Hello, and welcome to the Royal Rumble review. I'm Adam Wilborn from Whatculture joined by Phil Chambers from Whatculture to review everything that's just happened at the Royal Rumble premium live event

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We're going to get quiz of course on WrestleCulture as I said that joined by Phil Chambers to review the Royal Rumble and a rather eventful show

Yeah, just a little bit especially that goddamn ending, but I assume we'll get to that later

Yeah, it's difficult to express our feelings about this but we have to I want to try and do it in due course

Yeah, so we should probably start on the kickoff show because we were doing the live stream and what have you

It's currently course past six in the morning here in the UK so apologies for a bit all over the place

On this one, I'm sure me and the dad leaves will pick the bones of this premium live event in the coming weeks

But on the on the kickoff surprise they didn't circle back to it incidentally how do we do we hammer this sort of thing

They had the backstage meet with the bloodline and it was all a bit tense and then Roman kind of says tonight's the big night

Don't care what happened on Friday with the sokoa, Sami Zayn, stuff, etc

Sami you'll be by my side the entire night which was basically them saying he's not going to be in the rumble

Yes

And we've heard reports before we started that it was Owens and Reigns main eventing and I will say I think you and I both thought

Okay

It's weird to make a decision to do it like that

And then we also heard Men's Royal Rumble's opening the show

Oh well, I think that's the first time that's ever happened

But looking back, that makes a lot of sense now doesn't it?

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