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Fight 2006
 WWE Royal Rumble 2006 $14.95 Nearly all Royal Rumbles I've seen have been great ones, but have had elements to them which I felt were bad or brought it down. Luckily, these have been sparse, few and far between, and not always the same in each rumble. This Rumble had every one of those bad aspects in it all at once. So mediocre so that it wasn't even the main event! Cruiserweight Invitational Kid Kash (C) vs Jamie Noble vs Funaki vs Paul London vs Nunzio vs Gregory Helms This was the only good match of the PPV. Whoever does the booking for the cruiserweights must be a veteran of the Monday Night Wars, because they know how to put on great WWF caliber matches. Everything was just about on in this match. (9/10) Ashley Massaro vs Mickie James It isn't enough that the Women's division in the WWE is little more than eye candy and catfighting, but this was a terrible match up that had all the makings of that Jackie Gayda match J.R. classically claimed had "bowling shoe tendencies". Greener than a freshly grown lawn, Ashley botched a lot of her moves, and just plain fumbled the rest. Thankfully Mickie James put her down like a dog. (0/10) John Bradshaw Layfield vs The Boogeyman There's only 5 non-Rumble matches on the card, and Smackdown wastes our time and money with this? Even worse is how seriously people take The Boogeyman's ridiculous gimmick! If they had tried that ten years ago, ratings would plummet, and WCW would have a goldmine of mocking material. I would honestly prefer Gobbledygooker over The Boogeyman. At least the Gobbledygooker could flip and roll around. The Boogeyman is nothing. (0/10) Royal Rumble Match As I had mentioned before, this rumble was the culmination of all the negative aspects of the Rumble all mashed up into one. It started out with Rey Mysterio and Triple H doing some good wrestling on each other. Then as soon as the third person came out, Mysterio was exhausted and flopping around limply as if he were in for an hour. The next 30 minutes consisted of Triple H fighting it out with most of the other superstars, and superstars being gradually eliminated until it was only Triple H and Mysterio in the ring at once. Most of the eliminations occured in precisely 90 seconds, lasting only long enough for Triple H to beat on them and eliminate them. Chris Benoit, for one, considered one of the best technical wrestlers of his day, was literally reduced to "Five moves of doom" wrestling, as all he ever did was kick, punch, german suplex, and Crippler Crossface the entire time he was in the Rumble. The last 30 minutes consisted of more and more superstars piling up with only about three or four eliminations, while the ring got stuffed with superstars. Mysterio is still flopping about half-dead, occasionally on his feet, even rarer still, doing some actual fighting. Finally when the last superstar comes out, people start getting quickly eliminated one by one until it's the final four fighting it out. Unlike the other rumbles, this one had no surprises, and no different phases of combat in the ring (like the 2000 Rumble had a period of Rikishi's dominance, the 2001 Rumble had a period of hardcore as Raven brought weapons in, etc), simply 1-30 minutes: Nearly empty ring, 30-62 minutes: Nearly full ring. (0/10) WWE Championship John Cena vs Edge (C) This match should have taken place before the Rumble. As with any Cena match, Cena did little but act tuff, showing off his muscles with bulging veins coursing everywhere, move stiffly, and wrestle---wait, he doesn't wrestle---pretend to fight Edge, who shamefully jobbed to that pathetic nothing who went on to reign on and off for most of 2006, and then reign all throughout 2007 undefeated as of the day this review was written. (0/10) World Heavyweight Championship Kurt Angle (C) vs Mark Henry This match should have taken place before the Rumble. Better yet, this match shouldn't have taken place at all. Mark Henry is like John Cena, in that he cannot wrestle, but unlike Cena, he also cannot move. He can barely run as much as he shuffles about and hugs people to death. I believe the wrestling term "Immovable Object" or "Fat Untalented Piece of Crap" was made just for people like Henry, and it made this match all the poorer. Angle had little to work with but fat hulk that kept trying to smash him with hugs and punches, and it all came out as dismal as any WWE match featuring untrained muscled men who are more meatbags than athletes. (0/10) If ever a wrestling promotion needed an example of how not to do their pay per views, this is one of the WWE's shining examples of how spectacularly awful a pay per view can get when completely mis-managed, and poorly booked.  Rigan Machado BJJ Camp 2006 2 DVD Set $44.99 The Rigan Machado 2006 Camp DVD Set includes classes from 24 accomplished black belts.With over 6 hours of instruction, you will learn from the following instructors: BJ PennBob AndersonChris HauterTony De SouzaEric PaulsonAndre GlodzinskiRicardo MedinaDave RuizRandy BloomMica CipilliJohn MachadoMarianna CoehloFreddy SabatiniKeiser GiraoPaulo GuillobelMarcos SantosDan InosantoPaulo Gazze Jr.Eduardo ArrivabeneRoger DeferentesJerry WertzelCindy OmatsuFelicia OhRigan Machado Also includes instructor interviews. |
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