2008
I still say Hornswoggle was the only logical choice to be Vince's kid. Vince spent years talking about his grapefruits and being a genetic jackhammer. The ultimate comeuppance to this would be his offspring being a little person. If it was Kennedy it would have just put over Vince as being able to spawn an athlete.
I blame Lilian Garcia for Mike Adamle's botch. She's staring over his shoulder the first time he appears on screen. Clearly he caught her crappiness.
That Maria segment went on WAY too long
Speaking of that, I remember being at Wrestlemania that year when the power went out during the Divas match. The mark next to me thought Santino was responsible. Had they gotten the lights back up quick enough they could have used that as an excuse.
As soon as Taker came out at #1 it was obvious who #2 was
Khali's body always looked so damn weird
Well let's see, Santino and Khali went out in no time at all, I wonder how Hardcore Holly will do....
OH shit, Holly made it to the next entrant
Batista draws a shitty number too. Maybe we'll get a repeat of the first Rumble PPV with midcarders in the finals? Doubt it...
Batista spears Morrison. Cuckolded!
Hornswoggle never enters. According to the old dusty rulebook you have to enter the ring before the next participant or you're eliminated. Guess we'll forget that part.
right now we have Batista vs. Holly, Taker vs. Palumbo, and HBK vs. Morrison. This is like Bizarro World.
CM Punk just qualified last night. Like he wasn't gonna be in the match anyway.
Taker sells for like EVERYONE in this match
Snitsky could have been the Amazing Colossal Man
Shawn superkicked Shelton AGAIN
Superfly looks like a grandmother coming out. Taker headbutts him and sells for Snuka. It's pretty awesome.
Tazz: It's safe to say The Miz and Jimmy Snuka are two completely human beings....different human beings....jeez!
As Roddy Piper comes out if you look you can see the biggest smile on Jimmy's face
Everything stops so the legends can have a one on one match. Punk smiling and then gets kicked by Morrison.
Kane ruins everyone's fun
Jimmy looks like he tries to get back in and Scott Armstrong grabs him and tells him something
If Morrison went a few shades lighter his furry boots would look like Big Bird
No one has really had a ring-clearing moment yet shockingly. Seems like they're stalling for something.
Pretty sure Tazz just called it the "Rum Rumble"
Mick Foley looks cold. So many layers.
Taker eliminates Snitsky. HBK eliminates Taker in shocking fashion and HBK gets thrown over by Kennedy. Taker gets pissed and attacks Snitsky for some reason and leg drops Snitsky through the announce table.
Hornswoggle eliminates The Miz and hides again.
I remember how pissed everyone was with Chavo being in the Rumble as ECW champ. I think they should have somehow said that Vickie had some influence in this and they just wanted to make sure Punk wouldn't win.
They needed a way better explanation for Finlay being DQ'd from the match. We also needed a proper elimination for Hornswoggle
This was a really weird era where everyone was REALLY behind Triple H and wanted him to win the title at Wrestlemania. Was it just so they could boo him with the title?
Triple H turns into our world killer eliminating several guys quickly.
Cena entering at #30 is still the biggest shock ever at the Rumble. I was convinced someone was just using his music and was pretending to be him until he showed his face.
Great moment where Cena and Triple H are about to square off and Mark Henry attacks Triple H first.
The final 3 being Cena, HHH and Batista was really a great idea since it could have literally gone any way. Cena had to win though with that return