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What’s up with changing PPV names? You like to confuse the veteran fans, don’t you, WWE? Well done, it was accomplished.

Undertaker vs CM Punk vs Batista vs Rey Mysterio: I don’t know what the future of the Batista-Rey Mysterio relationship is going to be. They were on-screen friends earlier (and maybe still are), but you could expect a heel turn from Batista because he lost to Mysterio on Smackdown. That will probably result in an Undertaker-Batista rivalry (which we have already seen before and I am not interested in seeing again) and a Punk-Mysterio rivalry after which Punk might get drafted to Raw to have fresh feuds with Orton and/ or DX. Alternately, they might choose to give Batista and Mysterio the tag-team titles, thereby breaking the Jericho-Big SLow partnership. After that, Jericho might go for the WHC title and feud with Taker (that is what I WANT! :-) ).

Now, I know a lot of sorry-a**es were unhappy about the fact that Undertaker was made to win the title at Hell in a Cell (in my terms, No Mercy) PPV. They even brought rumours about Punk’s dress-code violation (and Undertaker’s advice to him about it) to be the reason why Undertaker won the title. Well, you dumb nitwits, story-lines aren’t made that way. The Undertaker has been in the business for 2 decades and is the most respected athlete, plus the locker-room leader. Everybody who has feuded or teamed with him on screen has benefited in popularity and become wiser/ smarter in the business. When he gives you advice, you’d better shut up and listen. Anyways, in this case it wasn’t the dress-code advice which gave him the title. If he was power-hungry, he would’ve had 15 titles to his name now instead of 7 (most of those title reigns were anyway very short). HHH, Cena, Edge, etc anyways have had longer title reigns than Taker has had, and so you should point to them if you are talking about being title-greedy. The reason why Undertaker was given the title is that he never lost it last year but was wrongly stripped off it. So, the title is “his”. And after the kind of performance he gave at Wrestlemania, you would only want your top performer to be the champion. The WWE have been trying to give him a long title reign since 2007 but it never works out because they make him go through a lot of struggle and screw-ups before winning the title like they made him go against Edge (which eats up several months), and they make him go through many no-disqualification matches like elimination-chamber, steel-cage, hell in a cell, last-man standing, casket, TLC, etc – so when he finally wins the title, he is already injured and needs a break.

This time, the WWE has finally changed the strategy and let him win the title immediately upon his return (barring one screw-up at Breaking Point which had to happen, otherwise it won’t look like an Undertaker-story). It felt strange to some of the Undertaker fans like us because we are not used to see him win the title so easily but we are used to see him get screwed many times and then finally win it on a big stage. This gave the sorry Undertaker-haters a nice chance to say things like he is power-hungry, and he won it because of the dress-code advice. What BS, I tell you. Anybody and everybody in the WWE is more mature than that. And Undertaker himself has always been pushing stars up, be it Mankind, Kane, Stone Cold, Rock, Kurt Angle, Brock Lesnar, Orton, Khali, Batista, Edge or any other. Where were those Undertaker-haters when he got screwed out of matches and the title again and again throughtout his career? Where were they when it took 20 guys along with Yokozuna to put him in the casket, when Paul Bearer betrayed him and joined hands with Mankind, when Shawn Michaels hit him with a chair and let Bret Hart win, when Kane interfered and let Shawn win in the Hell in a Cell/ casket matches, when Vince/ HHH interfered and let Stone Cold retain the title against him, when Vince interfered and let Lesnar retain the title against him many times, when Big SLow injured him so that Lesnar could beat him at Hell in a Cell, when Kane buried him alive against Vince, when he tombstoned Booker for the title but then Big SLow interfered, when JBL used a chair and didn’t get disqualified but Undertaker got disqualified upon using it in revenge, when Bob Orton interfered and helped his son Orton win, when MVP interfered and let Kennedy win, when Mark Henry assaulted him and Edge screwed him out of the title in 2007 by cashing Money-In-The-Bank, when Edge screwed him out of the Hell in a Cell match against Batista, when Edge screwed him in the triple-threat match at Armageddon, when Vickie Guerrero stripped him off the title, when Edge and his minions screwed him out of the title at the TLC match which resulted in Undertaker getting banished, when Vickie slapped Undertaker, when Teddy Long and Scott Armstrong cheated upon him? Now, if you think that Undertaker beating Punk in a 10-minute match was wrong, I have no words for you. All such Undertaker-haters can go to hell ;-) I have got over the fact that he won the title unexpectedly in a small PPV – its ok to have Punk job to the greatest wrestler of all time for once, and let’s be happy that this time he won the title rather easily (the way Cena and Edge win each time anyways, and are loved by their fans for it). The reason why the match was short is that he was not 100% fit but he will soon be, since he got some more chance to rest by doing promos and dark-matches. And the reason why the match was the first match of the PPV is that the WWE wanted Undertaker to be the one who would be the first one to win a title in a Hell in a Cell match (since the title had never exchanged hands in it before). There had to be one HIAC match at the start, one in the middle, and one at the end of the PPV. The choice for the first match was not due to Punk’s dress-code, but due to the fact that the title had never been won at a HIAC, and they wanted Undertaker to be the first one to do the honours.

