2009 Running Pro Wrestling Thread

I think booker's run with goldy as king booker was one of -- if not the last -- lengthy run anyone had.

 

yeah but even that was only four months.

JBL had a nearly 10-month run leading up to WM a couple years ago and Cena had a seven-month run after that but since then it's been brief reigns at best. It's like Vince can't find a champ he wants to hold the strap to anything more than three months and, really, IMO it's soiling the reputation of the belt and the WWE.

 

If your talking the big belt, I think it's 2003. He had the belt for about a month.

And yeah, they need some title reigns longer than a month or two, although Cena had the belt for nearly 2 years at one point with a few brief switches. You hope they don't become WCW stupid and switch the belt every week.

 

Cena held the WWE title for a 13 months straight at one point and only dropped it because he tore his biceps in a Raw match with Kennedy. And people were bitching at that point about him holding the title too long.

Point being that no matter if title reigns are long or short, people are always going to find a way to complain about it.

 

That cena run was way too long because, at least to me, it made everything stale. But there's no telling how much longer he would have held the belt if he didn't get hurt.

 

I think we're at a stage where we could use a solid run by someone, be it Cena, HHH, Orton or HBK. Problem is, there's almost no chance of cycling any new challengers into the mix for some time to come. Figure Cena-HBK for whatever the December PPV is called. They'll have the champion face someone prominent for the Royal Rumble. February is that stupid Scramble show, right? That hardly counts. Then Wrestlemania. Chances are, it won't be until April that we'll see someone new, like Kingston or Swagger, challenging for the title (unless Orton gets it again soon enough to incorporate it into the Kingston program).

Smackdown title scene is pretty obviously Taker-Batista, either for December or the Rumble (or both). I'm guessing Big Show costs Taker the title, either at the Rumble or the February PPV, and that gives us Taker-Big Show for Mania. Assuming the Batista gets one more run with the title, he'd then face ... hmmm, Punk's a heel, Jericho's a heel, Hardy's a non-factor. Maybe Morrison drops the IC title to Drew McIntyre and wins the Rumble?

 

I doubt they'll do Taker-Big Show, they've technically already had that at Mania (Granted it was Show and A-Train but still).

I like the idea of Batista wrecking havoc and taking the belt and if you're looking for an opponent, clearly you're missing Mysterio. After last night, I can see Rey taking some time off and then coming back and looking for revenge.

 

I can see Michaels beating Cena for the belt, then Orton beats Michaels for the belt at the Rumble. Cena will then be freed up for Undertaker at Wrestlemania, while Kofi takes on Orton. HHH can help Orton beat Michaels, setting up a heel turn, then Michaels/HHH at Wrestlemania.

 

Anyone think they'd do Orton-Undertaker at Wrestlemania?
They've made a big deal of that last Cena-Orton match being the last one. So if Cena is still the champ after the Rumble, and Orton wins the Rumble, who else can he go after? I could see an angle where Orton seethes about being "forced" into a match with Undertaker.
Biggest "nay" to the idea that I see is, I think Orton has won the last two Rumbles. Not sure if they'd want him to win it again.

 

They've already done Orton/Undertaker at WM 21 in 2005. Excellent match.

 

So there's a lifetime ban on a WM rematch? Five years is a long time. And for Orton's character it was a lifetime ago.

 

I doubt Undertaker will be champion that long. He doesn't really need the belt and he doesn't do house shows, which generally is a requisite for the champ. Obviously it's not the end all, be all because he has the belt now, but everything seems geared towards having Batista take the belt. That way they can have a Smackdown world title match and an Undertaker match on WM.

Radical idea: If Taker is ready to give up the winning streak and give someone the big rub -- Sheamus?