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WWE Royal Rumble PPV Live Report
January 24, 2016
Orlando, Fla.
PWTorch Livecast correspondent Neal, PWTorch VIP member James out of Dallas, and PWTorch TV specialist Ben Tucker contributed to this report. Read Tucker’s in-person tweets from the Rumble @BTuckerTorch.
– Former WWE CEO Linda McMahon was ringside on the front row opposite the hard camera throughout the PPV. Linda watched her son-in-law, Triple H, win the WWE Title from Roman Reigns and watched Hunter celebrate in the ring with Vince and Stephanie to close the Rumble PPV.
Crowd hates Roman. Not too hot for this confrontation.
— Benjamin Tucker (@BTuckerTorch) January 25, 2016
– The crowd was firmly against Roman Reigns going into the Rumble. Even before the PPV started, fans were talking amongst themselves about being against Reigns, who is still perceived as corporate-backed and attached to John Cena with the booking of “overcoming the stacked deck and ridiculous odds.”
The crowd was completely against Reigns to the point where the crowd popped when he was thrown out of the Rumble.
– This was a heavy international and out-of-town crowd for the Rumble based on the Rumble becoming a destination travel event and the high re-sale ticket prices.
Because of the ticket prices, families were likely priced out of the Rumble, leaving vocal male fans as the majority of the audience in an otherwise casual-fan market like Orlando.
There were very few children or women in the audience. The audience was mostly males and a lot of people were from out-of-state or international. James noted that out of the group of 20/30 sitting camera-side, only one person in the group lived in Florida.
Because of the audience make-up, Reigns was mainly booed, there was a big reaction for A.J. Styles’s surprise debut, and big reactions for Sasha Banks after the Divas Title match and for Damien Sandow on the pre-show.
When Kevin Owens eliminated Styles from the Rumble, they did not want to boo Owens, so they chanted A.J.’s name instead.
WWE'S NEWEST SIGNEE IS HERE pic.twitter.com/3S3I4SSgb8
— Benjamin Tucker (@BTuckerTorch) January 25, 2016
Biggest Pops:
(1) A.J. Styles
(2) Sasha Banks
(3) Damien Sandow
(4) Dean Ambrose
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Most Heat:
(1) Roman Reigns
(2) Roman Reigns
(3) Roman Reigns