Haven’t done one in a good while, so let’s go with it.
Category: PPV Predictions (2002-2012)
PPV Predictions – WWE No Way Out 2008
A PPV tonight you say? Fuck if I knew that…
No dressing, no extended commentary on any of the matches. I’ll keep it as short and sweet as possible… here’re my picks for tonight’s PPV.
PPV Predictions: WWE Cyber Sunday 2007
So tonight’s Cyber-Sunday, WWE’s “interactive” PPV that will no doubt get canned next year. For those of you who have no idea how a concept this convoluted came to play, let’s dwell in a bit of history, shall we?
PPV Predictions: WWE No Mercy 2007
So a couple days ago, during his match with the returning Mr. Ken Kennedy Kennedy, John Cena hurt himself and will be out of action for six months… thus forcing him to vacate the WWE Heavyweight Title. All I got to say is…
GEE WHIZ! THANKS, MR. KENNEDY KENNEDY!
So there’s a lot of unanswered questions surrounding this show: what is the purpose behind the mysterious Save_us.222 and Savior_Self promos that have been airing for the past couple of weeks? Who will be involved in the makeshift WWE championship match? Will there be a WWE championship match? Will CM Punk overcome the odds and trumph Big Daddy V, only to drop the belt back to the man he beat for it? Will I give a shit about any of this? All of this and more on the No Mercy PPV. Let’s get started.
PPV Predictions – WWE Summerslam 2007
2007 Introduction
Haven’t done one of these predictions in quite some time, so excuse me for dusting off the cobwebs. Anyway, you should know the drill by now: I list all the advertised matches and give my thoughts on who wins and what the actual match might entail. My only gripe seems to be that a lot of the matches here have been seen before in some form, but nonetheless, it looks fairly decent and it’ll be interesting to see how they handle the two returns.
PPV Predictions – WWE Vengeance 2007
2007 Introduction
Let me get some negative energy out of the way: WWE is billing Vengeance as a Night of Champions. You know what? I don’t care. I just don’t care. After witnessing three tri-branded PPVs that ranged from “less than stellar” to shitacular levels only James Rolfe’s Angry Video Game Nerd would dwell into, why should I care about this one? So all the titles being defended on this one show. Who cares? It’s not that special anymore.
With that bit of negativity out of the way, however, I have to admit that this looks to be a pretty decent card… well, somewhat. With all the titles being on the line, it’s a chance for all the champions to showcase their abilities and an opportunity for the challengers to really step up their game. My biggest concern is how much of the fake death of Vince is going to dominate this show. Hopefully, it won’t be that much because people don’t feel like paying for footage that has been shown repeatedly on free TV. But I digress. Let’s look at the card.
2012 Introduction
Yeah, I want you to digest that opening spiel. It was written for a show that seemed like a throwaway show. Every match on the card being a title match isn’t a big deal; it should be, but when you have fifty titles and none of them mean anything, such a declaration has no weight. So for all intents and purposes, this should have been a typical B-level PPV.
Except there’s one little detail that became apparent during the week… this was the weekend Chris Benoit killed his wife and son before committing suicide. One of the most notorious and controversial moments in the history of professional wrestling, this was one of the contributing factors – if not THE main factor – that prompted WWE to drastically tweak and re-structure their product to the current form you see today. It was the event that had caused everyone to analyse the business and bring up the ages-old arguments of steroid and drug use. Whether you want to admit it or not, this was a big deal… and a very big problem.
I am not going to dwell on this matter, because this is supposed to be about the PPV… but the fact is that you simply cannot bring up Vengeance 2007 without bringing up the Benoit double murder/suicide travesty. WWE can certainly try – they’ve been deleting Benoit from their history as much as possible – but when you get right down to it, the Night of Champions concept got its start the same weekend as that tragedy. There’s no way around it. It’s simply the way it is.
I could have saved that rant for the end, but I felt it necessary to bring this up now.
PPV Predictions – WWE Judgment Day 2007
Never has a WWE B-Show PPV felt more depressing and more worthless than this year’s edition of Judgment Day. I know I tend to crap on their previous efforts in recent years, but at least they have some semblance of redeeming value. This show… it just touches me the wrong way… okay, that didn’t come out right. Let’s just get to the predictions and ranting before I lose my mind.
Note: Quickly updated to include results
PPV Predictions: WWE Backlash 2007
This would be the third Backlash in a row that I’m doing predictions for. Doesn’t really mean much, but let’s get that bit out of the way. This year, Backlash features superstars from RAW, Smackdown, and that other show. In a strange occurance, all matches are title matches. Not sure that means anything, but whatever.
PPV Predictions: Wrestlemania 23
One thing I want to comment on before getting on the predictions is the way WWE handles its various websites. Now I understand the need for uniformity within the web structure, as most of the previous Webstation designs were geared towards a single layout, but when it comes to promoting major events such as a new PPV or spotlighting a major WWE superstar, you would think that something a little extra would be done to emphasise the importance of a talent or event. It wasn’t more than a couple years ago when Wrestlemania had its own website with its own design independent from the rest.
Now the WWF/WCW/ECW Invasion of 2001 is something I’m sure every wrestling fan or fanatic would like to forget about, but when the websites for WCW and ECW were created, they had a different design from the old WWF website. It was as if the companies were separate from the WWF (even though they owned one and were paying off debts for the other one). Compare it with the web design of the current ECW.com, which is similar in layout to the rest of the WWE site. It’s as if all creativity was thrown down the shitter when they got their legal asses kicked by the Panda people.
But I digress. We’re not here to talk about websites; we’re here to talk Wrestlemania 23. So let’s do this thing.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of arguably the most famous wrestling event to ever take place, Wrestlemania 3, WWE has decided to make sure that this show is completely Hogan-free. Hell, I’m happy already. But to celebrate the event, they’re bringing back Aretha Franklin to sing America The Beautiful (just like she did in ‘Mania 3).
PPV Predictions: TNA Destination X 2007
Okay, so in an attempt to be different (and failing miserably), I’ll be doing picks for a TNA PPV. These will mostly come out of my ass since I’m not as well informed on TNA happenings… although I do have some idea what’s going on. Anyway, let’s try this again…
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