Monday 18 August 2014

That'samania 2!

Two of the best technical grapplers in the history of professional wrestling going at it for the European Title is a very exciting prospect. The chain wrestling in this match would be off the chart.

Alberto and Davey are two of the best all around wrestlers in WWE history, and much like the previous match, this match holds a promise of great wrestling, becuause this is a *wrestling* event.

That's right, I'm bringing the Money in the Bank Ladder Match back to Wrestlemania! I put the the MITB All Stars (Edge, Jeff, Shelton, Rollins) in with 3 guys who would do crazy things with a ladder in Pillman, Sabu and Sin Cara.

Punk in another tag match? Yeah, but this match is a very good tag match from a wrestling standpoint. The Kings of Wrestling were a great team, and Punk's only tag title in WWE was with Kofi Kingston so it seemed like a great tag match to book.

This goes back to the previous mania of having a match with a Japanese wrestler, a Luchador and a technical wrestler in one match. Last year was a 6 Man Tag, this year is a Triple Threat.

Vader vs Brock Lesnar in a Steel Cage Match? Great! Paul Heyman and Jim Cornette cutting promos every week on Raw leading up to it? Awesome!

If this was an Iron Man Match my life would be complete. If it was an hour long, the total event would be about 3 hours long, which is a short Mania, but a lot of the filler is cut out, so this works well. Overall this match and event really puts the "wrestle" in Wrestlemania. (Aside from the Ladder and Cage matches)


Hypothetical Event Length
Bryan/Regal - 20 Minutes
ADR/Bulldog - 15 Minutes
MITB - 25 Minutes
Punk & Kofi/Kings of Wrestling - 15 Minutes
Triple Threat - 15 Minutes
Vader vs Lesnar - 20 Minutes
Hart/Angle - 1 Hour
Total runtime (excluding entrances) = 2:50:00

Stable and Tag Team Ideas

These are just some concepts I have for future stables, usually just ones I've made in Universe Mode in 2K14 or other video games for fantasy purposes. Tell me what you think.

The Roman Empire

Roman Reigns - Leader & Muscle
The Usos - Tag Team
Tamina - Diva Member & Enforcer

The Dangerous Alliance

Paul Heyman - Leader
Brock Lesnar - Part-timer
Rybaxel (Tag Team)
Cesaro - In-ring leader (the Ric Flair of the group)
Paige - Diva Member

Kings of Wrestling (WWE Edition)

Cesaro & Sheamus

I will add to this as I think of more teams and stables.

Saturday 16 August 2014

Now That's a Mania!

Some of my fantasy stuff (The 2013 WarGames for instance) were actually feasible, this one is purely a fantasy based on futuristic time-warp technology or magic. This is my idea of what the "perfect Wrestlemania" would be like, balancing legendary conflicts with fun matches and filler, all while balancing the egos involved. I also did some match card pictures for a visual cue.


 The Event would open with "The Battle of Bad News!" Not only do they share a nickname but they have a similar brawling style that would mesh well. Throw in a No Holds Barred stipulation and this is an exciting opener to get the fans invested.

 This is not Bret Hart's only match. This is similar to the Wrestlemania 10 thing where Bret has to do double duty. He is forced to defeat Kane in order to advance into the main event against the WWE Champion Randy Orton. This would be a good match between two legends. I would even consider replacing Kane with Seth Rollins now that he is in The Authority.

A technical wrestler, a luchador and a strong-style Japanese wrestler on each team in a Lucha Libre Rules 6 Man Tag Match? This is any wrestling fan's dream match! (These 6 are my personal preferences. KENTA, Eddie Guerrero, and Daniel Bryan are too big for a midcard tag match, although that would be a hell of a Triple Threat someday)


 To clarify, Arn and JJ are on the outside, this is just a 6-Man Tag match. This match never happened and it should. It would be a fine tag match between the factions. The Horsemen would be the faces, as they have had more time as faces than any of the Freebirds.


This one is actually Roddy Piper's idea, and I dig it for 2 reasons. Firstly, it gets Cena out of the main event, and 2 it gives us Cena vs Punk without it feeling like the same old thing, as it adds Piper and Hogan to the mix as a tag team match.


Two Hollywood stars, two major WWE stars, one is a heel, one is a face. That is really all the story you need. Both guys can work the big match and there is no bigger match than this. The Rock goes over obviously.

Mind Games galore! This one would be good for the promos and make for a very psychological match. For extra drama, add Paul Bearer and The Wyatt Family to ringside. Hell, add the Ministry and have the two factions stalk ringside in a Lumberjack style match.

