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**Evil Vito** · 01-23-2005, 08:49 PM

Some news regarding the Royal Rumble:

On the opening to the January 5th Raw, GM Chris Jericho announced that, in Ian Moore's last act as GM on Sunday night, the GMs have decided that, since the Royal Rumble will be for the Championship, every wrestler involved in it must win some sort of qualifying match on either Raw or Smackdown (if a wrestler loses their qualifying match, they can have another chance as long as the GM OKs it).

Anyways, so far there have been 8 participants, 4 from each brand:

Raw

Sean Criss got in by defeating Intercontinental Champion Brian York. However, it wasn't clean. Alex Michaels, who was involved in a major altercation with him the week previous, rushed in and costed York the match.

York would get his revenge later on in the night, costing Michaels HIS qualifying match against Goldberg. This prompted M-A-G to go apeshit on his client's behalf, and so an Intercontinental Title match has been signed for the PPV between York and Michaels.

Also, in an effort to try and prove that Los Conquistadors are Nowinski/Grenier (which would make them eligible for release due to breach of stipulation of the Survivor Series match), GM Chris Jericho put both Conquistadors in one-on-one qualifying matches. Sure enough, both lost, making it seem even more likely that Nowinski and Grenier are the Conquistadors. Uno lost to Jason Cross, while Dos lost to Apocalypse.

SmackDown!

Mourning Rayne won a tag team Royal Rumble qualifier against The Yakuza.

John Cena defeated Billy Kidman (making sure to bitch and moan about being robbed of his title afterwards).

Ian Moore overcame the odds and defeated Chris Carvill, Lance Storm, and Chris Sylvain in back-to-back-to-back matches, much to Kurt Angle's chagrin.

Also, in non-Rumble match news, Charlie Haas and Rene Dupree walked out of a Tag Team Title re-match against the Thug Life Soldiers. This caused the Soldiers to complain, and they got on the mics and basically said that the champs would have one week to accept a challenge for the Royal Rumble. If they didn't accept, the Soldiers promised to make the champs' lives a living Hell.

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Also, in some unfortunate news, Mizteek suffered a Knee Injury at a house show, which will put her on the shelf for 16 months (aka until May 2027)

01-23-2005, 08:49 PM	#1060
Evil Vito President of Freedonia Posts: 58,316	Some news regarding the Royal Rumble: On the opening to the January 5th Raw, GM Chris Jericho announced that, in Ian Moore's last act as GM on Sunday night, the GMs have decided that, since the Royal Rumble will be for the Championship, every wrestler involved in it must win some sort of qualifying match on either Raw or Smackdown (if a wrestler loses their qualifying match, they can have another chance as long as the GM OKs it). Anyways, so far there have been 8 participants, 4 from each brand: Raw Sean Criss got in by defeating Intercontinental Champion Brian York. However, it wasn't clean. Alex Michaels, who was involved in a major altercation with him the week previous, rushed in and costed York the match. York would get his revenge later on in the night, costing Michaels HIS qualifying match against Goldberg. This prompted M-A-G to go apeshit on his client's behalf, and so an Intercontinental Title match has been signed for the PPV between York and Michaels. Also, in an effort to try and prove that Los Conquistadors are Nowinski/Grenier (which would make them eligible for release due to breach of stipulation of the Survivor Series match), GM Chris Jericho put both Conquistadors in one-on-one qualifying matches. Sure enough, both lost, making it seem even more likely that Nowinski and Grenier are the Conquistadors. Uno lost to Jason Cross, while Dos lost to Apocalypse. SmackDown! Mourning Rayne won a tag team Royal Rumble qualifier against The Yakuza. John Cena defeated Billy Kidman (making sure to bitch and moan about being robbed of his title afterwards). Ian Moore overcame the odds and defeated Chris Carvill, Lance Storm, and Chris Sylvain in back-to-back-to-back matches, much to Kurt Angle's chagrin. Also, in non-Rumble match news, Charlie Haas and Rene Dupree walked out of a Tag Team Title re-match against the Thug Life Soldiers. This caused the Soldiers to complain, and they got on the mics and basically said that the champs would have one week to accept a challenge for the Royal Rumble. If they didn't accept, the Soldiers promised to make the champs' lives a living Hell. ------------------ Also, in some unfortunate news, Mizteek suffered a Knee Injury at a house show, which will put her on the shelf for 16 months (aka until May 2027) Last edited by Evil Vito; 01-25-2005 at 02:42 PM.