So now, coming to my prediction for this match, I think the WWE have realized their mistakes about how they let Undertaker struggle a lot and get injured when he got his title, so this time they are letting him win and retain the title for as long as he can. I would therefore expect him to retain it. The reason why its a Fatal 4-way match is so that he gets some time to relax in the match. If he had to lose it, then he wouldn’t have won it from Punk in the first place. Instead, Punk would’ve retained it and directly lost it to whoever is going to be the next champion in this PPV. So, the bottom-line is that Undertaker is retaining the title in this one.

Randy Orton vs John Cena: I don’t know if Cena is going for shooting a movie or not. He is the top face of Raw, but usually a Loser-leaves-town match is only kept when he is actually going to leave and the match becomes the WWE’s on-screen method of making it happen. I have a feeling that Cena will lose this one because we are sick of seeing the title exchange hands between him and Orton like a tennis ball. If Cena had to win this, he wouldn’t have lost it at Hell in a Cell probably. And since its an “anything goes” match, it favours Orton more. So I am going with Orton winning this one and Cena leaving Raw. Maybe that he will take a break and after a few months, return to Smackdown.

John Morrison vs Miz: John Morrison.

Michelle McCool and Beth Phoenix and Natalya vs Melina and Kelly Kelly and Gail Kim: I have to go with Michelle’s team as it looks stronger and because I like it more than the other team ;-) if Mickie James was on the other side, the result could’ve been different. But I think that this time, the heels will be too much to deal with for Melina and her team.

Team Raw vs Team Smackdown: With DX leading team Raw, there are little chances that the Raw team will lose. It is also possible that Big SLow or Jericho change their sides during the course of the match, or it is possible that this results in some kind of issues between them (I hope so, because then Jericho will go for the singles’ title and feud with Undertaker for a good Wrestlemania 26 match). All said and done, this match will end with a Sweet Chin Music or a Pedegree.

Posted by VieSinCalaway

Thank Mayank for your post!

You know what, I think, WWE is struggling with giving ‘Taker a longer title reign for 2 main reasons:

1. ‘Taker ’s huge fame and shadow + the WHC is something uncomparable. That happened after WM24 as ‘Taker got the WHC from Edge; and there was no one to compete equally against him, even Batista, Kane and Festus; so WWE had to continue his fued with Edge in 2 boring PPVs (until ONStand). He is just too big a superstar now. If WWE had given him the long reign sooner, this would not happen!
2. The second reason, again, due to ‘Taker’s great ability and fame, he has to battle in the big games to keep his image alive. And that leads to the injuries, which just simply cuts short his title reign. We expect ‘Taker always makes the best moments in the Main Events, but we also have to understand the fact that the man is still a human. How many suicide dives can he do more?

