Jim Cornette Reviews The 2022 Men's Royal Rumble Match 

I was howling when he said that 😂

Don't forget Matt Riddle.... Or Middle as I call him lolz

But, but.. It’s “his house”.

Seriously I was watching it with my buddy and kept saying why does he scream after every damn big move he does. I was just so perplexed with how terrible he is by himself.

@@scottthegeneticfreaksteine393 exactly! I thought Khali was the worst big man in wrestling until I saw "Almost".

@@scottthegeneticfreaksteine393 Right. I hate that he roars after everything he does. It looks stupid and he looks like an idiot while doing it.

Shane was released from the WWE today so that should help lol. Nobody is safe! I can't wait to hear Cornette talk about it.

Rumble was Boring af but in kayfabe Shane McMahon looks like tough guy who will jump off things and will stand back

The fact that Shane and his shitty little punches managed to out-punch a former UFC fighter in Riddle is absolutely laughable. I’m still baffled and livid over how they booked him to eliminate KO and last until the final three…

@@BrolyLSSJ01 then get rid of the part timer

Not anymore. Shane's gone.

I don't why bring lame ass actors in.. especially since everyone knows they'll lose. Foolish

Bad bunny 🚮🚮🚮 jackass hasn't been shit 4 awhile now... Shane always puts himself over...

And if you disagree then you're wrong. You're wrong regardleess actually so case closed, chump

@@nathantturnert1631 You can say the same about around 400 other entrants in Rumbles. They shouldn't have come out that late, but i'd rather see Lil Bunny who at least has passion and tries to do stuff, than Ronda Rousey selling barely anything and has close to zero personality.

@@TheLibermania I could go without both of em. And that forbidden door rule. Fkn Ronda wins ffs. Everytime i try liking it again it turns dumb af

@Sub if you are against Antifa and BLM facts

Nope not facts not even remotely true, he had 12 fights in the UFC and only lost 3, considering how young he was at the time that is a fantastic record.

@@ryanmcl9578 it is a fact that they should stop referring to him that way in WWE, they don't portray him in that way whatsoever, his record means nothing if he's a comedy act imo.

@@ryanmcl9578 I wouldn't say it's a fantastic record 😂 he fought absolute bums and only had 2 finishes, and 5 decisions.

@@__D-B__ he was only 22-27 years old in the UFC and went 9 and 3 in 12 fights, for a young upcoming fighter that's a fantastic record yes.

Shane booked himself into the final four as well

There was reports it was rewritten several times If true no wonder guys looked like they was confused at times

He finished fifth, but fair point nonetheless. If you wanted the crowd to pop, have Omos come out around 24 and make he and Brock the final two.

Yeah, it's bad when a novelty entrant like Bunny looked better than alot of the actual wrestlers. What a mess.

@@G_Six I read it was changed at least 20 times. Their heads were probably swimming.

At least Bad Bunny seems to have actually trained for it, remember everyone thought the same thing about the Miz.

@@giantmess4335 🤣🤣🤣🤣can you say some more dumb things for my amusement?

@@AlfredShitcocks you say that but The Miz was just a guy on that MTV or VH1 (cant remember the tv channel) reality show everyone hated. and he became world champion. So Ill ask you, does it matter the background of someone if they get good in the ring and mic? or are you completely against Bad Bunny for the sake of being against him?

@@giantmess4335 he's a celebrity pretending to be a wrestler. Miz was a reality TV show star that became a wrestler. Two different things. Is Bad Bunny gonna give up his shitty rap career to be a sports entertainer? You lack logic.

@@giantmess4335 and if you remember Miz was on tough enough. He didn't just appear on a ppv as a reality TV star. He dedicated his life to being in the WWE.

Everyone did.

When you're telling your stories correctly and building the people that the audience wants, you should know the RR winner after Survivor Series. That's when the concept worked at its best. HBK, Austin were not surprises. That is where the story took you and everybody knew it. This stuff isn't difficult.

TBF any idiot could tell it was almost guaranteed to be Brock Lesnar. Being able to predict a predictable Rumble winner doesn't make you a legend.

I mean it's the exact same finish that Brock pulled a couple of years ago for the money in the bank match but idk...

