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Who's the odds on favorite to win the Rumble this year? Since Orton's in a title match with Triple H (even if they don't fight at the Rumble, I doubt they'll have Trips/Orton Round IV as WrestleMania), I guess Batista and Cena would be most logical. Cena winning would mean ANOTHER Smackdown guy winning (would be 3 years in a row), so does that mean the Rumble favorite is BATISTA?!

Austin vs Jericho - No Way Out 2002 Triple H vs Kurt Angle - No Way Out 2002

WWE should have the little elevator ramp that PRIDE uses once in a while for WrestleMania.

Angle vs HBK for the WWE Title and Orton vs Rock for the World Title would actually be pretty awesome, and probably the best two title matches both brands offer at this point. Trips vs Batista doesn't need the title to be a good feud. Rock coming back just to be in a Mania title match is kind of lame, but he would probably be the most over guy on either roster.

Hogan/JBL or Rock/JBL are the only WWE Title matches that WWE could have with JBL as champion that would be WrestleMania worthy.

Speaking of Kurt Angle Classic, does anyone know where they are going with this? It seems like it's been going on for a while now and I don't recall ever seeing a news item even giving a hint in which direction they're going with it.

Edge will forever be tainted in my mind, because after the Edge/Xtian breakup, EVERYTHING Edge seemed to do was awful. There was Xtian, Regal, Storm, Test, Angle, Eddie...all were horrible feuds. He's much better now but not ready to be champion in my eyes. It's not so much playing off his past as it is Edge just taking the act a bit too far. Whenever Edge is on the "breaking point" where it looks like he's about to snap, he usually gets a crazy-psycho face thing going on which just looks goofy. It looks more like a guy pretending to be angry than a guy that is actually angry. Edge should also lose the trenchcoat/cape thing from his entrance and get rid of the spear (that leg submission thing he did Monday would be a million times better).

I don't think Edge is as bad as he used to be, and his character would be really good, but at certain points in his segments he overacts or makes some sort of bizzare face that makes him seem like a character in a comedy movie rather than a real, bitter person.

Funny you say that about Eddie/Brock when naming Benoit/Triple H/Shawn as your MOTY (a match that is could also be filed as overrated, due to the fact that Benoit won). It was highly overrated. I'd put it at about ****. Which, from what I saw from WWE this year, puts it at MOTY.

Hogan, Rock Austin, Benjamin... Which one doesn't belong? Hogan/Austin vs Flair/Rock would be better. As would Hogan/Rock vs JBL/Heel turned Big Show.

Best possible situation would be Hogan/Rock vs JBL/Somebody with Angle vs Michaels or Cena being for the WWE Title.

I must say that the WWE Title feud, thus far, has been horrible. The whole thing just seems to be a way of telling Brock "We don't need you! We have Big Show!", because so far Show has been the only one to look good in the feud. They even let him do a F-5! Not to mention that he can single-handedly destroy Angle, Jindrak and Reigns simultaneously. Angle has looked like a pussy the whole feud while JBL seems to be a non-factor. Angle lost to Show in a 3 on 1 match, had his chair shot on Show no-sold and then got laid out by him, then this week on Smackdown Show forces Kurt to apologize to Joy! MUST SEE TV! Not to mention that Kurt was out smarted by Amy Weber! Current Feud Standings: Big Show: Looks like a big, fat dumb giant that could kills Angle and JBL at will. Kurt Angle: Looks like a puss. Has no chance of even HURTING Show let alone beating him. The smartest of the three since he tricked them on Smackdown this week, but still not as smart as Amy Weber. JBL: Looks like a midcard, GOOFBALL~ champion that might be able to take Angle after a lot of cheating but not Big Show. Then this week, they decided that the WWE Title wasn't getting the job done for this feud, so instead they make the focus JOY~ ensuring that nobody will care about this match at the Rumble. Royal Rumble Prediction: Big Show destroys both Angle and JBL, but JBL comes through with the MIRACLE~ pin on Angle after Big Show kills him but gets distracted afterwards.

Benoit had a storyline that added to that match? I agree that Benoit/HHH/HBK was MOTY, although it still wasn't ***** like some say. I didn't see the Eddie/JBL match but found Eddie/Brock to be nothing special. I think most say Eddie/Brock is better than it really is because of the emotional aspects of Eddie's title victory.

I've been watching Smackdown since last month, and so far I've seen this: Big Show beats Team Angle in 3 on 1 match. Then chokeslams everyone after Angle/JBL match. Then last week Amy Weber outsmarts Kurt. Kurt makes a fool of himself in a speedo while rubbing his nipples. Big Show chases his and gets attacked by team Angle. Show destroys all of them. Then THIS week Show forces Angle to apologize to Joy? Meanwhile JBL is booked to be a fool, honky tonk man champion. Seems like not much has changed since I stopped watching last January...

WHY WHY WHY?! The worst possible choice out of the four teams (aka the most unover and untalented team in the match) walks out with the belts? I think they will do anything to get the Bashams over, no matter what the cost.

Something that puzzled me from last night is that Triple H, the guy that cheated to win the title on Sunday, was given the night off, and instead Bisch killed the audience by picking the worse main event of the night possible under the circumstances in Orton/Batista. Why not punish the guy that didn't rightfully earn the title? And the Kane character, IMO, is deader than ever. For some reason he decides to come punk out Simon Dean, then holds a chokeslam for a LONG time, and then gets destroyed by a generic hoss in the SAME way that said Generic Hoss destroyed him before. Not to mention that no one wanted to see this feud to begin with, and Snitsky lost his "so bad he's good" appeal a long time ago.

Silly. We all know there is only one universal Hoss moveset.

Edge dropping down to fight for the IC belt? Angle fighting for the United States Championship? The Big Show/JBL feud continues? I hope this isn't a "practice" show for WrestleMania.

I think Batista and Big Show are too popular to be going after their respective brand's secondary titles. God help Angle if they don't book him against Shawn though. Who else could he fight? He would either play job boy to Undertaker, fight Eddie in match number 423654 or fight someone else for no reason in a match that nobody would want to see. PLEASE give us the Shawn match. And any combination of JBL/Show/Cena fighting for the WWE Title at the biggest show of the year would be brutal.

The fact that they are facing each other next week isn't the point. It will be a fun, meaningless match. But while everyone else had some type of storyline development this week, Benoit and Jericho just decided to have a fun little midcard match for no point. Edge complained about not having the title. Orton did. Batista fought in the #1 contender match. Triple H HAS the Title. Benoit and Jericho: Uh....I think we'll just face Christian and Tomko tonight.

Are these guys just more talentless hosses or do they actually have potential?

You'd think that....but he is facing Triple H. I'm pretty sure Orton will eat Pedigree after Flair interference, Batista will win the Rumble, and a three way will be made for WrestleMania.

You didn't pick that up during RAW when he was struggling to survive against Tyson Tomko and Christian? To be fair, the story there was that Jericho and Benoit were supposed to be still beat up from the match last night. Just the fact that Jericho and Benoit were fighting two guys who they had no previous interaction with for no reason suggests to me that I shouldn't be too excited about what plans they might have in store for them in the near future.

You didn't pick that up during RAW when he was struggling to survive against Tyson Tomko and Christian?

So is it safe to assume Orton vs HHH at Royal Rumble while Batista wins the actual Rumble match? And Benoit and Jericho...well...they can continue with the meaningless midcard tag matches I suppose, although they beat one of the two tag teams on RAW and the other is La Resistance, so I guess Jericho will have to turn and they'll feud with each other eventually. I'm not a huge Batista fan either but he did look like a pimp at the beginning of the show.