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Random question that might either be smart or ridiculously Russo-esque dumb...

With Lesner and Batista in Miami this weekend...

and Rock needing to beat Cena to be the best of all time - a la Austin 01

any chance you see Rock recruiting Lesner/Batista to help him win and forming their own version of the Part Time NWO?

Then you got Cena railing the locker room against "all these part time guys taking your spot"

Just for shits and giggle CM Punk could play the Sting role at Summerslam

thoughts...
Scary enough, I was thinking along similar lines, although my thoughts were more Dave Hall and Brock Nash laying out Rock so that Cena wins.  Cena is MAD and we get the Bash at the Beach redo at Extreme Rules (or later) with Team WWE against the Part-Timers, where Cena is revealed as the third man and tells all the fans to stick it.  Cena/Brock/Batista as the mega-heel stable against maybe Punk/Jericho/Orton...that could be money, and it would be a whole bunch of different matchups than we've gotten for a while.  Well, aside from Orton/Cena, but they could always turn Orton too and do the whole OVW crew as one unit.  Plus it's not only well past the statute of limitations for ripping off the original nWo angle, but 10 years after the RIPOFF angle in 2002.  So we're good there.

So no, not Russo-esque dumb, I was thinking along the same lines.

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  1. God damn it, now I'm going to be really dissapointed when none of this happens.
    And it won't, because if there's anything the WWE is good at, is fucking up good angles.

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  2. Fuck the "like" button, where's the "I love everything about this" button?

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  3. Even if Cena/Orton is stale we've never seen heel Cena v. face Orton, so it's still fresh. Plus, it's been, what, nearly three years since we saw Cena/Orton?

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  4. It seems ridiculous now, but when the match was announced a year ago, I thought that having Rock revealed as the mastermind behind "Nexus" could have been an interesting avenue to explore.

    It would have fit with the years of Cena bad-mouthing Rock, and Rock trying to persuade the young guys to take the ball from Cena instead of waiting to be handed the ball. It also would have segued in to my idea of Rock doing the whole "hold the title hostage" thing a few months before Punk did it.

    A year removed from that idea, though, I'm not too keen on it; I think the Cena/Rock match could really be cheapened if one of them were to turn heel (since face/face "respect" matches are basically the biggest matches in kayfabe, as neither competitor has to cheat to win), and after the way the company completely botched the "Nexus" (and "Corre") storylines, I don't want to see another heel stable, especially one that is composed of relative newbies.

    Brock and/or Batista getting involved in the GM battle, though...

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  5. I was thinking about them doing a heel version of the MegaPowers with Batista and Brock. Have them kill people all summer, and then one turns on the other leading to a match at WM.

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  6. Ehh, everything except the face trio including Jericho and Orton - if anything, it should be Punk, Sheamus, and a lower guy that can use the rub to get to the next level, like Kofi.

    Jericho has plenty of life left as a heel, and Orton's character shouldn't care about anybody but himself.

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  7. At Extreme Rulezzzzzzz run Brocktista and a mystery partner vs Orton/Punk/Cena. Everyone will see that it's a nWo ripoff but they should run with it. Have Punk and Orton be suspicious of Cena being the 3rd man. Make Cena such a red herring that it will be a shock when he turns. 

    Near the end of the match, Jericho runs down to the ring causing everyone to think he is 3rd guy but before he makes it in the ring, Cena lays him out. Cena then gets in the ring and gives Punk the AA to turn heel. Next night on Raw, Jericho reveals that he found out about Cena and was coming to stop it, turning him face.

    It sucks that Johnny Ace wasn't the head of talent relations back then because he would be perfect as the mouthpiece/Bischoff role as the guy who signed them all. It's a fucking shame this isn't going to happen.

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  8. Imagine if at Bash at the Beach it was Hall and Nash against Sting, Savage, and 
    Benoit, so that they could give him the rub. It would have sucked. 

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  9.  Not necessarily; Benoit wasn't going to drag the match down with his work at that time, and he could've easily been booked as a guy Leveling Up to the occasion, a la Angle in the Invasion.

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  10. For that point in the storyline, for that match it had to be the 3 biggest stars. It would make no sense otherwise.

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  11.  Of course it could; you have Hall and Nash take responsibility for taking out Luger and, say, Flair on Nitro the week of, setting up Sting and Savage as being in a jam what with the third man being a mystery (if you don't show the alleged attacks, it also puts Luger and Flair out there as other possible 3rd men).

    When the match comes around, Savage and Sting are in the ring and you can have Mean Gene ask, "is there ANYBODY out there willing to step up?" And, again, Benoit was respected ::enough:: as a badass at that point to make people take notice. You can still re-run everything in the same way, with the added bonus of creating another potential top-tier babyface.

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  12. Now everyone is going to be expecting a big name to save WCW and be very disappointed when it turns out to be Benoit. 

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  13. A Cena/Brock/Dave trio would be amazing. I know it's not likely to happen at all, but I totally love the idea.