@@silvereyedlionking21 very similar to Becky Lynch Rumble 2020

Dude I'm getting Peacock for free until June, and I still felt ripped off

There's always Halloween Kills & Macgruber

Plus there's no surprise entrance anymore

But MaGruber tho...

I'm really disappointed in the Wrestlemania card for this year. But WWE on Peacock is pretty awesome overall. TONS of great PPVs and Nitros and RAWs from years past. Well worth the money to me. I have more than I'll ever be able to watch even if I totally ignore the past 10 years of WWE content. Even old matches from the Bruno Sammartino, Jesse The Body, Dusty Rhodes, and Bob Backlund days are on there.

Mean Street Posse were hilarious in how goofy they were lol.

Lol I thought Rodney had the look to be a star back then and Pete Gas was the Jannetty. Joey Abs was like Leif Cassidy.

They have one of my fave wrestling themes.

First audible groan for me. Wasnt the last

Yeah man and I really wanted him to win. Styles NEEDED to win, Brock didn't need to win because Brock would've gotten his title match one way or another.

AJ coming out at number 1 was a stupid move. He was one of like four legitimate stars capable of winning, and in my opinion the most interesting choice, but obviously they aren’t having him win from the one spot since Edge just did last year.

@@justinczech1489 this was worst rumble I can recall seeing. I guess this is why I've been slowly going to AEW

And to make it even worse they gave us hope by entering him at the iron man spot, did the shawn michaels pose, got 5 eliminations which is the most anyone got in this rumble at that point I thought it's actually happening he is winning this and then he gets fed to a jober, I swear I left my seat and almost turned the shit off

It was Shane that booked the mens rumble

@@ismithy147 That explains a lot here.

@@ismithy147 The boss's non-wrestling stuntman son. Yeah, good idea, let him do it.

whatever happened with kidd is he still crippled?

@@MarsofAritia he’s a backstage producer now

me too, i dont even watch wrestling to much anymore i jus listen to Jim review lol!

@@5Johney same

@@Logic105 he could do a watch along like shawn Michael's and razor ramon when they reviewed there ladder match

I need Jim to watch it live for the first time lol! I need to hear the utter disgust in his voice.

he needs to do a live react video of it. the views he’d get would be pretty damn good

I love it. The hell is a madcap. JD said best his first week on Smackdown that he thought they said madCAT which would’ve sounded way better.

What is he???

@@jcc3333 From Dublin, Ireland.

No other country exists to Americans 🤣🤣

@@TheLibermania him and Conor Mctapper had a feud

Jim should know by now, Drew's Scottish and Sheamus is Irish and drew is 6'4-6'5. AlsoSheamus is dhorter than drew so there's no way he's 6'6.

He's at least bigger

@@dominiquehenry7699 My favorite Rumble ever.

Why tf Matt and Jeff Hardy of all people? 😅

@@gst013 They were already there when Drew Carey's number came up.

fuck shit stune nakcmaura

I mean what do you expect from the wwe at this point? They aren't going to do things that you like. They are going to do the bare minimum

Its getting really old to see part timers who only show up a couple times a year get treated like they are a big deal. This rumble seemed disorganized and I thought it was the worst one yet.

I could not Agree more, it seams all the fans are getting from WWE now is in the men's main event scene Brock v Reigns both are so pumped full of steroids and HGH that for either to get a hard on they would need a ton of viagra injected into their spine. Even then it may still not work, other than that in the mens rumble we get Austin Theory who is also on the gas and is also a possible sex offender just like Riddle, Junkie Jimmy Havoc, Dick Boy, David Star and even Jay lethal in AEW. None of these people should be on TV till a police investigation has taken place and it goes infant of a judge jury. Anyway other than Brock v Reigns there is Flair again she is on steroids and has gotten worse and worse in ring over the last 3-5 years v Rousey which is a match I could not give a shit about. When every person who is a fan of WWE just wants to see Rousey v the likes Bel Air, Ripley and Becky Lynch as fan have already seen Flair v Rousey. what is there to care about in WWE any of the none roided up talent will get pushed, none American talent just gets treated like shite, Japanese wrestler male and female get treated f***ing awful and like second class citizen's. No I will just stick with AEW hoping that Punk and Bryan can rub off on the basement booker and that someone gets through to Tony that he needs to hire an actual Booker and he then hire's Gabe Sapolski to be the booker and he also hire's Regal as a talent scout, Samoa Joe, Brian Kendrick and Timothy Thatcher as player coaches. As well as Tony Khan buying ROH or coming to an agreement with ROH to become AEW's developmental territory for AEW's young green wrestler to go and learn from the best alongside veterans from ROH like Dalton Castle, Gresham, The Briscoe's hell even have some of AEW's veteran's be apart of it as well on a rotation system.

