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Sporting News: WWE Night of Champions Preview and Predictions!


Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, I'm getting worried that we're gonna see 16 time World champion John Cena this Sunday.  

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  1. You forgot to mention the Cena/Lesnar double turn.

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  2. Scott (or anyone):

    If Cena wins, who do you think is his opponent at Hell in the Cell?

    If Brock wins, who do you think is his opponent at Hell in the Cell... or is he not even on the show?

    Those are the questions I'm more confused about than who will actually win on Sunday.

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  3. Pretty sure if Cena wins we get Cena v. Rollins and Brock goes away for a while.

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  4. If they're not comfortable with Cena losing to BROCK LESNAR they're never going to be ready to do it until it's too late.

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  5. You would've thought they wouldn't have had Cena AA Rollins through a table a few RAWs back or have Reigns beat him clean then (both last night and likely on Sunday).

    I actually figured on Rollins vs. Ambrose for Hell in the Cell, but I really have no clue at this point.

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  6. Honestly, your hype of the double turn has been the biggest "seller" of the ppv to me at this point.

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  7. This card sounds all kinds of awful when it's spelled out. I have the network as a sunk cost and I doubt I'll even bother watching this. Even Cena v Brock doesn't sound interesting or suspenseful. Sure Brock could lose but the potential for that isn't all that interesting.

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  8. If Lesnar loses how can he possibly get his heat back? There will be no streak to break this time. He'll basically have to pin the former tag team partner of Shawn Michaels....that's right, God himself.

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  9. This show looks terrible.

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  10. Rocky III, baby. Rocky III.

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  11. Brilliant booking idea:


    Brock loses due to shenanigans (Cena siding with Heyman, perhaps). Leaves, but swears vengeance.


    It's later announced Brock is not only in the Rumble, but is #1. Whereupon he proceeds to be the first person to decimate and eliminate all 29 contestants single-handedly.


    Yeah, it'd never happen, but I can't deny I would pay to see it.

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  12. They put Lesnar in the Rumble match and he walks in the heavy, heavy, heavy favorite, with only Roman Reigns (or a returning Daniel Bryan) able to stop him.

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  13. If Vince got in a time machine and went back to institute the current crappy booking philosophy on the 80s and late 90s hot periods in the WWE, there would be no WWE, it would have gone out of business a long time ago. And then Hogan, Austin, and The Rock would have disappeared off of the photo in Marty McFly's pocket.

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  14. Looking forward to the show. I really enjoyed both of the previous Lesnar/Cena matches. Plus, If they get 15-20 minutes I think Sheamus and Cesaro can have a great match. I think Rollins and Reigns can have a good match. Orton and Jericho is the wild card. I can see them having a **** match as much as I can see them having a typical Raw match. Ziggler and Miz should be decent too.

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  15. The only way I could see that working is if Cena wins in some flukey way at NOC. If Cena dominates then I don't see it as that big of a deal if Reigns or Bryan face Lesnar.

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  16. Or a (nevergonnahappen) returning Punk or Rock to set up a Mania program.

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  17. Orton/Jericho and the tag match should both be ok. Sheamus/Cesaro might be good, too.

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  18. And it was supposed to be the big seller to get people to renew their subscriptions. Ye gods.

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  19. I'd like to see them do a storyline with Flair and Cena about the 16th World title win. Have Flair announce he is going to be ringside for the title match, and build up the intrigue of will Flair cost Cena the match or not.

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  20. I dunno...I'm as cynical as they come, but I'm holding out hope for Brock because it looked like Cena got the advantage of that brawl they had last night. Keeping Cena looking strong works in terms of this rematch (not of the feud or his character but they can't think of THREE WHOLE THINGS AT ONCE OMG!), so if it's more of a match and less of a slaughter this time, and either Cena just can't pull it off in the end or gets screwed out of winning in the end, then that's fine. But so help me god, if Vince pulls a SuperCena again, then I'm out of watching RAW for the rest of the year...Ambrose/Rollins notwithstanding. And they BETTER give us those 2 in the Cell next month.

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  21. Ziggler should be decent too.


    Fixed that for you.

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  22. I've actually enjoyed Miz's run thusfar. It's absolutely what he should be doing.

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  23. Hasn't Scott been (jokingly?) predicting this for weeks? A little surprised to read him "getting worried" about Cena winning.

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  24. Honestly, there is a big part of me that doesn't even give a shit anymore.

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  25. That's pretty heavy.

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  26. It sounds morbid, but I'm realizing that nothing will get any better until Vince can't control everything anymore. Individual talent will rise up and create moments, HHH will have pet projects to varying degrees of success, but until Vince is either dead, in a coma, or otherwise incapacitated, it's going to remain exactly like this.

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  27. I think they might save the screw job finish for Reigns (Wyatt would be interesting - despite Reigns and Bray getting no reaction to a singles match a while back - though Demonkane is more likely) to set up Ambrose returning on Raw (or even NoC).



    Faces in the big three matches were booked strongly in the go-home Raw, so I'd be surprised if more than one won (excluding DQs) at NoC. The big faces (theoretically) losing makes me wonder if the Usos aren't a good bet as an underdog, even with the injury providing a good reason for Dusts to win: remember how many times we in general thought the Wyatts were getting the belts against the Usos?


    I could see a no contest finish (remember Ryback spearing Cena through the lights?) in the main event to get to HiaC but would be stunned if Cena leaves with the title. You've been saying Rocky III for weeks, so why are you now getting worried about it?

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  28. Flair was supposed to be on Smackdown but missed it due to surgery, so I don't think that could happen at NoC. Does WWE bring up Flair's 16 reigns enough for it to mean much for newer fans?

