Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan, Winner Faces Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Championship at Wrestlemania: The rumor this week seems to be that a three-way could indeed occur at Wrestlemania again. That leads me to believe this match has some sort of non-finish, double-DQ or something like that. Not a great way to end a major show, though. I can see a controversial ending promised to be resolved on Raw. That seems like a WWE thing to do.
Rusev vs. John Cena, United States Championship Match: Rusev really should be kept undefeated for a rematch with Cena at Wrestlemania, but I don't think he beats Cena cleanly here. Let's say Cena wins by DQ. I don't see the top two matches having wonky finishes, so I'm sure only one of these predictions will be accurate.
Nikki Bella vs. Paige, Divas Championship Match: Paige wins the title when Brie accidentally helps her. It seems about time for another round of Bella vs. Bella, anyway.
Bad News Barrett vs. Dean Ambrose, United States Championship Match: Barrett wins because Ambrose can't win the big one lately.
The Usos vs. Tyson Kidd & Cesaro, WWE Tag Team Championship Match: This one should be real good if given the time. I'll say the Usos retain, but wouldn't mind the heels getting a run with the belts.
EDIT:
Goldust vs. Stardust: Stardust.
EDIT2:
Dolph Ziggler & Ryback & Erick Rowan vs. Seth Rollins & Big Show & Kane: I just have a feeling the heels are going to win here.
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Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan, Winner Faces Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Championship at Wrestlemania: Probably some kind of double DQ or other non-finish, so that this becomes a 3-way dance.
Rusev vs. John Cena, United States Championship Match: Cena by DQ
Nikki Bella vs. Paige, Divas Championship Match: Paige
Bad News Barrett vs. Dean Ambrose, United States Championship Match: I'm praying to the Gods of Wrestling that Ambrose is finally allowed to win a PPV match.
The Usos vs. Tyson Kidd & Cesaro, WWE Tag Team Championship Match: Usos
Originally posted by Whitebacon Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan, Winner Faces Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Championship at Wrestlemania: Lesnar leaves with the belt, after Rollins does something underhanded and nefarious.
... What? That looks like you copy/pasted a prediction from the triple threat match at the Rumble Neither Lesnar nor Rollins are involved in this match ... or at least, aren't advertised. One or both showing up isn't out of the question.
Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan, Winner Faces Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Championship at Wrestlemania: Roman Reigns after the match Daniel Bryan raises Roman's hand showing he is the better man.
Rusev vs. John Cena, United States Championship : Rusev wins after hitting Cena with the glass box that holds his medal
Nikki Bella vs. Paige, Divas Championship : Nikki clean in about 5 minutes
Bad News Barrett vs. Dean Ambrose,Intercontinental Championship: Dean Ambrose because why not have another title change it's not like this belt matters.
The Usos vs. Tyson Kidd & Cesaro, WWE Tag Team Championship Match: Usos
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Originally posted by Whitebacon Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan, Winner Faces Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Championship at Wrestlemania: Lesnar leaves with the belt, after Rollins does something underhanded and nefarious.
... What? That looks like you copy/pasted a prediction from the triple threat match at the Rumble Neither Lesnar nor Rollins are involved in this match ... or at least, aren't advertised. One or both showing up isn't out of the question.
Reigns/Bryan: Rollins interferes, screwing up the finish of this one. On RAW they announce for Mania: Lesnar vs. Reigns vs. Bryan vs. Rollins (because they don't want another Triple Threat).
Ambrose wins IC title.
Sting/Triple H (successfully) challenges Triple H/Sting to a match at Mania.
Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan, Winner Faces Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Championship at Wrestlemania: Rollins interferes, Reigns heel turn and win. They'll find a way to put Bryan in on RAW the next night or something.
Rusev vs. John Cena, United States Championship Match: Rusev as otherwise I don't see how they could book this at WM.
Nikki Bella vs. Paige, Divas Championship Match: Nikki Bella.
Bad News Barrett vs. Dean Ambrose, Intercontinental Championship Match: Barrett. He needs a win and Ambrose doesn't need the belt.
The Usos vs. Tyson Kidd & Cesaro, WWE Tag Team Championship Match: Usos. HOF thing and also that Kidd/Cesaro doesn't feel like a long term thing,
Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan: Roman Reigns wins and turns heel in the process.
Rusev vs. John Cena: Rusev wins by ref stoppage...setting up One Hell Of A Rematch at WrestleMania.
Nikki Bella vs. Paige: Paige wins.
Bad News Barrett vs. Dean Ambrose: Ambrose wins. I've quite enjoyed their feud.
