2012 Pro Wrestling Thread

Me too.

 

I'm in. We just post our picks on the thread?

 

Yeah, it's not as though there's any benefit to stealing picks. If you'd rather, I can also take them via PM. Whatever floats your tugboat.

 

I don't mind posting mine in the thread, but can I get a list of the card? I don't want to miss any.

 

-John Cena vs. The Rock

Hell in a Cell Match:
-The Undertaker vs. Triple H. Shawn Michaels will serve as the special guest referee of the match.

WWE Championship Match:
-CM Punk (c) vs. Chris Jericho

WWE World Heavyweight Championship Match:
-Daniel Bryan (c) vs. Sheamus

WWE Intercontinental Title Match:
-Cody Rhodes (c) vs. Big Show

-Randy Orton vs. Kane

12 Man Tag Team Match For Control of Raw and Smackdown:
-Team Laurinaitis vs Team Long

Team Laurinaitis: David Otunga (Captain), Mark Henry, Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger, Drew McIntyre & The Miz
Team Long: Santino Marella (Captain), R-Truth, Zack Ryder, The Great Khali, Kofi Kingston & Booker T

Divas Tag Team Match:
-Kelly Kelly and Maria Menounos vs. Beth Phoenix and Eve Torres

 

John Cena vs. The Rock
My pick: Cena, clean finish by pinfall, in 17:00. No turns by either guy. Even if there were, the crowd will be so split it'd be hard to tell which way they turned.
This is also the last match of the night. You want to give me my point now, or do we really need to wait until Sunday night?

Hell in a Cell Match: The Undertaker vs. Triple H. Shawn Michaels will serve as the special guest referee of the match.
My pick: Undertaker via pinfall (after a tombstone) in 22:00. Ends clean but there's some hinky stuff that happens with HBK to set up a triple threat match next year. So, if you want to call that a heel turn by HBK I suppose you could.

WWE Championship Match: CM Punk (c) vs. Chris Jericho
My pick: Punk via pinfall (after a GTS) in 28:00.

WWE World Heavyweight Championship Match: Daniel Bryan (c) vs. Sheamus
My pick: Sheamus via pinfall (after a Brogue Kick) in 16:00.
In an upset, this will get the highest star rating. Punk-Jericho will be the smarkfest, but I think these two guys are both clicking right now and will really steal the show. Also the "first hour" main event.

WWE Intercontinental Title Match: Cody Rhodes (c) vs. Big Show
My pick: Cody Rhodes via DQ in 10:00. Show knocks out the ref with the WMD, keeping his Wrestlemania choke streak alive.
Also the first match of the night, and will surprisingly challenge Sheamus-Bryan for highest star rating.

Randy Orton vs. Kane
My pick: Orton via pinfall (after an RKO) in 8:00
I'm actually looking forward to this match. I think both guys are better workers than a lot of people give them credit for, and they'll put on a decent match. It's just too bad they won't get a lot of time. People are clamoring to see Maria Menoudos and Flo Rida, after all.

12 Man Tag Team Match For Control of Raw and Smackdown: Team Laurinaitis vs Team Long
Team Laurinaitis: David Otunga (Captain), Mark Henry, Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger, Drew McIntyre & The Miz
Team Long: Santino Marella (Captain), R-Truth, Zack Ryder, The Great Khali, Kofi Kingston & Booker T
My pick: Going with Team Laurinaitis in 13:00, when Santino misses the Cobra on either McIntyre or Otunga and eats a finisher from Miz.
The classic match that goes on way too long. This, the Divas match and Flo Rida will eat up almost 45 minutes of the 4-hour PPV, guaranteed. Am I really going to pay $60 for this!?

Divas Tag Team Match: Kelly Kelly and Maria Menounos vs. Beth Phoenix and Eve Torres
My pick: Kelly Kelly and Menounos via rollup pinfall in 4:00. Because the Diva's mortal enemy is the small package. Read into that what you will.
The celebrities never lose. Thankfully, this will be both the shortest match and the penultimate match. It'll also get the lowest star rating. We'll need a bathroom break after Taker-HHH and before Rock-Cena, and it'll give a buffer zone for the crowd.
If the rumors are true, Kelly Kelly will also give a buffer to someone from Team Laurinaitis after the show.

 

Rock defeats Cena, cleanly by pinfall, in the penultimate match (crowd behind Cena, does that count as a face turn?)

Undertaker defeats Triple H with Micheals' help in the final match

Punk defeats Jericho by submission

Sheamus defeats Daniel Bryan cleanly and wins the title

Show defeats Rhodes, but no title

Orton and Kane in some sort of no-winner ending, because that's the only thing that could make it more pointless

Team Laurianitis wins easily, except Miz is made to look terrible in some way.

Maria Menounos wins on some kind of vaguely sexual pin

Undertaker-DX is easily the longest match of the night

 

How can Cena make a turn when he's already a face?

 

Reading reports that Maria has a broken rib, so this could be shorter than the typical Diva squash match. More time for Flo Rida, yay!

 

He goes from most of the crowd booing him to most of the crowd cheering him. It was mostly tongue-in-cheek.

 

Hell in a Cell: Michaels gets knocked down somehow. Trips goes for the sledgehammer. Taker blocks it and clocks him with it. Michaels wakes up and counts out Trips.

Rock/Cena: Rock wins cleanly, then goes to shake Cena's hand. Cena shakes hand, then Attitude Adjusts him, and goes nuts, AAing him again through the Spanish announcers' table.

Punk/Jericho: Punk wins cleanly after Jericho taps.

Sheamus/Bryan: Bryan comes close to accidentally hitting A.J., stops, then turns around into a Brogue Kick.

Orton/Kane: Orton wins with RKO cleanly.

Johnny/Teddy: Like Batman says, Team Ace wins when Santino gets blocked from the Cobra by the Miz.

Divas: Kelly does all the work, then Maria comes in to get the pin. Zzzzzz.

 

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