Category: PPV Predictions (2002-2012)

So there’s the big Summerslam PPV coming up this weekend. And for all intents and purposes, the main selling point of this entire pay-per-view is the Champion Vs. Champion main event between John Cena and CM Punk. The recent success enjoyed by CM Punk in recent weeks – especially during the weeks prior to the Money In The Bank PPV when it was assumed that Punk was legit leaving the company – had given WWE some notability and perhaps, the makings of a new face in a main-event circle that is desperately in need of fresh faces. It would certainly be interesting to see what they do with the newly reinvigorated CM Punk now that he’s hot – but as I have witnessed in prior occasions, WWE has a knack for screwing up hot angles with stupid decision making and it would be foolhardy for me to just kick back, relax, and enjoy the show without some ping of doubt that this is going to end well.

And of course, HHH being the glory hog that he is, inserts himself as the special referee… because, you know, we couldn’t have a hot angle go through WWE without HHH’s interfering mitts. And whenever HHH is involved in something, you can be damn well sure that the focus is eventually (if it isn’t already) going to be mostly on him. It’s perhaps one of the reasons why I’m partially thankful for HHH’s near-year-long hiatus in 2010; because it meant giving the Nexus a chance to shine and turn into something big without the McSon-In-Law showing up at some point to bury the angle… of course, he didn’t need to worry. John Cena overcame the odds and took care of the burying just fine without He of The Three Hs’ help.

And for whatever it’s worth – despite my feeling that this thing had been rushed just to get a big main event at the “hottest show of the summer” or whatever the tagline is, I’d have to say that the promo work throughout this run is rather exceptional and I’m actually enjoying watching these guys yak in the ring for twenty minutes. Even John Cena, whose promos, in my mind at least if no one else, have ranged from jack to shit in terms of quality, impressed me with some solid work to keep up with Punk’s pipebombs, so to speak. And while I usually don’t care for long needless diatribes that put me to sleep (example being anything involving HHH), the past couple weeks worth have been rather nice and it evokes a feeling that I hadn’t felt in years as far as promos go. It’s a phrase I toss around quite a bit, but I mean it this time around. They’re that good.

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Quick and simple notes, thoughts, and picks for Wrestlemania 27… let’s not waste time.

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It just occurred to me that during my predictions diatribe over the whole THREE MATCHES, I neglected to mention the Divas Title match, which Eve Torres won for some reason despite not being part of the original line-up. You know, there’s a very good reason why I didn’t bring up the match and why I didn’t acknowledge its existence in the original post;

I didn’t care.

Anyone who has read the previous predictions posts on this blog (or watched the video of me trying to watch RAW 900) should know that I don’t care for the Divas matches in general. Trying to watch these women bounce around the ring is depressing and makes me yearn for the days when WWE had competent women wrestlers who were capable of putting on a decent match every so often. It seems rather sad that when there are hot women in tight spandex on my TV these days, I want to take a piss.

I don’t blame the women; I’m sure they try their best, but their best isn’t enough and nobody else is giving me sufficient reason to care for these ladies. They have no personalities whatsoever and are nothing more than glorified interchangeable Barbie dolls.

Maybe Awesome Kong will change that perception when she eventually debuts… but I have a feeling she’s just going to be repackaged as the “black” Bertha Faye. It’s been more than a decade since such a gimmick was pulled off; I’m sure Vince is anxious for a revival.

My predictions:
Edge retains his World title.
Miz retains his WWE title.
John Cena wins the Rumble.

The results on the card:
Edge retains his World title. (1-0)
Miz retains his WWE title. (2-0)
Alberto Del Rio (YES!) win the Rumble! Thank GOD! (2-1)

POST-SHOW NOTES: It just occurred to me that Dolph Ziggler and Randy Orton, the two guys who were competing for world titles and lost, were entered into the Royal Rumble match. I guess the bump to 40 wasn’t so good after all, was it? It also just occurred to me that Kevin Nash did not tear a quad during his more-than-brief stint at the Royal Rumble. Good show, Kev.

Later.

