So we are closing in on Wrestlemania again and I thought
I would write a special onetime return Blog for this event.
Now if I’m honest I haven’t been overly impressed with
the way WWE have gone with the current stories, Rock vs. Cena 2 for example
being a big slap in the face as it was booked as “Once in a lifetime” last year
and yet this year we are getting it again. Seems pretty pointless, not to
mention the result is pretty predictable, Rock will lose and then bugger off to
do more films and put Cena over. The fans don’t really want to see it again,
and everyone has shown there discomfort with it but Vince doesn’t listen and
just goes ahead with things that he wants.
Anyway due to the recent low story I thought I would
share how I would take things from Royal Rumble, through Elimination Chamber to
Wrestlemania. Now this is a long Blog so bear with me I know it might drag a
bit but I hope my road to Wrestlemania will be worth the read.
So stories I will be focusing on are around the WWE
championship and World Title, so let’s kick off with Royal Rumble.
Royal Rumble 27th
Jan
So the key matches are the Rumble its self and the WWE
Championship match. To open the show we would have the World Title match
between Big Show and Del Rio as they actually did and I would have Del Rio win
the belt.
Skip forward and we go to the Rumble match and fast
forward to mid-way through, Dolph
Ziggler still hanging in after starting at number one alongside Jericho at
number two and other mid-level stars. At around the 23 mark I would bring in
John Cena , following off of the recent rivalry Cena and Dolph will butt heads
straight off and Cena is determined to eliminate Dolph. But Jericho will get in
the middle allowing it drag out through the match. In the end Cena will
eliminate Dolph and Dolph would be less than happy about it and has himself a
hissy fit outside the ring. The match continues and comes down to Jericho,
Ryback and Cena. They fight on and Jericho ends up aside in the corner and
Ryback and Cena end up on the apron fighting to stay in ring. Cena gets close
to being eliminated when Jericho attacks Ryback from behind and they end up
more cantered in the ring, Cena gets his breath back on ringside when Dolph, AJ
and there muscle, Big E Langston, come to the ring, Langston and Dolph get hold
of Cena’s legs and attempt to pull Cena from the apron, Cena fights them off
but only just. Jericho takes advantage
and hits Cena from behind eliminating him, Dolph and Big E pounce and a brawl
breaks out at ring side. Jericho laughs at the antics outside the ring but when
he turns he gets struck by Ryback’s Meat Hook clothesline which sends him over
the top rope and to the floor below leaving Ryback in the ring and winner of
the Royal Rumble.
After we would have the WWE Championship match between
Rock and Punk, let’s forget about the whole Shield involvement that was in the
original match, I would have it straight up one on one and the only variable
would be Heyman. I would have Rock win
at Rumble and become the WWE Champion.
Over the next few weeks of Raw and SmackDown! I would
have the heat on the Rivalry between Dolph and Cena but not have them involved
with the WWE Championship Story.
Raw 28th
Jan
Rock would end out the first Raw show after the Rumble
with his celebration and possibly even revelling a new belt. He would also announce that his first defence
would be inside the Elimination Chamber. Punk would then appear claiming that
he had a rematch clause and that he is not wasting it in a Chamber match where
the odds are stacked against him and that he wants his rematch on the next
show. Rock would accept this making his first defence be on Raw, one on one.
Ryback would do a short promo about his Rumble win, as he
is about to say which belt he is going for he would get interrupted by Jericho.
Being unhappy about being eliminated from the Rumble he would chime in with his
best in the world angle and that he should have won the Royal Rumble and
challenges Ryback for match on the next Raw for his number one contender spot
at Mania. Ryback would accept in the form of “Feed me, Jericho!”
SmackDown! 1st
Feb
SmackDown! would see the start of filling the World
Championship Elimination Chamber with qualifying matches. People who would
qualify are Big Show, Cody Rhodes, and Sheamus. Dolph Ziggler would then also
qualify by beating someone like Kane with help from Langston. Leaving one spot
to be filled the next week on SmackDown!
