One year on

[JMay187]

Ashley Roberts

 

[PHIL DUNPHY'S MOUSTACHE]

So it's almost the Royal Rumble, and I'm going to do what I normally do at this time, and that is go through the 30 participants from last year's match and update where they're at etc, to see how "one year on" has transpired.

Dolph Ziggler - Current IC Champion and has gotten himself over as a very solid midcard heel. Big things lie ahead for Mr Ziggles

Evan Bourne - Injured

CM Punk - Coming off an injury, leader of Nexus, and a Cena feud in the works.

JTG - Jobbing on either Superstars or SmackDown

The Great Khali - Somewhere in India

Beth Phoenix - Slowly getting her stock back from a long injury layoff

Zack Ryder - Superstars regular

Triple H - Injured since April. Return imminent

Drew McIntyre - Midcard mainstay who is starting to show something different to his character

Ted DiBiase - Jobbing to Santino. Absolutely nothing going for him

John Morrison - Ex #1 contender to the WWE Title. Had a solid 2010, and is well pressed for a possible MITB story

Kane - Ex-World Champion. Rematch this week, should he lose, probably goes back in the shuffle until 'Taker returns

Cody Rhodes - "Dashing" is on the rise. 2011 should be his breakout year

MVP - Released

Carlito - Released

The Miz - Current WWE Champion. Phenomenal rise to the top.

Matt Hardy - Released

Shawn Michaels - Retired

John Cena - Involved in a feud with Punk, still having Nexus issues

Shelton Benjamin - Released

Yoshi Tatsu - Superstars regular. An underutilised talent for sure

Big Show - Smackdown's fan fave giant. A few good matches here and there but nothing of note

Mark Henry - "Ratings." Juggling between Superstars and the midcard

Chris Masters - NXt duties, and midcard Masterlock Challenges

R-Truth - Cena is his fwend. Midcard staleness at its worst

Jack Swagger - In the IC title picture, and is best poised to lift it from Dolph

Kofi Kingston - Also in the IC title picture, but seemingly stuck in the midcard

Chris Jericho - Sabbatical (w/e you call his break)

Edge - Current World Heavyweight Champion

Batista -Retired/quit

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So you have, of the 30 participants, 3 currently injured, 3 either retired or on sabbatical, 4 releases, 3 current champions, and aside from Punk and Cena, the rest staggering about the midcard without much direction

 

[PHX]

Nice breakdown and the guy who was in last years rumble who has the best chance to win it imo is Punk. Seems like he is in store for another big push in career and winning the rumble fits into that.

 

[AF.]

Not going to be the most star studded Rumble without Michaels, Taker, Orton, Edge and Batista.

Not ordering it this year. They haven't built it at all and they haven't even tried to put on a decent card with formidable hype.

 

[Chuck Norris]

I can see either CM Punk winning or Christian returning to win it (perhaps a feud with Edge).

 

[InYourFace]

I wish Christian would win, but its never gonna happen.

 

[AxelRage]

Is it a bad thing I want Evan to come back from injury(should be soon actually) as a surprise participant and eliminate Punk as payback? also the Royal Rumble this year now has 40 participants!

 

[PHX]

That would be pretty big for Evan but I rather Punk win the whole thing, lol.