Rico's Fantasy Booking: Year 3

Road to Mania - A breakdown

Long story short, A while back I hit a wall writing and I really only have a few 'Mania matches I'm interested in writing. So therefore, unfortunately, I gotta do Mass Recaps, starting with what was planned to happen at the Royal Rumble Pay-Per-View.

Royal Rumble

Of course, you read about Daniel Dalton becomming WWE champion only to have his dream ripped away by some contractual BS on behalf of "Nightshade" Rico Jamison.

In the second match, Entry #19, Carley Addison (FKA Caeley Gedling) ended up eliminating 6 women: Zelina Vega, Tegan Nox, Gigi Dolin, Dani Palmer & Sol Ruca (both at once), and most importantly, the runner-up of the Royal Rumble, entrant #5 Lexi Zamora, resulting in Carley Addison winning the Royal Rumble match.

The third match of the night saw Zack Chandler defeat Jon Moxley in a Falls Count Anywhere match, with a Spear off scaffolding through a stack of 4 tables being enough to seal the victory for the up & comer.

In the fourth match, Liv Morgan defeated Dakota Kai to claim the Smackdown women's Championship belt, making that unification match coming up on Draft night a real interesting situation, presuming Dakota wanted her rematch...

In the fifth match, Damien Priest defended his Universal Title against Aaron Zamora. Near the closing stages, Isla Dawn snuck up to the apron and attempted to blast Priest with her black mist, but Priest had managed to dodge, and Aaron was hit instead, allowing the champion to hit the South of Heaven and retain his title.

The Men's Royal Rumble started with #1 Shawn Rosario and #2 Zack Chandler. Most notably in this rumble, lots of Iron-men emerged. #2 Chandler ended up lasting 55 minutes, 57 seconds before being eliminated by Ethan Bourne. #10 GUNTHER lasted 40 minutes even before it took the combined efforts of Rosario, Chandler, & Rowan Gedling to eliminate the Ringgeneral. #12 Luke Jamison also ended up lasting 51 minutes and 17 seconds, overall coming in fourth. Shawn Rosario shocked the world by lasting One hour, Five minutes, twenty-one seconds (1:05:21) yet only coming in third.

Yet, the story of the night was Entrant #4. Daniel Dalton, the man who just had his big moment ripped away from him at the top of the show... had entered the rumble. He had already wrestled Finn Balor for almost 20 minutes, and then wrestled Rico Jamison for almost 15, and was now entering EARLY. Dalton ended up scoring 4 eliminations, including the final eliminatiton of Rowan Gedling, to secure HIS spot in the Main event of Night 2 of Wrestlemania.

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Draft Day

The next Saturday, exactly 7 days after the Royal Rumble, WWE held its first night of Drafting. The picks that were made are irrelevant as of right now, because LOTS of plans have changed since then...

But the matches of nights 1 and 2 remain important to the Lore.
- Night 1 -

- Bobby Lashley and Ricochet defeated Grayson Waller & Austin Theory to claim the Vacant Smackdown Tag Team Championships

- Wes Lee defeated Kyle O'Reilly (c) with the Kardiac Kick to win the Intercontinental Championship

- Pretty Deadly defeated The Street Profits, House of Black (c), and British Strong Style to become the NEW Raw Tag Team Champions! YES BOOOOY!!!

- Racheal Moon defeated Isla Dawn in a singles match, as payback for costing Moon her chance at winning the previous week's Royal Rumble match

- Shawn Rosario defeated Jake Cross (c) in a No Holds Barred match to claim the United States Championship

- Daniel Dalton defeated Edge after the Rated R superstar's third spear attempt was intercepted by Heaven's Light. (These summaries don't do the matches themselves justice, I just don't have the time or brain power to write ALL of them anymore... I gotta stop overbooking LOL)