2013 Pro Wrestling Thread

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL, it's the Big Stone Cold Show!

 

I enjoyed Heyman's promo. Bat-shit crazy funny.

And Punk working with Big E doesn't prove Punk exists outside his own storyline reality, just that Big E somehow crossed over to the other side.

What Trips said about Jericho, Edge, and RVD isn't off the mark. Great talents, but even when they were main eventers and world champions, none of them transcended like Hulk, Austin, Rock, or Cena. Even Trips and HBK didn't do that. The E is still looking for that talent. Bryan's a breath of fresh air, but it ain't him either. Punk might have gotten there if the ball wasn't dropped so badly during his late 2011 run. Let's face it, he was still a mid-card world champ with Cena around.

 

I was discussing this possibility with Jelly via text the other day.

Anybody else see a swerve coming Sunday in the main event? I mean, I doubt they'd do this BUT is it possible Haitch screws over both Orton and Bryan and makes HBK the champ somehow.

Orton has had his chances and blew it. Bryan is a B-plus player.

HBK is truly someone the WWE needs to carry the torch/title etc. etc. etc.

I doubt very highly it'll happen, but it would be cool.

Then again, we'll probably get Big Show coming down to the ring, somehow breaking the Cell apart or coming through the ring in some fashion.

 

I still have no idea which way the match will go or what will happen, but I'm actually looking forward to a PPV show for the first time in a while.

The tag team match is going to be insane, the undercard has some pretty good matches and the main storyline has hooked me back in.

 

I agree.

Still not paying $50 for it though

 

I forgot about Heyman's promos. Yeah, it was funny.

But with Trips, it's pretty funny he said that, considering he got on top in part by nailing the boss' daughter.

 

My prediction for Hell in a Cell tomfoolery: Match goes along for about 20 minutes as your typical Cell match. Big Show comes down to tear the door off and knocks out Orton. Triple H shoes up with cops to arrest show, enters the Cell, orders HBK to superkick Bryan and drag Orton on top for the pin. HBK superkicks Triple H instead, counts the three on Orton to make Bryan the new champ. We get the start of the slow-burn feud that leads to HBK coming out of retirement to wrestle Triple H at WM30. Triple H re-hires Big Show because Orton asks for it, as a means to starting a new feud. Not sure who Bryan feuds with over his first actual WWE Championship reign. Maybe something to hold him over a few months until we get to the Rumble and kick off the build to WM30.

 

Highly unlikely re: HBK. He seems pretty serious about being retired, even though he appears to be healthy enough for one more run if he so desired.

What I *could* see coming out of HiaC is the WWE title STILL being vacant, Cena beating Del Rio for the World title and The Authority promoting Cena as the Face of the WWE (which would make Cena uncomfortable). Then Orton beats Bryan once and for all to win the WWE title, setting up a Cena-Orton match at Royal Rumble or WM that may or may not to unify the belts. It would also clear the way for Bryan-HHH.

 

Good call. Completely forgot the tease of a Bryan-HHH match. Of course, jobbing to The Authority hindered Punk's 2011 run. As I recall, Cena eventually took up the anti-authority battle against Johnny Ace. Surely, we won't get that again. Who am I kidding, of course we will!

 

A few days from Hell in a Cell, and I'm thinking, "At least the card has gimmick matches to make it slightly less shitty than Battleground." Here's what we're getting illegally streaming on Sunday:

WWE title: Randy Orton vs. Daniel Bryan (Hell in a Cell with Shawn Michaels as the Special Guest Referee)

CM Punk vs. Ryback and Paul Heyman (Handicap Hell in a Cell)

IC title: Curtis Axel (c) (with Paul Heyman) vs. Big E Langston (pre-show)

WHC: Alberto Del Rio (c) vs. John Cena

Divas title: AJ Lee (c) vs. Brie Bella

Tag titles: Goldust and Cody Rhodes (c) vs. Reigns and Rollins vs. The Usos (triple threat)

Ambrose not getting a title match, so I'm guessing his gets announced on SmackDown (but is he feuding with anyone else for that belt?) or he runs interference in the tag match.

 

I am probably one of the few people around that doesn't mind paying for one or two WWE PPVs a year, but, seriously...who the hell pays $50 or $60 for cards like Battleground and HIAC?

 

I'll buy Wrestlemania and/or Royal Rumble each year, but yeah, it's hard to figure out who is buying No. 10-13 in the interest rankings.