Guest Your Olympic Hero Report post Posted May 11, 2004 Who will win? I'm going for HBK/HHH doing the double elimination thing early on in the match and brawling to the back, setting them up for the HIAC. Then the winner will be either Jericho or Kane... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Choken One Report post Posted May 11, 2004 Shawn isn’t booked in the rumble..I have a feeling Benjamin eliminates him early in another “shocker”. It’ll go down to Jericho, X, Kane, Benjamin and Orton. Jericho will have to fight the three heels to win it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haVoc 0 Report post Posted May 11, 2004 I posted this in the Raw thread.. Tonight on Raw, it was announced that next week's show will feature a singles match between Trish Stratus and Lita, as well as a 20-man battle royal, with the winner getting a title match with World Champion Chris Benoit at the Bad Blood Pay-per-view in June. Here are the advertised participants for the battle royal: 1. Rhyno 2. Sylvan Grenier 3. Rob Conway 4. Steven Richards 5. Grandmaster Sexay 6. Johnny Nitro 7. Garrison Cade 8. Shelton Benjamin 9. Rosey 10. Hurricane Helms 11. Christian 12. Val Venis 13. Batista 14. Kane 15. Matt Hardy 16. Ric Flair 17. Triple H 18. Randy Orton 19. Edge 20. Chris Jericho Credit: PWinsider Just so I'm clear, the Benoit/Triple H match was canceled for this? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Choken One Report post Posted May 11, 2004 The match was never booked…Eric said “Next week you get a shot at the title”…he never said in a match with benoit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
King Cucaracha 0 Report post Posted May 11, 2004 Well, if the rumours about Kane are true, at least this is a sensical way to put him in the title picture. The fact that half of those guys on that list are glorified jobbers is pretty funny though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cabbageboy 0 Report post Posted May 11, 2004 I just can't see Kane winning this. It make zero sense to me. Jericho has apparently ended his feud with Christian so it's time to move him on to Benoit. It'd be a better match, and besides Kane has an issue with Matt and Lita. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BHK 0 Report post Posted May 11, 2004 Looking at that list, I could also see Orton eliminating Triple H, perhaps to foreshadow the eventual break up and title feud. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Open the Muggy Gate 0 Report post Posted May 11, 2004 JOHNNY NITRO WILL WIN ALL~! Ahem.. but seriosuly... I have a felling Xtian will win it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lil' Bitch 0 Report post Posted May 11, 2004 With Jericho having "settled" his feud with Christian, if he does not win the battle royal, I have no idea what he would be doing on the Bad Blood card. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Dynamite Kido Report post Posted May 11, 2004 There is only two people that should even be considered to win this thing. Jericho or Christian. They could push Y2J back up to the mid card after such a win over Christian in a cage where he won convincingly. Otherwise, Christian gets turned into the cheating cocky heel that everyone loves to hate. But honestly I feel Jericho would be a better choice now, give Xian his shot later after being built up for a while. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Dark Pegasus Report post Posted May 11, 2004 Fun with guesses: 1) Benjamin eliminates Orton to set up their fued at BB. 2) Orton eliminates atleast one other member of Evolution, but it gets smoothed over. 3) Either Hardy or Christian will eliminate the other to shift the feud from Lita vs. Trish to Matt Hardy vs. Christian. 4) GMS has apparently been released, so that opens a spot for HBK. 5) HBK eliminates Triple H to set up HITC at BB. 6) Kane wins the whole thing to set up Kane vs. Benoit at BB. Just guesses. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarvinisaLunatic 0 Report post Posted May 11, 2004 So now with an empty slot available because Brian Christopher got released, heres what I think will happen: A Mystery masked man will enter and win, after he eliminates HHH first and then goes on to win by eliminating whoever is really supposed to get the title shot at Bad Blood. Next week, MMM (Short for Mystery Masked Man) is backstage being congratulated by Bischoff although Bischoff is hesitant because he thinks theres something familiar about MMM. MMM doesn't say anything. Later on in the show HHH attacks MMM and they fight in the back. HHH eventually rips off MMMs mask to reveal HBK. HHH is pissed because HBK eliminated him and goes to Bischoff to demand a retirement match with HBK at Bad Blood. Bischoff does him one better by making it HIAC. Bischoff also declares the 2nd place winner the new owner of the title match at Bad Blood, whoever that is. ... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Dark Pegasus Report post Posted May 11, 2004 Ah, the Midnight Rider angle. Gotta love the classics. I could see that working. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BHK 0 Report post Posted May 11, 2004 I like Marvin's idea, but come on, you know they gotta give that spot to Eugene... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Dark Pegasus Report post Posted May 11, 2004 It would be interesting if they started a feud between Chris Jericho and Edge during the battle royal next week (neither man has a match at BB yet). This could easily lead to Jericho vs. Benoit following Badd Blood. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarvinisaLunatic 0 Report post Posted May 11, 2004 It would be interesting if they started a feud between Chris Jericho and Edge during the battle royal next week (neither man has a match at BB yet). This could easily lead to Jericho vs. Benoit following Badd Blood. Do you mean Edge and Christian? Cause I don't know why Edge and Jericho would have a feud. Speaking of the Edge/Benoit connection, when are they going to defend those tag belts? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Dark Pegasus Report post Posted May 11, 2004 Cause I don't know why Edge and Jericho would have a feud. No. I mean Edge and Jericho. All it would take is for Edge to be going for a spear on someone (Triple H?) and wind up hitting Jericho with it. Feuds are pretty easy to start in battle royals. The reason I think it would be interesting is that you'd have Benoit in the middle between off-again/on-again friend, Chris Jericho, who has already laid out a challenge for the title and his own tag team partner and co-champion. This sucks Benoit into the feud between them and then you could transfer the feud to Jericho vs. Benoit. They have a nice little "in" there to a Jericho vs. Benoit feud if they were going to take it that way. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Choken One Report post Posted May 11, 2004 Or you can just put Jericho over in the rumble and build up their looong history as the background Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Loss Report post Posted May 11, 2004 I'm with Choken. They could go for a very epic, low-key build with Benoit and Jericho, with training videos like for Brock/Rock at Summerslam '02 with a lot of old clips and montages. I wouldn't go the traditional formual of building babyface matches and make them a wacky tag team. There's enough history already there without having to create more issues. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeDirt 0 Report post Posted May 11, 2004 Yes, they COULD do that with Benoit/Jericho...but do you honestly think they will? They'll go Benoit/Kane or Benoit/X. Probably the former. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Loss Report post Posted May 11, 2004 2004 has been a year of doing things that we never thought would happen. I'd say the chances of it are as good as anything else. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tbondrage99 0 Report post Posted May 11, 2004 Im hoping Jericho wins, not just cause Im biased and hes my favorite wrestler but because any match that Jericho and Benoit has the possibility to be a match of the year candidate, espically if they get 20-30 minutes for it. It also seems to make the most sence for Jericho to win to me also. If HBK and Trips are supposed to have the hell in a cell match that takes them out and as far as Kane goes, why abbondon the storyline he has on the go with Matt Hardy & Lita which they have been putting a bit of time in lately and just give him a title shot seemingly for no reason. Plus with Jericho fued with Christian finally over (hopefully) theres nothing else for Jericho to do, but he has been asking for a title shot quite a bit as of late. I say let him have it. Has even even had a chance to regain the title even once since he lost it? It makes no sence to me why someone as good as Jericho could loose the title and have to wait over a year or two for a title shot and other people like Triple H or Brock Lesnar (when he was around) would get there title shot after loosing the title at the next PPV or the weeks leading up to it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fökai 0 Report post Posted May 11, 2004 Has even even had a chance to regain the title even once since he lost it? It makes no sence to me why someone as good as Jericho could loose the title and have to wait over a year or two for a title shot and other people like Triple H or Brock Lesnar (when he was around) would get there title shot after loosing the title at the next PPV or the weeks leading up to it. He got a title rematch on RAW two weeks after Wrestlemania X-8 - the same show which housed the original RAW/Smackdown brand draft. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ISportsFan 0 Report post Posted May 11, 2004 He got a title rematch on RAW two weeks after Wrestlemania X-8 - the same show which housed the original RAW/Smackdown brand draft. But that was a triple threat match. By HHH/HBK logic, Jericho should have still gotten another title match. Jason Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
USC Wuz Robbed! 0 Report post Posted May 11, 2004 Jericho got a title match with Goldberg last year though. So he didn't wait too long. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fökai 0 Report post Posted May 11, 2004 But that was a triple threat match. He asked for the match, and received it; Stephanie then inserted herself into the match at Trips' request, if I remember correctly. The ruling after the RAW/Smackdown brand extension was that each brand would need to decide who would be their contender to HHH for that month's PPV (SD in April, RAW in May, SD in June). He was named to the #1 Contender's match opposing Hogan in April, but he lost. By HHH/HBK logic, Jericho should have still gotten another title match. By HHH/HBK logic, Jericho should've been given dozens of shots until he won the title back. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest drdrainoscott Report post Posted May 11, 2004 What if the Trish/Lita match is to get Hardy and Christian into a program? That would free up Kane to face Beniot in the main event at Bad Blood. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Your Olympic Hero Report post Posted May 11, 2004 4) GMS has apparently been released, so that opens a spot for HBK. Or Eugene. :-p Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest I Got Banned for Sucking Report post Posted May 12, 2004 Of course I'd rather see Chris Jericho in the title picture than Kane, if I had to choose. But maybe there's some crossing-over between the two going on, or Kane is just warming it up for Jericho (not to trivialise a shot or reign). Then there's Matt Hardy. Is that going to just be dropped? And even if Michaels/Triple H could be the greatest Hell in a Cell of all time, their feud has still been fucked by the way it's been grasped and, well, fucked. But with the right promo/s and promo time, they might be able to pull it off. The same goes for the match. Also, the latest occurences on Raw will add some excellent psychology to next week's Battle Royale. Chris Benoit VS Kane could be an excellent 'David VS Goliath' premise. VS Chris Jericho? No explanation needed. Shawn Michaels VS Triple H - Hell in a Cell at Bad Blood - Well... Let's just say that it won't be like anything we've ever seen before. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Mulatto Heat Report post Posted May 12, 2004 It's going to be Kane. Not Christian. Sorry. They've already put up this weekend's house show cards up at wwe.com, and Benoit is listed facing Kane. Coincidence? I think not! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
