Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Pre-WrestleMania

I promised a pre-WM look at the booking I'd do coming out of WM and here it is...
  • With Jeff Hardy out of action (regardless of the reason) there is an open MITB match slot. I realize there’s going to be a battle royal to fight Chavo for the ECW title later in the night, but make the Flair/HBK a qualifying match for the MITB. This would set up 2 angles.
  • HBK wins and enters the MITB match. This gives WWE someone of noteworthiness to book to win the match and makes any of the 3 possible match ups intriguing.
  • Cena—Rematch of WM 23.
  • Orton—Put HBK out of action in ’07 with the head punt
  • HHH—Anyone ever heard of DX? (I’ll get to this a little further down.)
  • I feel that this is the better idea though. Let Flair beat HBK. Everything has been pointing to Flair’s impending retirement, but why not pull the bait and switch? I’m sorry but no one is shelling out $55 just to see Ric’s “last match”. And USA brass has been pushing for bigger things to happen on Raw.
  • Flair enters the MITB and wins. Don’t ask me how the old bastard climbs the ladder but he’s not the dirtiest player for nothing.
  • Have Ric come out at the end of the main event and punk the champion and assert that he’s too old to wait for another title shot. He’s cashing in his MITB on Raw 3/31. This really works if HHH wins, which isn’t a stretch to anyone’s imagination because:
  • HHH missed last year’s WM via injury (in a match with Orton)
  • HHH is/was Orton’s mentor
  • HHH was eliminated by John Cena at the Rumble
  • HHH has 2 kids with Stephanie McMahon
  • The next night on Raw you have a main event that ‘oughta put butts in the seats.’
  • Creative looked to be setting up a Show/Y2J feud (from Show’s appearance on Hightlight Reel). I hope this is a real attempt to elevate the IC ‘Chip. These are two (former) main eventers. I don’t see the future of this though. I’d like to see them leading towards stables still. This might be a good launching point.
  • Imagine Show, Umaga, JBL and a heel-to-be-named-later (good spot to elevate Snitsky since VKM allegedly loves him so) vs. Jericho, Kennedy & Carlito.
  • I know those last two are currently heels, but Y2J once was too. Why can’t we go back to the anti-heroes? I think both of those two could learn as much from Jericho as anyone else on the roster. In this feud, they’d be the faces but really they could just be the lesser of two evils. The rest of the time they could be play both sides against everyone else. Plus, because they’ve all shown egoism in the past, wouldn’t the name the ‘Human Highlights’ be a good name for them? [Disclaimer: Dylan’s writing this at 7AM after working half the night.] Then you can have either of the group’s winning the mid-level belts and defending the titles under Freebird rules.
  • Plus, if Snitsky is the 4th of the heel squad, he could also learn a lot. Show could point him to the buffet table. Umaga could teach him to speak more incoherently making his terrible promos more bearable. JBL could coach him in the ring.
  • You could always align HBK with the Human Highlights because he’s an egotistical prick (or so he’s said) from way back.
  • When Hardy returns, he plays true face to the heels and Santino could be the pesky heel wanna-be who always gets his ass kicked tryna run with the big dogs. Both have held the IC within the last year.
  • Burchill and his sister-fucking self can also be a face along side London, Kendrick & Rhodes.
    Hardy & Rhodes can play the ‘Lone Wolf’ roles and take on the big bad machines as needed.
  • Coming out of WM, I’d bet bottom dollar that HHH is the champ.
  • If Flair wins the MITB, you have the aforementioned fight. Then you head into a rematch program, preferably with Orton. (I think Cena is still going off to film 16 Rounds, another reason he won’t win in Orlando.) You can run that one until at least Backlash in late April and set him up for something new for the summer. Does Y2J/Show get (back) into the title picture so quickly? (Y2J had a title shot almost immediately, why doesn’t Show get one?) That can get you through One Night Stand. Then you’re in mid summer, facing down SummerSlam. Maybe, HBK comes forward and says he wants one more day in the sun. Who better to fight for the ‘chip than his old pal Hunter? Somewhere along the line though, HBK kinda screws HHH and we get to SummerSlam with good heat. Head into the fall with a Cena return building to HHH/Cena @ Survivor Series.
  • If HBK wins the MITB. I think you go right to the Orton rematch and proceed along the same lines. Only, maybe you have HBK with the heel turn mid-summer leading to a SS match with good heat.
  • Maria, because of her newly released Playboy cover wins the Women’s title from the Glamazon aka Boobie McMandible. She proceeds to fellate me.
  • I would like to take a moment and recognize Mi Amor for being the most compassionate and understanding woman in the world. I love you sweetheart.

But that's what I wish VKM and the crew would be working toward for the summer.

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