WWF: Royal Rumble 2001
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Movie Reviews of WWF: Royal Rumble 2001
Movie Review: All in All a Great PPV
Summary: 4 Stars
Although it's early in the year, this PPV still has a good chance of being the PPV of the year. Edge and Christian V.S. Dudleyz Boyz seemed to have lost its taste after the reoccuring match, but this certainly changed that. Both teams put on a hell of a performance. Jericho V.S. Benoit in a ladder match was without a doubt their best match together so far, and they've had some great fights. So far that has been the best match of they year, even better than No Way Out's 2 out of 3 falls.Angle V.S. HHH for the title was entertaining because for the first time there was no fan favorite, and personally I didnt care. They had a great match with the exception of Stone Cold interfering but still very entertaining. The Royal Rumble itself was great with Drew Carey being in the ring alone acting like he's all that and then Kane comes out and Drew hops over the ropes. The Hardcore action during the Rumble was a good way to use the time: Trash Cans, Kendo Sticks, etc. Big Show making his grand return and chokeslamming the Rock through the table as a bit of revenge for Rock eliminating Show was just a way to hype up Show's return and just got the Rock out of the ring for awhile. When Kane was about to be eliminated by all the Hardcore guys and Undertaker came out the crowd went nuts. Austin getting attacked by HHH when he came down to the ring was well deserved for Austin ruining the title match, but the AUstin fans out there will hate it. In the end the last three guys were Kane, Rock, and Austin, and it was a great ending to a great match.
The reason this is only 4 stars was because Ivory and Chyna put on the biggest waste of time in the last 30 years of wrestling when we could have seen a good Test and WIlliam Regal match. Chyna got carried out on the stretcher again, yeah, why didnt they just keep her out? Why waste 20 minutes having her leave? The whole neck injury was a bad idea anyway. Only dogs wore the neckbrace she had on, it was not real. And if you want to know about neck injuries look at Austin or even Christopher Reeves. For some reason Chyna comes back after a month of being out and all I can say is I she didnt.
Other than that this was a good PPV and the DVD extras were very entertaining but didnt include enough as Home Videos like Hard Knocks and Cheap Pops or Austin's new one. The extra money to get the DVD instead of the VHS is well worth it, as WWF always seems to do good with their DVDs with feedback and voice overs by the superstars.
Movie Review: One match stole the show
Summary: 4 Stars
The Royal Rumble is always a mixed bag. This years card was pretty weak and the Rumble itself was a mumbled mess. There is only one match on the whole card that actully was worth watching.
The Dudley Boys vs. Edge and Christian: Decent match but nothing really speical happened in this match.
Chris Jericho vs. Chris Benoit in a Ladder Match: One of the greatest, physical ladder matches ive ever witnessed. This is probably the only reason to see this PPV. Its also on a much better set, WWE ladder matches but if your crazy about scratched out WWF logos, this one doesnt have scratched out logos.
Ivory vs. Chyna: Dont like women wrestling as I said many times before. Call me sexist but I just dont see the point. Well for men to go goo goo crazy over it I guess. I'd rather watch porn.
Kurt Angle vs. Triple H: Good main event even though I hated Triple H at this era.
2001 Royal Rumble: I really thought this Rumble was as bad as 1996. Kane did put on a great performance but I thought Drew Carrey ruined it. I didnt like JR and King promoting his show about every few minutes after he appeared. It was pretty cool to see the Rumble turn hardcore as Raven entered. I always hate when one person gets a burst of energy and WHAM! Its only one guy left after eliminating 6 guys. Of course that was Kane with brother Undertaker. Big Show entered and cleaned house. Once again, Big Show cleared house and then got eliminated way to early. Its funny the dues men put in WWE just to get ahead about four years or so later. I did like Triple H busting open the Rattlesnake and him coming back to win it all. I was shocked at Haku's come back, although that really didnt last long.
A decent Rumble with only one match that was excellent.