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  29. But what about Stephanie?

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  30. Cena-Brock and HiaC makes sense as a way to blow off the feud. Believe the sheetz have been reporting that Brock's newish deal (theoretically) includes all PPVs.

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  31. Hmmm...good point. They love no contest finishes like that, so that's very likely.

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  32. Another big question: how is WWE going to fill a 1 hour pre show? The Wyatts vs...the Ascension? Another NXT match?

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  33. I think that's a cool idea, especially if they follow up with Flair having a new protégé to take on Cena, maybe Kenta, Steen, or Devitt. The only problem with that is I'm sure they'd eventually get squashed by Super Cena.

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  34. Right there with you. I've finally given up on WWE for real. This is the first time in probably 20+ years that I don't watch ANY of the current product. Old VHS rips and youtube for me now when I need a wrestling fix...

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  35. With HiaC coming up next I have the main event ending in a fuck finish, either Brock runs away when it looks like he's going to lose or Heyman gets him DQ'd on purpose once Cena RISES ABOVE LOGIC and plants him with the 2nd AA of the match.



    I'm also calling Rollins/Reigns ending in some kind of interference, probably Kane related seeing as how Kane is basically his toadie at this point. Ambrose makes the save out of the crowd and they can either run some kind of 2 on 2 at HiaC or possibly the final Ambrose/Rollins match.


    The booking on everything else doesn't really matter. Jericho definitely loses although I don't know what happens to Orton. The Dusts finally slay the Usos but there's probably another rematch there in the future.

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  36. Weight has nothing to do with it.

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  37. Once you got past the gutsy booking of having Cena completely destroyed, the Summerslam match was kind of boring, so I hope they kick it up a notch this Sunday (actually Monday in my case due to time zones).
    My prediction, FWIW, Cena digs down and puts up much more of a fight, but ultimately comes up short. I just don't think they'd go to the lengths they have with Brock so far this year in order to simply give him a one-month reign before jobbing him out to SuperCena. I could, of course, be wrong.

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  38. After that god awful Raw, I'm pretty much a John Cena title win away from just watching NXT for awhile. That includes a Rollins cash in on Cena, because I have little to no interest in watching chickenshit Rollins show how he's the worst wrestler ever and Cena could beat him with one arm tied behind his back and he can only win with crazy amounts of interference, which is exactly what would happen if he cashed in and beat Cena.

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  39. In typical "WWE can't book anything with any subtlety" though, this isn't Rocky 3 at all and never was. Rocky 3 saw Rocky get his ass kicked because he wasn't taking his opponent seriously, and he came back to beat him later. Cena was trying hard from the beginning and referenced plenty of times in the Summerslam build how difficult this match would be. Since he lost, now he's trying "super mega ultra hard!!!" but really is doing nothing different whatsoever from what he did in the Summerslam build except for some reason he's beating up the other wrestlers even harder than normal. His characters acts the same and he's still "giving it his all!". It's not Rocky 3 because Cena isn't acting any differently than he did before Summerslam.

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  40. Or Cena who already beat him. Brock is still a top guy regardless of the outcome at NoC, but this crazy run where he's ended the streak and destroyed John Cena, and is seemingly unstoppable, is absolutely dead in the water, gone, and completely wasted if Cena wins at NoC.

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  41. Well I meant their match. Their match at Summerslam was decent and I reckon this one will be on par with that.

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  42. People said that after the HHH feud, too. There's a lot that this company does wrong, but the Lesnar mystique is something that they mostly nail flawlessly.

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  43. Nice Superior Foes reference.

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  44. Yeah, but who loses while turning heel? And I really don't want Cena to get another run right now.

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  45. How is John Cena as champ worse than the Special Guest Star champion?

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  46. Not to sound like an asshole, but anyone who thinks Cena's winning the title back on Sunday is a moron (no offence to Scott).

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  47. Not to sound like an asshole, but anyone that goes around posting to blogs under a name like "sydh" is a brain-dead hermaphrodite (no offense to sydh).

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  48. Seth and Kane: Team Brain Buster!

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  49. Looks like someone just started watching wrestling last week.

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  50. Because I'm sick to death of Cena as champ, I've seen him fight literally everyone on the roster, and the champ is fine with being something of a special guest star so it feels like a big deal when he fights?


    Look, Cena's an underrated wrestler, but I've seen him a billion times against everyone they've got. I've only seen Brock wrestle, like, six guys on the entire roster before. I'm down for Brock vs. Bryan/Rollins/Reigns/Ambrose/Ziggler/Batista/Orton/Jericho/etc.

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  51. Not to sound like an asshole, but I'm going to duct-tape a brick to my penis and rape your mother with it.

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  52. Hrm, he loses than turns heel? Or turns heel and still loses? That'd make somebody a babyface for LIFE!

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  53. Well, the guy who was supposed to take his role got injured. The guy they are grooming for the role isn't ready yet. And the guy currently in the role doesn't really want to be there.

    Would you be happier with Orton? Jericho? Kane? Batista? Big Show? Henry?

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  54. I'd be happier with Brock, who's happy to be there so long as the checks clear. I'd also prefer Jericho or Batista, frankly, as well as any of the talented younger guys they're afraid to push (Ziggler/Ambrose/Rollins/Cesaro).

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  55. I still think he turns heel and wins. It would be pretty sad if he threw away all that he's stood for the past dozen years for nothing.

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  56. "Official Prediction: Nacho stands will see an upsurge in business for the 8 minutes this match gets."


    Sure you're not confusing that with the divas match? Then again it IS Orton wrestling, so maybe they will.

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  57. When Orton wrestles, it's so formulaic. It's paint by numbers at its most boring.

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