Monday Night Raw Preview 1/19/15: Go-Home Show for Royal Rumble 2015 Featuring Daniel Bryan, Hulk Hogan, Shawn Michaels

By Andrew Meola | Jan 19, 2015 01:14 PM EST

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The January 19, 2015 edition of WWE's Monday Night Raw will emanate live from the American Airlines Center in Dallas at 8 p.m. Eastern and will serve as the go-home show for the 2015 Royal Rumble on Sunday.

WWE has already announced an alumni reunion of sorts for tonight's show to hype the Rumble on Sunday. Hulk Hogan, Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, Billy Gunn, Ron Simmons, Jimmy Hart, and X-Pac will all be on hand tonight.

On SmackDown last Thursday, Triple H booked Daniel Bryan against Kane in a match for tonight's edition of Raw with the stipulation that Bryan is out of the 30-man Rumble match if he loses against his former tag team partner.

Some fans are panicking because of remarks Bryan made in a recent interview with Alternative Nation:

"(Laughs) You know it's funny, because one of the things that he had mentioned was, he said something about the Millennials not having any ambition, right. It's funny, because the WWE does this personality test with some of their more successful superstars, where they rank you on all of these scores, like your desire for power, and your personality, and all that kind of stuff. One of the things they ranked was ambition, and it's funny, because in this personality assessment, I got the lowest score for ambition that the lady had ever seen. So they do it on a percentile basis, so from 0 to 100, I was in the bottom 1 percentile of ambition.

(Laughs) It's funny because the lady was like, 'How on earth are you so successful given that you seem to have no ambition?' I said, 'Well, that's where there's a flaw on the test. I have no ambition for what society says is important as far as things like money, and all that kind of stuff.' What I am ambitious about is I want to be the best wrestler that I can possibly be, and I think there's some sort of mistake in generations, as far as what he thinks as far as our generation lacking ambition. Our generation just wants different things than what his generation wants, and I think that's a societal thing as well. There's an older generation of people who say, 'No, you guys should want this, you guys should want this, you guys should want this.' Whereas our generation, a lot of us say, 'No, we don't want that, we want something different, and a lot of the things that you guys wanted, are the reason that the world is messed up. We need to change our value system.' So that's it, that's a very different take on what's going on.

But people do need to stand up and say, 'No, this isn't what I want, I want to do this. This is me, this is how I want to present myself on television. This is how I want to be within WWE, this is how I view professional wrestling, this is what I would like it to be.' People have to have the courage to come up and say that. But the hard thing is, he was talking about the Attitude Era and how things were different, well things wouldn't have been that much different if there wasn't a WCW. Like guys could say, 'Hey, I don't want to do this. If you want to fire me fine, because I'm going to go to WCW and make just as much money.' That doesn't exist right now. It's people who are okay with like, 'Hey, my life without WWE, is as good as my life with the WWE.' They have to be able to say, 'Okay, if I'm going to say this is what I want to do, or else I'm taking my ball and going home.' They have to have some sort of plan for when they take their ball and go home, they have something else to do, which is hard, especially when you have a family, and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, I have very interesting thoughts on that whole podcast. It's a very interesting look into the mind of Vince McMahon, so it was fascinating."

There are only three matches booked for the Rumble as of this writing. We have the 30-man match itself; the Triple Threat match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship between John Cena, Seth Rollins, and Brock Lesnar; and the WWE Tag Team Championship match between The Usos and The Miz and Damien Mizdow. The Rumble match itself also has many spots open, so there's a lot to do in three hours tonight.

As always, be sure to check back with MStars immediately after the show for a full recap of all the action. But for now, let us know your thought, opinions, guesses, and predictions for tonight's show in the comments section.

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