So overall, it’s ‘Taker’s fame that is betraying him. Only if WWE has realised that a bit sooner, it would not happen. I was sick of the way WWE made ‘Taker looked like a speechless mocked man (as JBL,Edge,Shawn etc. did to him). But that makes me love the Man even more, and realise how much he had given for the business, and for us. You are just too great, Big Man!

Posted by MINISTRY_EVIL

I think your comments are good enough a reason for Taker’s title reign. Your opinions are right and not exaggerated at all. Even I would be happy if Taker is champion for until his retirement. For a man of his capability and persona I actually want him to become at least a 10 time world Champion. Technically speaking Kane is quite a bump when fighting but because of that Taker feud at the start of the career his power over the undertaker remains strong till this day. All your match predictions seem quite reasonable especially the Randy-Cena match.

RKO is still better suited to be champion than Cena. Punk is also a lousy champ if you ask me and Taker’s dominance and influence is stronger than any other superstar.

Posted by mike

great points, i am no Taker hater..Great how he one the belt early, i think simply the first shoot was to soon for him to win, so simpley they added 2 month fued Taker & Punk, besides gives chance for Punk mix with big star with Taker. Taker will have title for while..maybe just maybe till WM next year. I hope to c Cena on smackdown, yea he needs to dispear for while ..cpz every big star needs a break..so he should return & face Taker for WM. hes faced Micheals-Batisa -orton few others. Thers been Cena-Taker matches but just hand full. I love to c Cena vs Taker WM. besides the names for taker take on r getting heavy load. hes taken on whip de do’rs. last few years names gettig bigger like Orton & batista & daa course Micheals. So say Cris Jericho. i hardly seem him with Taker at WM, nor Rey coz they hardly fight its hard have story Taker/Rey.how the powers to be with Taker agasnt small bad ass little guy like Rey. On the other hand love to c Rey/Taker go at it..wanted it for years..Jericho yea they should & way it sounds like they well have fued some time near future. so that said Batista already had match at WM which they can have uncore coz Kane 2 twice did it. Or even Micheals/Taker again at WM coz say Micheals wasn’t happy he lost to him last year so at this point hes been taging with triple H, so he mite want to prove to him self he can still kick ass & decided take care of Taker since he lost to him last year..something like that. CM punk & say Ted JR yea right. Ted deb guy has few years need under hes belt befor he can even think taking on taker at WM, that does not mean any other PPV they can fued, also Punk yea whatever. so after al this i still say Cena VS Taker at WM next year, or least Micheals or Batista.

Posted by King Undertaker

At this point and time WWE has a lot of ways it can do storylines and rivalries.

I agree Taker will retain at Bragging Rights. Question is whats next after that? I want WWE to wait a little while longer on Taker and Jericho…no need to rush something that we know will be fresh, new, and good. Perhaps a feud with Cena if he comes over to Smackdown(which I see happening)or maybe he can just continue with Punk for a little while longer(but theres no point in that to me)so who do we have left for taker to face…Kane? I certainly wouldn’t mind it, they faced off in a house show so I wouldn’t mind seeing it televised. Kane has only been pinned once since returning to Smackdown and that was against Batista in the tag match this week. So hes doing pretty good at the moment.

I see Batista turning heel on Rey but he wouldn’t really be able to make a heel turn against Rey in the fatal 4 way, maybe after the match on the next Smackdown or perhaps another PPV lost to another team.

Jericho and Show will eventually lose the titles maybe sooner than later and I could possibly see the Bragging Rights tag match putting a rift between the two(maybe a way to allow Kane to come in the mix with Jericho)

There are plenty of things that can happen and i’m actually impressed with WWE at this moment its not like everything is as predictable and linear as it use to be but all in all only thing that really matters at the moment is that Taker has to gold around his waist.

Posted by Justin Alon

I am in complete agreeance with Mayanshrider! Taker will retain the title at Bragging Rights! Taker as champion Hell Yeah!

