Finlay beating people up=GREATNESS!
Finlay beating Khali up just reeks of awesomeness.

And I'm going out on a limb by revealing my pick to win the Royal Rumble... CM Punk. I know he lose the ECW title and he lost to Edge. But main-eventing two shows in one week? Not only that but losing the title which gives him an opportunity to get into the Rumble? I'm telling you guys, Punk FTW!

I know that there's some "plans" already for WM... But I think one of the title matches will be either a Triple Threat or Fatal-Four way and that's where CM Punk will play in.

OK, so maybe all of it is just wishful thinking >_>

At 1/26/08 03:03 PM, pepeatumi wrote: And I'm going out on a limb by revealing my pick to win the Royal Rumble... CM Punk. I know he lose the ECW title and he lost to Edge. But main-eventing two shows in one week? Not only that but losing the title which gives him an opportunity to get into the Rumble? I'm telling you guys, Punk FTW!

I know that there's some "plans" already for WM... But I think one of the title matches will be either a Triple Threat or Fatal-Four way and that's where CM Punk will play in.

OK, so maybe all of it is just wishful thinking >_>

It really is wishful thinking :P
Khali, Viscera and Hornswoggle are all held in higher esteem that Punk. He even got pinned clean this week, no screwy finish. Rey even came out on top this week.

At 1/26/08 10:54 AM, Outlaw88 wrote: Pretty good SD to lead off to the RR. Palumbo really lost it huh? I bet Noble eliminates him from the rumble match.
Decent matches had by all tonight, Yang keeps proving he's awesome, Taker comes up with some kind of choke, and despite Punk's loss he and Edge had a great match that was very fun to watch.

Palumbo is even not in the RR, but I bet that he will cost Noble and thus continue the feud. Also, as great as Jimmy Wang Yang looks like, it saddens me to see D&D jobbing. With Cherry on the ringside, they were supposed to be the next MNM. Vince just does not realize tag team talent anymore in those days.

At 1/26/08 07:57 PM, Dream-of-Duke wrote: Palumbo is even not in the RR, but I bet that he will cost Noble and thus continue the feud.

He is in the rumble. They provided no reason why, he just is.

Also, as great as Jimmy Wang Yang looks like, it saddens me to see D&D jobbing. With Cherry on the ringside, they were supposed to be the next MNM. Vince just does not realize tag team talent anymore in those days.

Unfortunately, the WWE hardly cares about the tag team division, meaning that they manage to book around two teams well in order to provide a tag team feud. All other teams are jobbed out to enhance the two lucky teams, and the others eventually get split/released.
Smackdown's doing quite well right now, they are managing to keep Jesse and Festus somewhat in the spotlight, keep Wang/Moore in the spotlight as well as the tag champs. AND we have the Edgeheads, and to be fair, D&D are the most boring out of all the teams on SD!

I'm going to miss the Royal Rumble this year, the sad thing is this is my passion, I LOVE the Royal Rumble. My hopes are that it's Batista and HHH at the end, and Batista just barely wins it like last time.

At 1/26/08 10:13 PM, MegaGold wrote: I'm going to miss the Royal Rumble this year, the sad thing is this is my passion, I LOVE the Royal Rumble. My hopes are that it's Batista and HHH at the end, and Batista just barely wins it like last time.

Do you have an obession on Batista or what? Anyway, of all the maineventers, Batista has the worst wrestling skills, and that is the truth.
Nevertheless, I have said many times, HHH is going to win the RR, you can book on that!

So here's an interesting twist, Dave Lagana has been let go, and Dusty Rhodes is now in charge of ECW? Will it improve the show? Dunno. If anything it should give us a clear answer on whether we can blame the shittiness entirely on WWE or if Lagana was playing a big role in that.

At 1/26/08 11:23 PM, Dream-of-Duke wrote:

Do you have an obession on Batista or what? Anyway, of all the maineventers, Batista has the worst wrestling skills, and that is the truth.
Nevertheless, I have said many times, HHH is going to win the RR, you can book on that!

