Mike Omansky - live perspective (7.0): Best match: Edge-Mysterio. Worst Match: Jericho-JBL. Very solid card. It was good to see Flair go over clean with a figure-four, but I was less happy that it sets back MVP, who is a future main eventer. Orton-Hardy delivered. Edge was very strong with Mysterio, who was surprisingly booed from his ring entrance and through the match. Royal Rumble was entertaining as always, with unexpected add-ons (Cena, Foley, Piper, and Snuka) a good touch. Fans at the Garden hated the Cena win. Jericho has been lackluster since his return; this match didn't help.

Sean James, New York (6.0): Best Match: Rumble. Worst Match: JBL vs. Y2J How many people ordered this show based on the shockingly great Hardy-Orton build-up? A lot, I'm sure. So I don't get how the WWE could give Jeff and Randy so little time, and such a lame finish. You want to put over that Randy can hit the RKO at any time, that's fine, but this was not the match to do it in. They didn't even give us any big spots, and nobody can disguise the fact that while Randy is an above-average heel, he's still really dull in the ring (and those rest holds are agony). I guess the WWE hoped to regain the favor of us fans by surprising us with Cena. The problem is that Cena and Rey only appeal to 12-year-olds. This is why the 18-and-older crowd is either showing up and booing or just tuning out completely. We still want badass anti-heroes (Super-H and HBK are too old and over-exposed to fit the bill), but Vince is trying to give us more "blue chipper" Rocky Maivia babyfaces. Not that the show is horrible, but as an adult male there's just nothing that speaks to me. The movie "300" delivered the kind of awesome, contemporary fighter characters I want to see in wrestling. I paid 40 bucks for this thing because of Hardy-Orton when I could have watched it illegally for free, and frankly I feel like if I watch a PPV again, I sure won't be paying for it.

Callie Wilson, Louisville, Ky. (8.0) - Best match: Orton vs. Hardy. Worst match: Flair vs. MVP. Long-time reader, first-time writer. Great job with the site. I wanted to share my thoughts on tonight's pay-per-view for consideration. This was the first PPV I've ever purchased, as I usually track the action through PWTorch.com recaps. I bought it solely for Orton-Hardy. I never expected Jeff Hardy to win, but the WWE Championship match was built so strongly I just couldn't be sure. I didn't want to risk missing a career-defining moment for my favorite WWE wrestler - exactly what WWE wanted to hear from fans like myself, I'm sure. I think Orton and Hardy delivered the match of the night, but I was disappointed that they weren't allowed to go longer. They had such a head of steam built up going into the Rumble, it seems to me they needed to deliver a 30-minute classic to pay it off, or at least have some amazing sequences. What they delivered was very good, but there was a lot of unrealized potential. It wouldn't be so bad if this was just the start of a long-reaching feud, but with Cena's surprise return and (surprise!) Rumble win, it stands to reason that he will pick up where he left off with Orton and the WWE title. In any case, I'm not worried yet about where this leaves Hardy, even if he does get bumped from the title picture for a while. I would be surprised if WWE built Hardy so strongly just to stall him out after a month. He's still got a great piece of bling in that Intercontinental championship and certainly he would be in his element via the Elimination Chamber at No Way Out and Money in the Bank at WrestleMania. Hopefully he'll get more of the spotlight back once WWE settles down for the long haul after March. All that aside, a strong show overall with an excellent Rumble, a better-than-it-had-any-right-to-be Edge vs. Mysterio match-up, a strong win for Orton, and a surprisingly nasty JBL-Jericho match-up that should easily last until the big show. Flair-MVP was slow and rather disappointing, but I guess the Nature Boy just can't go like he used to (and boy, I did not need to see him in HD without a shirt on).

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