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Hey everyone! How WWE Should Book the 2016 Royal Rumble.
Better find time to read this. It's a long one. How WWE Should Book The 2016
Royal Rumble
Pre Show: We have the usual announcers hyping the rumble and
talking about the rumble match and the matches for the night, and their
predictions, etc. In the last 15 minutes, we have the 4 way tag team rumble
qualifying match. I'd have the Dudleys win this. I feel bad because people like
swagger, Sandow etc who are in the match on their teams deserve to get in and
shine, but I think that the Dudleys winning would be the most believable and
best option, and plus they are an actual established team and they have been
jobbing a lot lately. The Dudleys celebrate and Renee young informs us that
Dean Ambrose vs Kevin Owens in the last man standing match for the IC title
will kick off the show.
Main Show: We get the usual video package to kick off,
featuring clips of past rumble matches and the narrator hyping it up, and we
get the usual "The road to Wrestlemania 32 starts now" line. Pyros go
off as Cole welcomes us to the 29th annual royal rumble. The show starts with
the lights going out. A gong is heard. Undertaker comes out to a huge pop and
does his entrance to the ring. Taker has a mic and cuts a promo that goes
something like this: "There comes a time where every man's career must
rest in peace. There comes a time when every man's career must take its final breath.
There comes a time in every man's career where they must retire. At
Wrestlemania 32 on April 3rd, I will wrestle my final match." Taker talks
about his career accomplishments and names everyone he's defeated at WM. Taker
continues and says:" I have chosen my final opponent. He will find out
very, very soon who he is." Taker puts the mic down and drops down to his
knees to do his pose with his eyes rolled back and his tongue out. The lights
go out again and the gong is heard, and when they come back on, Undertaker is
gone, but his hat still remains. Sitting in the middle of the ring.
1st Match: Dean Ambrose vs Kevin Owens LMS Match for IC
Title: Dean Ambrose comes out first followed by Owens. We get the formal ring
introductions and the match starts in a brawl. Owens and Ambrose go everywhere.
They fight in the crowd, they use weapons, they go to the outside, the
timekeepers area, and even backstage for a couple minutes. This match is
guaranteed to be insane, so Ambrose brings Owens out to the back on a forklift,
similar to what Daniel Bryan did at extreme rules in 2014. He stops on the
entrance stage, and there are tables set up in the "pit" area near
the entrance stage previously set up in the match. Ambrose tries to Suplex
Owens off into the tables, but Owens counters and powerbombs Ambrose off the
forklift through the tables for the ten count. I feel like Owens needs to win
back the IC title here. Owens is too good not to hold a title, and plus, what
other match would he have at wm? Now that it might be Lesnar vs Wyatt, a match
that I really don't want to see, that leaves pretty much nothing for Owens to
do. Also, Ambrose and Jericho would have a match at wm, after that shoulder
bump at night of champions that the creative team seems to have completely
forgotten about. I'd have the title back on Owens for those reasons, and plus
if he's not fighting anyone big like Brock, the ideal match for him is still
against Sami Zayn at WM for the title. Owens stands over Ambrose after the win
goes to the back, as Ambrose is helped to the back.
2nd Match: New Day vs The Usos for the Tag Team Titles.
Since everyone is injured, I have no idea what New Day's plans are for WM. A
couple months ago, I suggested a fatal fourway TLC match, New Day vs Usos vs
Dudleys vs Hardys, but now Jeff is injured I doubt they're returning any time
soon. Maybe that match could happen, you just take out the Hardys and add in
maybe the Lucha Dragons, or Enzo and Cass, or maybe in the next few months, the
young bucks could head to wwe? I'm not sure, but the Usos really haven't
accomplished much and new day should hold the titles until wrestle mania, so
I'd have new day retain by DQ after Xavier reveals his new instrument, a giant
tuba. After about a 10 minute match, woods just smacks jey uso with the tuba.
Normally, DQ finishes suck, but this time it's by tuba, and it's okay, because
only new day getting DQ'ed in this way is acceptable.
