Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Bubba Ray Dudley aka Bully Ray who is a ten times Tag Team champion in WWE recently talked about the women’s Royal Rumble match and talked about the importance of the veterans in the women’s Royal Rumble match.
WWE is organising the Royal Rumble pay per view event since 1988 and it has been one of the biggest attractions of WWE throughout the ages. The biggest attraction of this event is the Royal Rumble match itself which is a 30 Man over the top rope Battle Royal in a different way.
Bubba Ray Dudley Thinks Legends Were Important For Women’s Royal Rumble Match
Two wrestlers start the match, every 90 seconds a new wrestler enters the match and it continues until 29 wrestlers get eliminated and the last man standing is announced as the winner of the Royal Rumble match. For the 35th consecutive years WWE is about to organise the Royal Rumble event and it has remained one of the most anticipated events of the year and for some fans it is even more anticipated than Wrestlemania.
From 2018 WWE organising a women’s Royal Rumble match parallel to the men’s Royal Rumble match. It has become equally popular and it is as fun as the men’s Royal Rumble match.
The rules are exactly the same, we just get women athletes instead of men in the women’s Royal Rumble match. The winner of the first women’s Royal Rumble match was the Asuka, the next one was won by Becky Lynch, followed by Charlotte Flair and Bianca Belair winning the next two Royal Rumble matches.
And when it comes to the women’s Royal Rumble match, it brings a lot of surprise entrants just like the men’s Royal Rumble match. Patna Women’s Royal Rumble match bring on more surprised entrants which include ex WWE stars as well as legends.
Most of the entrance of the Royal Rumble matches who were former WWE stars and Legends remain surprise every year. But this year WWE has already announced some of the surprise entrants of this year’s women’s Royal Rumble match which include the Impact Knockouts Champion Mickie James before the event.
The list also included some of the legends of WWE. This decision made by WWE to announce the these entrants had been criticized by a lot of wrestlers and wrestling personnel such as Renee Paquette who publicly criticized WWE on her podcast for this decision. Ronda Rousey had been the biggest surprise of the match indeed.
Bubba Ray Dudley aka Bully Ray who is a ten times Tag Team champion in WWE recently spoke on Busted Open Radio where he talked about the women’s Royal Rumble match and talked about the importance of the veterans in the women’s Royal Rumble match. He said;
“If I’m the WWE, if I’m a producer on this match and I know I have — we just mentioned Mickie and Lita. Should Mickie or Lita win the women’s Royal Rumble? No, it has to be one of the homegrown talents.
“It has to be one of the women there but what are Mickie James and Lita that a lot of the younger women in the WWE are not? And some of the older women also. They’re leaders, they’re leaders in that ring.
“I’m leaving a Lita and a Mickie James in there with a Bianca Belair and a Liv Morgan deep into the Rumble so that the fans are completely invested. I’m sure there are gonna be plenty of fans there who would love to see a Mickie James win, love to see a Lita win just as much as they’d like to see a Bianca Belair or a Liv Morgan. Leave the veterans in with the young talent.
“Keep it wide open where anything can happen but allow those veteran women to help guide the younger women deep into the rumble, so it just doesn’t look like a big choreographed battle royale as opposed to a true fight to throw that other woman over the top rope and get your shot at the women’s world champion at WrestleMania.”
H/T to SEScoops for the transcript