http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/blog.php?8521-MJM Wrestling News and Discussion - eWrestlingNews.com Community en Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:44:36 GMT vBulletin 10 http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/blog.php?8521-MJM http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?1678-WM-28-Version-2-0-Where-Past-Meets-Future-PART-2-of-2 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:50:48 GMT PLEASE READ PART 1 FIRST! HHH/McIntyre/R-Truth/Mason Ryan/Swagger/Hawkins vs. Punk/Ryder/Cabana/Hero/Castagnoli/Morella 12-Man Elimination Tag... PLEASE READ PART 1 FIRST!


HHH/McIntyre/R-Truth/Mason Ryan/Swagger/Hawkins vs. Punk/Ryder/Cabana/Hero/Castagnoli/Morella
12-Man Elimination Tag Team Match

So obviously this feud requires some explanation. Going into Summerslam, CM Punk is the “unrecognized” WWE champion. Cena is the “actual” WWE champion. Punk beats Cena cleanly. It is the only way that makes sense.

Punk is the champ but HHH realizes he cannot control him and is getting pissed, though only showing hints on TV. Punk goes on to feud with The Miz sometime later in the year, and through some HHH shenanigans, where he first shows his true heeldom, The Miz is champ again.

Punk doesn’t need the world title now he is so hot. So he begins a feud similar to Austin/McMahon with HHH. Let’s face it, HHH is an amazing heel and I think the perfect foil for a red hot Punk. Punk allies himself with Ryder and Morella, pointing to them as guys HHH tries to bury despite their massive popularity; along with Cabana, Hero and Castignoli who HHH brought in but has since tried to bury too.

An informal “Establishment” faction of HHH, McIntyre, R-Truth, Mason Ryan and Swagger forms, later joined by Curt Hawkins to screw over Zack Ryder somehow. Punk’s group becomes known as the Voiceless, both because CM Punk is the “Voice of the Voiceless” but because their microphones tend to be broken for some “strange” reason.

All of the above happens slowly over the year leading into a huge twelve-man elimination match at Wrestlemania. On the line is the semi-fourth wall-breaking “push.” If HHH’s team wins, Punk’s crew loses any opportunity for a title shot for the next year. If Punk’s team wins, Punk gets a FAIR WWE title shot, Colt Cabana gets a FAIR U.S. title shot, and both Ryder/Morella and the Kings of Wrestling get FAIR tag title shots.

At WM, it comes down to McIntyre, R-Truth and Swagger vs. Punk and Cabana. All three heels begin fighting with each other, which allows Punk and Cabana to eliminate R-Truth. HHH comes back down to calm McIntyre and Swagger down but they turn on him. This allows Punk and Cabana to eliminate them.

Jericho(c) vs. The Miz for WWE title

The Miz holds the belt from Punk for awhile and eventually turns face, arguing he never needed HHH’s help… because he is AWESOME.

The Miz is an independent face trying to prove himself. AWWWEESSSOMMMEE chants are everywhere.

Jericho returns as a face to face The Miz for the title but thereafter turns heel and kind of joins HHH’s informal group in that HHH favors him over The Miz (who hurt HHH’s ego as we read above) and steals the title from him. They meet at Wrestlemania and HHH pulls some malarkey to keep the WWE title on Jericho. (Setting up Punk/Jericho awesomeness for the belt post-WM.) Though a lot of the guys turned on HHH in the previous match, he saves some skin and some gold here.

Orton(c) vs. Daniel Bryan for World Heavyweight title

As stated before, Orton is now a heel and will do anything to hold onto the title. He is informally allied with HHH who likes having Orton as champ and has made a few comments about how Daniel Bryan would make a terrible face for WWE.

Bryan, as he stated on SD, gets the title shot at WM28 against the current champ. He has avoided the dreaded Punt Kick from Orton a few times leading into the match.

As Bryan is about to pick up the win, HHH tries to pull some malarkey again, but this time The Miz, who was just screwed, comes out and stops him. Some other of HHH’s thugs come out to mess it up, but the Voiceless prevent them from getting in the ring. With a battle outside the ring, Bryan cleanly pins Orton! Thanks in large part to his old mentor and enemy, The Miz!

HHH was foiled again and Daniel Bryan is champion of the world!

Cena vs. the Rock

The feud goes back and forth with guest referee spots and such, but Rock does not wrestle until Wrestlemania. Cena wins in a close bout, handshake. Hulk Hogan makes a surprise return for a big moment after the match, congratulating both of them, reflecting back on WM18 where he faced The Rock, and wonders who will face Cena at WM38.

Alberto Del Rio vs. the Undertaker

Undertaker is gone for most of the year, but Del Rio keeps mentioning how he wants the chance to end the streak, but how Undertaker is gone because he is scared. At the Royal Rumble, instead of winner getting a title shot, winner faces the Undertaker in his last match ever in the main event of Wrestlemania. Heading into the Rumble, everyone is speculating who will win with the smart marks guessing either Del Rio, Punk or Sheamus, any of who would be a good pick, but Del Rio ends up coming up top.