Posted by Mikeh420

The undertaker will keep the titile for a good while and i can see him losing to a heel Batista because of Vince McMahon and if u saw smackdown he rambled on about mania therefore i predict Vince will screw him out of the belt and try to destroy the streak but of course lose (I know not to good a match comparing to wm25s bt thats the wwe for u sometimes lol). Also i think that cena will lose then head to smackdown then face Batista for the belt at mania. Oh and would love to see Jerishow face a mystery tag team of a returning edge and christian at the rumble for the straps and set up edge vs y2j at mania. And maybe hhh vs hbk with a heel hbk that be a nice change bt see what happens lastly Punk vs rey would be great to. Not to sure who will be in the Raw title match prob involving Orton and maybe Ted Dibiase.

Posted by 123kid

Kane has only faced UT in a title championship match at Judgment Day 98 the ending via disqualification SCSA REF
they faced each other with the title on the line may be their feud will be much better if the title is on the line between them
if company gives the match let Kane defeat UT then UT regain it afterwards

Posted by BillyofMaryland

Great points. First, a Fatal Four Way match is usually used when WWE wants to create a championship situation, but they don’t want it to be that obvious. Taker has proven he can walk all over Punk in singles competition, but it’s actually insulting to his character. I love Undertaker and love to see him win championships, but Punk is a martial artist right, let him and Taker fight ea other without VKM sticking his nose in it (you know he was behind Screwjob 2.0.) Taker will win, and it be a fitting tribute to his 2 Decades of Destruction heading into SVS.

Randy Orton v Cena:

I actually think this could be a part of WWE’s effort to slowly switch back to TV-14. Let’s face it, WWE had a great, “TV-14″ character in Cena as the “Professor of Thugnomics” and they dropped the ball by making him “kid-friendly.” Also, Orton can get vicious in these sort of match, and hopefully someone will bleed.

John Morrison v Miz:

Morrison will win, and I actually like how creative is working with him. They aren’t ruining him the way they’ve ruined Kane (post-mask), or R-Truth.

Divas:

I’d bet on Team McCool if I were a betting man. However, the Diva’s division is kind of dull without the “Victoria vs Trish” style hardcore matches so I really don’t care.

Team Raw vs Team SD:

It’s a toss up. DX seems like the obvious winner, but if WWE wants to give a major push to some of the mid-card guys like R-Truth then they’ll let Team SD win. There will be other opportunities b/c Suvivor Series, and it’s classic 5 on 5 match.

Finally, Long Live The Undertaker!

Posted by Respect the Deadman

Very detailed and wonderful article Mayank! I had a lot of fun reading it =]
I too agree that the Undertaker will retain his title.
My predictions as to what happened / is happening:

Teddy long is on probation (probably wants to retire..) and therefore they are including him with the Undertaker so the Undertaker may make him “rest in peace” to kind of make Long phase out of the WWE.
I too would like to see a ‘Taker-Y2J feud (which is possible.) However with recent actions and Smackdown(s), I think ‘Taker will continue with Punk for a bit longer while Batista and Mysterio feud with Jerishow (yes Big Show said that once >.> EPIC FAIL.)
Once Batista and Mysterio have won the Unified titles, CM Punk will slowly be taken out of the feud, and be replaced by Y2J.
There will be some back and forth action between the two, which will lead to WrestleMania, where the Undertaker will (obviously) retain the title or gain the title and become 18-0.
After all of that, the Undertaker will remain champion and be given some EASIER matches and smaller-filler feuds to ease his body and rest his injuries (much like what happened with Cena when he was champion for a year and fought barely anything.)
Undertaker will continue smaller feuds at PPV’s mostly (for the title) and retain until WrestleMania where he will become 20-0. After that, he might lose at SummerSlam and retire where his career had begun.

Something like that.. But who knows =]
‘Taker forever.

