2008 Running Pro Wrestling Thread

The last person to win the Royal Rumble and not fight for the title at WrestleMania was Vince McMahon in 1999. Cena will be in Orlando, probably against Orton for the WWE Title.

My question is how is he going to juggle wrestling along with filming his new movie, which shoots from February 25 until May 12 in New Orleans?

 

To bring up another circumstance I can't positively remember, didn't they do a storyline like this with the Rock and someone else (Austin?) where The Rock's opponent played him off as too good for everyone because he was constantly piping in via pre-recorded segments?

I can't see them making Cena the villain, but something like this might work.

 

I'm guessing no Cena on the house shows, so that should limit his dates to Mondays and the PPVs. And if he's not 100 percent, maybe this is the way to bring him back more slowly. Hell, they could do up an injury angle that keeps him out until WM. As long as he cuts promos from afar to keep the feud hot, they could probably get away with it.

Cena-Edge would be old hat, but it'd be good old hat, should they not go the obvious Cena-Orton route.

 

Cena won it? Holy shit. Also, thanks for the ride, Jeff. Enjoy getting buried again...

 

So what's the over-under on Jeff Hardy dropping the Intercontinental title to Snitsky on Raw?

 

Not even a day. I say he drops it tomorrow night.

 

... and Hardy + Punk will be tag teaming together on ECW by May, calling themselves The Punk'd Squad (the millenium version of the J-O-B squad.)

 

You are, however, not a real tag team in WWE until you job to HHH in a handicap match.

 

Cena? Fuck....I owe my 18-year-old nephew $20. He called me earlier this evening and said "how funny would it be if Cena came back tonight." I put the money on it and now he just called me with scoreboard.

I don't think they'll send Hardy down to midcard status yet, though I totally agree WWE dropped the ball in a Jackie Smith-like manner with him losing. I still think he remains in the case, but the return of Cena definitely makes more easy for HHH to finally go the heel route he's been longing to do.

Was Maria sizzling or what tonight?

 

I love how Joey Styles managed to fit an "OH MY GOD!" in between JR's repeated screams.

 

To me the dropped ball was the way the match ended. There was no drama to it and Orton didn't seem have his mind in it. I would have like to have seen a couple of false finishes before the match ended.

Hardy's run is done. You've got Cena, Orton, Trips and maybe Jericho at some point in the title picture. I don't see Hardy getting another chance like this and it's a shame.

 

Yeah, I agree with PoP.
It wasn't necessarily that Hardy lost that kills his momentum. It was how he lost. He has no leg to stand on now as a contender. If Orton had cheated somehow or even if Hardy had suffered some type of "injury" in the match and made Orton work and work and work for it until his injury gave out or forced him to quit, then people could rationalize that Hardy really does belong in the title hunt, but just was unlucky.
Instead, the way it was booked, Orton was the clear cut winner.

I wonder if this was done as an F-U to Orton. According to one of the wrestling insider web sites, Orton has really taken on a backstage leadership role, going to Vince and asking that more of the younger guys get pushed, like the Hardys, CM Punk and Umaga. He's not doing it in a way that disparages the veterans (HHH, Michaels, 'Taker, etc., etc.,) but is just telling Vince that those guys aren't likely to be around in five years, so they have to start pushing these young guys to get ahead of the curve.
We all know how much Vince loves being told what to do. He'd likely sooner bury Hardy, Punk and Umaga than push them in the title picture and admit Orton is right and he's wrong.