Raw 4th
Feb
On Raw Cena would promo about his loss at Rumble and that
he would attempt to qualify for the WWE Championship Elimination Chamber that
night against Randy Orton, Dolph, accompanied by AJ and Langston, would come
out and brag about not only being Mr Money in the Bank but also already being
in a Elimination Chamber match for a World Title in an attempt to belittle
Cena. Cena would have his usual come back and would end up angering Dolph and
his entourage.
During Cena’s qualifying match Dolph and Langston would
get involved and cost Cena his win preventing him from entering the Chamber and
Orton qualifies.
Ryback and Jericho would go ahead as planned and Ryback
would win and retain his Mania spot. Being unhappy about the loss, back stage
Jericho would sweet talk Vickie Guerrero into letting him into the WWE
Championship Chamber match.
Rock would have his first match on Raw in over 10 years
against Punk in the main event and would win in a great match.
Let’s take advantage of the “WWE Active” side of things
and say that exclusive to WWE Active Punk talks to Vickie after the show and
attempts to badger his way into the Chamber match as well, but ends up in a
qualifying match against someone like Wade Barrett or Sin Cara on the next Raw.
SmackDown! 8th
Feb
The final qualifying match for the World Title would be
booked as Mark Henry vs. ?, and throughout the night they would push the match
and keep pushing on the “Who is the mystery opponent?” aspect.
Main event time and Henry would come out first. Long
silence and waiting when John Cena’s music would kick in and he would approach
the ring. John Cena and Mark would end up with Dolph and company approaching
the ring and attempt to stop Cena from winning but this time it’s no good and
Cena wins and ends up in the World Title Chamber match.
Back Stage we see Del Rio and Ricardo watching on a
monitor before ending the show.
Elimination Chamber match for the World Title set –
Champion Del Rio vs. Big Show vs. Cody Rhodes vs. Sheamus vs. Dolph vs. Cena.
Raw 11th
Feb
The WWE Championship chamber gets filled; also qualifying
would be The Miz leaving two spots. CM Punk would then qualify by beating his
opponent. We would then have one last match also featuring a question mark. D Bryan would be waiting to start his
qualifying match and he would get the returning Brock Lesnar who would decimate
him to really push the Brock character.
WWE Championship Chamber Match set – Champion The Rock
vs. Chris Jericho vs. CM Punk vs. The Miz vs. Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Orton.
SmackDown! 15th
Feb
Open the show with Dolph and co. complaining how Cena
shouldn’t be in the World Title Chamber match; Cena then comes to the ring and
chimes in with the usual Cena promo style. Big show would come out and say that
they don’t even matter because he will win, next in is Sheamus who promos himself
as the fighting Irishman, Cody then turns up who is still holding the
Intercontinental Championship. (Let’s just say he never lost it, no need to go
into details.) He would throw in that he will win and be the first person to
hold both the Intercontinental and World Title at the same time. Ending on Del Rio who won’t come to the ring
but stand at top stage and push that it doesn’t matter what any of them say and
that he will be the one to keep the belt and move on to Wrestlemania.
This would lead to Booker coming out and making a series
of one on ones for the night. A Champion vs. Champion match of Cody vs. Del
Rio, also on the card would be Sheamus vs. Dolph, Cena vs. Show. Winners being
Del Rio, Cena and Dolph.
Elimination Chamber
17th Feb
First let’s go through the World Title Chamber. Before
the match they would decide who would end up first in by a lottery style,
unlucky picks go to Dolph and Sheamus, everyone else goes into pods and will be
released at random.
The match would kick off with back and forth fight
between Sheamus and Dolph and when both are at a slow point the next member
would be entered sending in Cody Rhodes., Dolph and Cody start to work together
and the two would eliminate Sheamus, but not long after Del Rio would join the
mix. The alliance between Dolph and Cody would soon fall and things go triple
threat style pretty fast. There is no elimination between the three of them and
the next pod opens, enter John Cena. He would do the usual super hero moves and
knock everyone down but then would get double teamed by Dolph and Cody to bring
back the flow of the match without over selling one person.
