I can't get a straight answer for this one. It's been revised more times than Shakespeare's first folio, and everyone's telling a different story.
Can someone please post a breakdown of what it's supposed to be now? For various reasons, I can't go scanning through my SD! tape to find one of the pay-per-view promos. And I've yet to find a website with a comprehensive SS preview or breakdown.
You're forgetting Christian (or possibly Steven Richards, or possibly Rico) vs Rosey (or possibly Tommy Dreamer, or possibly Goldust) on Heat. Can't wait to see who wins that one!
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I sure didn't see La Resistance Vs the Dudz on there. Maybe that ends up in a Live Heat
That'd be surprising - assuming there's no replacement for Hardy/Gowan, that'd leave only 6 matches. That is not a lot for a 3-hour PPV, let alone your second-biggest PPV of the year...
The elimination chamber is a definate 30-45 minute match, so that eats up a lot of time. Plus the time it will take to get the cage lowered and set up properly, you're probably looking at close to an hour total. So 5-6 other matches in the rest of the 1 hour and 45 minutes of the show doesn't give the rest of the matches a whole lot of time. Something is probably getting bumped to Heat, and I'll assume it's gonna be the Duds/Resistance match.
The last time they had the Elimination Chamber was at Survivor Series last year. The card was:
-Jeff Hardy, Bubba Ray and Spike Dudley def. Three Minute Warning and Rico in a Tables Elimination match
-Billy Kidman def. Jamie Noble to win the Cruiserweight Title
-Victoria def. Trish Stratus to win the Womens title in a "hardcore" match
-The Big Show def. Brock Lesnar to win the WWE Title
-Los Guerreros def. Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit; Edge and Rey Mysterio Jr. to win the WWE Tag Titles
-Shawn Michaels def. HHH, Chris Jericho, Booker T, Kane and Rob Van Dam to win the World Title in the Elimination Chamber.
That's only six matches - and the Brock/Show match was pretty short (less than five minutes). The Elimination Chamber match was about forty, and that's without the entrances/hype. Six matches seems about right.
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As much as I like divas and all, please tell me that they're not going to substitute two PPV matches for the finals of the new diva search ... that is just plain wrong.
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Time predictions (these all count any video packages and entrances)
Angle/Lesnar: 25-30 minutes
Elimination Chamber: 45 minutes
Shane/Eric: 10-15 minutes
Kane/RVD: 10-15 minutes
Undertaker/A-Train: 10-15 excruciating minutes
US title match: Hopefully close to 20-25 minutes...if WWE needs time to fill, this match deserves to be the one that gets the extra minutes.
Dudleys/La Res: 10 minutes
So there's 130 minutes at least, and 155 minutes at most. Sounds about right, and once you factor in stuff like the Diva final and probably a Vince interview or some retarded skit, that's a full three hours.
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Originally posted by Big Badonce you factor in stuff like the Diva final and probably a Vince interview or some retarded skit, that's a full three hours.
So we're assuming that those three things will all be done seperate from each other? I'd put money against that bet...
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"--There is no replacement match for the Matt Hardy vs. Zach Gowen match scheduled at this time, and most likely there won't be a match added, so they are doing a seven match show. The plans are for longer matches."
So sayeth The Meltz. This seems lke a good idea given the sheer scale of some of the matches-limiting Brock/Kurt and the US Title Match to ten-fifteen minutes would be criminal. It also, unofrtunately, means Taker/Albert will go 10+ minutes. But hey, maybe they'll put a good match out of their asses-UT managed it with Big Show at No Way Out.
Oh god, I forgot about that stupid diva contest. Let's all hope they bump that down to Sunday Night Heat, because the PPV can use all the time it can get to give these 7 matches the times they deserve.
Originally posted by Big BadUS title match: Hopefully close to 20-25 minutes...if WWE needs time to fill, this match deserves to be the one that gets the extra minutes.
I hate to say it, but seriously considering how WWE has been booking lately, I wouldn't be suprised to see these guys get about 10 minutes max. Gotta' give Albert his 15 minutes, now don't we?
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