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Retro Ups & Downs - WWE Royal Rumble 2001

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Sports & Recreation, Sports, Wrestling

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Our WWE Royal Rumble 2001 review as Simon Miller talks about Triple H vs Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho vs Chris Benoit, Edge & Christian vs The Dudley Boyz, Stone Cold Steve Austin winning the Royal Rumble match and much more...


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0:00.0

2001 was just a ridiculous time for the WWE then the W W. F.

0:13.3

We've already done WrestleMania 17 and even here in 2021

0:17.0

when you bring that up here, look at,

0:18.0

oh my God, since the burst is better than sex.

0:20.4

But even if you rewind it a little bit,

0:22.4

to January, you're getting the same kind of reactions

0:25.8

because the Roor Rumbull is pretty badass.

0:28.0

Because as well as the main event itself, you get a very different ladder match between Chris Ben 1 and

0:31.5

Chris Jericho, you get a W. W.F.

0:33.5

title bout between Triple H and Kurt Engel, and you kind of oddly get a very conservative fight

0:38.8

between the Dudley Boys and Edging Christian. But even with all that there was still a bunch of rumors going on

0:44.4

that were sending fans into meltdown. Because if you had bought into the whispers at the time

0:48.4

not only was Sean Michael's going to make a return in the Royal Rumble,

0:51.6

but so was Brett the hitman heart and because the

0:54.3

heart-wrack kid was going to come back to wrestling, why don't we just wiggle our straws and put

0:59.1

those two in a match? Like it's the easiest thing ever, are you crazy?

1:03.3

The best part is even though people were building names like this up,

1:06.0

what we actually got was nothing like it at all.

1:09.0

But the most focused on one was Drew Carey,

1:11.7

because he was about to have a pay peruse all the companies got together

1:14.4

to try and scratch each other's backs and the honky tock man was here and when we do bring up honk

1:19.3

never forget that his idea if you believe what wrestling is on face value his big idea was if I want to become a champion and I want to make loads of money I should pretend to be Elvis you go home

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