Lastly, Bret makes it to his WWE World Heavyweight Championship match with Orton. This has the potential to be a Match of the Year, and has a lot of drama, as Bret already had to wrestle once tonight. Ultimately Bret should win though.

Fantasy Match 2: Icon's Fatal Four Way!

Fatal Four Way Match

John Cena vs The Rock vs "Stone Cold" Steve Austin vs Hulk Hogan
Made by me in MSPaint in like 2 minutes

This is an Elimination Match, like Wrestlemania 2000
All 4 men are faces, although the crowd is anti-Cena, and are likely pro-Rock
Special guest referee is Mick Foley (purely because I love Mick and want him to be involved in the biggest match of all time)
Photo Courtesy of The Sun

The bell rings and each man picks a guy to brawl with. Hogan and Austin trade punches, as do Cena and Rock. Rock begins to get the advantage, and goes for a back suplex, but Cena lands on his feet and hits a running facecrusher. Hogan gets Austin in the corner and hits him with a few punches and chops, but Austin counters and proceeds to stomp a mudhole in Hogan's ass!

Cena comes to the aid of his idol and he and Hogan execute a double suplex on Stone Cold. Meanwhile the Brahma Bull gets to his feet and blindsides Cena, throwing him from the ring. The only two people standing are Rock and Hogan. They stare down and get a huge pop from the crowd.

Photo Courtesy of BleacherReport

Rock throws the first punch and they trade strikes, with Rock seemingly getting the advantage. He pushes Hogan back to the ropes and whips him across the ring, but Hulk comes back with a big clothesline. Rock quickly gets to his feet but gets a bodyslam, which he sells like a million bucks.

Austin gets to his feet and pursues Cena outside the ring, hitting him with a big clothesline from behind and throwing him into the steps. before stomping him out. Austin runs at Cena but gets back body dropped on the floor.


Back in the ring, Hogan has Rocky locked in a painful abdominal stretch that has The Great One screaming in agony. Mick asks him if he wants to quit but The Rock shakes his head. Fighting through the pain, Rock powers through the stretch with a hip toss. Hogan gets up and Rock hits him with a Samoan Drop.

Rock sets him up for the Rock Bottom, but Hogan pushes him off into the waiting arms of Cena. Cena nails The Rock with the Attitude  Adjustment to a chorus of boos. Cena goes for the cover.
Photos Courtesy of BleacherReport
1.... 2....
The Rock kicks out!

Hogan clotheslines Cena out of the ring, and then goes to hit the big Leg Drop on The Rock. The Rock rolls out of the way and Hogan lands directly on his tailbone. Rock takes advantage and locks Hogan in the Sharpshooter!
Photo Courtesy of YouTube (screenshot)

Hogan is writhing, and Foley is right on top of the action, asking Hogan if he wants to quit, but the Hulkamaniacs in attendance start pullling for their hero, and begin to chant his name.

"HOGAN! HOGAN! HOGAN!"

Somehow, Hulk finds the power to force his way out of the sharpshooter, and he begins to Hulk-up. Taking punches from the Rock before wagging his finger at him.
Photo Courtesy of WhatCulture

Hogan hits The People's Champ with several booming right hands, before whipping him into the ropes, but the Rock ducks under the big boot and hits Hogan with a spinebuster, leaving both men down.



Meanwhile, Austin has found a chair at ringside, and nails Cena over the head with it, opening a massive cut on Cena's skull. Austin gets a huge pop from the anti-Cena portion of the crowd.

Austin drags him over to the Spanish announce table, and prepares to lay him on top of it, but Cena counters into the Attitude Adjustment! Austin gets planted through the table!


Again from Youtube, you can find a picture of anything if you look hard enough

Screenshot from Metacafe

Rock slowly gets to his feet, and prepares to hit the People's Elbow. He bounces off the ropes and leaps over Hogan's body, but by the time he reaches the opposite ropes, Hogan has gotten to his feet! He nails Rock with the big boot and then postures for the crowd, signalling for the Leg Drop. He runs for the ropes but Rock does a kip-up and like a flash of lightning hits Rock Bottom on The Hulk!

1... 2... 3! Hogan is eliminated!
Photo Courtesy of  wwe.com

The Rock goes from fan favourite to heat seeker with the elimination of Hogan (It's hard not to draw heat in this match, as the crowd would have a huge 4-way divide) and proceeds to celebrate early, as he pinned the Icon first. The posturing gives Cena some time to recover and he hits the Rock with a shoulder block, and then another. Rock swings a haymaker punch and misses, and John Cena lands a spinning out powerbomb.