Okay, so what we have here is a three-hour pay-per-view with a hundred dollar price tag and all we get are THREE matches… Two World Title matches which will see the champions retain their titles so that they can drop them at the next PPV (yeah, that’s right – both Edge and Miz walk out with their titles. That’s my pick.) and a Royal Rumble match that just got a boost from the traditional thrity-man format to a bloated forty-man format. Now, I said that I would reserve judgment for the match until I actually see it for myself (whether it’d be tonight through a stream or when the eventual DVD comes out), but hearing about this announcement beforehand made me wonder if they had enough talent to fill such a match.

Now here’s the deal… this is probably just a one-off thing to see if they could pull it off. If they manage to pull this off without a hitch, then it might work. However, there’s barely enough talent to pull it off, which means we’ll be getting surprise entrants for the sake of having surprise entrants. And if that’s the whole point of the bloating of the Rumble, then it’s a pretty pointless move since you could still have surprise entrants with the standard format. Hell, the whole concept of the Rumble that made it fun to watch is that you didn’t know who was going to show up. Now they just list off the list of participants in WWE.COM and randomize the order of entries. It’s just pointless.

So who’s gonna win the Rumble? I’d like to see someone new win it and get a title shot at Wrestlemania… maybe win the title. Someone like John Morrison, Alberto Del Rio, or CM Punk might be good candidates to win the match and seem to be popular choices among certain people. In fact, I would be more inclined to spend the hundred bucks on Wrestlemania if the main event featured a newcomer to the main event picture and quite possibly win the big one, earning him some fresh credibility and making a new star in the progress.

It’s the best idea to push if WWE insists on this whole “youth movement” that people claim they’re pushing for, not having old fucks like Triple H or John Cena win the Rumble again… although that’s going to happen anyway because WWE isn’t forward thinking.

So, to sum up my diatribe above:

My predictions:
Edge retains his World title.
Miz retains his WWE title.
John Cena wins the Rumble.

That is all.

Okay, so it’s been a while since I did one of these PPV Prediction things and since there’s a TNA PPV tonight, I’d figure that I throw my two-cents in. I have to admit that I haven’t really been following Impact all that, although I did see a couple shows and checked the recaps, so the picks are based on speculation and personal thought.

So here we go…

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Well, two weeks after their incredibly “okay” Night of Champions PPV, World Wrestling Entertainment presents its first of two October PPVs, Hell In A Cell. Are you one of the lucky suckers… er, I mean, customers who paid fifty to sixty bucks on a PPV comprising a whole FIVE MATCHES? Boy, that’s a real bang for your buck. No wonder people aren’t forking over their hard-earned money to buy WWE Pay-Per-Views.

Anyways… let’s get to the goods.

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Yep, the night of champions is tomorrow… but I’m doing the picks today because I don’t want to spoil the 200th post on some PPV predictions for a sports-entertainment show. But anyway, here we are:

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Before I begin, I would just like to mention that the final scene with RVD bloodied on the floor is just about the most Hardcore thing to happen in what was otherwise a fine TNA program. Hell, if this was the PPV and I was in a position to buy PPVs, I’d buy this one rather than Hardcore Justice.

Speaking of PPVs I’d be willing to buy, here comes Summerslam and despite the one Divas match on the card, it’s shaping up to be one fine PPV event with a number of intriguing match-ups and a real potential for new stars to break through, which is always a wonderful thing to witness. But enough of that. Let’s get to the picks:

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Tonight’s WWE Fatal Four Way Pay-Per-View is brought to you by the letter F, the letter A, the letter I, and the letter L. What do those letters spell? F.A.I.L.

Five whole matches on PPV. Mind you, three of them are four-way matches and they’re all title matches, but really, five whole matches? That’s the best you can do? Are you going to wing it for the rest of the card?

I guess five matches is enough for them to fit in the NXT invasion bits, which is the origin of our four letters today. I mean, seriously; Bryan Danielson or no Bryan Danielson, WWE had a goldmine with this thing and not even a week later, in the first segment no less, they fucked it up. They’re going to need to do something BIG in order to recover from that.

But enough about FAIL. Let’s talk about the PPV and discuss the matches:

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Apparently, the one game they won in this series was played by another team wearing Canadiens jerseys, because they went back to being shut out again yesterday. Oh well, time to shine up the clubs.

In the meantime, kids, we’re going over the limit, kids! WWE Over The Limit!  Okay, that sucked. My apologies…

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