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Royal Rumble 1991:

A while ago, I said something like "Monsoon is a great announcer but he needs the right color guy to play off of." This wasn't a knock on Monsoon-- I like Monsoon a lot. But yeah, if you want a good example of a show where Monsoon doesn't have a good guy to play off of. Piper and Monsoon is death at the announce position. Like good lord. This damaged the entire show immensely for me.

The actual Rumble, beyond the announcing and the zzz winner, was also kinda garbage. It was a nice cycle of long periods of nothing going on, teasing something cool, then taking it away before it could develop into anything fun. Some examples to illustrate what I'm talking about.

Bret Hart draws #1. At just about the exact time where I'm like "hey cool, Bret is gonna make a run and go deep" Undertaker shows up and unceremoniously dumps him out of the ring immediately, when he was like the only guy in the match who had anything going for em at this point.
Taker is dominating, steps up to Hawk and Animal, who are then like "nope f*** off" and just wreck him and throw him out. At this point, I'm like "oh man I hope LoD start owning this match--" nope one of em is immediately tossed out.
Rick Martel has a nice ironman run going, but is tossed out just before the final four.

And what the hell happened to the roster between 1990 and 1991? Like just pure number of names here it's not even close. 1990 had a bunch of stars, 1991 had some stars, but a bunch of jobbers. The amusing part is that the finish between 1990 and 1991 are extremely similar, but really drives home this point even further. Both are Hogan vs two nasty heels and overcoming both. 1990? Two legends Mr Perfect and Rick Rude face off vs Hogan. 1991? Earthquake and.... Nasty Boy Knobbs. Oh.

Undercard? Yeah a bunch of garbage beyond the mentioned opening Rockers/Orient Express tag, but that's commonplace by now-- not sure Warrior vs Slaughter is worst title match ever but it's gotta be in the running. Would take any Khali match over it for sure, just out of the entertainment of Khali being Khali.

Rumble ranking:

1990 > 1988 > 1989 > 1991

I didn't expect that at all, particularly after 1990 was so good. But yeah, new worst rumble right here. For all I said about 1989 being a bunch of storylines with a match backdrop-- at least it had the storylines. This was just bad wrestling and a bunch of teases for 60 minutes with a predictable end I saw better done last year.
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