and Cena is champ. I was thinking Matt to go with a Hardy/Hardy Wrestlemania. Hell, he can be the one that attacked Jeff or just go for the brother/brother face/face match.

[HardKore]

Edge to lose his rematch to Jeff at the PPV and beat up the 30th guy and take his spot and win the rumble.

[Methusael86]

Well now that Hardy is champion, unless something happens between now and the Rumble, I'm thinking Edge will win, thus still getting Edge vs. Hardy at WM25.