I used to work on the changeover crew in Buffalo. The one smackdown taping I worked was the hands down coolest experience of my life. Mingling with the entertainment was frowned upon but John Cena specifically went out of his way to make sure even the lowest level employee felt like part of the show. It’s amazing how much work goes into every aspect of the show, and to have a guy like that be so down to earth was humbling as fuck

@iamxotiicwrestling

Жыл бұрын

That’s where I live

@brdane

Ай бұрын

The perspective of talking to the entertainment being frowned upon sounds like one of the most corporate things ever. That's a shame. I'm glad Cena goes out of his way like that.

@Tunda2

Ай бұрын

@@brdane I moved onto hospitality and I get it. Employees are people and can be pretty weird, you don’t want any higher profile guest (entertainer, etc.) to have a bad experience with a weird employee and not want to come back, or even worse tell their friends and agents not to book that place. The safest thing to do is keep it business with people who absolutely have to do it and let the guest/talent do their thing.

Can't believe they uploaded the whole show for free.

@StarHorder

Жыл бұрын

wwe uploads the rumbles all the time.

@Guyincognito28282

Жыл бұрын

@@StarHorder FfS There’s always one. 🤦🏼‍♂️

@catesaurus

Жыл бұрын

@@StarHorder can't read sarcasm huh?

@AkashSingh-hb8lm

Ай бұрын

This is not a show lol 😂 guy

@Kobe24brady12

Ай бұрын

@@StarHorderit’s a joke

I was at both the royal rumbles the 2017 and this years royal rumble it was crazy to see how they set it all up

@juniordelgado9611

Жыл бұрын

Same here man royal rumble was my first ever wwe show and I just had to come back to the show where it started it all

@theexplorer2242

Жыл бұрын

was the seating arrangement same as 2017 this year ??bcz it looks different on Tv

@Elite_Bucketzz2K

Жыл бұрын

@@theexplorer2242 they had it very different. They blocked off a quarter of the arena for the pyro and they had more people on the floor

@48kkayzz

Жыл бұрын

It looks so easy but it's hard

@Elite_Bucketzz2K

Жыл бұрын

@@48kkayzz ikr

Major props to the production staff behind all these events.

what a magnificent job this is, we all see the arenas ready to be enjoyed and the fights and many times we don't recognize all the work behind the montagues and backstage

3:40 you can see mr.mcmahons thing on the top right

4:05 When the graphic says HARDY and reality doesn't deliver expectation.

@arya493

Ай бұрын

4:07 actually

@mvmnt.

Ай бұрын

@@arya493you have to give people a moment to read the clip. Hope that made you feel better 😂😂😂

It's amazing to see how much goes into everything 😊

Was at that Rumble and it was my first one ever and i thought it was amazing to witness!

2 videos in one day...NICE!

This is one of the most incredible things I have ever seen

There’s really no bad seat in this place from my experience. Obviously the closer you are the better, but the view from the nosebleeds aren’t too bad.

Just seeing how tiny the ring is (which is massive in it's own right) is compared to the whole arena. Plus bow they block off halve of the stadium with a black curtain, I assumed they'd used the full thjng but it makes sense because where would Guerilla be

3:40 Mr. McMahons titantron?

@JPX64Channel

Жыл бұрын

yeah i've noticed that, was he supposed to show up at the rumble or it was just testing all along? weird because that was the only unused one.

@heddingite

Жыл бұрын

@@JPX64Channel At 3:44 is a Hardy Tron

@JPX64Channel

Жыл бұрын

@@heddingite that was a singer who performed that night

as an ex wrestler myself its always interesting to see this happen before our live shows funny because inbetween them i became security for some of the live shows

3:44 Hardy?

@KPnDC

Жыл бұрын

Yes, the singer that performed

Never seen a venue move the center hung screen so it can be used for the event. Most WWE events I witnessed the screen some times offset from the ring since the venue doesn't have the room to move the stage so the screen ends up off center.

