WWE: Royal Rumble 2021 Review - January 31st, 2021

WWE Royal Rumble 

January 31st, 2021 

Thunderdome 

Hey y'all it's a couple days late, but I'm finally getting this posted. My friend Mike (@mikexklinsky) is joining me for this one. Make sure to give him a follow on Twitter, he's a true king. 

Pre-Show: 

1) Charlotte & Asuka vs. Nia Jax & Shayna Basler - WWE Women’s Tag Team Title Match 

ETHAN: This really wasn’t bad at all, even if the finish left a lot of people unhappy. Charlotte & Asuka are great together and Nia didn’t fuck anything up. Charlotte hit an awesome moonsault off the top turnbuckle to the floor wiping out Jax & Basler before Ric Flair & Lacey Evans showed up. Flair slipped Lacey Evans brass knuckles and she cracks Charlotte in the head and it allows Nia Jax to hit the leg drop for the pin. 

Match rating - **1/4 

MIKE: This was the only match that took place on the kickoff showed, and I hate that this is the match that fell in such an unfavorable spot. This had some fun spots, most notably being the Charlotte moonsault. Nia hit a huge sit out powerbomb on Asuka in a near fall, and it was the single best Nia Jax spot I’ve seen in years. Ric Flair and Lacey Evans with a huge interference, causing the titles to change hands. 

Match rating - **

Main Show:

2) Drew McIntyre (c) vs. Goldberg - WWE Championship Match 

Ruthless Aggression Era Project: WWE Royal Rumble 2003 Review - January 19th, 2003

WWE: Royal Rumble 2003

January 19th, 2003

Boston, MA

WWE Champion - Kurt Angle (since 12/15/02)

World Heavyweight Champion - Triple H (since 12/15/02)

World Tag Team Champions - William Regal & Lance Storm (since 1/6/03)

WWE Tag Team Champions - Los Guerreros (Eddie & Chavo Guerrero) (since 11/17/02)

WWE Cruserweight Champion - Billy Kidman (since 11/17/02)

WWE Women's Champion - Victoria (since 11/17/02)

Commentary - Michael Cole, Tazz, Jim Ross, & Jerry "The King" Lawler

1) The Big Show (w/ Paul Heyman) vs. Brock Lesnar

Another fun one between these two and it actually got time to develop. The feats of strength by Brock aren't quite as pop-worthy as we've seen it a few times now, but it still rules and he looks like a complete maniac. Brock wins and gets his revenge on Show. 

Match rating - **1/2

Backstage interview with Chris Jericho. He's still talking about how he was screwed out of picking the #1 entry spot in the Rumble, but he's still gonna win the whole thing tonight. 

Nathan Jones hype video, he's coming soon. 

2) William Regal & Lance Storm (c) vs. The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray & D-Von) - World Tag Team Championship Match

2003 has seen a hot potato game played with the Raw tag titles and it continues here. Crowd is hot for Bubba & D-Von as always and the heat for Regal & Storm is there.. as always. Fun back and forth between these two teams, nothing crazy though. Morley interferes, Regal & Storm try to use their infamous brass knucks only for it to backfire when Bubba gets a hold of them and BAM, Morley is out. D-Von hits Storm with them behind the ref's back and 1..2..3.. wE HAVE NEW TAG CHAMPS. Now.. this is a feel good moment. Bubba & D-Von got humilated by Bischoff the other week, but uhh... let's not pretend Book & Goldust are the real feel good team here and should have never even lost these belts, to be fair.

Match rating - **1/4

3) Torrie Wilson vs. Dawn Marie