3rd Match: Charlotte vs Becky Lynch for the Divas Title. WWE
seems to be pushing Charlotte as the top diva, and I don't think she'll get the
title taken off her anytime soon. But I also don't think Becky should just lose
clean here. At Wrestlemania, I'd have it be the four horsewomen squaring off
for the divas title. Becky and Charlotte have a great match and near the end of
the match, Charlotte power bombs Becky through the Spanish announce table,
since it's about time that a women's match had a spot like that. Becky gets
back in the ring just as the ref puts his hands up for the 10 count. Becky and
Charlotte fight for a few more minutes and Charlotte is going for the spear
when suddenly Bayley's music hits she runs down and attacks Charlotte. Bayley,
Charlotte and Becky brawl and Bayley stands victorious in the ring as Becky and
Charlotte retreat in separate ways. At Fast Lane, it would be Charlotte vs
Becky vs Bayley for the title, and Sasha would return there, and the 4-way feud
would run from there. Charlotte retains her title and Bayley debuts.
4th Match: Alberto Del Rio vs Kalisto for the US Title. I
feel like the US title match should go on before the rumble for some reason. It
just feels right. I don't know who should win this match. Kalisto should be
pushed and be us champ but he already won it and lost it the next day, so it
wouldn't really have the same ambience. Nonetheless, I'd have Kalisto win it
back here. Kalisto needs the push and the title here, and well... Del Rio's run
with the title hasn't been... That great? So I'd have Kalisto go over. Please
wwe, though, do not have Kalisto lose it again on Raw and continue this
feud....
5th Match: Here we go. The Royal rumble match. The road to
Wrestlemania officially starts right now. We get the usual video package before
with all the facts and history and the "rumble by the numbers" thing,
and we get the usual tom Phillips explaining the rules. First entrant, as
expected is the WWE Heavyweight Champion of the World, Roman Reigns. Reigns
makes his way to the ring. Reigns gets ready in the ring as the excitement
builds to find out who #2 is, and 2 turns out to be none other than the founder
of Suplex City himself, Brock Lesnar. He comes out with Paul Heyman and
throughout the match Heyman is on commentary because Heyman on commentary is
gr8. Lesnar and Reigns brawl and out comes #3, Bo Dallas! Dallas runs to the
ring doing his victory lap. He notices Lesnar and Reigns in the ring and
regrets all his life decisions. Bo decides he'd rather be on the outside and
does a victory lap around the ring. Lesnar looks at him and bo approaches the
ring to mock him. Lesnar grabs Bo for a huge belly to belly over the top rope.
Lesnar and reigns temporarily work together as Lesnar pushes bo in front of
reigns as he eats a spear. Lesnar gives bo an f-5 and tosses him over the top
rope and he's
eliminated. Lesnar suplexes reigns a bit and #4 enters and
its Heath Slater. Reigns superman punches Lesnar before Slater gets in and
slater enters the ring and eats a superman punch and a spear and is eliminated.
Brock and Roman each share an elimination. #5 comes out and it's Curtis Axel,
the man who was never eliminated from the 2015 rumble. Axel has a mic and says
he will be the first man ever to win 2 rumbles at the same time. Lesnar
suplexes reigns out of the way and axel enters the ring with slater still on
the outside. Lesnar murders axel and slater distracts the refs to try to help
axel eliminate Lesnar dirty. Lesnar Irish wips axel to the ropes but axel goes
through the middle rope. The refs think he is eliminated and axel screams at
the refs, saying he wasn't eliminated and he went through the middle rope to
the floor. The refs didn't see and declare Axel out. Slater sbd Axel argue with
the refs more and the refs tell them to go the back. Axel yells how he was
never eliminated from 2 rumbles as he goes to the back. Lesnar rolls under the
bottom rope and grabs the mic Axel had. He gets back in the ring, reigns still
down and he says he kicked these three geeks asses and he says he wants a real
challenge. The clock counts down to #6 and out comes GOLDBERG. Lesnar goes
livid and Goldberg spears Lesnar. Goldberg punches Lesnar and reigns runs at
him but reigns goes over the top rope but hangs on. Goldberg tries to eliminate
reigns and Lesnar also runs at Goldberg. He tries to eliminate both men but
reigns gets back in the ring and Samoan drops Goldberg. Out comes #7 and it's
Bray Wyatt. Wyatt attacks everyone and delivers a sister Abigail to Lesnar and
reigns. Wyatt stomps Goldberg in the corner and out comes Big E, at #8. Big E
delivers a huge belly to belly on bray and attacks reigns. Lesnar is up now and
Big E and Lesnar have a standoff. They start attacking each other. Out comes
#9, Chris Jericho. Jericho delivers code breakers to everyone and puts big e in
the walls of Jericho as Dean Ambrose enters at 10. Ambrose is showing his injuries
from his LMS match earlier and limps to the ring and punches big e and Wyatt.