@hecticaperture

Жыл бұрын

Seems like this one was a built specifically for the event. I think when they are off center thats the huge stadium ones where the actual stadium doesn't have the infrastructure to move it around on demand.

@KPnDC

Жыл бұрын

@@hecticaperture It's the same screen that was hanging at the start of the video. They took it down, move it to the bottom left of the screen and set it back up where WWE needed it.

Crazy how much work goes into a night.

I just realized that this video started at the end of when they cleaned up after Monster Jam. Monster Jam was right before the Rumble, huh?

Thats freaking insane.

I have been to every single Royal rubble. Because I'm a huge fan.

Doing ring set ups in the laser lights would be exciting!

Watching it in x2 is a whole other ball game

You got the set up and the show and the behind the scenes all for free

This year's setup was garbage just like it's been the past few years with the Rumble. I went to 2017 and it was way better with the complete venue open and an actual stage with full entrances etc. It's like they're getting cheaper and lazier with production which shouldn't be the case when it comes to one of your 4 top payper view staples. Even weekly show production is better than this house show setup they do for the rumble.

@joeynshadow5149

11 ай бұрын

I was saying that myself I feel like they don’t have the creativity like they used to they used to have unique setups for each pay per view but hasn’t been the case sadly they just do the cheapest way feels bad

@jdixon390

10 ай бұрын

I thought it felt very different in 2019 when they had a completely different entrance setup but they're doing the same setup with every ppv now. I understand saving money and it's easier to transport the set but this is a billion dollar company.

@joeynshadow5149

10 ай бұрын

@@jdixon390sad case but it is wat it is

Bro that place looked huge on tv and a chunk was tarped off

How many days?

Why so interesting XD

Is that the platform they keep the pyrotechnic concussions on being built at the far left starting around 0:45? I've been looking for footage/photos of that for years, and the closest I've found is an old picture from WWE's website of Ron Bleggi on it... Edit: Upon further inspection it looks like that was something temporary, it had lights on it and they took it down before the show started...curious as to what it was though

@Crozzer95

Жыл бұрын

more than likely it was spare LED panelling for the tron/overhead

@Time-LapseVideos

Жыл бұрын

That was for the flame effects below the video screen

@StageExploration

Жыл бұрын

@@Time-LapseVideos Hmm, are we referring to the same thing? This is what I was referencing, i.imgur.com/bbHNitS.png It looks like it was preparing to be hung behind that curtain as it was connected to chain motors, but taken down right as they were bringing in the seating... Now that I think about it, with it being the size of the ring, I wonder if the were just using that platform to paint a ring canvas for the Mountain Dew match or something...

@Time-LapseVideos

Жыл бұрын

@@StageExploration Oh that, yes that was used to hang a projector, to put a stencel down for on the ring to paint the mt dew logo.

@StageExploration

Жыл бұрын

@@Time-LapseVideos Ah that makes sense! That's so interesting it was done on site like that!

why do they have that curtain on the left?

i wonder how they transport and move all that setup everytime

Man they're testing the entrances and lighting in the empty arena to get a good idea of how it'll look.

why do they keep spraying water on the floor during set up?

@Maxwaehrens

Ай бұрын

To clean the concrete floor, it gets really dirty during setup like this with all the equipment and vehicles rolling around. Notice when they set up the chairs, that they are set directly on the concrete floor, so it needs to be cleaned before audience gets there.

@coolbrotherj

Ай бұрын

@@Maxwaehrens ah. I thought Kane and Undertaker were trying to sneak some friends in. Lol

The place where Stone Cold won his first Rumble in 1997, and where Taker won his only Rumble in 2007.

How.mamy hours it takes

I don't get why they always seem to get a stadium venue just to cut half of it off. Could totally nearly break attendence records if they just use full capacity. Why must the ring be so far on one side instead of middle also?

@Time-LapseVideos

Жыл бұрын

Becasue empty seats look bad on tv. you always would rather have a sold out show.