@@lighteningleke3228 Thats a whole lot of words to say you like one shitty company more than the other.

I kept getting Moss and Boogs confused. They basically look the same to me. Moss' spot could have gone to a returning star like Elias if he ever is allowed to wrestle in WWE again, or a legend. There were almost NO surprises in the men's match. I predicted Brock to win, so no shock. Shane and Bad Bunny were it for surprises?

Steaming pile of excretion? Hmm.

Keep sleeping pot head

Same. I woke up wondering where the hell did Bad Bunny come from

@Justin Sharpe Pushing Moss to what? Catering??

If they bring Kofi down they're liable to just bury him and leave him down there.

@@MorpheusASmith see that's crazy to do. There's always a story to be told (but I realize that's the writer in me )

Kofi shouldn't be embarrassed, I wasn't embarrassed for him and I don't think anyone else was. We all know that at some point he'd do something he couldn't complete, the fact he tries is what makes Kofi Kofi. And even though it's a botch I don't see it as one, he's been doing every trick to stay in the match, it would make sense him being eliminated during another wacky attempt, far as I'm concerned it wasn't even a blip on the radar

Nobody really cares about Kofi anymore. He peaked when he was WWE Champion and since then, he's going to remain where he always was at. His Royal Rumble spots were bound to screw up at some point the more they kept on shoehorning it every year.

Maybe it's time for Kofi to retire and become a trainer maybe. Why keep him there if he's gonna just be fodder? He should have retired after his Championship run. Sure it would be sold as Brock killing him but maybe that could have been the logs to start up a firey storyline...

the whole did the feet touch the floor spot in the Rumble has been so overplayed it needs to die. every Rumble its used 20 times or more now

@@americanbadass88 it should be done once every 5 years

And he still never wins smh. Tired of the smiling & tossing pancakes. All 3 of the New Day need 2 get serious. BIG E is done

Riddle provides Randy with the dankest of weed

He was high

Who tf would believe that Randy Orton in 2022 was gonna be booked to win the Royal Rumble? It was always going to be Brock and this WM main event with Roman. It has Vince's sticky fingers all over it. Ronda and Becky for WM day 1, Roman and Brock for day 2. The rumble is just about setting up the big names match now, not creating storylines and stars.

@@gsesquire3441 well Randy was going to beat the streak and he reject to doit the same Henry and Batista

@@gsesquire3441 Randy in an interview said, that you didn't know about it is not my problem

That's cause the women's roster is so much smaller. The women's rumble was pretty much only modern women who have been in the title picture or held the title recently or nostalgia pops

Tbf, 1/2 of the women's rumble was surprise entrants

Apart from Shayna. Why they give her that dead music

By design.

English, sucka!

Big facts

@Django Fett we do. That’s why we’re here. Duh.

Wasn't hard to do with Shane and Bad Bunny almost winning the thing.

There's a video/theory that says the reason the Rumbles have been so good in the last few years was because HHH made sure everyone had spots and got it coordinated and he wasn't there. The last few have been great imo.

Apparently it was Shane who put this Rumble together. And now he's been released from WWE.

@@fabian4023 There's a few reports saying the men's rumble plans were changed at least 20 times

@@DaylinThaGemini I wouldn't be surprised. Seems to be par for the course in WWE. Reports are saying Shane was causing havoc backstage, which pissed off a lot WWE employees, and led to his firing.

@@fabian4023 he be fired all he want beut he is the boss son so he come go as he pelase

Lucky man ! Those were my golden days of WCW with The Steiner's and skyscrapers . RIP to your Dad.

Worst punches I've ever seen.

