Big Ben At The Royal Rumble Last Night

He had really crappy seats to be a celebrity. What is the greatest Royal Rumble ever? That is a tough one? I'm gonna have to say 1991 when Hulk eliminated Earthquake. I used to almost salivate for the Royal Rumble. It was an awesome event. Remember when WCW started Battle Bowl? It was a Royal Rumble format but with TWO rings! Of course Sting won the first one.

 

Dude he makes the Nature Boy an HBK look like midgets! Where was it held?

 

Here we go!

 

Pretty sure it was in The Burgh.

 

I was thinking the same thing.

It reminds me of when I was at Wembley and the Steelers ran on to the field, and my friend next to me just said: "He really is big, isn't he?"

 

I don't know Blount, I think the year that Stone Cold came out and cleared the ring might edge 91 out.

 

I read that last night a new record was set for eliminations which took it to 12. The thing that made Hulk doing that so awesome was because Earthquake had actually almost killed Hulk on the Brother Love Show when he did his finishing move on him while Hulk laid helplessly on the stage. The "doctors" came out and put Hulk on a stretcher and took him away leaving kids such as myself to wonder if he would ever wrestle again. LOL. Then he heroically won the Rumble two years in a row but when he threw Earthquake out it was like when he bodyslammed Andre the Giant.

 

Yeah he's enormous. I still think Casey Hampton is the most massive human I have ever seen though. His thighs just look like huge pillars.

 

Wow, is that Shawn Michaels? He still wrestles? I used to live for this stuff, but haven't watched it in 12+ years. Can't imagine what his body must be like now. It's probably the only sport harder on the body than football, and yes, I do mean sport. While the outcome might be staged, what those guys do in the ring would kill an average person.

 

I think Shawn mostly does like special appearances and things like that. He did get really hurt at one point and it was a back injury no less. I agree that they take a ton of punishment. How would you guess it stacks up to what a pro football player takes? I mean would you say they get more concussions swept under the rug and things like that? I agree that it's totally brutal.

 

Looks like he was having a good time.

 

I think it's far worse than what a football player goes through because they are wrestling 300+ times per year and most of them spend nights sleeping in cheap motels or even their cars. The stars of wrestling make a good living although it's still hard on their body, the rest live a miserable life chasing their dream. There's a reason so many wrestlers die at a young age.

I never hear of wrestlers missing time due to a concussion, it's simply swept under the rug.

 

Yeah there's not near the protocol for them that the nfl has. I would say there is actually more pressure for the lower tier guys to perform hurt than there is in the nfl really. They have the threat of losing their contracts constantly over their heads. I think Ben would make a pretty good wrestler though because he is so dang tough. Kevin Greene made a pretty good one and I thought it was awesome but I bet there were plenty of older fans that thought it was incredibly stupid for him to do that.

 

i thought it was one of the worst Rumbles in recent memory because they pretty much mailed in the result when Batista hit the stage. they didn't even have Daniel Bryan in the Rumble. i've never seen Rey Mysterio get (indirectly) booed so much when they announced him as the 30th entrant.

 

So those shots of him in the crowd were just like "made for tv" shots or something? I was saying that because it looked like when they showed him he was pretty high up and I just thought those were his seats.

 

Yeah Bleacher Report said that they put Mysterio in a horrible position because everybody thought it was gonna be Daniel Bryan and the fans took it out on Mysterio.

 

Yes Ben was front row behind where the announcers sit. I was there. He was there for a good bit of the show and then left his seat to go backstage or whatever.

 

That's awesome dude. Were you disappointed with the show?

 

I enjoyed myself (as I usually do no matter what)...but MEH is all I have to say. I think I went to a better show the night before but still, haha.

 

Out of interest gpguy... this isn't you, is it?

 

I was there too. Me and a couple buddies made the trip from NJ just to go there. I wasn't quite sure what happened to Ben. He was just missing at one point.

As for the show, I loved it. The Bray Wyatt-DB match was the best match I've seen in a good long while. The Big Show-Lesnar "match" was just awkward. The beatdown went on too long. I loved the crowd, particularily for the title match and the Rumble. I was laughing my a** off when Mysterio got mercilessly booed.

Now, the Consol, I have to say, sucks. They opened the doors 20 minutes late (at least at the American Eagle entrance), and the way they do crowd control is abysmal. Who makes a stadium where you have to go up two flights of steps just to get to the concourse. And then having to bottleneck everyone on the concourse to check tickets? That's just dumb. The upper bowl has steps that are so steep I'm honestly surprised no one has fallen to their death yet. Also the concession stands are not nearly plentiful enough. Most stadiums will have a bank of stands where there's 10-15 lines at any given time. Having a queue line for concessions? Bad move, and makes everything take longer than it has to.