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WWE Royal Rumble 2023 (Wrestling Review)

WWE

Royal Rumble 

San Antonio, Texas

Jan. 28th, 2023

 

Royal Rumble Match
Booker T vs. Brock Lesnar vs. Edge vs. Bobby Lashley vs. The Miz vs. Seth Rollins vs. Sheamus vs. Finn Balor vs. Drew McIntyre vs. Cody Rhodes vs. Kofi Kingston vs. Ricochet vs. Johnny Gargano vs. Xavier Woods vs. Santos Escobar vs. Elias vs. Baron Corbin vs. Angelo Dawkins vs. Chad Gable vs. Braun Strowman vs. Karrion Kross vs. Damian Priest vs. Gunther vs. Montez Ford vs. Otis vs. Austin Theory vs. Omos vs. Dominik Mysterio vs. Logan Paul

A fun and pretty formulaic mens rumble. Instead of bringing in a lot of old names they mainly focused on main roster guys. Gunther comes off this looking like a massive star and the final moments between him and Cody Rhodes were fantastic. 

4 / 5

Pitch Black Match
LA Knight vs. Bray Wyatt

A horrible gimmick match that was over quick and had some terrible post match antics. 

.5 / 5

WWE RAW Women’s Title Match
Bianca Belair (c) vs. Alexa Bliss

The crowd wasn’t super into this and it just felt like an off beat Raw match. 

1.5 / 5

Royal Rumble Match
Michelle McCool vs. Natalya vs. Becky Lynch vs. Asuka vs. Candice LeRae vs. Emma vs. Tamina vs. Bayley vs. IYO SKY vs. Michin vs. Nikki Cross vs. Zelina Vega vs. Piper Niven vs. Dakota Kai vs. Nia Jax vs. Tegan Nox vs. Dana Brooke vs. Zoey Stark vs. Chelsea Green vs. Shayna Baszler vs. Rhea Ripley vs. Liv Morgan vs. Sonya Deville vs. Shotzi vs. Lacey Evans vs. Raquel Rodriguez vs. Xia Li vs. Indi Hartwell vs. Roxanne Perez vs. B-Fab

This had its moments but suffered in the middle. Only a few older names in here and the Damage Control stuff would have worked better if they had more direction. The ending though was solid and the winner was easy to see half way through. 

3 / 5

WWE Title / WWE Universal Title Match
Roman Reigns (w/Paul Heyman & Sami Zayn) (c) vs. Kevin Owens

While this wasn’t the best match between them the close calls and emotional story telling pulled this match through. Some really rough spots too including Owens taking a spot on the stairs. Post match, while not included into this match review, is a story arch moment that will be remembered for years. 

3.5 / 5

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