Seriously he sweats like he’s on PCP

For sure. The only thing that seemed to hold water on the card was the women's rumble amd the intergender tag match.

Welp, there goes the money.

It looked like Shane was about to have a stroke. He could've at least gotten in better shape before trying to dominate a battle royal that included some actual athletes.

I mean whens the last time the royal rumble made a legit star that won the belt at mania

@@jamied4486 since 2005 imo

@@jamied4486 drew but his whole babyface coronation was ruined cause of the pandemic

Exactly, I knew after Lashley went over that Brock would pop up at the end

Who else do they got? Stone cold and HBK are 86 years old

No kidding

What wrestlers would return that they haven't called recently let go? Shane gets a big pop and Bad Bunny is most stream artist on the planet. But i guess that doesn't sound as good as boss' son and a random Latin guy...

@@davyjones2032 literally throw a stick in a random direction and you'd get someone more over than Shane. Bunny was a good inclusion though. The fact that he was in the rumble over any NXT talent or even R-Truth is baffling.

💯😂

Did you cry? LOL!

Why? They had a past rivarly and all that did at the end of the day was save Owens from getting steamrolled by Brock or Drew.

Some of you comment like it's your first time watching WWE lmao. Owens wasn't winning regardless and him and KO having a feud in the past made sense for him to do so. Shane isn't some nobody, dude has had matches with Kurt Angle and the Undertaker and they were fairly believable. So throwing Owens out a Rumble match isn't some big deal. I was pulling for Styles, Riddle, or Orton but still.

Literally nobody will ever care.

@@bigfella6898 I think "I fast forwarded" is meant to be a more cooler version of the people who come to tell you they "didn't watch" lol.

Exactly. If you can't do it, don't book it.

Because... I'm Johnny Knoxville and welcome to CTE.

I guess he didn't tell the company, because they probably didn't care. Somebody should've told him not to potato Aj though.

Because he's a... jackass! Thank you.

$$$$$$$$

He should’ve at least made it far like Rick Martel or Bob Backlund

AJ Styles stop being a factor when he signed to the WWE but hey, at least he gets a big WWE paycheck lol.

Keep crying

@@Mr.Majestic77 So AJ has defeated some of WWE's biggest names John Cena, Roman Reigns, battled Undertaker at Wrestlemania. Also a Grand Slam Champion but that's not a factor? You live in a fantasy world.

same. and im an orange cassidy fan haha

Twinkle Toes fan*

@@GregHuffman1987 "pockets"

Same here, Omega and Cassidy my guilty pleasure 👍👍

Not a fan of Pockets or Twinkletoes, but I love Andre olioliolio.

Lol

Yup bout to smoke a J to this! Lol

@@Hsteel just smoked, now listening to this greatness.

Better than the "PREMIUM LIVE EVENT"

First thing I thought as well. It's gonna be a classic rant by Jim. 😂😂😂

ikr! i felt bad because he’s done it so many years in a row 😭

@@lolaloves6574 I don't... He's 2 boring watch on Tv

HE DE-SERVED IT!

I felt bad but you cant do that every year it becomes boring

Kofi One trick pony.

Matt Riddle's actually a really good fighter but you'll never know it as long as he's in WWE b/c they have his character playing a complete stoner and goof.

If anything they'd have Orton turn heel, he has said in the past that he likes being a heel more and it would be nice seeing him destroy that twigboy Riddle

@@CLM1987 yeah but Orton has turned 7,000x,. Obviously Heel Orton is my favorite but since he seemingly loves working with Riddle I would love to see it the other way. The only time someone has turned on Randy was waaaay back in Evolution and he wasn't ready to be the top guy back then.

Wait..I'm confused..people think WWE gave Riddle this gimmick ? Sure it's turned up by them but he's literally done interviews where he has said Vince "didn't understand the gimmick and thought he was a goof"

I think all the smiling is OTT for when the inevitable turn comes, its a contrast when hes serious Orton again. I'll admit hes definitely enjoying himself

Same lol. I'm not asking for the attitude era or even ruthless aggression but this stuff they have now is unbelievably awful.

Same here I just watch reviews, been had Peacock & said ima check the Rumble out & see I haven't missed much. Half the wrestlers I'm like who is that

Cool complaint, bro.