In the end Cena would get the drop on Dolph leading to
him being eliminated by Cena but by a sneak pin that would catch Dolph off
guard. Dolph would throw another hissy fit but would leave.
Next in Del Rio, next elimination Cody Rhodes, last in
Big Show and next Elimination Del Rio. That would leave it at Big Show and John
Cena. The two would have a heavy brawl, Cena would go through a pod’s glass,
Big Show being in control though out most of the fight until Cena becomes super
Cena and pulls it back with an AA. Show kicks out after a pin so Cena goes for
it again but is unsuccessful leading to him being set for the Choke Slam, Cena
reverses it into the STF and Big Show taps giving Cena the world title.
The Chamber rises and Cena celebrates but Big Show angry
uses the K.O punch on Cena laying him out. Dolph then comes to the ring and
cashes in his Money in the Bank on the now very dazed Cena. Once Cena is
standing on wobbly legs the bell is rang and Dolph goes straight for the Zig
Zag and a quick pin. Cena kicks out and Dolph complains, Cena slowly stands and
leans against the ropes. The ref still looking at Dolph who continues to
complain doesn’t see Big E get on the apron and perform a rope guillotine to
Cena. Cena bounces off the ropes and Dolph goes round the ref and does the Zig
Zag again this time resulting in the pin and winning the World Title off of
Cena.
Now the WWE Championship. Unlucky starters would be
Jericho and Orton everyone else would be in pods. Prior to the match we would
see some people replace the glass in one of the pods from where Cena got thrown
through.
The match would just be a good flowing one; I would have
the entrances and eliminations in this order, Punk enters first, followed by The
Miz, Orton gets eliminated first, Rock then enters and would Eliminate both Miz
and Jericho, Brock would then enter and rampage both Rock and Punk. The match
would then slow for effect but with Brock now in things would get a lot more
“dangerous”. Brock could throw Punk through the now replaced pod glass to
revile that it wasn’t fitted as well as before and it just collapses as Punk
hits it. Brock and Rock brawl in the ring as Punk comes around and decides to
grab the glass panel and throws it at Brock as he is sent in Punks direction by
Rock. Punk then jumps in the ring and goes after the Rock and they brawl. It
would lead to Rock doing his signature punches, as Punk spins round from the
final punch Brock would catch Punk and nail him in an F-5 and pin him for the
Elimination. As he is pinning he doesn’t notice Rock lining him up for a Rock
Bottom. Brock stands after pinning Punk and turns into Rock to be slammed to
the mat, Rock goes for the pin but Brock kicks out.
Rock sits there eyes wide in a way that says “How do I
end this?” Brock staggers up and Rock Irish whips Brock and lands a Spine
buster and lining up the Peoples elbow. As he runs for the move Brock pops up
and catches Rock in a MMA style take down, he grounds and pounds Rock then
locks in the kimura. Rock has no choice but to tap out giving the WWE
Championship over to Lesnar.
During Brocks celebration “Feed me more!” sounds and
Ryback appears on the stage and eyes Brock Lesnar. He then just starts his
chant, “Feed me more!” Signalling his choice for Wrestlemania.
Raw 18th
Feb
During this show Dolph would come out as the new World
Heavyweight Champion and brag about the fact that he stole it from Cena in
proper heel fashion.
Cena would soon come out and say that he still has a
rematch clause as he was the last champion. This would lead to Dle Rio coming
out and claiming he has the rematch also. Cena would say “That’s fine; you have
your rematch tonight I will take on the winner at Wrestlemania.”
Del Rio would come back with, “Hold on, why do you get
the guaranteed spot at Wrestlemania? I say you compete tonight and I will take
him on at Wrestlemania.”
This is when Booker T would come out and say how they
were going to solve this, on SmackDown! Del Rio will face John Cena, the winner
will get the Mania match and the loser will still get there shot at the Belt
but will have it on the following SmackDown!
I would write it this way to keep the story going and to
make Wrestlemania the stage you want to be on regardless of whether or not you
have the belt.