Posted by Frank

Hay Death Valley Lexis I agree with you!Undertaker deseve the title not many people he that comment relect what WWE is TRUELY about it is about being the TOP DOG CHAMPION!If you are not in WWE to one be the a Heavywight Champion then what do you wrestle?Everbuby he think that the WM Unbeat thing is great!It a good thing to have but in let you are a Heavywight Champion that Unbeat thing mean nothing!I am not try to get on people bad side.But true you don’t sign up to be a WWE Superstar to be Unbeat at a PPV even if it is WM.You sign up to be a WWE Superstar to one be the WWE CHampion/World Champion or if your know good to be one of though Champion you could be the ECW Champion.That what Superstar sign up for!That what the Undertaker,Stone Cold,HBK,HHH,Kane,Randy Savage,John Cena and any other!You really think that in 1990 when Undertaker sign up for the WWE do you REALLY he though that for the 1st 17 WM he was in that he was going to when then all and be 17-0 right now?Answer NO!Undertaker never though he would be Unbeat in Wm all he though was if he would be the WWE Champion one day as that was the only heavywight title back then.And being up good point screw when he going for the title and that ashley won the so fast now you people are come with this roomer that Undertaker may have only b/c of CM Punk Dress thing?NO it NOT TRUE!If you people that comment on this site are true Undertaker fans stop saying bad thing about Undertaker and let him give what we all and that is the long title that he so right deseve!

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Posted by King Undertaker

Respect the Deadman wrote:

Very detailed and wonderful article Mayank! I had a lot of fun reading it =]
I too agree that the Undertaker will retain his title.
My predictions as to what happened / is happening:

Teddy long is on probation (probably wants to retire..) and therefore they are including him with the Undertaker so the Undertaker may make him “rest in peace” to kind of make Long phase out of the WWE.
I too would like to see a ‘Taker-Y2J feud (which is possible.) However with recent actions and Smackdown(s), I think ‘Taker will continue with Punk for a bit longer while Batista and Mysterio feud with Jerishow (yes Big Show said that once >.> EPIC FAIL.)
Once Batista and Mysterio have won the Unified titles, CM Punk will slowly be taken out of the feud, and be replaced by Y2J.
There will be some back and forth action between the two, which will lead to WrestleMania, where the Undertaker will (obviously) retain the title or gain the title and become 18-0.
After all of that, the Undertaker will remain champion and be given some EASIER matches and smaller-filler feuds to ease his body and rest his injuries (much like what happened with Cena when he was champion for a year and fought barely anything.)
Undertaker will continue smaller feuds at PPV’s mostly (for the title) and retain until WrestleMania where he will become 20-0. After that, he might lose at SummerSlam and retire where his career had begun.

Something like that.. But who knows =]
‘Taker forever.

Teddy Long is about to retire? Where did that one sneak up from? and takers career had begun at Survivor Series not Summerslam.

Posted by Respect the Deadman

King Undertaker wrote:

Teddy Long is about to retire? Where did that one sneak up from? and takers career had begun at Survivor Series not Summerslam.

Mixed up my PPV’s. Anyways, I said it might be a retirement plan. He had quit once before from SmackDown and it’s just a guess. Otherwise I think Vickie would have stayed in the picture to mess with ‘Taker, not Teddy. But it’s a guess; nothing more.

Posted by Tom

My Predictions:
John Morrison vs The Miz: Morrison
Raw Divas vs. Smackdown Divas: Smackdown Divas
Undertaker vs Punk vs Batista vs Rey Mysterio: Undertaker (If Batista wins i’ll light my TV on f’n fire)
Randy Orton vs. Cena: Cena (Unfortunetely)
Team Raw vs Team SD: Team Raw (no-brainer)

Posted by TAkergurl

Very detailed and Very good blog Mayank!!
really precise and i loved it!!!

