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What match are you excited for at WWE Payback 2017?

Neville vs. Austin Aries ... 1 5.88%
 
Randy Orton vs. Bray Wyat... 3 17.65%
 
The Hardy Boyz vs. Cesaro... 3 17.65%
 
Kevin Owens vs. Chris Jer... 4 23.53%
 
Bayley vs. Alexa Bliss (Raw Women's Title) 3 17.65%
 
Seth Rollins vs. Samoa Joe 1 5.88%
 
Roman Reigns vs. Braun Strowman 2 11.76%
 
Total:17

I don't watch NXT but here is my NXT TakeOver: San Antonio prediction:

Pre-show:

No Way Jose vs Elias Samson



Main-show:

Roderick Strong vs Andrade Almas

Eric Young vs Tye Dillinger (Tye Dillinger will debut in the Royal Rumble match with the number 10)

DIY (c.) vs The Authors of Pain

Asuka (c.) vs Nikki Cross vs Billie Kay vs Peyton Royce

Shinsuke Nakamura (c.) vs Bobby Roode



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pokoko said:
Minoru Suzuki makes me so happy. He's the kind of heel I used to love watching. PLEASE let him beat Okada.

'Run ins? Weapons? Of course I'll use them. What, don't you watch? Don't you know what we do? And you aren't prepared for that?'

'I will use absolutely every resource I have to win. And I will win'

'Okada said he's grown over the last two years. It's like I said. You only think about yourself. Two years. Your fucking timeline'

'Oh, you're the only one who grew? The only one who worked hard? You piece of shit.'

https://twitter.com/reasonjp

Don't worry, he will. I'm (almost) sure of it!

I'm less sure whether or not I like his new, leaner look. On the one hand, it made him look so much older and creepier all of a sudden. But on the bright side, it also made him look so much older and creepier all of a sudden. So I'm torn!

On a slightly related note I would kill for the shirt he's wearing at 2:49 in this amazing old video:

Seriously. Name someone and they're already dead.



How I would book WWE Royal Rumble 2017, Elimation Chamber 2017 and Fastlane 2017:

Royal Rumble 2017:
So let's start with the Royal Rumble 2017. The show opens with Charlotte vs Bayley where Charlotte manages to beat Bayley with the help of Nia Jax who was defeated by Sasha Banks on the pre-show via count-out. The reason behind the attack is not that Jax wants to help Charlotte, it's because Jax is completely furios that she had lost to someone like Banks so she wants to injure Banks best friend. Banks comes to the ring to help Bayley but she gets destroyed by Jax. Charlotte looks down to Banks and Bayley who are lying on the ground and she starts to laugh until Nia Jax attacks Charlotte too. Nia Jax takes the Women's Championship and is upholding it with all 3 other women lying on the ground.
Next match is Neville vs Swann where Neville finally manages to get his first championship in the main roster by defeating Swann clean. Neville looks like a monster in this match and Michael Cole often refers to him as the Brock Lesnar of the Cruiserweight Division. I think Neville and the Cruiserweight belt deserve a long reign to make them both look important.
Next match is Owens vs Reigns. I think a lot people won't like this but I think Reigns should go over clean. We have seen srew jobs way too often in the last few months and this championship win are the seeds for a later Reigns heel turn and a Owens vs Jericho fued.
Next match is Cena vs Styles. Probably going to top the Summerslam bout and be the match of the night and a MOTY candidate. Both guys look amazing in this match and try everything to beat the other but in the end Styles manages to beat Cena clean again just like Summerslam 2016 and this makes Styles look like a monster.
And the main event should be the Royal Rumble match. Samoa Joe makes his main roster debut at number 3 (just like Styles last year) and Tye Dillinger make his main roster debut at number 10. Samoe Joe looks like a huge deal in this match. Lesnar/Goldberg fued goes to the next level in the match, Seth Rollins enters the match too although he is not allowed to (which leads to Triple H who is not a participant of the match coming to the ring and attacking Rollins) etc.etc.etc., a very surprising thing that most people wouldn't have thought is that Cena is also part of the match. And in the end it's only Cena and Undertaker! Just imagaine how the crowd would go insane. The reason why I am booking this is because this should be a huge teaser for Wrestlemania 34 which will be Undertaker's career ending match. In the end it should be The Undertaker who wins the Royal Rumble match just like ten years ago in 2007 the same thing happened in Texas.