Lesnar tries to Suplex Ambrose but Ambrose lands on his feet and does his
rebound clothesline off the ropes to Lesnar. Ambrose and Reigns look at each
other, and they shake hands because they're "brothers", and the
commentators mention how "it's every man for himself, Maggle!"
Ambrose and reigns start brawling and reigns is working on Ambrose in the
corner as Kofi Kingston enters at #11. Kofi does a ton of high flying moves and
brock beats him down. Lesnar and Big e start fighting and Brock knocks big e
through the middle rope to the outside. Lesnar no targets Kofi and f-5's Kofi
over the top rope but he lands on his hands, in a classic Kofi rumble spot.
Lesnar is furious and the crowd is amazed as Kofi handstands to the steps and
into the ring. Lesnar is pissed and German suplexes Him over the top but big e
catches him and throws him back over the top rope. Two awesome Kofi spots in
one rumble. Lesnar rolls under the bottom rope and takes out big e. Brock
destroys Kofi now for real and throws him over the top rope info the barricade.
Luke Harper enters next as #12 to join Bray. Bray and Harper get everyone down
and turn to Goldberg. Bray Wyatt delivers a sister Abigail to Goldberg and
Harper and Wyatt finally eliminate the legend to heat. Out next at 13 is the
leader of the League of Nations, Sheamus. Everyone eats a brogue kick and
Sheamus gets reigns, Wyatt and Ambrose and finally Lesnar up, all for their own
ten beats of the Bodran. Out next at #14 is X-Pac, another surprise entrant.
The crowd goes wild as x pac attacks everyone in the ring. Harper, Jericho and
Sheamus all eat an x-factor. X pac stomps everyone as bubba Ray enters next as
#15 X pac and bubba exchange blows and Harper gets up and delivers a double
discus clothesline to x pac and bubba Ray and Wyatt laughs. #16 is Erick Rowan
and he enters to join the wyatts. The 3/4 of the wyatts beat down everyone.
Bray gets on his knees and yells follow the buzzards as Harper and Rowan stand
behind him like usual. Out next at 17 is D-Von and he quickly is mauled by the
wyatts. The wyatts are picking up steam and eliminate both of the Dudleys and x
pac to boos. The wyatts attack the others in the ring and out comes the final
Wyatt member, Braun Strowman at #18. They all destroy Big e and dump him over
the top rope. The wyatts eliminating everyone has made enough time for everyone
else in the ring to rise. Lesnar, reigns, Jericho, Ambrose, and Sheamus all
surround the wyatts and attack them. The wyatts try to put up a fight but the 5
are too much for them. Everyone starts hitting their finishers in each other
after the wyatts are down. Lesnar f-5's Sheamus, reigns spears Lesnar, reigns
eats a code breaker from Jericho, and Ambrose and Jericho are the two still
standing in the ring. The commentators remind us of the altercation at night of
champions, and Jericho and Ambrose brawl. As they're fighting, #19 comes out
and it's Kevin Owens. Owens joins Jericho beating down Ambrose. And Ambrose
shoves his win earlier in Ambrose's face. Owens goes to fight Rowan and Harper
in the corner, and jericho throws Ambrose over the top rope but he hangs on.
Jericho is punching Ambrose, trying to eliminate him but Ambrose pulls Jericho
over, too. The two are so focused on killing each other that reigns runs at
them for a double spear and the two are eliminated. Ambrose looks at shock in
reigns and reigns shrugs and says, "it's every man for himself,
buddy!" Reigns now has eliminated 3 men. Ambrose smirks at reigns and
Ambrose and Jericho start brawling. They brawl into the crowd and eventually
into the backstage near the pit where the under side of the entrance stage is.
Owens is standing tall in the ring and looks crowd and says "im the man!"
With his hands up. Owens waits for #20 and out comes the returning/debuting
former friend of Owens, Sami Zayn. Zayn and Owens murder each other. Zayn is
going wild on Owens and the crowd is on their feet and Zayn has Owens in the
corner and he runs at him for helluva kick and Owens goes over the top rope but
hangs on. Zayn and Owens are still fighting in the ring and out at #21 comes
another surprise entrant. It's none other than the hall of famer, the hitman,
Bret Hart. Yes, I know, Bret is almost 58 years old, and he's in no condition
to wrestle. He would only be in for like 1-2 minutes and would just punch a few
people and put someone in a sharpshooter. Owens, Zayn, and Bret face off. Three
natural born Canadians. Bret kicks Zayn in the gut and he falls down and grabs
Owen's legs for a Sharpshooter as the crowd goes insane. Owens is in the
sharpshooter for a while and Owens counters and pushes Bret back with his legs.