I really hope that TAker does win the title tonight and that there won;t be a Taker-Batista freud again!!
i’m sure that Punk will not give up like that and will get more matches against Taker…let the WWE creatives think about how to do it…..the Taker-Punk feud is a good one…and they hopefully will make it bigger until someone else (Cena?) gets too close and aims for the WHC…..

if Cena comes to SD, which i think most of us think will happen; it might stir things up with Batista? i would really like to see that….but hmmm without any title on the line?….since those ppl really “live” to get titles
gosh….i really see a Cena-TAker feud coming up…..maybe for WM26?

the match btw Team Raw vs Team SD…..i thought they really put that up for “which is the Best show of the WWE??” so i do think that SD will reign supreme….although Team Raw DOES have advantage on Team SD….now that some of the SD wrestlers have been swapped…

Anyways….whatever the rumors spreading abt Taker…
True fans will know how to “differentiate”
Taker 4 ever and Long live This Reign!!!

Posted by TAkergurl

0.O…..my previous post is -1 yr, 12 months ago????
erm….technical difficulties there?

Posted by Mayank Shridhar

No, the time is shown properly to me. Are you still facing issues and seeing a wrong time on your post?

Posted by TAkergurl

Mayank Shridhar wrote:

No, the time is shown properly to me. Are you still facing issues and seeing a wrong time on your post?

hey…no it’s fine now…dunno what happened earlier…but yep all good now…thanks :)

Posted by Dan

TAkergurl wrote:

Mayank Shridhar wrote:

No, the time is shown properly to me. Are you still facing issues and seeing a wrong time on your post?

hey…no it’s fine now…dunno what happened earlier…but yep all good now…thanks :)

That’s because I fixed it. :)

Posted by Trindle

I’m really looking forward to the ppv tonight. The matches have me interested, all except for the divas match, and I expect good outcomes. Last nights house show that I attended did not feature Undertaker, which sucked, but the event was good none the less.

So anyway, here’s my thoughts on the fatal four.

I do see Taker walking out as champion tonight because Taker never loses titles cleanly, and any loss tonight would be a clean loss since there aren’t any rules except pin/submit. I’ve always enjoyed fatal four contests with big stars as they usual deliver. If anyone else should win, I would hope for it be Punk because he’s the only other guy who would deserve it, but why take it away from him in the first place? I’m going to say Undertaker will pin either Batista or CM Punk after delivering the tombstone. Then from there we’ll see what WWE does.

Posted by Lord Mena

You are very right ,Mayank.All your thoughts are very reasonable & logical.

,please Undertaker haters stop hate to the victory & succees of the Deadman.

Tonight ,I hope That Undertaker wins the Fatal Four Way & pins Batista .& I am sure he will DO IT .

Q to Mayank : Is Undertaker well & 100 % or not ?? I know you are not his doc. , or anyone of us ,but I ‘m asking you as a wrestling expert ,from What we see from the Undertaker since his return ,his performance in the ring ,not doing the Old School nor one ( as you have said that if Undertaker is well , he will do old school as usual ) ,The knee hurting in the HIAC ,IS HE SELLING IT OR IT IS REAL , at Smackdown , his legs hit the steel stairs & if he is injured , would he allow Punk to hit him in the steps ??

I ‘m so confused ,so I hope I find an answer from My Friend .. .

Posted by mike

Um taker will have big name star for him to face at WM, like i siad last few years names are getting heavy load like Micheals to Batista to Orton. I still think Taker will least keep to the belt (maybe) till WM perhapes after wards. I still think Cena beb the one faceing perhapes with Vince some story with him in it. but who knows..

Posted by Mayank Shridhar

Lord Mena wrote:

Q to Mayank : Is Undertaker well & 100 % or not ?? I know you are not his doc. , or anyone of us ,but I ‘m asking you as a wrestling expert ,from What we see from the Undertaker since his return ,his performance in the ring ,not doing the Old School nor one ( as you have said that if Undertaker is well , he will do old school as usual ) ,The knee hurting in the HIAC ,IS HE SELLING IT OR IT IS REAL , at Smackdown , his legs hit the steel stairs & if he is injured , would he allow Punk to hit him in the steps ?? I ‘m so confused ,so I hope I find an answer from My Friend .. .

Looking at how he performed at Bragging Rights, I think he is more than 90% fine now. When he starts connecting tombstones and old school, I get the feeling that he is fine because those moves tax his legs and body a lot.

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