Royal Rumble rant: The 'Future' Continues To Wait

Ok, I've literally just finished watching The Royal Rumble from last night and I'm livid... don't get me wrong; for once I was excited over a pay-per-view; I was very hopeful that the 'obvious' results wouldn't happen... I was then cock-teased and left disappointed.

The 'Future' has to wait and take a back seat to this shit leading up to 'Mania now.

I'll skim over the results; Alberto Del Rio retained after beating Big Show in a Last Man Standing match - this HAD to be the outcome otherwise the first LMS match would have been for nothing?! Kane and Daniel Bryan (quit the crappy team names) retained over Cody and Damien (quit the crappy team names) - I really thought Cody/Damien would finally get their win here. Instead we got a pretty straightforward title defence that really waters down Cody/Damien's threat to the titles - which is even more of a tragedy as they are/were the biggest and only threats to them titles?!

We saw a clip of the US Championship match between Antonio Cesaro and The Miz that had to settle for being on the pre-show. Obviously, they're not going to take the title off him on a PRE-SHOW match - they might have done it to Santino to give him the belt but there's no way they'll take it from him in such a demeaning way.

I was very hopeful about the Rumble match itself. My balls shrank when SuperCena came through with the win.

And to make matters worse, WWE came up with the ultimate tease when Punk got the three-count over The Rock... only for me to realise that there was 8 minutes left of the show... I thought it was too good to be true - I was right. The biggest travesty was that they took the title away from a 434 day reign with a People's Elbow. A FUCKING PEOPLE'S ELBOW.

So, Wrestlemania will be headlined by The Rock vs John Cena - that's right people; the Royal Rumble winner WILL headline this year. Shock. What a disgrace...

But why am I so surprised? This has been predicted for a while now. But now it's actually happened - this shit became real - it's sickening to think that they have gone down the 'big payday' route instead of thinking about the long term future.

The Rock vs John Cena was meant to be 'Once in a Lifetime' and all that crap, right? But we now have that exact same main event but for the title. The only situation that would warrant another meeting. Convenient. And while these two guys headline another Wrestlemania, the stars of the future - the Dolph Zigglers, Daniel Bryans, Wade Barretts, Antonio Cesaros and even CM Punks - will be in meaningless, shitty undercard matches to fill up the show. When you think of Wrestlemania 29, you'll remember The Rock vs John Cena, probably Triple H vs Brock Lesnar, and whoever Undertaker destroyed. Unfortunately, you won't remember the B-listers that are left waiting in the wings... again!

I think the WWE's take on this will be that there were some positives. I mean Ziggler lasted forty-plus minutes. But Cena still won. And Bo Dallas eliminated the Intercontinental Champion. But Cena still won the match and that's the only thing people will remember.

Is it even worth watching the WWE Title match at Elimination Chamber? Whether it's a straight up rematch between Punk and Rock, or a Chamber match; Rock is walking out the champion still... why would I want to pay money to see that kind of predictability?