WWE Royal Rumble 2011 Predictions

Hello friends! The road to WrestleMania 27 officially starts tomorrow night with the 24th annual Royal Rumble event! So with that here are my predictions for this year's event!

2-on-1 Handicap Match for the WWE Divas Championship: Natalya vs. LayCool

OK before I give you my pick for this match let me just say right off the bat and I'm going on the record for this you're looking at the worst fight of the night right here! OK now that I got that off of my chest let's get to the pick shall we? OK this is a return match from Survivor Series in where Natalya won the Divas title from LayCool and now LayCool is invoking their rematch clause. So who wins? Well Natalya has been the dominant champion since winning the title beating all comers including Alicia Fox and Melina just to name a couple! Now as far as LayCool is concerned well in case you've been living under a rock former TNA Knockout champion Awesome Kong has just recently signed with the WWE and the plan as of now regarding Kong is to put her on Smackdown as a bodyguard/enforcer for LayCool! So with that I think we see Kong debut tomorrow night and help LayCool regain the Divas title because in all honesty why else would WWE even book this match?

Winners: LayCool

World Heavyweight Championship Match: Edge vs. Dolph Ziggler

OK this 1 should be fun as hell! Both of these guys can flat out go and are both perfectly capable of putting on a great match! The build to this match has been very well executed and now with Vickie Guerrero banning Edge's spear from this match that just made this fight much more interesting! So who wins? Well Edge is the safe and obvious pick mainly because WWE wants to have the more established main eventer carry the World title into WrestleMania! But on the other hand Dolph Ziggler is on the verge of a main event push and as someone who has been dying to see some new, fresh young talent in the main event scene I am all for Ziggler possibly winning the belt! However, Dolph will not win the belt here because I'm going with Edge to retain in what I think will be a very good match from start to finish! Most experts feel that Dolph Ziggler will eventually win the belt later this year as do I but I'm sorry to say he won't win it here at least not yet!

Winner: Edge

WWE Championship Match: The Miz vs. Randy Orton

Just like with the World Heavyweight title fight I fully expect this fight to be fun and entertaining from start to finish! The Miz shocked us all last year when he not only won the RAW Money In The Bank Ladder Match last July but also when he cashed it in and won the WWE title from Orton on RAW the night after Survivor Series! The Miz just like Dolph Ziggler is a fresh new face in the main event scene and has been doing a white hot job as champion and is without question the future of WWE! But on the other hand Randy Orton is an established main event performer who according to my partner in crime Mike Flecha has been getting the John Cena treatment as of late but make no mistake about it friends whether it's as a babyface or as a heel Randy Orton just like The Miz is uber over with the crowd which is why I'm going on the record and saying that this fight will be the best fight of the undercard! So who wins? Wow this is really tough to call but right now I have to go with the hot hand and that is The Miz to retain however I am going to go on the record here and say that Miz will drop the title at next month's Elimination Chamber PPV!

Winner: The Miz

2011 Royal Rumble Match

OK friends the prelimaneries are over and now it's time for the main event and the reason why we even shell out 45 bucks for this PPV anyways and this year we have a reason to do it now more than ever! Why? Because it was announced 2 weeks ago that this year's Rumble match will feature 40 men instead of 30 which will make this year's Rumble match the biggest Rumble match in the history of the Royal Rumble match! So now for the $1,000,000 question who wins? Wow that is big time tough to call because you have so many worthy candidates who can win this thing! Of course John Cena is the safe and obvious pick to win this thing as is CM Punk because it is fairly obvious that WWE is going to have Cena and Punk face off at WrestleMania possibly for the WWE title and for that to happen 1 of them has to win the Rumble match and the other will have to win the title inside the Elimination Chamber next month! Another worthy candidate to win the Rumble is Smackdown newcomer and fast rising star Alberto Del Rio because he can wrestle, is white hot on the mic, and is on the verge of a main event push! King Sheamus emerges as another worthy candidate to win because he is already an established main eventer and no doubt is definitely worthy of headlining WrestleMania in the future! The final worthy candidate in my eyes who could win this thing is Wade Barrett because ever since he won season 1 of NXT he has been money! From his days as leader of the original Nexus to his latest stint as leader of the newly formed Corre Barrett is firmly establishing himself as a main event talent and just like King Sheamus is certainly capable of main eventing a future WrestleMania! As for my darkhorses to win the Rumble well in my eyes there are 2 big time darkhorses who could win this thing and those 2 darkhorses are none other than Kofi Kingston and John Morrison because for the longest time I have wanted to see these 2 studs get main event pushes and if 1 of these 2 studs were to win the Rumble I would absolutely mark out like I've never marked before! Other darkhorses to win the Rumble include 2006 Rumble winner Rey Mysterio, Kane, and The Big Show because I honestly don't think that any of the other entrants in this year's Rumble have a chance to win! So now the moment of truth! Who wins the Royal Rumble and headlines WrestleMania 27? Drumroll please! After much thought I am going to say that the winner of the 2011 Royal Rumble match will be... CM Punk! Why? Because every year since 1999 we have had a different winner of the Rumble and I fully expect that trend to continue because Punk has done almost everything a WWE Superstar can do from winning back to back Money In The Bank Ladder Matches at WrestleMania's 24 and 25 from winning the World Heavyweight Title 3 times, winning the Intercontinental title, and winning the Tag titles Punk has not won a Rumble match! That is until this year because Punk in my honest opinion is the most over heel in WWE today and if WWE wants to have Punk vs. Cena for the title at Mania then Punk needs to win the Rumble and Cena needs to win the WWE title inside the Elimination Chamber next month!

Winner: CM Punk

Overall with the exception of the Diva title fight I am fully looking forward to this event! Of course I like so many others are looking the most forward to the epic 40 man Royal Rumble match! The 2 World title fights should live up to the hype and be as good as advertised while sadly the diva title fight really won't be any good sorry to say! But none the less there is only 1 road to WrestleMania and that road begins with the 24th annual Royal Rumble PPV! Please leave me a comment with your picks below and don't forget to tune into my other partner in crime Derek Ferreira's YouTube channel (slb200809) tomorrow night as he will have a complete recap of tomorrow night's Royal Rumble PPV and I will be back next Saturday night with my complete preview of Super Bowl 45! So with that you know the routine everybody thumbs up talk to ya later! YEAH!!!