WWE Payback 2014 Discussion Thread - June 1, 2014 from Chicago, IL (#2)

[Guest Vanillascooper]

I plan on watching a few things from the ppv or special event as they call it. Cesero v Sheamus should be worth a watch & the Evo V Shield.

[Guest Ciaran The King]

Brock to return and declare himself world champion

[TPIB 62]

Brock to return and declare himself world champion

 

Ha, if only. I would love to see that happen.

 

I see one of two things happening at Payback. Either Daniel Bryan will forfeit the title and it will confirm that Bryan will be out longer than they originally thought or Bryan will pull off the neck brace and announce that he has been cleared to compete.

 

If they do end up having Bryan forfeit the title, I will be very interested to see how they determine a new champion. I think it would be interesting to see them award the title to Kane, but I think I would rather see something a bit more original than that. What comes to mind for me is what they did when John Cena was injured in 2007; they vacated the title and, at that year's No Mercy, they had Vince award the title to Randy Orton. Then they had Triple H manipulate Vince and get himself an impromptu title match where Triple H would win the title only for Triple H to lose it to Randy Orton in a Last Man Standing Match in the main event that same night. There are a lot of parallels between what they did in 2007 and what they are looking at dealing with now. They could potentially do something similar. They still have an evil McMahon as an on-screen character, they still have Randy Orton and Triple H on the active roster and, ironically enough, Payback is taking place in Chicago, which is where No Mercy 2007 took place, as well.

 

While they most likely would not do Orton vs. Triple H for the title, they could potentially award the title to someone like Kane or Triple H , then, through some sort of shenanigans, they could have John Cena or some other face worthy of a title shot (Dolph Ziggler would be nice, but that's just wishful thinking) challenge this new champion to an impromptu match for the title. Then they could still have Cena face Bray Wyatt in their scheduled match later in the night and just turn that into a title match (which is what they did in 2007 when Triple H was feuding with Umaga).

 

Not to beat a dead horse, but Daniel Bryan vacating the title would be the perfect opportunity to bring CM Punk back. If I remember correctly, wasn't it reported that Punk walked out because, at the time, they planned on giving the belt to Batista? One would think that, now that WWE has went a different direction with Batista and put the title on Daniel Bryan, this would have appeased Punk (not that Punk is the reason they didn't have Batista win the title) enough to give serious thought to a return. What more could Punk want? He could return and become the champion again and he would be on the road with his new wife (or wife-to-be, I can't remember), AJ Lee. It seems perfect for him and, hopefully, he is just playing hardball.

Edited May 28, 2014 by TPIB

[Guest FreeSpirit]

Payback, Night Of Champions (September) and TLC (December) are the 3 remaining PPVs on Sky Sports. From next year EVERY PPV is on Sky Box Office!!

[Kam 243]

Tony is hosting a LIVE BLOG on Wrestling 101 now!

[Guest FreeSpirit]

What a great match.

[Guest John Hancock]

It's literally impossible that a shaved, weeping dwarf segment exists for any other reason than for Vince McMahon to masturbate to.

 

EDIT: I wonder if WWE have to pay the FA for Wade to use that logo.

Edited June 2, 2014 by John Hancock

[Guest Jack]

Does Van Dam do anything that isn't either slow or weak looking? He's terrible.

[Guest John Hancock]

That main event was a big ol' bunch of fun.

[Guest Jack]

Brilliant main event.

[Guest Inno]

Big two matches delivered in spades. Everything else was pretty damn good.

[Maxximus 353]

http://i.imgur.com/mlfwP6J.jpg

 

 

Forever... forever... forever... forever... FOREVER...

[dsrchris 190]

The goddamn WWE app ruined all the results for me by sending notifications to my phone through the night. It's never done that before, it's always said "check the WWE app for results" but this time it just flat out told me who won what.

 

F*ck you, WWE. And John Cena. Especially John f*cking Cena.

[Guest FreeSpirit]

Saying this now is getting a bit redundant, but THE SHIELD ARE F*CKING INCREDIBLE. I love the way that WWE still script them to look so strong. A clean sweep over a team of 31 World Championships after they looked like they would get decimated throughout the whole match. What a great great way to push all 3 men. Great job WWE and a great great match.

[Guest Edgehead]

That main event was great. At one point they made it seem impossible for The Shield to win, let alone win by a clean sweep. What a push for all 3 members of The Shield!

 

The rest of the ppv was pretty damn good too. Really enjoyed the opener between Sheamus & Cesaro. BNB/RVD wasn't bad. The Last Man Standing match was really enjoyable, hell I even enjoyed the divas match and Rusev/Big E was ok.

 

Overall it was a pretty solid ppv, especially considering there was no world title match