Del Rio pulls out all of the stops, but inevitably, it is not enough. The Undertaker will not fall. As everyone in WWE comes out clapping, Undertaker rebounds and steals the victory from Del Rio. Undertaker shakes his hand and Del Rio joins the applause out of respect. Del Rio got closer than anyone else, even HHH. 20-0 and retired.

Del Rio has won the Royal Rumble twice in a row and almost beat the Undertaker in the main event of Wrestlemania… but has yet to win a world championship.

I think this sets up WWE nicely for a lot of good RAW and Smackdown feuds. I envision the Board taking HHH out of power and that storyline ending. Along with room for a lot of fresh feuds. The draft comes about, Punk’s group splits up, the tag division gets re-invented. Kings of Wrestling turn heel. Punk can feud with Jericho, Del Rio, anyone.

And maybe WWE decides to unify the world titles again… who better to be involved in that feud than Jericho, the first unified champ, and Daniel Bryan, the greatest wrestler in the world?

A lot of opportunities. WWE is in a very good position right now for their future! ]]> MJM http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?1678-WM-28-Version-2-0-Where-Past-Meets-Future-PART-2-of-2 http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?1677-WM-28-Version-2-0-Where-Past-Meets-Future-PART-1-of-2 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:50:03 GMT Wrestlemania 28: Where Past Meets Future This is my proposed WM28 card. I wrote one a month or so back, but a lot has changed since then. I think... Wrestlemania 28: Where Past Meets Future

This is my proposed WM28 card. I wrote one a month or so back, but a lot has changed since then. I think this is a substantially better card.

I think WWE is in a great position now to set themselves up for the future while acknowledging the past.

My first criteria is that I take into account matches WWE has already booked and utilize wrestlers they are clearly interested in pushing, and where feasible, I have continued current storylines. I also stuck with the current RAW and Smackdown rosters.

Secondly, I designed it the way I would want to see it. This isn’t a guess as to how they would do it, nor is it a typical ‘fantasy’ card—it’s somewhere in the middle of that.

Under each match I give a bit on what would lead up to the match and then a paragraph on how I would book it.

Also, keep in mind that in my world, I have HHH becoming a heelish COO of WWE. He is not overt about it like in the McMahon-Helmsley era, but he is clearly a guy who thinks people like CM Punk, Colt Cabana, etc., are not marketable enough for WWE and has a cohort of guys he thinks should be favored. The idea is that HHH is doing a lot of this stuff behind the scenes, very little coming out in front of the crowd and saying “I am a bad guy and I am putting all of the good guys in handicap matches against tons of bad guys.” He is much more subtle than this.

In my WWEorld, HHH would do this slowly and subtly over time, maybe a few months from now.

Matches in order of how they would appear on the card.

Ziggler and Christian (c) vs. Gabriel (c) and Bourne(c) for tag team titles and I.C. title

At the Royal Rumble, Bourne eliminated Christian and Gabriel eliminated Ziggler towards the end. Thereafter, on RAW, Ziggler beat up Bourne for Christian, and as payback, Christian beat up Gabriel on Smackdown for Ziggler. A little cross-brand sweet heel alliance. So a tag match is booked at the February PPV between Ziggler/Christian and Gabriel/Bourne. Gabriel and Bourne are outstanding as a team together and beat their opponents handily. This earned them a title shot against the tag champs, whoever they are, which they also handily win. Justin Gabriel and Evan Bourne are the new WWE tag champions and the beginning of a “renaissance” of tag team wrestling.

After the February PPV, Christian wins the I.C. title from whoever has it. He uses this as leverage to get a rematch at Wrestlemania for the tag titles. Whoever wins the match not only wins (or retains) the tag belts for his team, but also wins the I.C. title. At WM, Christian and Ziggler are very close to winning the tag belts several times, but keep fighting over who will take the pinfall and become I.C. champ. Bourne and Gabriel, who are concentrated on the tag belts and do not fight each other for the pinfall, use their teamsmanship to retain. Justin Gabriel is the new I.C. champion and a double champ on Smackdown.

Sheamus vs. Wade Barrett

In my world, Randy Orton becomes world champ again in December when he cheats to beat Christian in what is billed as the last match between these two ever for the world heavyweight title. (In the interim, Christian feuds with Sheamus and Orton with Mark Henry.)

So Sheamus is a monster face and only loses when a heel cheats. At the Rumble, he eliminates Barrett and is later one of the final three (alongside Del Rio and CM Punk.) Cue Barrett who helps Del Rio eliminate Sheamus. Sheamus is FURIOUS that Barrett ruined the Rumble for him (you will especially see why below) and launches a devastating attack upon Barrett in retaliation on Smackdown. But Barrett is saved by his “entourage” of bodyguards Mark Henry, Brutus Clay and the Great Khali. He wants a match against Barrett, but Barrett finagles a deal with HHH (you will understand this more later) for the February PPV so Sheamus will get his hands on Barrett… but only if he gets through the bodyguards in a gauntlet match first.