The Usos vs. Tyson Kidd & Cesaro: I'll say Tyson Kidd and Cesaro, just because they're a lot of fun to watch.
Stardust vs. Goldust: Stardust by some cheap tactics, setting up a rematch at Mania.
Seth Rollins, Kane and Big Show vs. Dolph Ziggler, Erick Rowan and Ryback: Team Ziggler after Big Show turns his back on the Authority. Sigh...does that mean we're going to have Show vs Kane at Mania?
Alright, let's see how my new system works for me:
Reigns Cena (but he doesn't win the title) Barrett Paige (I'm not sure about this one, but a Paige win lets them set up a Diva's title cluster at WM) Usos
Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan: So tough. I'm leaning towards Reigns winning when Sheamus returns and brogue kicks Bryan into their match at Mania... but rumors are out there arguing otherwise. I'll say... Bryan/Reigns BOTH win with a double pin or something, putting them both in the Mania main.
Rusev vs. John Cena: Cena by DQ
Nikki Bella vs. Paige: Nikki Bella
Bad News Barrett vs. Dean Ambrose: Bad News Barrett
The Usos vs. Tyson Kidd & Cesaro: Usos
Bonus Rounds Ryback/Ziggler win a match against Big Show/Kane New Day beat Goldust/Stardust
Reigns Rusev Paige Ambrose Usos Edited to add: Stardust d. Goldust
guessing at unannounced possible other matches: Ascension over PTPs Rollins, Show, Kane over Ziggler, Ryback, Rowan (and/or) Ziggler, Ryback, Rowan over Rollins and J&J Security
Here are some more thoughts from a demented mind in Central Florida: You're going down in 2015, Big Bad!
Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan, Winner Faces Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Championship at Wrestlemania: Yeah, I've been hearing the rumors about doing a triple threat match (again) at WrestleMania. My heart would love nothing better than to have Daniel Bryan in the main event at WrestleMania (again) and for him to win the WWE Title (again). But honestly, I don't see that happening. This fed is hell-bent on pushing Reigns, whether we like it or not. Unlike last year, the Network's got its million subscribers (regardless of whatever Hollywood Accounting they used to get that number), so they don't have to worry about Daniel Bryan fans trying to shut down the Network before it's even off the ground. Come on, they've shrugged off "CancelWWENetwork when it was the #1 trend in the U.S. I don't trust this writing staff to listen to the fans and to put over Daniel Bryan as far as I can pick them up and thrown them with one arm. WINNER: Roman Reigns.
Rusev vs. John Cena, United States Championship Match: Here is where I'll contradict myself . I don't know what to make of this one. It makes no sense for Cena to pin Rusev or to make him submit when WrestleMania is right around the corner. That said, Cena's PPV won-loss record since Royal Rumble 2014 is about 8/7-6/5 or so, losing at Elimination Chamber, Extreme Rules, SummerSlam, and Royal Rumble 2014 & 2015, while winning at WrestleMania, Payback, Money in the Bank, Battleground, Night of Champions, Hell in a Cell, and TLC(and S). (He was eliminated mid-match at Survivor Series, but his team went on to win - thanks, Dolph!) I'm going with death, taxes, and Cena winning on PPV, but I'm going to say it's by countout or DQ, setting up a WrestleMania rematch. WINNER: John Cena either by DQ or by countout.
Nikki Bella vs. Paige, Divas Championship Match: I would love to see Paige win here, but who does she face at WrestleMania if she wins (ass/u/m(e)-ing that they don't do another ridiculously-huge Divas tag match at WrestleMania again)? They're not going to do a Divas Triple Threat Match. It seems to make more sense to have Nikki defend against Brie at WrestleMania. So for that reason, I'm going to go with WINNER: Nikki Bella retains.
Bad News Barrett vs. Dean Ambrose, United States Championship Match: Ambrose hasn't won on PPV since Payback, in a six-man tag with The Shield. I'd say he's due, but... no. WINNER: Bad News Barrett retains.
The Usos vs. Tyson Kidd & Cesaro, WWE Tag Team Championship Match: The conspiracy theorist in me says the Cesaro Twitter hack is a tool to try and find another way to get the fans behind Cesaro. But then two things come to mind. First, that'd be an awfully huge turnaround, considering how badly they dropped the ball on Cesaro. Second, the tag team division is running out of (if not has run out of, already) face teams without members named "Uso" to challenge for the belts if Kidd/Cesaro win here. WINNER: Usos retain.