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  14. It makes more ense if it's Rock/Batista/Lesnar because all 3 left the WWE to do other things. Jericho is your X factor because he left to do the music thing.

    If HHH is serious about things, there will be Wargames at Summerslam between Rock/Batista/Lesnar/Jericho vs. HHH/Cena/Punk/Orton.

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  15. Hey, Scott, you kinda just ripped off MY call of CeNWO in the predictions thread!  Well, kinda...I hoped it would happen but doubted it would.  Still...

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  16. An idea like this, though, would require that Lesnar and Batista be there pretty much every week.  To this point all we know that is (allegedly) both men will be at Mania.  Could be a one-time only appearance for both, could set up a match for WM29 next year, or maybe they're just there as guests of the company or attending the HOF ceremony (wouldn't surprise me if Arn or Flair invited Batista to be there for their induction).

    Lesnar obviously wouldn't return to a full-time schedule and by all reports Batista seemed to have moved on from wrestling.  Even if their whole schtick is that they're part-timers, they'd need to do more than just appear once a month to seem like major threats.  Also, it would be funny if Cena were to team with the 'part-time NWO' after spending all this time railing on the Rock for leaving the company.

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  17.  Rock is pretty booked after WM, count him out.

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  18. This would be all kinds of awesome.  The only thing is, they should stay away from being cool heels, because a group like that will have a hard time keeping fans from rooting for them, at least the older fans anyway.

    I was gonna wear my Punk shirt tomorrow, but now I may have to pack my original NWO shirt which I haven't worn in probably 14 years.  Yes, I'm embarrassed to say I have a t-shirt that old, lol.

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  19. The last report I read on Lesnar said that they were working on the dates he would work. Sounds like it would be more than a one time thing.

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  20. Just read that Brock signed a one year deal. So fucking pumped if this is true, Brock leaving was the reason I stopped watching wrestling back in 04.

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  21. He wouldn't have to be there all the time.That would be the point of the gimmick. This group cut a deal with the RAW general manager that in order to get what control of both shows they have the ability to come and go as they please. Rock would be more of a manager/part time wrestler than anything. Anyway, the other wrestlers would be so pissed that they band against them.

    In that scenario, the Sting part is played by Cena, who eventually leads them to get rid of the new group.

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  22. Meh. The only good thing that came out of the nWo storyline was that it gave DDP a chance to become a superstar in a way that conventional booking never would have. Heck, it also gave Goldberg the same opportunity. 

    I guess for the first match you have a point, but then the current crop of stars have to agree to be decimated by the invaders to allow new elevation. I am SO sure Punk, Orton and Cena are going to agree to that...But, then again, what's better than a feud involving a bunch of 30-somethings, part-timers and people prone to have 30 minute interview sessions? They can literally do nWo over again...

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  23. Sheamus!


    HHH/Cena/Punk/Sheamus!!!

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  24. I see what you're saying, and I can definitely agree that Orton is currently a bigger star than Sheamus, but Orton's also on his way back down - this will be his third straight WM in the mid-card, in addition to being drafted to the "B" show last year. At least Luger was still seen as a "real" main-eventer, not the main-eventer that is demoted and constantly overshadowed.

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  25. I agree with that, I'm talking strictly that initial 6 man.

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  26. It's funny, earlier today I was thinking "They won't do it, but it'd be interesting if Batista and Brock showed up and you ended up with some kind of stable of old part timers (perhaps eventually Austin as well), with Cena rallying guys like Punk and Orton to his side for a big angle where the part timers eventually put over the younger guys. Not sure how that would really work at all but the idea of a stable with the part timers did occur to me. I LOVE the idea of Cena teaming with them ala Hogan and the nWo, not sure I really see that happening though.

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  27. Not sure what this would have to do with anything, but if Cena joined Brock and Batista, they could mention that they all debuted ten years ago, in 2002. Orton, too. They could be called "The Class of '02", and talk about how the four of them have spent a decade on top. It's not something I'd personally be in favor of (I'm sure I'm just about the only fan on Earth who doesn't want to see Cena turn heel), but there are certainly worse ideas than using those four men to put over the next crop of potential main-eventers.

    WM29: Punk/Cena, Sheamus/Batista, Bryan/Brock, and Kofi/Orton?

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  28. I don't want to see Cena-Orton because I don't care about Orton. If it's not going to get Orton over he's not going to put any effort in. see every feud he's ever been involved in.

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  29. I guess if you go back to a week or so ago on Batista's tweets it wasn't any big secret he was gonna be in Miami. I guess he has some kind of promotional appearance going with St. Jude's. Not that this necessarily means he won't be involved with WWE but I don't think that's the reason, I think he's more likely to just go & say hi to everyone. I think he was at the HOF last night? Maybe.

    By the way, every time people use the DAVE meme with Batista, I get momentarily confused because I live in hippie country and the only "DAVE" that's known on a first name basis around here is, unfortunately, Dave Matthews.

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  30. and Batista & Brock vs. Cena & Punk along the way!

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