Cena raises his hand in the air, signaling for the Five Knuckle Shuffle. He gets in The Rock's face, and does the "you can't see me: signal, before running for the ropes...

... but the Rock does a kip-up again, and hits Cena with a Rock Bottom!
Photo Courtesy of The Franchise (not Shane Douglas)

The crowd pops, fully back in The Rock's favor again!
"Could the Rock do it? Could he pin 2 legends in a row? Foley makes the count!"

1... 2...

John Cena's shoulder comes up, a split second before Mick could make the 3 count. The Rock is shocked, the crowd is shocked, and even Foley is a little surprised. Rock gets up and gets into position for the People's Elbow. He removes his second elbow pad, and runs, but comes face to face with Stone Cold!
Photo Courtesy of wwe.com

"Stone Cold Stunner! Stunner out of nowhere! BAH GAWD KING!"
"Vintage Austin!"

Rock is down, and Austin and Cena are back on their feet. They stare down and trade punches again, Cena whips Austin, but misses the clothesline and Austin lands the Lou Thesz Press on Cena, landing venomous right hands. He then beckons for the Stunner, and does the kick, but when he goes for the facelock Cena pushes him off into the waiting arms of the Rock. Rock sets up the Rock Bottom, but Austin counters and whips Rock into Cena, who goes for the AA, but Rock rolls off of his shoulders and pushes Cena into Austin, who hits the Stunner as he always intended.
Photo Courtesy of Photobucket (Ignore The Giant in the background, there are only so many images of this Stunner!)

"Stunner on Cena! Stunner on Cena!" (You know Jim Ross would be going nuts at this type of match)

Austin goes for the cover on Cena.

1... 2...

Cena kicks out!

"Cena Kicked out of the Stunner!" Jim Ross is in disbelief, as is the entire audience.
"Can nothing stop John Cena?" Lawler on the Cena bandwagon as usual.

Austin sets up for a second stunner to Cena, when The Rock pulls Stone Cold out of the ring, slamming his head on the announce table. Rock then takes a chair to Austin's head. (By this point, Austin is a face and Rock has basically taken on the heel role after eliminating Hogan) Austin is bleeding too now.

Rock looks like he's going to put Austin through the English announce table but Cena does a suicide dive out of the ring onto both of them! John then stomps on each of them before throwing Austin back into the ring.

Now Cena plays the heel a bit, doing the "you can't see me" to Austin and nailing him with the Five Knuckle Shuffle. Cena grabs Austin's leg for the STF, but Stone Cold does a drop toe hold and reverses it into a Texas Cloverleaf.

Cena writhes in pain, and Mick is right there asking if Cena wants to quit.

"He'll never quit. Cena has never quit before and he won't now." Lawler kills the suspense.

The younger audience members begin a "Let's Go Cena!" chant, which is followed up by everyone else chanting "Let's Go Austin!" The chants empower Cena, and he is able to push The Rattlesnake off of him. They both scramble to their feet, but Cena gets to his feet first, and executes a hurricanrana, rolling Austin across the ring. Stunned, Stone Cold turns into an Attitude Adjustment!
From WWE 2K14, My own picture

Foley makes the count.

1... 2... 3!

"Austin is eliminated! Bah Gawd King! Cena has eliminated Austin!"

Boos reign down on Cena, who has now taken on the heel role. He sits up and smiles, bloody face and all, as he has pinned Stone Cold Steve Austin. What he doesn't see is The People's Champ, fired up, standing right behind him. Cena turns into a Rock Bottom, but Cena spins out into an Attitude Adjustment. Rock rolls off Cena's shoulders and goes for an AA of his own, getting Cena up on his shoulders, but Cena lands two elbows, causing The Great One to drop him. Cene then kicks Rock in the gut and gets him in a facelock and does the last thing anyone expects.

"Stunner! Cena hit a stunner on The Rock!"

Cena laughs, and raises his hands in victory, but before he can get the pinfall, Austin turns him around to give one last stunner before he leaves, leaving Cena and The Rock down. After ten tense seconds of waiting, The Rock kips-up as fired up as ever! Out of elbow pads, the Rock does the "you can't see me sign" to mock John Cena, and then executes the most electrifying move in sports entertainment, The People's Elbow!
Photo Courtesy of WrestleEnigma

The Rock hits it, and makes the cover.

1... 2... 3!!