Movie Review: Great opening pay per view for 2001
Summary: 4 Stars
The 2001 Royal Rumble pretty muched lived up to the hype with some great matches and a awesome royal rumble match.The opening match is the Tag Team Championship match between The Dudley Boyz & champions Edge & Christian. Suprisingly good match between two of the most successful tag teams ever. Get everybody hyped up for the pay per view. Next is a ladder match between Chris Jericho & Intercontinental Champion Chris Benoit. Could be the match of the night. Features some brutal hardcore moves like, Chris Jericho's chair shot to Chris Benoit when he's jumping out of the ring. Highspeed match between these two talented athletes.
The next match is Chyna vs. Ivory for the Women's Championship. This was on its way to being a pretty good match but ends with Chyna reinjuring her neck. Better than there Wrestlemania match but the ending is worse. The WWF Championship match between Champion Kurt Angle & Triple H, is an ok main event. Things get stupid when Trish Stratus & Stephanie McMahon Helmsley start having a chick fight in the middle of the ring. Match ends with Stone Cold interfering.
The Royal Rumble match was full of surprises. Here are some highlights. Jeff Hardy enters the match at number 1, with his brother entering at #3. Its fun to see the Hardy Boyz fighting. Also, the Honky Tonk Man makes a special appearance, as well as Drew Carey, Haku, & The Big Show who gives a vicious chokeslam to The Rock on the announcers table. Most people should be impressed with Kane on this DVD, as he was in the match for over and hour, and elimanted more people than anyone. Other participants inlcude The Undertaker, Stone Cold, The Rock, & Rikishi.
Movie Review: Great PPV, but the wrong man won
Summary: 4 Stars
Womens Championship Ivory (C) w/ The Right to Cencor vs. Chyna: Dont watch it, reason I gave this DVD a 4 star.
World Tag Team Championship: Edge & Christan (C) vs. The Dudleyz:
If you like Tag Matches, watch this, this was back when WWE had tag divsions, The funniest part of the match was hen Edge and Christan hit each others with Chairs,
Intercontinental Championship: Chris Jericho vs. Chris Benoit (C)
This was a great Ladder match, the highlight was when Benoit dived out of the ring only to get hit with a chair.
WWF Championship: Kurt Angle w/Trish (C) vs. Triple H w/Stephine: An okay match, a little too slow, but there just calming us down for the main event. One thing I dont get is, there was no fued with HHH and Angle, it was Austin/HHH and Steph/Trish
The Royal Rumble Match: A great Royal Rumble, Trash Cans, Chairs, Fire Extinushers (Spelling?) are all used. The Rock gets chockedslammed though the announce table. The only thing I dont get that Austin won and they made him looked like he went though an hour of fighting, but it was Kane who did that. Kane deserved to win, instead he got pushed away with a one day reign where guys like HHH, Angle, Rock, Austin will always be main eventers.
Movie Review: Roya Rumble 2001
Summary: 4 Stars
This Rumble was pretty good. A good portion of the matches were good with the exception of probably one of the best Singles Ladder Matches ever (Benoit vs Jericho, IC belt on the line). The Championship match between HHH and Angle was pretty good and even the Tag Team championship between the Dudleyz and Edge/Christian was O.k. Match you could easily skip/fast forward through? Ivory and Chyna. I absolutely hated this match and still do to this day. I didn't like RTC (Right To Censor) Ivory and this match was totally one-sided and boring. Best thing about this match? It ended.
The Rumble Match itself was great, with guest entries from WWE great The Honky Tonk Man and TV star Drew Carrey. Give it up to Drew on this one because he did help eliminate the Hardy Boyz. This Royal Rumble also saw some Hardcore rules in it as well and a great Rumble outing from Kane, probably one of his best Rumbles.
I'd this one is worth checking out just on the basis of Benoit and Jericho's Ladder match. I still think that was one of the most memorable Ladder matches (TLC's NOT included, just Ladder matches). And again, the Rumble match was pretty good in this one as well. Check out ROYAL RUMBLE 2001 and also check out ROYAL RUMBLE 2002, INVASION and WRESTLEMANIA X7.