Don't have time this weekend, so doing this a bit early this month. But it's time, IT'S TIME!
PREDICTION TIME!
United States Championship: Dean Ambrose (c) vs. Rob Van Dam (Kickoff Match)
So with the Wyatt family being the new hot trio in town The Shield has been on the backburner and here we go, Ambrose is on the pre-show and Rollins and Reigns aren’t even on the card, sad times indeed. Apparently there is some heat on them as they’ve hurt both Taker and Orton and WWE hates getting big names hurt, so there’s that. Bad news for Ambrose you’d say, but he’s facing RVD so I wouldn’t be too worried. RVD had a hot comeback last PPV and has been on every show since. He’s hot and is a lot better in the ring now that he’s giving a shit again. Best part of the past month has to be Orton countering his rolling by body slamming him, well done Orton. RVD doesn’t need this title, but with the heat on The Shield and the fact that WWE might want to get the crowd hot for SummerSlam by doing a title change I’m gonna go with
Rob Van Dam becoming the new US Champion. It’s still a higher accolade than being TNA Heavyweight Champion, so good on him, I guess.
Natalya vs. Brie Bella
E! and WWE extended the first season of Total Divas with another six episode. Guess why they’re doing this match, guess, guess, guess…
Natalya wins, whatever.
Cody Rhodes vs. Damien Sandow
I am looking forward to this match. I love when wrestlers are so passionate about their characters they essentially become their character on air. Few wrestlers have this quality and Sandow is one of them. His push is coming later than I anticipated (I had expected him to be World Champ by WrestleMania this year), but I’m glad he has the briefcase. Also, he’s the first to get rid of that ugly thing and turn it into a nice brown leathery case. Cody is someone I’ve always enjoyed, he should shave the mustache and become Dashing again though. This match is hard to call, I’m happy they didn’t put the briefcase on the line and I hope they never do that. Sandow should become champ, as he’s the MVP. He should win this match as well, but I’m expecting this feud to continue another month or so, so I’m going with
Cody Rhodes to win this one.
Dolph Ziggler & Kaitlyn vs. Big E Langston & AJ Lee
Ziggler said in an interview a few days ago he’d much rather have wrestled AJ alone… Yeah Ziggles, you and everyone else, I’ll gladly tap out to the Black Widow Layla style. Seriously though, that would’ve been a fun match to watch, but in PG era it’s not allowed and as soon as one of the men tags we get another rehash of Kaitlyn vs. AJ. This has to be the final match between the two and same goes for Ziggler vs. Big E, the only logical outcome therefor has to be the faces winning,
Kaitlyn & Ziggler win. They might have the heels go over though, as Ziggler just got a movie role and might need some time off soon. Kaitlyn is gonna drop off from the Divas Title scene after this, so why give her the win over the champ anyways? Honestly, it’s a hard one to call, but I’m still going with the faces to win.
Ring of Fire Match: Kane vs. Bray Wyatt
So a Ring of Fire match is an Inferno match where you don’t win by setting someone on fire. It’s just the effects. I’m still very excited though, they don’t set the ring on fire that often (only 4 times in history if I remember correctly) after all. I know I said Sandow was the best thing ever, but fuck it, Bray Wyatt is THE BEST THING EVER. Like Sandow, he lives his character and he’s frigging amazing at it. Kane is off to film See No Evil 2, so
Bray Wyatt gets the win. Lets hope he doesn’t get heat on him over the next few months and he’ll be WWE Champion in no-time.
World Heavyweight Championship: Alberto Del Rio (c) vs. Christian
Doesn’t it feel like we’ve seen this match already? Oh yeah, that’s right…
WE DID! It wasn’t even a short match or anything, but like 20 minutes long. Really weird booking. Then again, nobody is going to buy SummerSlam for this match so there we go. Christian won that match, so logic would dictate Del Rio retains. However, it was a surprise roll-up win so there’s not too much credit to that. Only Bryan can credibly do those. Christian is probably retiring very soon, so I’m going to go with
Christian having one last run as champion that’ll lead up to a career vs. championship match where he loses and official retires on Survivor Series.
The Best vs. The Beast: CM Punk vs. Brock Lesnar
I can’t express into words how excited I am for this match. As far as I’m concerned this is only the second match Lesnar has had since returning to WWE, first he battled Cena and now it’s Punk. We can forget about all the boring Triple H bullshit as far as I’m concerned. Triple H is gonna be a great exec, I just wish he would hurry up and stop wrestling to focus on that. Anyways, back to this match, I’m expecting a brawl like Lesnar had with Cena, but even more extreme… If someone isn’t bleeding after a minute into this match I’ll be very fucking disappointed. I’m gonna assume
Lesnar comes out on top, so he can challenge Taker for WrestleMania 30. If he loses he’ll have lost to the guy that couldn’t beat Taker, so what sense does that make? I wouldn’t be bothered if Punk overcame, but that’s not how I would book it. Punk will end up giving an STF to Heyman either way during this match, that will be glorious.
WWE Championship: John Cena (c) vs. Daniel Bryan. Special guest referee: Triple H
The addition of Triple H has somewhat lowered my anticipation of this match, but I’m still really excited. Cena always steps his game up against super hot guys like Bryan, and Bryan himself is the best wrestler in the world right now so this match is gonna be insane. Cena is rumored to get surgery on his elbow soon and I think he will lose clean for once, just once, to the Yes-Lock and
Daniel Bryan wins the championship. Trips will call the match down the middle and only after it is over, will Pedigree Bryan and Cena and turn heel. Out comes Orton to cash in. Triple H is the ref still. Match starts, Bryan fights back and somehow Triple H gets taken out. Vince comes out with Maddox, Bryan reverses the RKO OUTA NOWHERE into a Small Package and
Bryan retains the title. I’ll be fine if they do the predictable cash-in and Orton winning too though, Bryan being a former champion and chasing the title for a few more months is fine by me. He’s great and he’ll be great wether he’s champion now or a few months down the line.