Edit 1: edited to add the following:
Stardust over Goldust. Seth Rollins's team wins.
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Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan, Winner Faces Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Championship at Wrestlemania: Reigns wins clean, as he should. Bryan is still owed a rematch, he doesn't need to win here to get it. I hope they stick with Reigns as the sole challenger at Wrestlemania otherwise, Brock breaking the Streak is a wash in the end.
Rusev vs. John Cena, United States Championship Match: Rusev wins but Cena doesn't tap out. Perhaps he passes out to the Accolade, allowing him to insist that he never gave up and Rusev demanding another chance to finish what he started, leading to the feel good Cena victory at Wrestlemania.
Nikki Bella vs. Paige, Divas Championship Match: Paige, so that Charlotte has someone she can actually work against when she comes up.
Bad News Barrett vs. Dean Ambrose, Intercontinental Championship Match: This is a definite toss up that I suspect might be a sleeper hit. I'm going to go with Ambrose winning to set something up for Wrestlemania.
The Usos vs. Tyson Kidd & Cesaro, WWE Tag Team Championship Match: Usos win so they can show off the belts while dancing with their daddy on the biggest stage of them all.
Goldust vs Stardust: I'm going to with Goldust, pushing Stardust further off the deep end, leading to a rematch in which Dustin wrestles without the makeup, trying to reclaim his brothers sanity.
Seth Rollins, Kane and Big Show vs. Dolph Ziggler, Erick Rowan and Ryback
Kane eats the pin from Ziggler following a knockout blow from Big Show.
Obviously we're going to get at least one, maybe two, more matches on Smackdown. Do they go with Cody vs Dustin this soon or do they rightly save that for Wrestlemania? Ziggler vs Rollins, possibly in a steel cage? Or maybe Ziggler, Ryback, and Rowan vs Rollins and either J&J Security or Big Show & Kane?
Ascension vs New Day on the preshow?
The big question is, will I remember that I have the free network subscription and will I care enough to bother watching?
Reigns vs. Bryan: I get a feeling the rumor of a Triple Threat was just floated out there so the result wouldn't be such a foregone conclusion. They are hell-bent on pushing Reigns,and Bryan had his moment last year. WINNER: Roman Reings.
Rusev vs. John Cena: I said over the summer the Rusev Train was going to be derailed by the Cenation Express. But, I don't think it happens until WrestleMania. WINNER: Rusev by DQ after Cena doesn't stop beating him up.
Barrett vs. Ambrose: Ambrose winning on PPV? I'm afraid I've got some bad news. WINNER: Barrett.
Nikki Bella vs. Paige: Bella-ference backfires and Paige wins setting up a triple-threat at WrestleMania.
Usos vs. Kidd/Cesaro: I'm calling Kidd/Cesaro to set up a tag title match at WrestleMania that the Usos win and celebrate with their dad. WINNERS: Kidd/Cesaro
Reigns v Bryan: Reigns wins this, maybe cementing a heel turn that has been hinted at over the last couple of Raws.
Rusev v Cena: I don't think Rusev loses clean here, I imagine that happens at WrestleMania. I think Cena takes this via DQ.
Ambrose v Barrett: Ambrose has never shown any ability to win the big match. That continues, Bad News Barrett wins.
Nikki Bella v Paige: Nikki retains.
Usos v Kidd/Cesaro: Usos retain, because they usually do. Natalya somehow negatively impacts the result for her team.
Goldust v Stardust: Stardust.
Rollins/Big Show/Kane v Ziggler/Rowan/Ryback: Ziggler, Rowan, and Ryback get revenge, Kane takes the fall.
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Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan, Winner Faces Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Championship at Wrestlemania: No-contest
Rusev vs. John Cena, United States Championship Match: Rusev
Nikki Bella vs. Paige, Divas Championship Match: Paige
Bad News Barrett vs. Dean Ambrose, United States Championship Match: Ambrose
The Usos vs. Tyson Kidd & Cesaro, WWE Tag Team Championship Match: Kidd & Cesaro
This is going to be a weird show, as both of the top matches almost seem designed to end in a no-contest, double-dq, single-dq, in order to preserve/set-up Wrestlemania matches. In the end, I guessed at Rusev/Cena having an actual finish, but it honestly wouldn't surprise me if both matches end inconclusively.
EDIT:
Stardust over Goldust
Ziggler/Ryback/Rowan over Authority
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And seen as recently as last week on 24/7. I am fine with rehashing old angles, as long as it leads to good matches. All of the great stories have been done, but sometimes some of the more effective stories are the simple ones.