@henryluczak6218

Жыл бұрын

​@@Time-LapseVideos I'm sure they could've sold out the entire venue. The Rumble is one of the funnest events to attend regardless of the quality of the product. There's probably a better reason but you have to think, in a Rumble you have 60 men and women running to the ring. The entrance is already long enough lol. You think they really want to center the ring?

@July9326

Жыл бұрын

​@@Time-LapseVideos not a legit excuse they had the entire stadium open for 2017 and 1997 they can obviously sell tickets for one of their best payperviews of the year

We just watched the whole rumble in less than 10 minutes...

How long did it take to set up everything

@Time-LapseVideos

Жыл бұрын

It took about 4 days

Call me old-school but it seems lame that they would curtain off a side of building...and it's not even the stage where the wrestlers come out and the titan-tron set would be. I've never been a fan of the elaborate sets to begin with as I see it as losing the maximum of potential fans in the arena; since WWE is always going on about setting indoor attendance records. Were the ticket sales low? Good time laps btw. How long was the actual set-up and take-down times respectively?

That's Hella people on Vince's payroll. Gotdamn.

It's pretty strange that they curtained off the other side of the arena.

@NoneofYabiz-rx3zi

2 ай бұрын

Probably not a legit sellout

all bump in is especially for riggers is waiting for trucks to arrive forkies to drive shit in and then riggers do there job. then bump out is the reverse cause the trucks are near site. so the riggers just have to go up and do the work which is hard work btw especially in open stadiums and when the riggers are in the roof with zero air circulation and its 35*c + day.

Why do they cover 1/3rd of the stadium I don’t get it put the entrance in the middle middle of the stadium and then the hole stadium can be used so there is more money (does anyone know why they covered that part of the stadium pls let me know)

@now8ing65

4 ай бұрын

If people were to sit there, it would be hard to see. That's why the ring is closer to the other side

Hmmmm. I thought they sold out the Alamo Dome? 🧐

5:03 Pitch Black Match?

@karaokeNshit

Жыл бұрын

Bray's entrance

Wait, why was Hardy on the screen?

@LANDEN_9

Ай бұрын

His song was the song for RR

I like wwwe

So WWE did a TNA and only ran just over half a massive arena. Interesting.

why does it say hardy on the titantron at 4:24 jeff hardy? nani

@itsovert

11 ай бұрын

“Hardy” is the name of the artist that performed a song on the show.

i hope next year they gonna do royal rumble another place

3:44 Hardy Tron?

@purplerican

Жыл бұрын

The singer that was performing that night

That's how it's did.

royal rumble 2017 in now royal rumble 2023 6 years later

@Zombierising

Жыл бұрын

They will return another 6 years later

Anyone notice "Hardy" on the video board?

@purplerican

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that was the singer that performed that night

How does one get a job n travel with wwe?

Wow! WWE sure has lost so many fans! Heck Royal Rumble 1998 was at this same venue and they didn’t have to use a black tarp to close off half the stadium. WWE you wasted time pumping up your old wrestlers and fail to pump up your new talent and it has cost you big time! You can filled up the Alamodome wow.

@valeriewithsalt

Жыл бұрын

WrestleMania had an 80,000 attendance idk where you got the "You lost your fans" thing

@rowbehr8

Жыл бұрын

@@valeriewithsalt WrestleMania always has large numbers. This was a a Royal Rumble a big ppv event and they couldn’t sale it out if you look back at the Royal Rumble 1998 it’s at the same venue and it’s was sold out! I like WWE too but I see how empty some venues can be for shows.

@NoneofYabiz-rx3zi

2 ай бұрын

1997 and it wasn't sold out despite what wwe claims. It was around 40.000

In 2017 royal rumble WWE fans a lot it was amazing but and 2023 W Royal Rumble it was terrible this maybe not a lot of fans😂😂

@snowking8987

Жыл бұрын

😐

@joshuadelsaraza4782

Жыл бұрын

It was mainly because the stage they used back in 2017 was the usual Raw stage which obviously blocked off a whole section unlike nowadays they just put LED on the entrance way

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