Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena, WWE World Heavyweight Championship Match: Going with Lesnar retaining. I think it'll be Brock winning, perhaps thanks to interference from someone who Cena will feud with next to distract from the fact that he lost again.
Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins: I'm not sure Reigns will ever lose again. He wins.
Paige vs. A.J. Lee vs. Nikki Bella, Divas Championship Match: Too early to Paige to lose again, right? Maybe Brie (or J.J.!) gets involved in the finish.
Mark Henry vs. Rusev: Henry is just another roadblock to help build Rusev, who wins.
Chris Jericho vs. Randy Orton: Orton wins with Jericho on his way out again.
The Usos vs. Goldust & Stardust, WWE Tag Team Championship Match: I'm thinking the newly-minted heels win the belts here.
Dolph Ziggler vs. The Miz, Intercontinental Championship Match: I'm loving The Miz's schtick. But Ziggler retains.
Sheamus vs. Cesaro, United States Championship Match: Cesaro wins the title here just because it doesn't really matter and it'll only be the second title change on the show based on my booking.
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Jericho......Just because he's supposed to lose. He knows that we know that they think that he is supposed to lose. I think he wins then takes a post match beating for his exit. Orton doesn't need the win like Wyatt did. Jericho will talk about it on his podcast about how he "got" us.
Dustbusters
Ziggler
Sheamus
Rusev....by DQ. More powder or something in the face. The story in this is that they need somebody credible that has some history with Brock. Somebody Lesnar can't (or can he?) just throw around. Henry's climb to the top contender for Brock starts with this feud.
Paige -------
End of show, Rollins attempts cash in. Stopped by surprise (sorta) return of Ambrose.
Nikki (Why else would she even be in this match. In WWE's eyes the Bellas feud is the biggest thing going right now as far as the Divas division is concerned, therefore they should be feuding for the belt.)
Miz
Cesaro
Rusev (When will John Cena finally step up to defend his country?)
Brock Reigns Nikki - it's clear that they have no idea what they're doing with AJ/Paige anymore Rusev Jericho Usos - I'm done betting against the Usos Ziggler Cesaro
Originally posted by The Guinness. Rusev....by DQ. More powder or something in the face. The story in this is that they need somebody credible that has some history with Brock. Somebody Lesnar can't (or can he?) just throw around. Henry's climb to the top contender for Brock starts with this feud.
If you recall, one of Lesnar's first acts upon returning to the WWE was to throw around Mark Henry, including (if I remember correctly) an F5 on the announcing table.
Cena - through count out - or perhaps paulterference. Because what other feud do you have for Lesnar once a month or so? The only way I see around this, is to bring whoever you have anointed to come down after Lesnar destroys Cena to save him and lays a beat down on Lesnar - maybe that's Henry if you want to go interim or Reigns - or the Show and Henry maybe? Otherwise Cena beats on Lesnar a bit, stands tall in the ring and Paul leads Lesnar to the back retaining the belt.
Reigns - Rollins doesn't need to win to retain his heat. Reigns needs this win, "dedicated to Ambrose" - do they wheel the "broken man" out?
Orton - Jericho's gone for a while, right? Fozzy's on tour and no Sundays or Mondays open (except the next day) for a couple weeks anyway. Plus they are on tour this week. This has got to be a fast match - not much work on it
Ziggler - Miz doesn't seem to need a belt. Sheamus - Sheamus should retain as Cesaro has other options - but if they booset Sheamus as the guy who saves Cena in the scenario I gave above..... hmmmm
Goldust and Stardust - Like the heels here. Paige - AJ also doesn't need a belt. Rusev - Rusev smash.
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Originally posted by The Guinness. Rusev....by DQ. More powder or something in the face. The story in this is that they need somebody credible that has some history with Brock. Somebody Lesnar can't (or can he?) just throw around. Henry's climb to the top contender for Brock starts with this feud.
If you recall, one of Lesnar's first acts upon returning to the WWE was to throw around Mark Henry, including (if I remember correctly) an F5 on the announcing table.
Oh yeah, counting on that being part of the story. That's the history part. Brock pulling off 16 or so german suplexes like he did Cena though, that can't possibly happen.....or can it?
