Royal Rumble Royal Rumble Length

[MGS32]

"For Royal Rumble weekend in San Antonio, it’s also looking like a destination weekend. Besides the Rumble at the Alamodome on 1/29, and NXT on 1/28 on the WWE Network, there will be a 1/27 Evolve show and a 1/28 afternoon Evolve show, both at the Woodlawn Lake Park Gym, located near the stadium. As far as the Rumble itself goes, the WWE this week has moved the start time of the show to 5:30 p.m. local time, which is 6:30 p.m. Eastern, meaning, as expected a nearly five-hour show."

- Wrestling Observer Newsletter, November 14th 2016

 

[Prince Bálor]

That is too damn much, man.

 

[edge4ever]

It better not be 5 hours. That's longer than fucking mania and I feel more often than not that filling a 4 hour gap is hard.

 

[Solidus1]

It better not be 5 hours. That's longer than fucking mania and I feel more often than not that filling a 4 hour gap is hard.

60 man rumble sycho:

 

[Prince Bálor]

It better not be 5 hours. That's longer than fucking mania and I feel more often than not that filling a 4 hour gap is hard.

If Rumble's gonna be 5 hours long, then Mania's gonna be like 7. lol

 

[¡Tranquilo!]

Why can't they keep it to 3-4 hrs max? Is that hard? What could they possibly be booking?...how long are they trynna make the Rumble match last?

 

[edge4ever]

I'm thinking this will be the longest rumble in history. Prob like 1 1/2 hours-2 hours. Maybe even have a brawl ensue all over between Brock and Goldberg for like 15 mins.

Reigns and Owens might go like 35 mins. Reigns most likely winning.

AJ vs Corbin vs Ziegler will be like 35 mins. AJ winning.

The 2 divas titles matches

Dean vs miz

Tag titles


They can fill that 5 hour gap easily with the stars they have, but they should they do that? No. lol. It gets boring at that point and it's way too much. No matter what you book.

 

[ShaRpY HaRdY]

If Rumble's gonna be 5 hours long, then Mania's gonna be like 7. lol

Trying to give it a festival feel potentially? I have a feeling eventually it will be a weekend long event showcasing WWE's roster from all over the world.

 

[Prince Bálor]

Trying to give it a festival feel potentially? I have a feeling eventually it will be a weekend long event showcasing WWE's roster from all over the world.

WM 33 will be one long ass show, for sure.

And given NXT TakeOver will be held the day before, that means we're getting nearly 10 hours of WWE programming in the span of just 2 days. :damn:

 

[Dat Kid1]

The Royal Rumble deserves to be that long. It's always been a big PPV and with so many storylines from two different shows (one of em being 3 hours) it deserves it, not to mention the additions of the crusierweights and eurofag divisions

 

[Gman003]

Way too long. I hope they pull the survivor series trick and end it early. Even though it sucks for the live experience, on tv it will be way better that way.

They bumped up survivor series an hour but it ended a half hour early.... I'm hoping they do the same with this.