Next RAW episode:
Gallows and Anderson defeated Cesaro and Sheamus for the Raw Tag Team belts in the pre-show and they beat them again to defend the belts at RAW. They should start a fued now with Enzo & Big Cass which will lead to a match at Fastlane.
Main event segment: Kevin Owens is very angry after losing his belt so he yells at Jericho that it was his fault that he lost the belt and that Jericho is a loser because he wasn't able to win the Rumble match. Both don't break up at this point, Jericho apologizes to Owens. Jericho says that Owen's has his rematch clause at Fastlane and this time Jericho will do everything to help Owens win his belt back. Reigns enters the ring and says he is ready for Owens at Fastlane and that he is ready to do everything to be in the title match at Wrestlemania. Samoa Joe appears out of nowhere and enters the ring with Reigns, Jericho and Owens. He challenges Jericho for a match. Raw crowd is cheering for Joe but he says that he is neither a official Raw superstarts nor a SmackDown superstar because he hasn't signed a contract yet. Under this circumstances Stephanie allows Samoe Joe to fight against Jericho at Fastlane but it's not going to be for the US belt (just like Styles had match with Jericho at Fastlane 2016). It looks like all 4 are going to brawl in the ring until Goldberg music hits. Crowd is cheering for him. Goldberg announces that he wants to challenge Reigns too for the Universal belt, Owens gets angry and insults Goldberg, then he tries to attack him but he runs into a spear from Goldberg. Jericho looks at his bestfriend lying on the ground, Jericho wants to attack Goldberg to revenge his friend but he gets a jackhammer from Goldberg. Samoa Joe, Reigns and Goldberg are starring on each other, Goldberg looks at Reigns belt and smiles. Reigns has accepted the challenge.

Next SmackDown episode:
Styles opens the show by saying that he proved again that he is the best one in SmackDown. Shane McMahon comes in to the ring and tells him that there is one last big step left before Wrestlemania 33 and that's the Elimination Chamber match. At SmackDown we see Kane defeating Baron Corbin, Bray Wyatt defeating Luke Harper, Tye Dillinger (signed a SmackDown contract) defeating The Miz and Dolph Ziggler defeating Dean Ambrose to enter the Elimination Chamber match. Daniel Bryan also announces that Cena is going to be the last entry in the match because he had an amazing performance at the Royal Rumble, first in the Styles vs Cena match and second the last one being eliminated by The Undertaker. The Undertaker get's the main event segment in this SmackDown episode where he announces that he will decide which champion he wants to face at Wrestlemania at the RAW episode after Fastlane.

The final match cards for Elimination Chamber 2017 and Fastlane 2017 should look like this:

Elimination Chamber 2017:
Mojo Rawley vs Curt Hawkins (pre-show)
American Alpha (c.) vs The Usos
Alexa Bliss (c.) vs Naomi
Dean Ambrose (c.) vs Baron Corbin
Nikki Bella vs Natalya
Randy Orton vs Luke Harper
AJ Styles (c.) vs John Cena vs Bray Wyatt vs Kane vs Dolph Ziggler vs Tye Dillinger

Fastlane 2017:
Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson (c.) vs Enzo Amore & Big Cass
Charlotte (c.) vs Nia Jax
Jericho (c.) vs Samoa Joe -> not for the belt
Neville (c.) vs Swann
Big Show vs Braun Strowman
[A Seth Rollins segment where he challenges Triple H for a match at Wrestlemania 33]
Roman Reigns (c.) vs Goldberg vs Kevin Owens -> elimination match



What do you think? If you have any question so far you can ask them to me. I have booked WWE all up to Wrestlemania 34.
And yeah sorry for my English... ^^



badgenome said:

Don't worry, he will. I'm (almost) sure of it!

