Somehow already watched much of a five hour show, but jumped around a bit, and haven't read anything. Initial thoughts:
- I watched the opener at the Austin, TX airport on my ipad, with no sound, and let out an audible laugh when HHH's music hit. With how the card looked, it made sense to dump that match there, but was still funny. Can't imagine I'll ever rewatch the match, but my takeaway was three words: slow mo wrestling.
- Look, we're well past the point that if you want to avoid spoilers of anything with even a minor degree of popularity, you need to avoid all social media, not just the accounts you know would reference the event or story. That's hard enough, but it's another goddamn thing when you open the google app on your phone to search for something random and the first google news story that automatically pops up is 'greatest royal rumble braun strowman'. It didn't ruin the event, but it's just so frustrating. I fortunately was able to squeeze in an 11:30 am showing of Infinity War yesterday while technically on a work trip. That's the bullshit you need to do in 2018.
- The Titus thing was funny, but also felt a bit like punching down.
- This would be no surprise, but the entry times varied wildly, yes?
- Great to see the Usos and BBs have an actual match rather than a sprint squash.
- Double seemed like the right move for Styles/Nak. Also seemed like a much better match than Wrestlemania, but I haven't revisited the latter and my opinion could still be the result of WM fatigue.
- Enjoyed Saxton referencing the Royal Rumble 1994 casket match. It remains canon!
- Hated the Lesnar/Reigns match, but was totally on board with the finish (if botched a little with the feet thing). At times it was tough to analyze the event given it really was just a glorified house show, but with a lot of hype and a live showing on the network. If you were going to book that match and not have Reigns win, the finish felt like one of the only ways to come out of it without it being another disaster.