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March Wrasslin' |OT| Forecast for Wrestlemania...cloudy with a heavy chance of Reigns
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notworksafe
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You forgot Sheamus, fella!
Nocturnowl
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For the betterment of Barrett's career I'm not sure I actually want him to retain the IC title at WM, maybe R Truth should get his wrestlemania moment after all.
Nah, Orton or Rollins is champ after Reigns, he won't get past The Authority's challengers.
Real talk - I'm probably going to buy it at some point down the line for a cheap price, because i'm glad they made gameplay changes to make it play like an actually good video game. Nothings going to fix that shitty non-FnP story though.
UberTag
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That's my bet as well. Rusev has to get whipped a few more times by Cena before that feud ends.
After which Rusev will start losing to everyone like most mid-card jobbers. Even Swagger will get a win on him during that phase.
Sheamus is taking the title from Reigns. And Sheamus will be part of The Authority when it happens.
He'll even have his own lackey like Seth. His cousin, Finn.
With whom they'll eventually redo the Virgil storyline and have him rise up against Sheamus' oppressive behavior.
I'd love for my man Ziggler to get a boost by winning at Mania, but I think it's pretty obvious that Bryan is gonna win.
The Shapesmith
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so they're trying to bring FMW back again. i only want FMW if I can see the looks of fear on the staff's face as i spot yakuza smoking cigarettes out of the corner of my eye
No Hayabusa No FMW
notworksafe
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Bet on the ladder match, maybe? You know it's gonna end up with 90% of this thread betting on DBrine
sf2fanatic
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Orton still with Authority? Or the Authority joined Orton?
FallingEdge
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Wade Burr is winning his title back. Vince owes him one after he lost every match the past 4-5 weeks.
Orton will always go back and forth from face to heel, he can easily rejoin The Authority any time.
Nocturnowl
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"Oh my gosh King, I've heard of this man, it's Finn! the one who grew up on the mean streets of Ireland with Sheamus and helped him brawl through Ireland University!"
Good match. Would have been better if it was just a straight up match with no weapons, IMO.
Bryan is going to win the IC title because Vince will think maybe that will pacify fans and prevent them from shitting on his Roman Reigns pet project.
Perspicacity
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I really want Rusev to go over America at Wrestlemania
sf2fanatic
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Gonna be too hard. Slaughter lost to Hogan and Warrior right? And those two were big faces. And that inserts Cena.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Except its a John Cena feud. Rusev going over Cena at Wrestlemania doesn't mean anything because whenever Cena loses, they just have him act like losing is no big deal and keep putting rematches on the schedule until they get bored and have Cena win. Then they have Cena go out and act like all the times he lost didn't really happen. America is triumphant (except all those times they weren't).
Perspicacity
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Has [Evil Foreigner Gimmick] ever won a match at a Wrestlemania? Sheamus/Bryan doesn't count nerds
Rusev's pretty much in a no-win scenario in my book. If he loses, he'll get nothing out of the feud and spiral into the same vortex of irrelevancy that almost everyone goes to in a Cena feud. If Rusev somehow wins, Cena is going to no-sell the fuck out of the whole thing and probably get another World Title shot faster than Rusev or eventually come back to beat Rusev after a dozen rematches.
dream
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On one hand, Sunflower, I am optimistic that turning NXT into a touring promotion will get the company away from the Full Sail Fucknuts. On the other hand, I am gravely concerned that their toxic brand of fandom has become inherent to the product. The next several months should be interesting.
sf2fanatic
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Would either Edge or Del Rio count?
Nocturnowl
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Really I'm kind of intrigued as to just how badly Rusev gets inevitably bungled by this Cena feud, can it top the Wyatt Family being completely buried in the match that Bray still "won" at Extreme Rules? I'd argue he's yet to truly recover even while being primed to face Taker.
For what it's worth, while the Jacksonville house show crowd can be a smark crowd, they're not annoying like the Full Sail crowd is.
He absolutely hasn't recovered from Cena yet. It also didn't help that Cena came back and promptly re-buried the Wyatts after SummerSlam and after Jericho came back for the sole purpose of redeeming Bray
Slaughter beat Warrior and lost to Hogan.
Bret Hart.
Sibersk Esto
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Wasn't evil foreigner until after he won, not going in
sf2fanatic
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Ok cool. Thanks for the clarification. Wasn't sure if he beat Warrior or not.
You would be surprised if they taped Raw in a similar sized room
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Del Rio is a bit of an inversion because he was the friendly foreigner against patriotic pothead Swagger, Edge never really let "evil foreigner" be a part of his character and to my recollection no one ever used his Canadianness against him.
UberTag
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Technically, Yokozuna over Bret at WM9 counts... for the handful of minutes until Hogan trotted out and quickly legdropped him to send the fans home happy.
Nocturnowl
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that last one, Vince slamming the panic button after somehow being convinced to have Cena squashed the night before was funny in its own silly way.
Rusev time is up, his whole gimmick is just setup for him to lose and it time for him to lose, he ran out of people to beat.
sf2fanatic
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Trips too afraid to feed him to Brock
Rusev should go 2 years undefeated. He could easily face Ryback, Ziggler, Ambrose, Orton, Bryan, etc... until Wrestlemania next year if by some miracle Vince decides he can hold off another year.
You think about Rusev's entire first year in the WWE. He's basically faced Swagger, Henry, Big Show, Sheamus, and now Cena for a whole year.
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I'd almost be inclined to DQ Yokozuna on account of only beating a lowly Canadian but I suppose it counts. Still I'm going to give the USA an undefeated streak against abrasive foreigners with weird customs at Wrestlemania because it makes the match mean more.
Yokozuna beat Mr. USA Lex Luger at WrestleMania 10. Before losing to Mr. Canada Bret Hart in the same night.
sf2fanatic
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Like the Cena / RVD match?
slightconfuse
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Rusev is just a mid card heel really, I dont think have gimmick is that appealing to have last for two years.
That is worse than the Hogan loss IMO. Beating both of them in one night would have solidified Yoko as a beast.
To be fair, everyone is a mid carder. Except basically Brock and Cena. And even Cena is starting to turn into a mid carder.
sf2fanatic
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Yoko's still a beast. Didn't he make Duggan bleed from a splash?