This one should be a bit arguable.I’m going to go with the downward spirals of the Hardy Boys. Jeff went from being a heel (seriously, WHO THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA???) to Victory Road and Matt made him look like a pillar of stability by comparison. These two were at one point considered the future and now they’re running jokes. And Jeff will be world champion by Mania.
Your picks/thoughts?
And I mean PPV, not Raw/Impact etc.It’s hard to go against Money in the Bank. I mean, you had two great matches and one classic with a great moment to end it. Just an all around great show and nothing all year comes close to it.
Your picks/thoughts?
There are a bunch of options for this.But it’s pretty easily Cole in general. If I had to specify something, it’s the overuse of Twitter. If you look at the Survivor Series buyrate, it came in low. Do you think that if maybe Rock had gotten something other than Cena’s Lady Parts trending it might have been better? Like maybe, Survivor Series This Sunday? That’s the problem with this Twitter obsession: they’re using it for the wrong things. Who cares if Alicia Fox is trending? She’s on TV for a minute a week. Get something where it’s advertising a PPV or better yet, ADVERTISE THE FREAKING PPV. I’ll stop there because I could go on for a week about this.
Your thoughts/picks?
The common sense answer would be Cena vs. Rock or Punk. I’ve never been one for common sense though.I’m going with Christian vs. Orton. They never stopped having good matches and the feud naturally progressed very well. You would see them building on sequences throughout the series of matches, such as the dive out of the corner by Christian being caught in an RKO. That turned into a fake in the second match, then Orton faked Christian by waiting with the RKO again. That’s thinking and calling back to previous matches, which is very rare today. I loved this feud and the blowoff was great. Feud of the year to me.
Your thoughts/picks?
More options than I thought here.I’ll take Rock’s return. The rumor for the guest host was Justin Bieber and then they had the legs get out. I was skeptical when I saw them because I thought it would still be someone else, but I didn’t predict Rock. That was awesome and a great thing to see. And for those of you that still think it, no he didn’t abandon us in the first place.
Your picks/thoughts?
Not what you might expect.I’m actually going with Cena’s rap against the Rock. This did a few things. First and foremost, it made people laugh. This was a hilarious promo with great jokes and even some visuals like the pinwheel. Second, it showed that Cena could indeed hang with Rock on the mic. He got destroyed in Rock’s promo but then came back and to me, exceeded him. The most important thing though is that it set the stage for the whole feud. We have a guy that is loud, making childish jokes and talking in a way he doesn’t look compatable with, and then we have John Cena. Cena has outclassed Rock the whole time in this and it hasn’t been close, at least not to me.
Your thoughts/picks?
As in something you didn’t see coming.I have to go with Zack Ryder’s rise. I mean….HE’S ZACK RYDER. Who would have predicted that he would be US Champion as a huge face at the end of the year? I’ll go with this as my main argument for him: the end of Survivor Series, as in after the PPV went off the air, saw Rock standing in the middle of the ring in Madison Square Garden. The fans chanted We Want Ryder. Let that sink in for awhile.
Thoughts/Picks?
By that I mean PPV. There are too many Impacts to name.I’ll go with Victory Road I guess. The show wasn’t any good before whatever Hardy vs. Sting was and that caps it as well as anything could. For WWE, I guess I’ll go with Capital Punishment, but I didn’t really think about it all that hard.
Your picks/thoughts?
*Insert eye rolling Kurt joke here.*It’s pretty much a layup, but I’ll go with the Summer of Punk. This got people paying attention and people were wondering what was real and what wasn’t, which is a very entertaining way to go with an angle. I loved this and it worked incredibly well. On top of that the matches were awesome, which is always a bonus.
Your thoughts/picks?
Title reigns have been longer lately, so maybe there are better options here.I’m going to take Miz as WWE Champion. In short, he beat John Cena in the main event of Wrestlemania.
That
Does
Not
Happen.
Literally, that’s the first time he’s ever lost in the main event of Mania. He lost in a triple threat at Mania 24 but Miz beat Cena in a one on one match at Mania. That’s the only time it’s ever happened and it’s hard to top that. Also, it was the longest reign with that title in like 3 years. Not bad at all.
Your thoughts/picks?