Bret is against the ropes and Owens clotheslines him over the rope and
eliminates him to massive heat. Neville comes out next at 22 and starts doing
flying moves to everyone. Neville does a springboard salida deal sol to Owens
and Zayn. Lesnar takes Neville to Suplex city and eliminates him. The wyatts
come to attack Lesnar but the beast beats them down and eliminates Harper and
Rowan. Lesnar and Strowman face off and they start going off the ropes and
delivering stiff clotheslines to each other. They both give one to each other,
than they both go off the ropes and Strowman goes for a clothesline again but
Lesnar ducks and picks up Strowman in an incredible feat of strength and f-5's
him over the top rope. Lesnar screams his taradactal scream and raises his
hands up. Lesnar on fire. Sheamus runs up behind Brock and brogue kicks him.
Lesnar is down and is about to eliminate Brock but Brock reverses and throws
him over. Lesnar has now eliminated 9 men. Currently in the ring are Lesnar,
Reigns, Bray Wyatt, Owens, and Sami Zayn. Out next at 23 is Kane, in his 17th
straight rumble match. Kane grabs Wyatt and Owens for a double choke slam.
Reigns superman punches Kane and throws him out quickly. Reigns has now
eliminated 4 men. Lesnar has eliminated 9. Wyatt has eliminated 4, including
with the Wyatt family, Owens has eliminated 1, and Zayn has eliminated 0. #24
is the debuting demon, and NXT champion, Finn Balor. The crowd goes insane as
Finn is in his demon paint, but does his normal entrance, to save time. Balor
floors everyone. He has reigns, Wyatt, Zayn and Owens all in separate corners,
and delivers a coup de grace to all of them. Lesnar runs at Balor but Balor
catches him with a step up enzuguri. Balor shows off as Alberto Del Rio enters
next at #25. Del rio attacks Balor and has him down. Zayn is up now and he
delivers a blue thunder power bomb to Del Rio. Zayn and Balor both grab Del Rio
and eliminate him. Currently in the ring are Reigns, Lesnar, Wyatt, Owens,
Zayn, and Finn Balor. Wyatt grand Balor for a sister Abigail and Zayn and Wyatt
fight in the corner. Out next at #26 is Ryback. He runs in the ring and meat
hook clotheslines everyone. He gives Owens and Zayn a shell shock and Lesnar
grabs Ryback for more suplexes. Reigns gives Lesnar a flying clothesline and
Reigns is standing tall. Balor kicks Reigns and they fight in the corner. Balor
throws reigns over the ropes but he hangs on. Balor is trying to eliminate
Reigns as #27 enters. The lights go out. A gong is heard. The lights come back
on and Undertaker and Finn Balor are the ones standing in the ring. Balor looks
suprised and mad and Taker slaps Balor. Balor slaps Taker back. Taker is pissed
and grabs Balor for a chokeslam. Balor reverses into a DDT and goes up to the
top rope for a coup de grace. Balor jumps but taker catches him in the air for
a tombstone. Taker dumps Balor over the top rope to boos. Taker goes over the
top rope too, and carries Balor to the back. Taker doesn't care about winning
the rumble, he's focused on destroying this new young demon. Taker has chosen
his final Wrestlemania opponent. Currently in the ring are Reigns, Lesnar,
Wyatt, Owens, Zayn, and Ryback. Out next at #28 is Dolph Ziggler. Ziggler super
kicks everyone. Ziggler gets cocky and tries to eliminate Lesnar and Reigns at
the same time but they hold on. We're getting close to the end of the rumble as
#29 enters next, and of course, it's the Big Show. Everyone immediately storms
big show but he knocks everyone out. Big Show tosses Ryback over the top rope
and eliminates him. Big Show has flattened everyone. Big Show screams "I'm
a giant!!" About 57 times as he waits for entrant 30. And the final
entrant in the 2016 rumble is none other than AJ godamn Styles. Everyone in the
ring just looks at AJ styles in shock. AJ looks at everyone and gives them the
gun/bullet club shot. Everyone tries to storm AJ styles but he gives Zayn and
Lesnar a styles clash. Reigns runs up and superman punches Styles and styles
bounces off the ropes and does a springboard uppercut to Reigns. Big Show and
Styles are left standing and AJ slaps Big Show to cheers. Big Show grabs Styles
for a chokeslam but AJ counters with a hurricarana, eliminating Show to a huge
pop. Currently in the ring are Reigns, Lesnar, Wyatt, Owens, Zayn and AJ
Styles. One of these 6 men is going to headline Wrestlemania. AJ is stomping
Wyatt in the corner and Owens gets a mic. Sami Zayn is down and he talks about
how he knocked Zayn unconscious and won the NXT title last year. Owens is
rubbing it in Zayn's face and Zayn gives Owens a low blow. Zayn throws Owens
out to a huge pop. Zayn is celebrating as Owens runs back in the ring and
attacks Zayn with a steel chair. Owens throws Zayn out and eliminates him.
