Sadly Over-hyped

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Here are the matches...The New Foundation v Orient Express: It took Orient Express exactly one year to get another P-P-V appearance and this time against the newly formed New Foundation (Owen Hart and an out-of-shape Jim Niedhart). The match was good, showcasing some impressive moves by Owen. Owen balanced on the top ring-rope to get out of an arm-bar at one point. Mr Fuji yet again used his stick to good effect allowing Owen to charge shoulder first into it. Despite the high quality of the wrestling, there was little doubt as to who the winners were as Owen pinned Tanaka after the Rocket Launcher. This would be The Orient Express's last WWF PPV and, despite their success, The New Foundation would split shortly afterwards too. 6/10'Rowdy' Roddy Piper v The Mountie: The match developed after Piper came to Bret Hart's aid after his recent loss against The Mountie (a 'high fever' contributed to this). Piper dished out most of the offence, making The Mountie submit to the sleeper-hold before using his own cattle prod against him. Despite the poor match it was nice to see Piper finally wear some gold. 4/10Bushwhackers v Beverly Brothers: This match was given too much time. A huge portion of it involved The Bushwhackers playing to the crowd before they do their typical Bushwhackers-get-beaten-up routine. Their assistant at ringside, a misfit called Jamison, got attacked by The Genius during the match. We were finally put out of our misery when The Beverly Brothers pinned Butch after a double axe-handle. After Bushwhackers lost the match, they finally got hold of The Genius allowing Jamison to get a measure of revenge. What felt like forever, Jamison finally kicked The Genius in the shin giving The Bushwhackers a moral victory of sorts. Horrendous. 1/10Legion of Doom v Natural Disasters: An awful plodding, lumbering match with a controversial ending tacked on the end for the sake of it. The Legion of Doom are limited when they wrestle bigger opponents than them because most of their attraction is seeing them throw people about. The Natural Disasters beat Legion of Doom by count-out. Apparently, despite Jimmy Hart's long period of time in the WWF, he still hadn't worked out that the WWF titles don't change hands via a count-out or disqualification. Hart made a big deal about it in a backstage interview saying he was going to call his lawyers to reverse the decision. Yawn... 2/10Royal Rumble 1992: For the first time, the WWF title is on the line after the controversial matches involving Hulk Hogan and Undertaker making the title vacant and the focus is on mainly one man - Ric Flair. Flair starts off at No 3 and continues to the end taking quite a beating in the process. Some excellent performances this year involve British Bulldog who picked No 1, Shawn Michaels, 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper, Irwin R Schyster and even 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan (though it was a little difficult to track down Duggan because he looked quite similar to Piper in matching blue trunks). The main upset of the night was Ted Dibiase getting eliminated in less than 2 minutes. He never did have much luck after taking on 'Sensational Sherri' and only regained his fortunes when they parted company. For me, the main highlight of the night was Roddy Piper racing to the ring to get at Ric Flair half-way through, attacking him like a madman until Jake Roberts came out. I would have preferred to tease a Piper victory at the end by having him be the last person Ric Flair eliminate to win the Rumble. Sid Justice showed his dominance at the end after receiving a late number and 'Machoman' made an error jumping over the top rope after eliminating Jake Roberts forgetting he was in a Rumble. I personally think that was a botch as Undertaker made sure Savage was tossed back into the ring to save face. Flair finally eliminated Justice with outside help from Hogan to win setting us up for one of the best wrestling promos the WWF ever had featuring an overjoyed Bobby Heenan, Mr Perfect and a delirious Ric Flair. 7/10The WWF would give the roster a real spring-clean after this Royal Rumble. For various reasons Greg Valentine, Haku, The Barbarian, the late Texas Tornado, Nikolai Volkoff (thank God), the late Hercules, Col Mustapha (originally The Iron Sheik), Jimmy Snuka and The Warlord departed from PPV status though some of these wrestlers would return as cameos in later Royal Rumbles/PPVs. One important development was the crumbling of WWF Hulkamania which started in my opinion just after Wrestlemania VII. Hogan, just like in Royal Rumble 1989, whined about getting eliminated by Sid Justice and in retaliation eliminated Justice from the outside. The difference between 1989 and 1992 was, despite Justice trying as hard as he could to be heel, Hogan was booed for eliminating Justice. Times were changing and I am not sure Hogan was ready for that response which, along with the upcoming steroid trials, sparked his retirement bout at the next Wrestlemania. Talking about eliminations, is it pure coincidence that Hogan eliminated Warlord three times in a Rumble in four years? A shame really because I think Warlord could have been groomed to be a real contender if pushed right.One thing that is talked about a lot when mentioning Royal Rumble 1992 is the quality of the commentating. Bobby Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon expertly told the story of Ric Flair in such a humorous way that, in some respects, was better than the wrestling at times. An entertaining Rumble marred by some terrible undercard matches.