Not good wrestling skills?? Well, he is a "powerhouse". They usually are brawlers more than a wrestling kind of guy.

You kno wut I mean.........

At 1/26/08 11:23 PM, Dream-of-Duke wrote:

At 1/26/08 10:13 PM, MegaGold wrote: I'm going to miss the Royal Rumble this year, the sad thing is this is my passion, I LOVE the Royal Rumble. My hopes are that it's Batista and HHH at the end, and Batista just barely wins it like last time.

Do you have an obession on Batista or what? Anyway, of all the maineventers, Batista has the worst wrestling skills, and that is the truth.
Nevertheless, I have said many times, HHH is going to win the RR, you can book on that!

Um, Triple H is way overated, if he does win, it will just show how much WWE favors him. Batista isn't about the skill, he's huge, he can Batista Bomb Kane, that's all I need to say. Maybe Kane might win it, since he deserves it. Maybe Chris Jericho will get a number afterwords and win the thing. Don't forget, Batista has done great at every rumble he's been in.

Oh no....

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Vince McMahon has given his approval for a storyline involving incest. We first reported on the angle tat would involve Ohio Valley Wrestling wrestlers Katie Lea and Paul Burchill last week. The angle would likely take place on either ECW or Raw, because there is some concern that it would get the wrong kind of heat if it were to take place on SmackDown -- which is on network television.

McMahon has wanted to do an incest angle for years. He once suggested that he be the father of his daughter Stephanie's baby. As revealed on the McMahon DVD, Stephanie turned down the angle. According to her, Vince was to reveal himself as the father of her baby; when she said no, he pushed for Shane to be the father, but she turned that idea down as well.

The incest idea was first batted around in 1999 where Ken Shamrock and Ryan Shamrock (his storyline sister) would end up as lovers. Ken nixed the idea and that was the beginning of the end of his push at the time. There is some irony in the angle as Ken and Ryan ended up as a real-life couple at around the same time frame.

Seriously.. Does anyone here honestly want to see a storyline like this? This has crap written all over it. Even if the people who do the angle try to give it justice it will just give them a lousy history for their character. Why does Vince love incest so much?

At 1/27/08 12:51 AM, Outlaw88 wrote: Oh no....

My opinion: Ugh, what the fuck?

At 1/27/08 12:51 AM, Outlaw88 wrote: Why does Vince love incest so much?

Uh, I don't think we'd really like the answer to that. They're forgetting to mention the VERY short lived Beaver Cleavage character, which was also set up as a potential incest angle.

This is dumb and I hope somebody convinces him not to do this, I really really do. It won't draw, it won't work, it's just going to poison the careers of the people involved with it. Also, I heard about this on PWInsider Elite a few weeks back. Nice to know Dave Meltzer has an elite account too!! lol

At 1/27/08 12:51 AM, Outlaw88 wrote: Oh no....

It'l be like Katie Vick... Only worse :(

At 1/26/08 11:23 PM, Dream-of-Duke wrote: Do you have an obession on Batista or what?

Aren't you a self proclaimed Orton mark? :P

At 1/26/08 11:54 PM, aviewaskewed wrote: So here's an interesting twist, Dave Lagana has been let go, and Dusty Rhodes is now in charge of ECW? Will it improve the show? Dunno. If anything it should give us a clear answer on whether we can blame the shittiness entirely on WWE or if Lagana was playing a big role in that.

I think there's a curse on the job of ECW head creative.

At 1/27/08 12:51 AM, Outlaw88 wrote: Oh no....

It's good to see Paul Burchill will be getting back on TV. Who knows, this may turn out quite well for him. Did anyone really think that being Captain Jack would prove as successful as it was for Burchill?

At 1/27/08 06:31 AM, TheD-LucksEdition wrote:
Any thoughts on my predictions?

Awesome predictions as always, and by far the ones that make the most sense. I'm with you in the effect of going into riot mode if Honswaggle wins it. That would be just too much.

Taker is a good choice, so it will be interesting to see what number he draws.