At the February PPV, Sheamus defeats Clay quickly. Khali gives him some trouble but he eventually beats him. Onto Mark Henry who takes advantage of the tired and worn Sheamus… but Henry eventually succumbs to the Celtic Cross. Sheamus is calling out Barrett… when THE BIG SHOW returns from injury as another one of the bodyguards. The match stipulations never specified who the “bodyguards” were. So Sheamus fights off the Big Show as best he can, despite being completely exhausted and almost beats him, when Barrett nails Sheamus, allowing the Big Show to end the gauntlet.

On Smackdown, Sheamus freaks the heck out. The Big Show, offended that everyone thinks he needed Barrett’s help to defeat a worn and weary Sheamus, says that if Sheamus can beat him, he will deliver Barrett to him at WM28. Sheamus says OK—but he wants it in a cage. Smackdown main event, Sheamus wins. Sheamus versus Barrett set.

All of the bodyguards make appearances, and Barrett pulls out some serious moves, but Sheamus takes the win.

Morrison(c) vs. Kingston for U.S. title in a ladder match

Morrison and Kingston are both in the U.S. title scene on RAW leading into WM28. It is clear, but not overt, that HHH is preventing them from getting to the next level. So after exchanging the belt back and force a few times, they decide the best way to force themselves onto the main event scene is to steal the show at Wrestlemania and make the U.S. belt look as prestigious as any other championship… by facing each other in a face-versus-face ladder match for the U.S. title, referencing Razor Ramon and Shawn Michael’s classic contest for the I.C. belt years before.

They have an epic match until it hits the time limit. With permission from each competitor, they keep wrestling until there is a winner. Morrison retains the belt by a hair. Handshake and massive applause. No cheating, no interference, just an awesome match.

Booker T v. Kane v. Ezekiel Jackson v. Diesel v. Big Show v. Mark Henry v. Rhodes v. Dibiase in a Number One Contender to the World Heavyweight title Scramble Match—No Disqualification—whoever is “interim” Number One Contender at the end of 20 minutes gets a title shot

Like last year’s Rumble, Booker T and Diesel compete in it. On commentary during Smackdown post-Rumble, Booker T talks about how great it was to compete again and how he misses it and wants a chance, but guesses there just is not a spot for him. Soon thereafter, Diesel returns to Smackdown against “green” opponents, picking up some easy wins against newbies—clearly, HHH is helping his old buddy resume his career. This really makes Booker T mad as he feels (and is) in much better shape and condition (and younger) than Nash.

This eventually leads to a confrontation between them where Booker T makes the accusations that Nash is only getting booked because HHH is the new CEO. The next week, Booker T is not on commentary—clearly he was blacklisted by HHH. He starts buying tickets for the front row. He is acknowledged by the faces Kane and Ezekiel Jackson, who are also subsequently (but overtly) blacklisted. They join him in the crowd.
In February, leading into the February PPV, HHH has booked Sheamus in a gauntlet match against Barrett and his bodyguards in exchange for being able to use his bodyguards to remove Booker, Kane and Zeke from the audience. They attempt to remove them and a huge brawl breaks out. Booker, Kane and Zeke are able to take out the Big Show, Mark Henry, Clay and Khali.

The fans go crazy for the three of them holding up BKZ signs and wanting them to be able to compete at WM28. HHH shows concern about BKZ, not wanting “what is happening with CM Punk to repeat itself,” (you’ll see below) so he decides to reinstate them, but comes up with a way to ensure they do not survive as a group. He books them in a scramble match for the #1 contendership to the World Heavyweight title, assuming no group could survive having to compete with each other for a title shot. Rhodes and Dibiase (who both took turns with the I.C. belt in my world) have shown a willingness to help him, so he also puts them in the match.

The match is pretty crazy with so many big guys in it. Each of the 8 is “interim” number one contender at least once, but Booker T, Rhodes and Dibiase perform the best. As the clock nears the end, the 5 big guys are all knocked out outside the ring and Booker T is interim champion. Rhodes and Dibiase gang up on him but also fight with each other. Just as the time-limit buzzer is about to sound, they each cover him and grab a leg. 1. 2. 3 count just as the buzzer sounds. It is completely unclear is the 3 count was before the buzzer and therefore which of the three is Number One Contender… so the referee announces that all three of them are Number One Contender!

Rey Mysterio vs. Sin Cara

This match is announced well in advance, just like Cena-Rock. No need for a huge build up to this, they are each involved in their own feuds and what not throughout the year with a few moments of face-to-face “I’ll see you at Wrestlemania” spots. They finally do battle and it is awesome as Sin Cara has finally hit his groove. He wins. Handshake. ]]> MJM http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?1677-WM-28-Version-2-0-Where-Past-Meets-Future-PART-1-of-2