Live on
Pay-Per-View
the greatest wrestling event of the year. It's the one time of year that wrestling fans and non-wrestling fans alike can get together to watch a non-stop spectacle, and if for no other reason put money on a randomized outcome. The Royal Rumble.
What helps set the rumble apart from any other PPV is not only the fact that there's a 30 man battle royale with a new wrestler entering the ring every minute and a half to two minutes (depending on the year). But the fact that you and you friends can make it even more interesting by placing bets.
Now we all know that wrestling has a scripted outcome. However what you do is get everyone to draw numbers out of a hat (numbers 1-30) then each wrestler that draws the same number you do is on your team. Everyone puts in a predetermined amount of money for the pot. The if the winner of the rumble is on your randomly drawn team, you win the pot.
Sometimes a variance is made where 2/3 of the pot goes to the person with the winner wrestler, and 1/3 of the pot goes to the person who has the wrestler who was in the ring the longest amount of time.
For
Royal Rumble 21, not only did I have Shawn Michaels drawn to my team, but with everyone believing that Tripple H was going to take the Rumble, I just missed him (HHH was 29) having drawn #30. Then John Cena came out at 30, back three month early from rehab, completely out of left feild, cleaned house, and I took home not only the money for longest wrestler, but winning wrestler as well.
It was a great PPV with a great fiscal outcome for myself personally. I might not really follow wrestling much anymore, however I always make time for the Royal Rumble, regardless if I know the storylines or not.
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