From The Twitter of...

Joey Styes!

"This year, there will be 40 participants in the Royal Rumble Match instead of 30. It will be the biggest Royal Rumble Match in history"

Take it for what you will.

For some reason I really doubt that this is true.

Are WWE smoking or something?

What's the point of adding ten people? (And please don't tell me anything about a pay day)

"For the first time in history, the WWE Royal Rumble is expanding to 40 SUPERSTARS, all competing for the main event title match at WWE WrestleMania XXVII!!" - WWE Facebook

Always ruining traditions.

Now the damn thing is gonna be fucking two hours long. lol

I just saw that. Ok, maybe it is true. A little pointless if you ask me, possibly a little too like World War 3.

Gonna be crazy up in that ring fo sho. Have they announced any other matches besides the two title matches? That could be why. They usually have at least 4 or 5 matches along with the rumble

So Cena will be the first ever to probably win the royal rumble with 40 people in it.

Vengenz wrote:

Am I the only one who doesn't find anything wrong with this?

The more the merrier, bitch.

I don't haev a problem with it, I'm just worried it will get a little like World War 3 where it was soo overcrowded you couldn't tell what was going on.

source: wrestlezone

The January classic that kicks off the road to WrestleMania is about
to change! The famous match of 30 guys getting into the ring fighting
for a main event spot is changing.

I got a few phone calls and texts from sources that the Royal Rumble
battle royal match will feature 40 superstars. You heard it here first!
After I first posted this story, WWE's Joey Styles tweeted it which should confirm what my sources told me.
This doesn't change the pool of who is going to win! You still remain
with the same handful of guys who are likely choices to be in the main
event of WrestleMania.

This does give 10 more guys some face time in one of the most
anticipated matches of the year! This is a chance for more character
exposure and more feuds to potentially be spawned out of the match.

I feel like this move is long overdue. I mean in 1996 WCW had 3 rings with 60 guys.

In 2001, WWE became the only big game in town after the purchase of WCW
and had over 60 guys on the roster. I mean come on, 30 was fine in 1988,
but its time to go bigger.

Steel cage went to Hell In A Cell.....Ladder match went to TLC.....Royal Rumble should have more guys!

With the amount of interaction the WWE main roster is having with the
FCW roster, I think this would be a great to see some of them in the
ring. They come up and down now with NXT, many like Alex Riley still
compete in FCW, they are the future of the company. This would be a
great precedent to have the guys who are working the hardest to earn a
chance to be in the ring for a few minutes on one of the biggest shows
of the year.

I mean think about this......you start the precedent this year with
having 40 guys in the Rumble and toss a FCW guy or two in the match. In
the future this leaves the door open for an easy way to bring someone to
the main roster to make an impact. Imagine if you see the guys the
final superstars left in the ring after all 40 have come out and in the
ring is Orton, Cena, Edge, Sheamus and then a guy like Mason Ryan, who
everyone is dubbing as the next Batista.

Vengenz wrote:

Am I the only one who doesn't find anything wrong with this?

The more the merrier, bitch.

Who you callin a bitch, yo?

lol

darK winG ncDuck wrote:

Vengenz wrote:

Am I the only one who doesn't find anything wrong with this?

The more the merrier, bitch.

Who you callin a bitch, yo?

lol

LOL.

There will be a few shockers, Triple H and Christian will most likely be in it and some legends as well

^
God, I hope that doesn't happen.

I never even thought about them. It's just gonna be interesting to see Punk's Nexus and Wade's Nexus. I hope they eliminate eachother!

And if Cena wins I'm gonna be very upset. He can be in the main event any damn time and doesn't need to win the rumble to get a match with Miz at Mania.

I won't think Triple H will win so that only leaves Cena. UGH.

I'm sure Beth will make another appearence. If so, I'd like to see Laycool come out and screw her to at least provide some interest to the fued.

Looking at the likely people...

CM Punk
Daniel Brian
Darren Young
David Smith
David Otunga
Evan Bourne (Return)
Goldust
Heath Slater
Husky
Jey Uso
Jimmy Uso
John Cena
John Morrison
Justin Gabriel
Mark Henry
Michael McGuillicutty
Primo
R-Truth
Santino
Sheamus
Ted DiBiase
Great Khali (return)
Triple H (return)
Tyson Kidd
Vladimir
William Regal
Yoshi
Zack Ryder
Alberto
Beth
Big Show
Chavo
Chris Masters
Christian (return)
Cody Rhodes
Curt Hawkins
Drew McIntyre
Ezekiel
Jack Swagger
JTG
Kane
Kofi Kingston
Rey Mysterio
Trent Barreta
Tyler Reks
Wade Barrett

That makes 46, so I doubt we'd see many "surprise returns" or legends this year.

NCDesmond Wolfe wrote:

Are WWE smoking or something?

What's the point of adding ten people? (And please don't tell me anything about a pay day)

To reignite interest

Interest of what 10 other nobodies are going to NOT main event WrestleMania? Yeah, that's reasonable.

Vince isn't reasonable lol

In most cases.