Big Show vs. John Cena

[Guest Your Olympic Hero]

Does anyone give Big Show a chance in hell of retaining the title here?

[Guest cpac]

It would make sense well alot of sense for John Cena to win. Giving him the victory at such a big main event could quite possibly be the start of a main event push. Give him the belt and let him run with it. The only thing the belt is doing is keeping big shows shoulder warm.

[Toxxic 0]

Does anyone give Big Show a chance in hell of retaining the title here?

I wouldn't mind Big Show keeping it if he'd actually defended the damn thing more than once.

 

But no, Cena gets it.

[King Cucaracha 0]

Does anyone give Big Show a chance in hell of retaining the title here?

No.

 

 

Which is a bit of a pity, as he's actually been entertaining for the past few weeks (and quite a bit of the past year). But it's Cena's time to shine.

[humanoid92 0]

I almost think it should be somewhat of an extended squash (5 or 6 minutes) with Cena going over strong and clean. It's the Garden, WM XX, the biggest stage there is- put Cena over huge and give him some serious momentum. Show will always be able to recover later. It's time to see what they have with Cena.

[clean rob 0]

Not too keen on that idea. Show has been well booked as a monster recently, they should keep him that way and have Cena fighting against the odds. Show getting squashed would ruin all the good work thats been done with him recently - but having him lose against a persistant, fired up Cena won't hurt him much. Possibly have Show kick out of a chain shot before getting F-U'd for the inevitable Cena victory.

[Austin3164life 0]

I've actually enjoyed the Big Show in the second half of 2003 and the first part of this year. They've been booking him very well, even though he defended the U.S. Title only twice, I believe. The promo that both Cena and Show cut on Smackdown were both good, in the sense that they actually cared about the U.S. Title and that was their main goal, rather than some petty aspect about their feud. But Cena is most definitely going to win, in what I think will be a pretty good match, if they are to book it correctly.

[The Ghost of bps21 0]

I don't know what it is about this match...but everytime I think of WrestleMania this year the first image that pops into my head is a staredown before this match between Cena and Show. I'm not THAT interested in the match...but for some reason I need to see that staredown.

[humanoid92 0]

Well maybe "squash" was the wrong word to use, but I do think they should keep it relatively short (6-8 minutes tops). Let Show control the meat of the match, but when it comes down to it, I think Cena should be the decisive winner. Have him make the big comeback, hit the FU and get the clean pin. The pop would be huge.

[Youth N Asia 0]

Big Show shouldn't keep it. For one he's not defending it at all and it's easy to forget he has it. Not say that's his fault, but Cena's hot right now and is on tv every week.

 

Plus Show's rumored to have pain in his knees lately and needs time off.

 

I've actually started liking Show a little more over the last year or so

[Matt Young 0]

I've enjoyed a lot of Big Show's work ever since he got traded to Smackdown, but the fact is that he has done nothing with the US Title aside from 2 meaningless defenses against Billy Gunn and Hardcore Holly, and the US Title isn't right for him anyway.

 

I've been a huge Cena fan since his Prototype days. I even marked for him when he was the "Vanilla Jobber", and right now, he's the hottest he's ever been. A victory at WrestleMania with Show dominating the beginning of the match and Cena coming back with (maybe) a chain shot and finishing with an FU for the pin and the title would get a HUGE pop. The only way he might get a bigger reaction is if they had waited and not had him hit the FU on Show until WrestleMania.

[Mole 0]

I think Big Show has grown on some of the smart marks over the years, mostly due to the fact he can be very funny and the man does try. Granted he sucks balls in the ring, but he does try.

 

Cena better go over in this match though. He is very hot right now and deserves the US belt. He took a horrible gimmick, did the best he could with it, got himself over huge and could be the next big thing in the WWE.

 

I think Cena should win the belt and be one of the champions that defends it every week winning clean all the time. He should hold onto it for a full year before loosing it next year sometime.

[Guest Deviant]

Just because my little vision of who wins at Mania has a lot of face victories, I wouldn't be surprised to see Show retain just for a heel win. Plus Cena's beaten him 1000 times, Show could win the one that matters...

 

I'm still not sure who I'm picking for it, but I consider Show to have a chance.

[Guest Mulatto Heat]

It'd be a damn shame for this pairing to not get a Martel/Roberts WM 7 video package.

 

Start off with clips what Cena has done:

-Beating Show for the first time on the SD just before SurSer

-Beating Show AT Survivor Series

-Beating Show on the SD after SurSer (show the Vince/Show 'he gave you the F-U' promo before this)

-Beating Show in Iraq

 

Then go into what Show has done:

-Costing Cena the #1 contender's match against Benoit

-Eliminating Cena in the Royal Rumble; of course, slow-mo the weird angle of Cena's leg

-Eliminating Cena in the Smackdown Rumble later that week

-Causing Cena to tap out at No Way Out by destroying his knee

 

End with the battle raps and highlights from various promos.

[Guest Banders Kennany]

Now that you bring it up...wow, Show has really not done much against Cena. He did beat him up quite a bunch, but he has no victories over Cena? This makes this silly feud even more ridiculous. Cena has nothing to prove against Fat Slow.

 

It would make sense well alot of sense for John Cena to win.  Giving him the victory at such a big main event could quite possibly be the start of a main event push.  Give him the belt and let him run with it.  The only thing the belt is doing is keeping big shows shoulder warm.