I'm less sure whether or not I like his new, leaner look. On the one hand, it made him look so much older and creepier all of a sudden. But on the bright side, it also made him look so much older and creepier all of a sudden. So I'm torn!

On a slightly related note I would kill for the shirt he's wearing at 2:49 in this amazing old video:

 

Seriously. Name someone and they're already dead.

That certainly is a damn fine shirt.  One of the few wrestling shirts I'd actually wear.

And he's been supposedly off on an FF15 road trip with Taichi for the last year.  Of course he'd return with enhanced creepiness.  That's not even counting what Lance Archer brought to the party.

Goddamn it, I just talked myself into wanting a Suzuki-gun RPG.  With Kaze Ni Nare as the theme, of course.

However, Okada has one factor to which Suzuki-gun has no answer:

What NEEDS to happen is for Goto to tell Gedo and Okada to fuck off and lay Okada out, giving Suzuki the victory.  I would cheer my heart out.  Goto is too good to play the black sheep for Chaos.



pokoko said:

 

Haha, I love that the booker of NJPW is Okada's personal hype man. It never ceases to blow my mind that Gedo of all people became the most powerful man in Japanese wrestling today. Everything about him is such a mind fuck versus how he was in the mid '90s as a fat, talented but frequently lazy little junior heavyweight. It was weird enough when he suddenly got super shredded and started working his ass off. I still can't quite grok him running NJPW.

Agreed on Goto being too good for his role. I do hope Suzuki-gun has a traitor in NJPW, and part of me thinks it would be incredibly awesome if Tanahashi continues this "I'm the ace forever!" business all the way to a full on heel turn. Problem is the babyface ranks of the main roster are awfully thin right now, especially if you don't count guys who are pushing 50. But it might work if they had Goto run wild as the new savior, shutting down Tanahashi and then rescuing the belt from Suzuki to stop being a pitiful 8-time challenger/8-time loser.



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Royal Rumble hype. Im expecting Taker to win it.



Ill post my full predictions later.



Guys we forgot one of the most interesting things in the Rumble... How is Kofi Kingston going to save himself this time from elimination!



badgenome said:

Haha, I love that the booker of NJPW is Okada's personal hype man. It never ceases to blow my mind that Gedo of all people became the most powerful man in Japanese wrestling today. Everything about him is such a mind fuck versus how he was in the mid '90s as a fat, talented but frequently lazy little junior heavyweight. It was weird enough when he suddenly got super shredded and started working his ass off. I still can't quite grok him running NJPW.

Agreed on Goto being too good for his role. I do hope Suzuki-gun has a traitor in NJPW, and part of me thinks it would be incredibly awesome if Tanahashi continues this "I'm the ace forever!" business all the way to a full on heel turn. Problem is the babyface ranks of the main roster are awfully thin right now, especially if you don't count guys who are pushing 50. But it might work if they had Goto run wild as the new savior, shutting down Tanahashi and then rescuing the belt from Suzuki to stop being a pitiful 8-time challenger/8-time loser.

Oh, come on.  Are you telling me that you couldn't see the future greatness and importance of this man?  Also, I now understand why he has no trouble seeing out from the tiny space under his head-wrap.  He was already used to it.

Stranger things have happened.  Rosa Mendez being with the WWE for over a decade, for one.

As for Tanahashi, he would make an INCREDIBLE heel.  I remember him playing a kinda-heel against Nakamura and he worked the crowd brilliantly.  It would really surprise me, though, as would Goto having any kind of real push.  Goto vs. Ziggler is on my list of dream matches.

On a different note, I watched the 2015 Royal Rumble match earlier.  Goodness, that was refreshing.  I absolutely hated it when I watched it live but now I think it's ridiculously entertaining.  The best part is how the crowd struggles to get excited again when a popular babyface runs out only to have Kane or Big Show bash in their hopes like a tire iron to the skull.  



Maybe he'll go the extra mile to amaze us and actually win the whole thing xD