Lesnar retains. Cena might win without winning the title, just so he (hopefully) doesn't go into another "worst year of my life" storyline.
Reigns. He's unlikely to lose. At least until the Rumble or until the fans turn on him, whichever happens earlier (also tied to the prospective returns of Daniel Bryan and Dean Ambrose).
Orton wins. I thought Jericho would be gone after the attack on Raw last week, but I think he goes away after Randy punts him again.
Ziggler retains. Miz and Sandow's act is a source of Hidden Highlights every week, but Ziggler probably needs the belt more.
Paige retains. Somebody accidentally drops Nikki on her head, paralyzing her from the waist down. Brie sues the WWE for negligence, losing and getting blacklisted in the process.
Usos retain. Because the last two times I picked against them in what I thought were obvious situations, they retained. Why not retain again? Maybe they're just waiting until The Ascension make a monster debut and wipe the floor with them.
Rusev wins. He has no business losing to Mark Henry.
Cesaro. Because Sheamus won the last time they fought on PPV for a title (I think. It was at Payback), and that's about all the thought that creative puts into the US title.
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Cena vs Lesnar: Lesnar. People in the know seem pretty sure that Lesnar-Reigns is the plan for WrestleMania, and there was another report that Brock could work more dates while champion, so I can’t see it ending here..
Plus, the fact that they gave Rusev the last segment on RAW may be an indication that they’re trying to make him seem “Main Event” level so he can feud with Cena.
It’s still hard to predict for sure, though. Earlier this year it was reported that Brock was working just two dates, SummerSlam and Night of Champions. If Brock loses at NOC, then it was always the plan for him to do a two-shot. We haven’t heard any rumors of Brock working Hell in a Cell or Survivor Series yet. So, there’s enough doubt to make it dramatic.
Either way, though, I don’t expect Cena to walk out with the belt.
Reigns vs Rollins: Rollins. This is the one leap I’m going to make. It really bums me out that they did this match free on RAW with a clean finish the week of the PPV. Given that Reigns went over that decisively, I’m guessing Rollins gets a revenge win in a screwy fashion. Otherwise, WHY do that match?
It’s possible that Rollins wins only by DQ when Ambrose returns to kick his ass.
Rollins may have also eaten the pin on RAW to set up a potential cash-in on a bruised and battered Cena or Lesnar at the end of the show. There’s still that option...
Paige vs. A.J. Lee vs. Nikki Bella, Divas Championship Match: Paige wins when Brie costs Nikki the belt, so she turned all for nothing.
Mark Henry vs. Rusev: Rusev.
Chris Jericho vs. Randy Orton: Orton.
The Usos vs. Goldust & Stardust, WWE Tag Team Championship Match: Goldust & Stardust. As much as I really wanted to see the Usos win the belts, they’ve had them for far too long and Team Dust is the only thing making the tag division any bit interesting.
Dolph Ziggler vs. The Miz, Intercontinental Championship Match: Ziggler, so we can end this back-and-forth.
Sheamus vs. Cesaro, United States Championship Match: Sheamus, I guess. I should care more about this match.
Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena, WWE World Heavyweight Championship Match: Brock retains in a not so one sided match as Summer Slam was.
Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins:Cancelled.
Paige vs. A.J. Lee vs. Nikki Bella, Divas Championship Match: Who cares? The inclusion of the Bella garbage makes this a cluster fuck of a match. I'll go with Nikki winning.
Mark Henry vs. Rusev: Rusev wins, but we get a rematch at the next PPV/Event ala Swagger.
Chris Jericho vs. Randy Orton: Orton
The Usos vs. Goldust & Stardust, WWE Tag Team Championship Match: The Dust Brothers finally get the straps. It's amazing how much more entertaining Cody is as Stardust.
Dolph Ziggler vs. The Miz, Intercontinental Championship Match: Ziggler retains.
Sheamus vs. Cesaro, United States Championship Match: Cesaro wins, setting up a feud with Zigglar to re-unite the belts.
Wondered if anyone could clear up a couple of things that I've always wondered about the inspired heel / annoying-as-all-hell face Doink the Clown. Leaving out the Doink II character (Steve Keirn at Wrestlemania IX and some house shows)