Royal Rumble (1992) will forever be known as Ric Flair's one man show. A 42 year old Ric Flair put on a one hour plus performance in the W.W.F.'s main event of the Royal Rumble, the battle royale itself. The winner of the match won the W.W.F. undisputed World Heavyweight Championship title. He proved to everyone that he was the man and at his age he cold still perform at a high level. Many older stars (and newer ones) participated in the match. A couple of his old N.W.A. stablemates "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Greg "The Hammer" Valentine. It was like a who's who of wrestling. It was one hell of a main event. The promos before and after the match were priceless as well.Highly recommended.The main event of the Royal Rumble (1992) is availible uncut on the Ultimate Ric Flair DVD set.

*possible spoilers*This is, without a doubt, the greatest Royal Rumble match there ever was, or ever will be, for several reasons...First, you have Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan doing the commentating, which is extremely silly at times (Heenan almost has a heart attack during the rumble match, hoping that Ric Flair is not eliminated), and of course, Flair's hour-long performance leading to his incredible victory (thanks to Mr. Hogan). Just incredible to watch, over and over again. And while the undercard features non-spectacular, but exciting matches, the rumble match steals the whole show. It is a definite must-see.The stipulations of the rumble match were simple...whomever ended up winning the 30-man free-for-all would automatically become undisputed WWF Champion, and Ric Flair drew #3...and he had some TOUGH competition ahead. There were many familiar faces in the match, Hogan, Santana, Valentine, Snuka, Michaels, Piper, Duggan, Roberts, etc. But while the veteran Royal Rumblers continued their glory in the ring, there were also a couple of impressive debuts in the 30-man contest...such as Irwin R. Schyster, a solo Shawn Michaels, and oh yes, Ric Flair. Talk about a debut...Flair draws #3, Heenan goes nuts, and we're only about 2:30 into the whole match. The commentary from then on up is hilarious, ya gotta hear it. And while Flair comes to the ring, Ted Dibiase is leaving the arena after being eliminated, and he ended up the only competitor that Flair was never in the ring with. A little later, a solo Shawn Michaels enters at #6, and he would impress and entertain. He was one of the true stars the first half of the match, faking eliminations and doing his own version of the "flair flop." Flair must do at least a handful of his own during the fight, it's really silly. Irwin R. Schyster was also impressive in his rumble debut. He entered around the halfway point of the match and ended up hanging in there and taking punches from everyone until the end, despite never eliminating anyone. Pretty impressive.Even more impressive though, was the man who eliminated IRS (by his tie), near the end of the rumble: Roddy Piper. Piper had already wrestled a match earlier on the show, against the Intercontinental Champion, the Mountie. It really wasn't that much of a match, but the crowd was deafening, they just loved it, especially when Piper pinned the Mountie for the 1-2-3 and the IC belt. The crowd just went crazy. Piper, in the rumble match, was in contention to win for a good 35 minutes, it was truly a great performance, but it was all for naught, as he was thrown out by Sid Justice near the end.And speaking of the end...Wooooooo! It was down to Savage, Hogan, Justice, and Flair, pretty good final four. Pretty DAMN good. Savage was thrown out quickly, and Justice managed to toss out Hogan, but Hulk never left the ringside, and he grabbed on to Sid's arm, and Ric comes up from behind and (with Hogan's help), eliminates Sid to conclude the greatest royal rumble match in the history and future of wrestling. I'd give it a 10/10. Bravo! With Flair's victory, he was dubbed "the 60-minute man," for his 60+ minute (actually 59:15) performance. It really is something to watch, I love it.So, wrasslin' fans who have never seen this pay-per-view before, I strongly suggest you do so IMMEDIATELY. I guarantee you'll love it to death. Thank you WWF for such a great show! Wooooooo!

Overall, I thought that Royal Rumble 1992 was all right. The highlights include Ric Flair's herculean effort to win the World Title, and Rowdy Roddy Piper winning his only WWF title, defeating the Mountie for the Intercontinental belt. However, there were a lot of terrible gimmicks used (ie: "El Matador" Tito Santana, Skinner, The Barbarian, etc) which brought down my rating. I give it a 7 out of 10.It was refreshing to see someone other than Hulk Hogan win.