2011 Pro Wrestling Thread

Is there any way the match ends by DQ? Only person I can see doing a run-in is Foley, who wants revenge on Rocky for Monday night.

 

I was thinking that might happen, and it sets up a transitional feud, since after SS you still have the Rumble and a couple other PPVs to work though. I was kind of under the assumption that Rock wasn't going to do much until Mania though.

 

I apologize if this question has been asked before, but I'm wondering if you guys believe Undertaker's streak at Wrestlemania should be snapped? If so, by who?

Personally, I believe Taker's streak is the one thing that sets him apart from all of the famous wrestlers in history. He's never going to have the amount of title reigns that an Austin or Hunter had. Nor will he hold the title for as long as a Bruno or Hogan. The streak is Taker's mark on history. In the long run, is ending the streak going to help anything significantly? You could give the win to some up-and-comer, but what if he turns out like a Brock Lensar and flees the company or a Shelton Benjamin who never quite reaches the heights that some imagined he would?

 

No point in having the streak snapped anymore, since he's basically an inactive wrestler. Now if he were an active wrestler and have it snapped, then it could lead to storyline fallout ... i.e. return to evil Taker.

Don't see that happening obviously.

 

I always thought it'd be cool for him to let the streak be snapped as his final match. The ultimate statement about this being a business and being willing to job.

 

Previously I was a proponent of having someone who needed the final push to superstardom get to be the one to break the streak. Now I don't think it matters. He probably won't make an apperance on WWE television until the buildup to WM begins, and his match isn't going to overshadow Rock-Cena in any circumstance. The Streak loses its impact when you realize he doesn't even wrestle anymore EXCEPT for the streak. Though it'd be awfully cool if he make an unexpected appearance at Survivor Series or even a Raw. Drop the lights during a match or a beadown, couple of seconds later BONG and the place loses its collective shit.

 

I think the streak should be over by way of his retirement. I'm over the idea that he wrestles once a year and that the streak in itself makes his match at Wrestlemania suspenseful. To me, it's a waste of a spot on the card at this point because we see him once a year and he disappears. He should just retire.

 

I don't blame them for keeping the streak going. The last five or six years, it's been the most compelling storyline (except for Flair's retirement) at the biggest event of the year.

At this point, I could see him keep the streak until his official retirement, or, use it as the ultimate thing for a Cena heel turn. Cena turns heel, beats Taker, then spends the rest of his career boasting about it.

 

I know Taker has been a part-time wrestler for the past few years, but this latest absence is, I think, part of a bigger storyline.
Remember when he left the ring after the Triple H match at Wrestlemania? He looked about beat to death. IIRC, they might also have stretchered him out. So now he stays away for the entire year, until WM season.
Meanwhile, Mark Henry keeps destroying the beasts of the WWE. Since he's doing such a great job as champion, say they keep the belt on him through the spring. He even ratchets up the intensity a notch with some Andre-style squashes of five jobbers at a time. He starts getting cockier and cockier.
At the Royal Rumble, entrant No. 30 (or 40 ... or however many they have this year) is Undertaker. He demolishes the last five guys in the ring to win the thing in his first action since WM 27. Then you put Henry and Undertaker on a collision course for WM28.

The downside is, Undertaker would have to win at that point, unless you're planning on a VERY long title reign for Henry. If Henry were to end the streak (which would instantly turn him into a once in a generation heel), who else could legitimately rise up and challenge him at that point?

 

This man has an issue with your scenario...

 

For some reason, I keep thinking Punk will beat Henry in an upset, then Bryan cashes it in against Punk at WM, where they have an all-time classic for seven minutes.

 

I actually thought about that while I was writing out the Undertaker scenario. Have Bryan cash in his briefcase against Del Rio, Punk or whoever the Raw champ is at that point. It'd be a tremendous match and serve to elevate another guy into the stratosphere.
Punk-Bryan could easily go down as this generation's Savage-Steamboat at WM III -- with the ironic twist of both being on the undercard, overshadowed by a huge main event, and of course it being the 25th anniversary of that classic. With Punk's homages to Savage, they could even play up that angle with some of the video packages.

If Bryan's briefcase is supposed to only be a World Heavyweight title shot, they can easily write it off. Just say that since Undertaker (as the Rumble winner) picked Henry as his WM opponent, Bryan gets the shot at the WWE champ.