Lots of news behind WWE's Royal Rumble announcements
Added 2022-01-10 19:33:41 +0000 UTCWWE made waves on Friday, when they announced tons of Royal Rumble surprises weeks before the show. Among those include Lita, Bella Twins, Kelly Kelly, Summer Rae, Michelle McCool and Mickie James.
WWE started reaching out to talent earlier than usual about appearing in the match. In recent years, they've contacted legends as soon as nine days out from the show to come in after not wrestling for years. However, we've heard that most that were contacted were under the impression that their participation wouldn't be announced ahead of time. We're told that this was done to help boost ticket sales and increase buzz for the show, and that there is "plenty of room for more surprises, and likely will be." Not everyone WWE contacted has committed to the match. We've also been told WWE will have backup names in mind.
WWE sources that we spoke to said that earlier on Friday, they hadn't been aware that the announcements would happen, then the late scripts included the names. An interesting note was that Mickie James name was preceded with "(?) Impact Knockouts Champion (?)" stylized like that. The word backstage at IMPACT Hard To Kill was that mentioning the IMPACT Title was a part of an agreement for the match, though we've not confirmed that with WWE or Mickie.
IMPACT was said to have been happy with the buzz, especially considering that they already had a Women's main event planned for their PPV.
As far as WWE is concerned, we've heard of pitches for "interesting" and "big" outside names, but have heard no context as to who they may be, or if they'll come to fruition.
Comments
I wonder if we could see Strowman or Keith Lee return
Daniel Lee
2022-01-11 00:21:47 +0000 UTCTo coin an Attitude era answer... "No Chance in Hell!!!!!!!!"
Troy A Palek
2022-01-10 23:42:35 +0000 UTCI wonder if Cardona or mox show up I rumble will they be Cardona or mox or Ryder and ambrose lol
Colt Baudoux
2022-01-10 23:08:13 +0000 UTCNeed Nick Aldis in the Royal Rumble
Ant
2022-01-10 21:47:00 +0000 UTCSo, did impact get any heads up from WWE they were going to announce Mickey James for the Rumble on Friday?
David Feig
2022-01-10 21:21:24 +0000 UTCMaybe Veer can finally come for the womens rumble
Nick O’Shea
2022-01-10 20:47:03 +0000 UTCI don’t mean it like how you’ve took it…I can’t explain it how I mean it
Cal
2022-01-10 20:12:56 +0000 UTCThey didn't hype shit. I asked
Fightful Select
2022-01-10 20:11:23 +0000 UTCI hope they aren’t just hyping his male guy to you guys to get more interest and then not deliver
Cal
2022-01-10 20:10:37 +0000 UTCIt appears the lack of roster depth has Vince treating the women like independent contractors
2022-01-10 20:01:59 +0000 UTCGo Mickie James!
ARose Lab
2022-01-10 20:01:18 +0000 UTCMaybe we’ll finally get that Emmalina debut.
2022-01-10 19:59:31 +0000 UTCOPEN THE FORBIDDEN DOOR
Tyler Center
2022-01-10 19:39:27 +0000 UTC
