Welcome back to another Monday Morning Q&A where I toss out some questions to get a feel of how you guys and gals are feeling about certain topics.
So here are 5 questions I’d like to toss out for this week. I’ll give my answers, too, but the key here is that I want to know what YOU think! So make sure you chime in!
I’m entirely #WeWantCody. And that’s not to say that I don’t want to see The Rock vs. Roman Reigns. In fact, I wanted to see it for NINE YEARS and they continually didn’t do it. Now, at the worst possible time, they’re shooting themselves in the foot in multiple ways just to do it at this particular moment?
I hate it for a multitude of reasons that I’m sure I’ll be typing out and saying on podcasts for the next bunch of years. This article isn’t about to get bogged down with that. Suffice it to say, I think the way they did this angle was horrendous and it has made The Rock look like a terrible politicking egomaniac, it reemphasizes why people are frustrated with Roman Reigns, it makes Cody Rhodes look like a dumbass, it will screw up his “story” whether or not he wins that Runner Up Championship, it makes that belt look like crap and it makes Seth Rollins seem like a loser.
I don’t think any positives are coming out of this and it’s going to be looked at as the modern day equivalent of Bret/Yoko/Hogan, and, unfortunately, yet another notch on the Batista/Bryan, Goldberg/Owens, etc list of “mistakes WWE clearly shouldn’t have made for WrestleMania, but were too blind and stubborn to avoid.”
If he’s limited to the indies, I don’t really know anyone I would want to see get that honor facing him. I don’t follow any of those feds and I especially wouldn’t know the deathmatch types.
But if I had to pick from any promotion and put it on a different card? Easily, Jon Moxley. They had that idea of feuding back when he was going to be first brought up to the main roster as Dean Ambrose, before the days of The Shield. It’d be cool to see them revisit that, and since Moxley is such a well known talent and loves to do these types of matches, he’d be the perfect fit.
Mercedes Mone. Actually, to be more specific, I think he’s going to do the pseudo-announcement thing where he says there’s a big show coming up in Boston in March and will heavily imply that she’ll be there. That way, he’s not outright saying it, but it becomes an almost guarantee. Essentially, the CM Punk tease with Chicago.
If not that, I think it will be something incredibly bland, like when he announced that tickets for All In would go on sale in a month. Hopefully, it isn’t something like that, where he just says the location for Double or Nothing and acts like that’s something worth hyping ratings up for.
I’m torn. As much as I like the idea of keeping it Raw-specific for the pure logic of it, I do see a lot of value in bringing in some SmackDown people to make it an even bigger match.
The way I see it, if it’s limited to Raw, then I think we’re looking at Becky Lynch, Ivy Nile, Liv Morgan, Shayna Baszler, Zoey Stark and your pick of Natalya or a returning Sonya Deville. That’s not a bad crop of names by any means, meanwhile Nia Jax fights Rhea Ripley in a singles match.
But if you book those 6 against each other in qualifying matches, and you have 3 qualifying matches on SmackDown, you can then book Bianca Belair, Michin, Naomi, Tiffany Stratton, Zelina Vega and Shotzi, to do the same.
Best case scenario in terms of star power, the lineup would be Becky Lynch, Liv Morgan, and I guess Sonya Deville (or if she’s not ready, Shayna Baszler) for Raw, and SmackDown bringing Bianca Belair, Naomi and Tiffany Stratton to the mix.
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