At 1/27/08 06:31 AM, TheD-LucksEdition wrote: Anywho, my favourite PPV of the year is here. And so are The D-Lucks Royal Rumble Predictions!!! You know the score by now, winners in bold, match types in italics.

I think I'm totally agreed on all predictions there.

1. Chris Jericho vs. JBL

I dunno, it's been mentioned that both men are recently on comebacks, so to give a clean win either way would totally destroy the loser. Obviously, I would happily have Y2J win clean and just fuck JBL's return up so much that he has no choice but to go back to SD! with his tail in between his legs, but I see a no contest. Possibly Jericho going crazy on JBL for beating him down, DQ'ing himself.

2. United States Champion MVP vs. Ric Flair (Non-Title, Career Theatening Match)

Totally agreed. Having Flair go clean over MVP would be bad for MVP, but they can't end flair now. Hardy's return makes the most sense, costing MVP the pinfall.

3. World Heavyweight Champion Edge vs. Rey Mysterio

Meh, Misterio is a stopgap feud for Edge on the road to Wrestlemania with Taker (hopefully). It would be downright silly to give Rey the title here. It could be a screwy finish, you have the Edgeheads and Chavo to help Edge, and CM Punk potentially looking for revenge on Edge.

4. WWE Champion Randy Orton vs. Jeff Hardy

I'd really like Jeff to win, and from what I've heard, there's the possibility that he will win, but I'd much rather predict Orton and then be pleasantly surprised when Jeff went over than the alternative.
And you also have Jeff on the Elimination Chamber poster, which really influences my opinion on this.

5. The Royal Rumble Match

Taker all the way. It makes the most sense; he's over with the fans, has a ready made feud with Edge, and has been pushed so hard against Henry and Viscera recently.
I mean, there's always the chance that HHH could win, contrary to what Dream-of-Duke might think, but I think H does have some business sense. Meh, even if he does win, it's not the end of the world. He's over with the fans, and can perform well. I definitely see him in the final four, along with HBK, Batista, Undertaker, and no ECW guys.

Any thoughts on my predictions?

^ See above ^

Hey, Orton beat Jeff Hardy CLEAN, EAT THAT!! Hahaha!!!

Wow, Taker and HBK are the first two entrants, what a way to kick off the RR!

At 1/27/08 06:32 PM, HeartbreakHoldout wrote:

Taker all the way. It makes the most sense; he's over with the fans, has a ready made feud with Edge, and has been pushed so hard against Henry and Viscera recently.
I mean, there's always the chance that HHH could win, contrary to what Dream-of-Duke might think, but I think H does have some business sense. Meh, even if he does win, it's not the end of the world. He's over with the fans, and can perform well. I definitely see him in the final four, along with HBK, Batista, Undertaker, and no ECW guys.

I'm not watching it right now :(, I had fucking work.
As long as Batista makes it somewhere up there, I'm fine, I hope Taker gets Taken out FAST, same as HHH, they both have been pushed too far in the rumbles. Maybe some newer people.

The Undertaker has been eliminated. Barring the possibility of Vince losing his mind and having Hornswaggle winning, RR is in HHH's bag.

ZOMG!!!!!! Cena is in the RR, didn't I tell youuuuuuuuuuuu so??!! As much as I hate HHH's backstage policies, I hope that he eliminates Captain Invincible. Come on, HHH!!!

Oh, fuck you, Cena! My 2000 e dollars, sniff, sniff... :'(

I had post a couple of weeks ago pointing out that there was a chance that Captain Invincible would "surprise" everyone by entering the RR AND winning it. Nobody believed me back then, as you can all see now, that was exactly what happened. Fuck HHH vs Orton at Mania, now we will get Cena vs Orton for 12345th time and you can bet that Captain Invincible will make Orton his bitch.
I hate Vince and the WWE.

Cena won it?! God damn. 2 questions though...
Who did he eliminate to win it?
How far did Batista make it?

Jokes on them, I'm not going to watch wrestlemania nore buy the Royal Rumble DVD because of that.