"It's over! Bah Gawd The Rock has done it King! The Rock has done it!"

The Rock celebrates in the ring as the crowd goes crazy! Mick Foley is smiling as his former tag partner and friend climbs to the top rope, arm raised in victory, and Howard Finkel announces the decision.

"Here is your winner, and... NEWWWWWW WWE World Heavyweight Champion... THEEE ROCK!"
Photo Courtesy of GamerHub


Friday 15 August 2014

Wrestlemania 31 Dream Card


These are just my early predictions for Wrestlemania 31. I wasn't very close with Wrestlemania 30, although I predicted that there would be a battle royal and that Bryan would leave with the WWE Title. This early in the year it is difficult to predict what Mania will look likem, but I have a pretty good idea in my head of what the card will look like.

Using the formula of 3 huge matches from past years

WM28
Undertaker vs Triple H
CM Punk vs Chris Jericho
John Cena vs The Rock

WM29
CM Punk vs Undertaker
Triple H vs Brock Lesnar
John Cena vs The Rock

Wrestlemania 30 was different in that it was bigger and had more main events and less filler, I predict that 31 will revert back to the 3 big match formula with more filler. I am also going into this with a few assumptions:

  • Rob Van Dam and Chris Jericho will both be gone
  • CM Punk, Batista and Alberto Del Rio are not coming back this year
  • Undertaker's loss to Brock Lesnar was his final match and his is retired

Pre-Show
Tag Team Titles
   Who has the titles? Who knows! The tag team division is always shifting. Who would have predicted that the New Age Outlaws would be champions in 2014? All I predict for the tag titles is that there will be a match.

*Here's a thought: since Sheamus and Cesaro are sort of stuck in the midcard at the moment, how about they form a tage team? Yeah, let's say they defend the Tag Titles at Wrestlemania!*

Undercard
Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal
   Hogan made it sound like this will be a Mania tradition from now on, so I'm assuming the lower mid card will mostly be taken up in this match, and I predict that Rusev wins the whole thing.

US Title Fatal Four Way: Dolph Ziggler vs Jack Swagger vs The Miz vs Big E
   It's hard to predict who will hold the US Title next April, but it should get some kind of exposure at Wrestlemania this year. I say Jack (as a babyface) should win, but really any of them could win and it wouldn't make a big difference.

Goldust vs Stardust/Cody Rhodes
   It is inevitable that the "Dust Brothers" will split up, and hopefully finally get their Mania match this year. I don't know if Cody Rhodes will stick with the Stardust gimmick when they implode, but this match has to happen before Goldust retires.

Bad News Barrett vs Bo Dallas (c) (IC Title)
   Bo goes into this thing as a heel IC Champion and Barrett returns to challenge him. I like the idea that a motivational speaker is a heel and the bringer of bad news is a face in this match, and that they have prior history back in 2013. Ultimately this should be a glorified squash and Barrett gets his belt back.

Bray Wyatt vs Dean Ambrose (No Holds Barred)
   The promo work and the match would both be great, also this would be the only "hardcore" variation at this year's Wrestlemania, which adds some intrigue to it. Wyatt wins simply out of my own bias.

Naomi wins the Diva's Title in some kind of match

Main Card

Sting vs Triple H
   I'm going to assume that Undertaker isn't coming back, and Sting will want the next best thing. The Rock is only coming back for the big main event with a top heel, and won't settle for anything less. Hunter on the other hand is comfortable anywhere on the card (he opened Mania 30) and Sting is just happy to be here. It is also insanely (pardon the pun) tempting to put Bray Wyatt against Sting, but I want Sting to win and I don't want to hurt Wyatt's big match record any more than usual (lost to Cena twice, lost MITB, lost to Jericho etc.)

Roman Reigns vs Brock Lesnar (3-0)
   I have an internal conflict here between Reigns and Bryan as to who wins the Royal Rumble. I think Bryan should win it, and Reigns gets screwed by Brock Lesnar. This match is Reigns certification as a main event player, in which Lesnar puts him over clean with no BS. Also there is an irony that Reigns begins building his own Streak by defeating the Streak Conqueror.

Daniel Bryan vs Seth Rollins (c) (WWE World Heavyweight Championship)
   There is a lot of backstory here. Lesnar isn't able to beat Cena at Summerslam, but Cena is so badly beaten that Rollins cashes in in him and wins the title, and then beats Dean Ambrose at Hell in a Cell and John Cena a few times at other events. Bryan returns in the Rumble match and wins it, setting up a match at Wrestlemania.