This would have been a bigger moment if they held off the FU until WM, and Show defended the belt a little. Even if it was against guys like Orlando Jones, he could then seem like a dominating champion. For now his lengthy reign can be attributed to him being a paper closet champion.

 

I almost think it should be somewhat of an extended squash (5 or 6 minutes) with Cena going over strong and clean.  It's the Garden, WM XX, the biggest stage there is- put Cena over huge and give him some serious momentum.  Show will always be able to recover later.  It's time to see what they have with Cena.

Cena does not have to squash show to become a big star. In my opnion, no one should ever squash Show, as he needs his monster aura to overcompensate for his monster suck. If he fights the odds and battle back, that could play into playing up his warrior spirit, and crowds also get behind the nver-say-die-underdog unless he is a terrible wrestler.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

I think this match has potential. I think it could be good. Cena will be in his first Mania appearance and working his ass off and Big Show knows that his performance here will affect his post-mania angles/push. But I can't really care too much about it.

 

Why?

 

1) They held off on this thing for way too long. Cena has already pinned Show cleanly three fucking times already. This is a pointless match if I ever saw one. Cena should've beaten Show for the title a while back and went on to feud with a heel SD mid-carder. (I was thinking Matt Hardy for a while, but yeah.......that didn't go as planned.)

 

2) The psychological aspect of this match will no doubt focus on Cena's injured leg. Which is fine by me. Cena can sell well when he wants to. And he also has a habit of ignoring selling in favour of hitting the FU (his match vs Rhyno comes to mind.) So all through the match we'll see vicious legwork, great selling.........then an FU which totally kills all that work.

[Youth N Asia 0]

1) They held off on this thing for way too long. Cena has already pinned Show cleanly three fucking times already. This is a pointless match if I ever saw one. Cena should've beaten Show for the title a while back and went on to feud with a heel SD mid-carder. (I was thinking Matt Hardy for a while, but yeah.......that didn't go as planned.)

 

2) The psychological aspect of this match will no doubt focus on Cena's injured leg. Which is fine by me. Cena can sell well when he wants to. And he also has a habit of ignoring selling in favour of hitting the FU (his match vs Rhyno comes to mind.) So all through the match we'll see vicious legwork, great selling.........then an FU which totally kills all that work.

I agree. Cena has owned the Big Show, and it makes Show look bad by having the "injured" leg gimmick. The guy's already got hundreds of pounds on his opponent, so he doesn't need that. AND he's going to lose, so it makes him look that much worse.

 

And I hope they don't pull "Cena can't hit Show with the FU" bit. Everytime Goldberg wrestles a big guy they say "Hey can't hit the jackhammer on him!" Being that he gets huge guys, and even the Giant with it every time.

[Austin3164life 0]

2) The psychological aspect of this match will no doubt focus on Cena's injured leg. Which is fine by me. Cena can sell well when he wants to. And he also has a habit of ignoring selling in favour of hitting the FU (his match vs Rhyno comes to mind.) So all through the match we'll see vicious legwork, great selling.........then an FU which totally kills all that work.

 

It'll be hard to get the fans to forget that Cena has already lifted up the Big Show for the FU (they REALLY killed it by having that spot at No Way Out), but the best thing they can do is have Show brutalize Cena's leg for about 6-7 minutes, and then, in the final 3-4, Cena's persistence starts to gain him some momentum. Throughout the second half of the match, have Cena surprise Show by attempting the F-U at least 2-3 times. Cena should fall in anguish and clutch his leg. They need to set up a big spot where Show hurts his neck (which is what Cena's offense is based around). It gains Cena some momentum and he can also use time to rest his leg. Then, at the end, you can have Cena get out of the Chokeslam attempt and hit the FU out of nowhere for the win. That way fans will remember how Cena never gave in to the pain in his leg, and somehow found strength to lift Show, after some 2-3 attempts.

[The Ghost of bps21 0]

During an appearance on the "Dale & Neumy Show" on WEEI (850-AM) in Boston, John Cena revealed that he suffered some broken bones in his wrist during his match against The A-Train at the Smackdown Tapings last tuesday. He did say that he would still be working Wrestlemania against The Big Show for the WWE U.S. Championship. With Cena's wrist injured, the WWE may decide to keep him to a strictly non-wrestling role during the Smackdown Tapings tomorrow.

 

Credit: PWInsider.com

[Guest Choken One]

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[clean rob 0]

It'll be hard to get the fans to forget that Cena has already lifted up the Big Show for the FU (they REALLY killed it by having that spot at No Way Out), but the best thing they can do is have Show brutalize Cena's leg for about 6-7 minutes, and then, in the final 3-4, Cena's persistence starts to gain him some momentum. Throughout the second half of the match, have Cena surprise Show by attempting the F-U at least 2-3 times. Cena should fall in anguish and clutch his leg. They need to set up a big spot where Show hurts his neck (which is what Cena's offense is based around). It gains Cena some momentum and he can also use time to rest his leg. Then, at the end, you can have Cena get out of the Chokeslam attempt and hit the FU out of nowhere for the win. That way fans will remember how Cena never gave in to the pain in his leg, and somehow found strength to lift Show, after some 2-3 attempts.

Sounds good to me, although I'd also like to see Show kick out of a chain shot after Cena fails his first couple of F-U attempts to put over how much winning the title means to both men (and, of course, what a MONSTER~! Big Show is). Then have Cena look to be in trouble, till he gets a lucky break, dazing Show and fighting through the knee pain to hit the F-U and get the pin.