Owens powerbombs Zayn through the announce table to massive heat. Owens yells
at Zayn that they're not finished and goes to the back. Trainers help Zayn up
and Zayn refuses the help. Zayn limps to the back, beaten and bruised by the
Owens attack to cheers. We go back to the ring. The final four men are in the
ring. Roman Reigns, Brock Lesnar, Bray Wyatt, and AJ Styles. The 4 brawl and
Styles throws out Wyatt. Wyatt is pissed and yells his demonic sayings at AJ.
The final 3 are Styles, Lesnar and Reigns. The rest of the Wyatt family comes
out to attack Styles to avenge Bray's elimination but Styles fights them all
off. Lesnar runs at styles and tries to Suplex him but he lands on his feet.
Styles gives Lesnar a Styles Clash and is distracted by the Wyatts. He's pulled
out and eliminated by Luke Harper to massive boos. Styles and Wyatt would have
a match at Fast Lane and feud which Styles would obviously win. Styles would go
on to face someone at mania, but I'm not quite sure yet who he would wrestle.
The final two, Lesnar and Reigns, who entered as entrants 1 and 2. Only once in
history have 1 and 2 been the last two entrants. Lesnar and Reigns completely
brawl. Lesnar suplexes, f-5's, powerbombs reigns. Reigns spears him, superman
punches him, clotheslines him. Both of them are bleeding now, I know it's pg,
but there is blood on special occasions, and this brawl should be one of those
occasions. It's similar to their fight at WM31. Lesnar is destroying Reigns and
is properly roided out at this point. He's screaming at the hard camera. Lesnar
turns around and eats a superman punch from reigns. He eats 2 more SP and is
staggering but won't stay down. Reigns goes for a spear and it connects. Reigns
points at the Wrestlemania sign and goes for one final spear. Reigns runs to
spear Lesnar but he's stopped short by a sledgehammer to the face by a
returning Triple H (hopefully with his old long hair). HHH beats Reigns down
with the sledgehammer and pedigrees him. Lesnar is up now, damaged, and he and
HHH have a stare off. HHH shakes hands with Lesnar and watches as Lesnar does
his thing. Lesnar delivers a final f-5 to Reigns and eliminates him. Heyman
celebrates and walks into the ring. He announces your winner of the 2016 royal
rumble, and the new WWE Heavyweight champion of world, Brock goddamn Lesnar.
I don't feel like HHH vs Reigns should be at Wrestlemania,
and if it is at all, it shouldn't be for the title. It just doesn't have that
feeling and someone like HHH shouldn't be hogging that main event spot. It can
happen at Fast Lane, for a shot at Brock Lesnar and the wwe title at Mania,
which obviously Reigns would win. It would be a no holds barred match. You
could have another dream match, Lesnar vs Kevin Owens for the title, champion
vs champion, which Lesnar would win after interference from Zayn, to set up
Owens vs Zayn for IC title at mania. You'd have Styles vs Wyatt as kind of a
filler match/feud for Styles until WM. And you could also have Zayn and Ambrose
feud, just because. They could put on a great match, and have a really good
feud. Zayn would win, in a 2/3 falls match. There, I booked the rumble, and you
already have 4 spectacular top matches for Fast Lane.
How did I do? Let me know in the comments below. I worked
hard on this one, so I hope you really like it.
Tell me what you guys think! Thanks! As always, I'll have my
"How WWE should book Fast Lane 2016" post the day before that!
