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This is Dave Legreca.

We're just hours away from Royal Rumble 2021.

As we all know, we've talked about it a lot this is going to be

unlike any other Royal Rumble that we have ever seen it's going to be extremely

different than the Royal Rumble even from last year with 43,000 fans in attendance.

This is going to be in the Thunderdome, but let me tell you this, this is going to be an extremely significant Royal Rumble.

Probably one of the better Royal Rumbles that we have seen over the last few years.

Of course, you're not going to get the moment like an edge return and that

pop from the crowd but I really think the stories that are going to be driven from

what we see is going to take us all the way to that road to WrestleMania 37.

And I haven't broken down into five different categories, five things that you need to look for

in the Royal Rumble this year.

And it starts at number one, and that is what a lot of people look for

at the Royal Rumble, and those are those

NXT call-ups.

And I think we're going to get some NXT call-ups at the Royal Rumble. next from the women's royal rumble match. First of all, with the women's royal rumble match,

and this should be no surprise because we have not seen her

on NXT at all over the last few weeks,

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