Actually quite the contrary he raved about the incredible nonstop action especially the spots with Matt Riddle and Madcap Moss

He loved the ending which the internet pretty universally disliked! I guess Jim will never be tired of Brock and Reigns together just as much as Vince.

@@MattAlbie Jim still views things as a Booker and what he would do. Fans view things as what they would do which is typically pushing underdogs. It's also why you see people complain about no stars but then are upset when Tomaso Ciampa isn't a main roster champ. I'm tired of Brock vs Roman but i can see why WWE would do it.

@@MattAlbie WWE builds no stars anymore. I bet he had no problems with Drew McIntyre. But who else can you push to the win without any comedy background.

Then he should learn how to job to people who have actually been doing this for years. You know, like Johnny Knoxville.

@@getreal2592 he doesn't lay out the matches.

@@shannonbayley3684 Which just goes to show you just how little the WWE thinks of their talent. And that's on top of the "independent contractor" nonsense. Makes you wonder why anyone would want to work there beyond childhood dreams.

They should never have celebs "show up" the active competitors. Smh. It just makes the guys and gals who do this full time look silly.

Send him to AEW, most of their wrestlers are his weight division. Lol

Corbin is trash in the ring tho.His promos aren't THAT good. Guy sucks and is a shitty wrestler and I hope he gets released this year cuz again he is trash.

@@TheKawagawaga nah during his bum ass corbin gimmick he have amazing promos and the end of days is always entertaining no matter who you are. He just need another non-genric gimmick to real show his range.

Are we now considering "guy who tells jokes" as reason enough for "comedy gimmick". Shouldn't that be reserved for people who actually work comedy into their moves? They are supposed to be obnoxious trolls. They do great in their gimmick.

Yep.

to be fair, now that they nicknamed McIntyre to the "Scottish Warrior" , I'm getting a tad bit confused as well. and so does the commentary team :D

….Celtic can be Scottish as well. You know like The Celtic Football Club that plays in Celtic Park in Glasgow Scotland? There are six Celtic nations…just so you know.

Clearly, Corny has never met many Irish people

typical southern american. Jim's white, not european

from wiki "Today, the term Celtic generally refers to the languages and respective cultures of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Isle of Man, and Brittany"

A lot of people thought it was terrible.

@@bighand1530 WWE could have de-aged the attitude era stars to their prime, got NJPW gueststars, brought in Moxbrose, Jerichonk, and HHHCody and the internet smark would still hate the match simply because WWE produced it.

@@joshfrye542 No, it just sucked. Don’t overthink it.

@@alexdelarge703 The smark hivemind decided it was gonna suck no matter what WWE did. If they went with your fantasy booking you would have bitched they had too many guestspots in the Rumble taken by old timers over the "mistreated" current roster like you did previous years. I'm looking forward to the smark cult hivemind declaring this Wrestlemania the worst one ever like they do every year while hate watching WWE programming.

@Sajid Ahmed To me this was a b level show. The only match worse than the mens Rumble match was the Becky match. I don't understand some of the critiques of the Rumble match. People are bitching they didn't have enough legends or surprises but they also bitch every time one shows up for a match. The Undertaker Goldberg faceoff was cool the other year but seriously aside from Goldberg most male legends from the 90's era can barely move or are one bad bump away from serious injury.

Lmao .... Soooo true tho

Welcome to modern wrestling where nobody looks or acts like a star except for the 4 people in the main event spots

The generic CAW theme music that almost everybody in that match has now didn’t help much. I had no clue who the hell was even coming out, thanks to WWE changing everybody’s music to jobber music.

@@BrolyLSSJ01 Great point.

The lower card (much less mid card) talent in the 80's was better trained, and more skilled than most of the talent today.

@@michaelunderhill8847 exactly and for some guilty pleasure reason i loved that dynamic where you had pure stars out there and then you had the crazy gimmicky guys with a videogame-esque backstory, unbreakable kayfabe and outfit to match that "wtf" factor it added so much to variety and made rosters feel alive instead of the same "my full name is my superstar name" CAWs now. it tasted like actual wrestling flavor and had none of the fat and soap opera speeches getting stuck in your teeth like wrestling does now.

