Warning: This is a post about Professional Wrestling, choose to ignore if you don’t give a damn.
So I have been asked to post/tweet about the Royal Rumble, which is one of the best Wrestling Pay-Per-View (PPV) events of the year, which happens tonight! If you are not a wrestling fan, but are somewhat interested in it, I always find the Royal Rumble to be a good starting point if you wanna watch a wrestling PPV. Wrestlemania is a great PPV event, but it gives new viewers a skewed perspective on how wrestling events usually work. Wrestlemania is larger than life in all aspects, including the wrestlings involved/the fireworks/the arena/etc. The Royal Rumble events usually have the same setting as every wrestling show, which is a medium sized basketball (or hockey) arena. It features the most wrestlers, because of the 30 man Royal Rumble match, and it typically features a strong main event to setup the main event for Wrestlemania….though not always.
The Royal Rumble holds a special place in my heart. In 1997 the Royal Rumble occurred at the Alamodome in San Antonio, and I went with a friend and my brother. It was an amazing show, and it was my first PPV live show I went to. I love watching wrestling live. I do miss the announcers, because they bring a lot of the show, but being live makes everything feel more real. The energy the crowd creates is unlike anything, and everything is so much louder when you are live. I highly recommend watching this PPV if you happen to have a subscription to the WWE Network (which is NINE NINETY NINE BROTHER!).
Tonight is one of the most unpredictable shows I can remember. I honestly have no idea who is going to win, whether you are talking about the 30 man Royal Rumble match, or the main event of the PPV. I won’t go through the details of each match now, there are plenty of commercials (like this one, and this one) .
So a friend of mine who runs a small wrestling community site asked me to “live blog” while I am watching the show. I don’t even know what the hell that really means? I know the technical term for “live blog” is to watch some webpage with words scrolling about what certain people think, while advertising is going on in the background and other people are commenting. That sounds like facebook and twitter, doesn’t it?
To me blogging should feel more stream of conscious, so I may write my thoughts of each match in it’s own blog post then save them as drafts. Twitter is going to be a good place for me to post immediate reactions in small bites, but I have trouble keeping up with twitter. It may be too much for me to read twitter, watch a PPV, and then write blog posts. We’ll see. This is my first time doing this.
So if I am going to bet who is going to win tonight, I would likely lose a lot of money…no matter who I choose. I have a serious feeling WWE is gonna serve, which means they are going to do something very crazy and unpredictable. We will see. I am excited. 🙂