I was really hoping Cena wouldn't get back into the title picture. I was hoping Orton would drop the title and Cena would come back and feud with him beofre being the top guy again. Instead, Orton's reign will be known for keeping the title warm for Cena. It was a good couple of months of a new stuff, but now we are back to superman winning every night.

Then again, maybe Cena won't win back the title. *waits for laughter*

Aparently Batista was the longest one in the ring. The bad part is HE LOST HHH!?! The hell? That's the first time Batista lost against HHH on anything, oh well. At least he didn't lose to Cena (he would own Cena NO MATTER WHAT!!!) If HHH wanted to win, he should have just waited till Batista took out Cena.

At 1/27/08 11:00 PM, MegaGold wrote: Cena won it?! God damn. 2 questions though...
Who did he eliminate to win it?

Triple H...

How far did Batista make it?

3rd, though he didn't exactly make himself known much and didn't last long against Cena and HHH, so its debatable whether he gained anything from that in my opinion.

Jokes on them, I'm not going to watch wrestlemania nore buy the Royal Rumble DVD because of that.

I probably wasn't anyway, even less so now.

So, a few opinions on all of that...

1) Why the fuck did they have to do nothing about Hornswoggle? I spent most of that praying he wasn't going to reappear at the end and win the bloody thing from nowhere, as technically he was never eliminated. They said Finlay was DQd (which isn't even possible- past rumbles had weapons and entrants running in before their time), but nothing on Horny.

2) Taker and Michaels went way too early. Fair enough don't let them win it, they don't need a push and have both won it before, but both went out in a complete damp squib half way through- blink and you'd hardly even have noticed!

3) A few others went way way too fast- Shelton Benjamin and Dreamer the most obvious.

4) The people left at the end... what the hell? There wasn't anyone there who really appealed as a winner, or had any real reason story line wise to be there. I'd have loved to see an outsider in there- especially Kennedy or Punk, pretty much the only two guys I enjoy watching these days, at least that were in the rumble. I can't believe how far Kennedy has slid down the pecking order in the last year (though at least he got some time in there).

5) Cena.... I don't know as much as a lot of the people who post in here, nor would I ever pretend to. Simply as a fan (more so in the past than now it must be said) this decision made no sense whatsoever. There is nothing more annoying, in entertainment OR sport, than one person being too dominant. Things like tennis and golf don't exactly get a choice in the matter, the WWE most certainly does. Cena never ever seems to lose- the second his music hit I was tempted to switch off, there was only ever one outcome from there. Doesn't the fan reaction tell them anything? He's supposed to be a face, yet he gets booed more than anyone I've ever seen in the ring. That isn't through lack of commitment, or talent (he's a hell of a lot better than the likes of Khali for example), but simply people are bored to death of seeing him win, again... and again... and again.

I could go on, but everyone's heard it all before...

In short the Rumble sucked- easily the worst I've ever watched. That may be because I watch less these days and don't get caught up in the story lines much, but I suspect not... shame, as the rumble has always been the best match of the year in my mind, and has so much potential to set up the months to Mania.

At 1/27/08 11:19 PM, boloneyman wrote: Then again, maybe Cena won't win back the title. *waits for laughter*

As long as Captain Invincible lives, there is no hope. :( Why am I keep on thinking that Cena will make death tap out like a bitch when the time comes?
Once again, fuck Vince and his sex mate Captain Invincible!

At 1/27/08 11:24 PM, Sentio wrote: In short the Rumble sucked- easily the worst I've ever watched. That may be because I watch less these days and don't get caught up in the story lines much, but I suspect not... shame, as the rumble has always been the best match of the year in my mind, and has so much potential to set up the months to Mania.

It has been my fav match too since it's only once a year and 30 people. I was so depressed when I couldn't get to see it, but aparently it sucked. (I'm taking your word 100% on this one) The only good thinkg is after 3 years for Batista and 2 years for HHH, they were BOTH in the rumble. And Batista got most Eliminations :D

Oh nvm got my sources wrong HHH most eliminations. Next time put Jericho in the fucking rumble and we'll have a real rumble winner.