Most of the wrestlers looked like they just wanted it 2 b over with

Brock can just enter a match at anytime

But that's how you build stars, you bury them into oblivion and fans get behind them because underdawg /s

There were guys like Bobby Fish, Adam Cole, Samoa Joe, Keith Lee, and so many more, who could have, should have, been a part of this Rumble.

There is no way they can ever make another Rumble like that yet each year I keep wishing. Maybe this year's Rumble wasn't the best , but it was still fun or maybe it's just me as I just like the concept of the Rumble so much. In fact I would like to see a mini rumble maybe with only 10 or 15 wrestlers in mid-year maybe to decide the US or Intercontinental titles which should be better promoted just like the tag team championships.

@@sebastianvella8992 I mean you had Hogan and Savage the two biggest names then add in Flair the biggest guy from the other company. Syd was on fire at the time plus Bret, Shawn, taker and others

Dick Murdoch wasn’t in 1992 Rumble

Yeah he at least respected the business and clearly put the work in to at least be capable in the ring. Now should be there in the first place? No of course should've had the one off appearance at Wrestlemania because they love putting a spotlight on a celebrity there and let that be his moment. No reason to come back but I at least will say he's some guy that actually doesn't care about wrestling and took a week of back bumps and said that's good enough so they can promote whatever fuck they have going in their select field so I'll give him a pass

He grew up watching wrestling like most of us did, clearly trains, and gets billions of views and streams. It's a win win. People bury most actual wrestlers but then also get upset when people who can maybe get a few extra eyeballs get some shine.

@@davyjones2032 Didn't they say "It's the boyhood dream" to Shawn Michaels. We all had the dream to enter the Royal Rumble like Bunny did.

I think Bunny did what he should have done, but WWE should have shown his training on screen more as a part of his on screen character. If you are only using the celebrity as a brawler who doesn't know what they are doing, that's fine. If you want them to be a competitor, just include that in the storyline. Everyone who follows behind the scenes knows he did it, and respects him for that. But why is that not conveyed to the actual wider audience? That's about the only thing i agree with Jim on that "then everybody can do it" comment. Knoxville clearly did the more traditional celebrity thing and took bumps because that's what he's famous for.

@@TheOldMPClub I thought so too. Before and after Wrestlemania last year.

Is Jim Cornette from Kentucky or New Jersey? I don't know!

Lesnar is still a Beast even at 44. He didn’t need it at all but who else could have won it? Bobby roode? Austin theory? Otis? Damian priest? Only person remotely that made sense was AJ styles but you could argue he didn’t need it either.

@@TwodudesVlog it shows that Vince only care about 2 people on the men's side : Roman and Brock. I've been saying this fit years now. Vince doesn't give a shit unless it's about Brock and Roman. All these capable people on the roster and he treats them like shit.

@@TwodudesVlog First off, Reigns/Lesnar was going to happen at Wrestlemania, no matter what. Lesnar didn't need to win the Rumble in order for that to happen. Secondly, if WWE Creative (a.k.a. Vince McMahon) had done their job properly, we could've had plenty of potential Rumble winners. Corban and Gable are 2 guys who had potential, but were forever ruined with crap gimmicks, Big E could've had a redemption arc, but Vince has already forgotten his existence, Austin Theory is an up-and-comer (yes, he's too Green AF to be pushed that quickly , but so was Cena & Reigns), not to mention the guys that were released the last 2 years.

Brock was the best choice.

The vocal internet viewers, for sure, but the crowds and international viewers seem to still really enjoy it at least.

@@tylerthepianoman4686 in-person vs tv watching is different. It's easy to get swept up in the moment. And some countries (especially the 3rd world kind) have the absolute worst tv, so I bet they're desperate for anything lol

Brock and Orton definitely got the biggest pops but I get what you’re saying lol

Well yeah because apparently Shane was the one that booked the men's rumble so wonder why he was booked so strong lol

At least Shane can still move around and doesn't look like an invalent zombie like Angle.

Is Shane going to face Roman for the tile at WM ? Why book himself strong when he is in a nothing match at WrestleMania

@@kashifreza1993 no. Looks like him and Rollins