Royal rumble 2012

 Bryan/henry/show: cool setup for bryans first major test of this particular title reign (hall of pain henry and a likely angry big show); they did let bryan get a good test although it was too short to be good but still though everyone worked well enough together and they told the story well (2.75 stars)

{skippable divas match}

Cena/kane: had forgot about this storyline of kane being more evil and cena having to avenge those he injured {decent enough filler story i guess}; it wasnt the most exciting match you will ever see but they had a good enough sequence at the end and it did what it needed to in order to set up the chamber match (2.25 stars)

Drew/clay: squash to try and build up clay (NR)

Punk/dolph: the match itself was surprisingly very clean and these two has amazing chemsitry and created some good counter work and drama; the ending fit the story they were trying to tell pretty well so great package on the whole (4 stars)

Rumble: a student vs teacher to open the rumble should be exciting (it may not have lasted long but they did bring some good energy to it); another battle of former freinds with truth/miz (and they did have an exciting sequence); nice little surprise with adrs ring announcer in the rumble so people could see what he would do (he didnt do anything soecial but his comedy segement with santino was fairly funny); kofis handstand spot was very cool; cool cameo with duggan and it got the crowd happy; also a cool pop spot with the cole thing; nice reaction for the road dogg; the orton/wade renewal of their feud added some nice energy; this also had an amazing closing stretch with sheamus vs jerchio with alot of close calls; overall great energy throughout and great rumble (4 stars)

{a pretty mixed bag of a show with two matches that were ok but forgettable and two matches that had great energy}

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