Later in the show I would have Brock come out. Getting
ready to talk Ryback’s music would cut in and he appears, he comes to the ring
and Brock and Ryback stare each other down. Suddenly, “CAN YOU SMELLLLLLL! What
the Rock is cooking?” Rock appears and also enters the ring the three stare at
each other intensely they all give each other a subtle nod, Rock would then
leave, followed by Ryback leaving Brock standing in the ring holding the belt.
Either after this moment if it didn’t end the show or on SmackDown! They would
announce that not only is Ryback going for the WWE Title but so is Rock by
using his rematch clause lining up a Triple Threat.
SmackDown! 22nd
Feb
Alberto Del Rio vs. John Cena fight for Mania with Dolph
at ringside on commentary, standing by him his entourage. John Cena would win
and he’d be the one to head to Mania. As Alberto is now Face I would have it
end on him offering his hand to Cena as they shake hands and you see Del Rio
say “I will see you at Wrestlemania.”
Raw 25th
Feb
CM Punk would show up this week and start off with saying
that the reason he wasn’t on the show last week was because he boycotted the
show due to being robbed of the belt and that he should be going to
Wrestlemania not Brock, Rock or Ryback. He would also push on the fact that he
is the best in the world again. Jericho would then come to the ring and pitch
in with his best in the world speech.
I won’t go any further on this storyline as I wouldn’t be
100% happy with it, but it could lead to a best in the world vs. best in the
world match at Mania, maybe a submission match. For now I will continue on the
WWE Championship side of things.
Later in the show Rock would promo, saying he got beat,
no doubt about it, but he won’t accept it, he would then go on to call Brock
nothing but a thug, not a wrestler or an MMA fighter but a straight up thug.
Continue on with his usual Rock style promo, boots to asses, candy ass,
Smackdown hotel and all that.
SmackDown! 1st
March
Alberto Del Rio takes on Dolph for the World Title. Big E
Langston tries to get involved distracting the ref, Cena comes to the ring and
attacks Langston trying to prevent him from interfering with the match but the
brawl itself kept the ref distracted enough for AJ to slide the World Title to
Dolph who then hits Alberto over the head with said belt. Dolph retains.
I don’t think I need to write show by show now, by
Wrestlemania we would be all lined up for WWE Championship Match Ryback vs.
Rock vs. Brock and World Title match Dolph Ziggler vs. John Cena.
Ryback can easily be someone else and Brock doesn’t even
have to get involved I just thought his entrant would make things more
interesting, the only guarantee there would be Rock. But Cena not being against
Rock was my main target and by putting him on the World Title it would help
push the prestige of the belt. I hate that the World Title has taken back seat
to the WWE Championship and that it is now a lot more like a middle belt like the
US Championship and Intercontinental. So what better way to bring up the
prestige of the title than to put your top man on the belt story with one of
your most loved Heels? The rivalry with Dolph was already there at the time and
they could have used this to line up Wrestlemania, and what better way to get
heat than to have him Cash in on Cena winning the Title in a match that he was
also involved in?
If I was writing for WWE I would work on this World Title
story if I had the choice, this direction with Cena, in my opinion, would be
different and more interesting than the repeat match they have given us, also
putting Dolph on the belt and against WWE’s top dog would be a great push for
him to be at the status he truly deserves.
At Wrestlemania I would have Dolph retain in a long
fighting match and win either cleanly or with help, whatever would sell better.
On the WWE Championship side I would have Ryback, or
whoever else is in that spot, win to keep the Belt with someone who is long
standing in WWE not part time. The reason I chose Ryback is because he is a
current fan favourite even though I know he is just another muscle head. I wouldn’t
have him hold the belt overly long, maybe defend and retain at Extreme Rules in
a Last Man Standing match but lose at the next PPV.
But anyway, don’t be overly judgemental this was all just
an idea and I just thought I would share it. Hope you like it and I hope you
agree that this story would be better than what we have been given.
But for now I say enjoy Wrestlemania this is Matty.D
signing off.
