WWE Royal Rumble review (2015)

Now I have decided to start reviewing the WWE pay per views and I feel like I have to start with this year's Royal Rumble that I have just finished watching. Spoilers if you have not seen the show yet.

The show started with the new heel team from NXT The Ascension defeating the legendary tag team The New Age Outlaws. Now I have not been a huge fan of the ascensions gimmick, their promos suck and their look strikes me of a LOD, Demolition and powers of pain rip off that aren't really anything special. This was an alright match and it is always good to see road dogg and Billy Gunn but this match felt like a raw match and really nothing special.

The usos retained the tag titles against the miz and Damien mizdow in an okay match. The Philadelphia crowd were hugely behind mizdow and it's nice to see they are finally building to a match between mizdow and miz at wrestlemania. The match was okay but again nothing special and I think the usos will face the ascension at mania.

Brock Lesnar retained the wwe world heavyweight championship against Seth Rollins and John Cena. This match was easily the best of the night but I do believe that this match was a bit of a finisher fest which isn't that interesting. The moment where Rollins put lesnar through the table was great and was the showcase of the night.

As expected Roman Reigns won the 2015 royal rumble. Every year the royal rumble match is my most anticipated match of the year but the last few years have been a disappointment and this year is exactly the same. There were 3 surprise entrants this year that were bubba ray Dudley, ddp and the boogeyman and they were all good even though I don't understand why Randy Orton didn't return for this event. Bray wyatt was the star of the rumble lasting over 45 minutes but his early portions of the match was boring and just saw allot of short entrants. Then the moment that really ruined the rumble for allot of people, now I don't believe Daniel Bryan should have been in this match and then he got eliminated early so the wwe made the same mistake as last year and because of it the rumble was ruined for two years. When Roman reigns entered the rumble he was booed by all the fans and I felt sorry for him because the wwe really threw him in the deep end and under the bus. The end of this match sucked as well with Kane and big show going through the match and it was boring and actually hard to watch. After an attack by Kane and show the rock came out to make the save and once reigns eliminated rusev and won the rumble the fans showed they did not care. The wwe tried to make the fans like reigns by associating him with the rock but that plan failed and the fans still didn't care.

Overall this show had one stand out match but the rumble match itself was a huge disappointment and the wwe really need to up their game heading into wrestlemania.

Final rating - 4/10