Biggest Non-Surprises

[Just John]

This would be a spin-off of the thread discussing the biggest surprises in wrestling. What events were supposed to be shocking, but no one was surprised one bit by them?

 

Tazz debuting at the Royal Rumble 2000

Any of Ric Flair's fake face turns before he joins back up with HHH

[snuffbox]

All of Flair's turns on Sting.

Curt Hennig turning on Flair

Alot of Royal Rumble winners

[Guest J0bber]

Batista leaving Evolution

Any of Hogan's WCW returns after his departures

[Youth N Asia]

Yeah, Flair's phony face turns with Orton and Dave were by no means "shockers"

[Zetterberg is God]

Pretty much all of the WM title match winners were not surprising at all.

[Dobbs 3K]

John Cena being RAW's first draft pick this year, followed by Batista being Smackdown's last pick.

[Youth N Asia]

Cena losing the US title to Orlando. Didn't make any sense for him to have it before winning the big one.

[Placebo Effect]

Bastion Booger not headlining a Wrestlemania.

[Vampiro69]

Flair showing up on Raw after the day after the Invasion angle was finished. Big shock, the show was in Charlotte so it was not very surprising.

[Guest Fook]

Kevin Nash ending Goldberg's streak.

[David Blazenwing]

Eddie turning on Rey earlier this year.

[CanadianGuitarist]

Eddie turning on Rey earlier this year.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Actually, a guy at work and I were calling for it to be a swerve, and have Rey turn on Eddie, although I wasn't surprised when Eddie made the turn.

 

Yeah, Flair's phony face turns with Orton and Dave were by no means "shockers"

 

They could have at least made the suspense last longer than a week.

[tommytomlin]

William Regal turning on Angle and joining the Alliance on the 'biggest RAW ever'.

[USC Wuz Robbed!]

HBK heel turn (yes, the current one).

[Aero]

Vince being revealed as the Higher Power

Paul Heyman turning on Brock at Survivor Series 02

Lita turning on Kane recently

[snuffbox]

Lawrence Taylor beating Bam Bam at Wrestlemania 11.

[Kahran Ramsus]

Chris Jericho jobbing at Wrestlemania XVIII.

Chris Jericho jobbing at Wrestlemania XIX.

Chris Jericho jobbing at Wrestlemania XX.

Chris Jericho jobbing at Wrestlemania XXI.

 

I'm beginning to see a pattern here.

[snuffbox]

He is the Tito Santana of his generation.

[The Mandarin]

Guerrero beating Brock Lesnar at NWO '04

Goldberg beating HHH at Unforgiven '03

JBL beating Booker T at Survivor Series this year

[Epic Reine]

All of the WM world title winners.

[claydude14]

I'd argue Wrestlemania 2000. HHH retaining was a huge suprise.

[Youth N Asia]

I wouldn't say HHH going over in 2000 was a huge suprise. But I gave him 50/50 to keep the belt

[Papacita]

Austin's heel turn at WMX7 and even more so his joining the Alliance at Invasion.

 

Although the timing surprised me a bit, I'll co-sign on the HBK turn from Monday because the fact that they've been teaming so much had me thinking that it'd only be a matter of time before Shawn turned on him...to the point that I was even looking for the Superkick when Hogan hit off the ropes for the leg drop.

 

About 95% of the World Title changes since 2000.

[hbkhhhmark4life]

Rock winning the title at Backlash 2000

Nash Beating Goldberg at Starrcade '98

[Guest DVD Spree]

Matt Hardy returning to RAW.

[Rendclaw]

Ric Flair regaining the title a week to a month after losing it. After the first two times that became my indication of what was wrong with NWA/WCW back in the day.

 

Hogan retaining the title after about two years into his title reign. Of course he was WWF's then cash cow so it made sense to keep the title on him, but five years plus was a little bit much.

[The Mandarin]

Oh yeah, the biggest non-suprise ever--

 

the brand split.

 

That was discussed months and months before it actually happened.

[Hunter's Torn Quad]

Oh yeah, the biggest non-suprise ever--

 

the brand split.

 

That was discussed months and months before it actually happened.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That's because it kept getting pushed back. One of the first dates it was meant to happen was January 7th of 2002, but that turned into the night Hunter came back, and after that they kept putting the date back, and by the time it happened, everyone had been talking about it for months, and the surprise element was long gone.