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I predict February will be as memorable as January. :P

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Hmm, Carlito/RVD, Kane/Masters, Flair/HHH and HBK/Show. I predict it'll go down with RVD, Kane, HHH and HBK advancing. I'm interested in everything except Kane/Masters, damn that's gonna be bad.

I guess they're about to run some break up angle with Edge and Lita. I did hear that Edge was back with his ex-wife.

Kane vs. Masters might surprise you... okay, it'll probably suck, but Masters is a perfect foil to Kane.

I predict HHH buries RVD in the finals.

Ditto.


And that is assuming they don't have Carlito do his neat little roll-up with feet on ropes trick to defeat RVD in the first round.

If Carlito wins, he'll face Kane. If RVD wins, then Masters.

Or they can dick around with the brackets and make it Carlito/HBK and Kane/HHH. Hint: No one who used to wear a mask or is related to Carlos Colon is winning that night.

I see going like this.

RVD over Carlito
Kane over Masters
HHH over Flair
HBK over Show

RVD over Kane
HHH over HBK

HHH over RVD

So yeah, HHH buries RVD just after he returned last Sunday which will set up Cena/HHH. I would've prefered a Cena/Edge/HHH 3 way for the title but I've heard they're booking Edge against Foley at Mania.

HHH defeated\\ing RVD isn't a burial. A 10 Heavyweight champion defeats a zero time Heavyweight champion. Yes, we all would prefer RVD to beat HHH, in fact RVD is leading in the poll on WWE.com, but HHH defeated RVD is more realistic.

Triple H is in the twilight of his career and should be putting people over. RVD has been treated like shit by HHH before, and at Unforgiven 2002, Triple H fucking exposed how poor of a worker RVD is. A good wrestler who looks out for "the business" wouldn't do that. He made sure he did EVERYTHING possible to show that RVD "can't work WWE style." Triple H is scum.


And I'd still want him over Cena as Champion.

But if RVD is a bad worker, and admittedly so, why keep him around? Why push him? If he can't work, why does he deserve a push?

Because

1. He's over

2. He sells merchandise

3. He can still have good brawls, as long as he doesn't punch.

That's all true about John Cena, but you hate him.

I see potential in both RVD and Cena.

Cena just needs to work on it, cause he is young and might not no better. RVD is just a lazy bitch/hindered by WWE style (5 key moves, hit everytime)

His moves are lame, and he needs to go back to more of an ECW style. I know it was spotty, but it was better than what he has done the last few years in the E.

RVD looks like crap right now. Hopefully he'll get back in ring shape soon, but until then, he deserves no push.

I was very let down to see RVD in such rusty shape on Raw last week. Even though he was booked to go 10 minutes with Snitsky of all people, he just didn't look good.

I say give him some time to get his flow back. He shouldn't need too much time.

I think at this point in his career, he'll have to change his style. He's in his mid-late 30's, and he just can't do the flippety stuff forever.

Keep in mind he was working with Snitsky. That would suck the life outta me.

That's kind of what happened to RVD in my EWR game (he got seriously injured and came back with sadly reduced stats, so I just let his contract expire because I didn't want him around anymore). It's sad how many times real life has emulated something that happened in my EWR game.

And yes, Choate, working with Snitsky is never a good thing B)

There's no way he's going to change his style. That's been his money since day one. I'd see him retire before he does that. Plus, he won't be able to stay over without his moveset. Even the WWE realizes that and honestly, they wouldn't want him there without it.

He could keep his main spots and just vary how and when he does them. Then cut out all the useless flips and spins that he does between those big moves, and I think he could still be over.

RVD has never been a good worker honestly. I was a huge mark for the guy in ECW, but thats only cause I was immature in my like of wrestling then, and the things he and Lynn were doing seemed too awesome.

Till I grew up and realized they were doing a match of about 10 spots, on wash, rinse, and repeat.

His moveset in WWE just makes me wanna barf. Its horrible. About the only thing I like is the Rolling Thunder. And thats just a flip.

I wouldn't say that RVD's never been a good worker. I simply don't think that's the case with him. He can be a good worker............when he's motivated. Regardless of how bad some of his ECW stuff was, he still had an ability to carry a shitty working into SOMETHING. He's had training by guys like Dory Funk Jr. so he at least has a general idea of how to work. It doesn't mean that he follows through with it over the course of his career like how guys like Benoit, Eddie, Mysterio, etc could. Plus, lets face facts......if he never went to the WWE his moveset WOULD have changed, but it would have evolved. The WWE simply wants guys to get a solid, recognizable moveset and they feel that there is rarely a need for progression with it. Which they would be right about considering that the fans that they are aiming for wouldn't be any of us.

May be RVD just needs some sort of motivation, like he did some time back.

Like some weed?

Sticking anyone in the ring with Snitsky for 8 minutes would kill anyones motivation. Besides, RVD has a years worth of ring rust, so you can't expect him to be back in top form that quickly.

Exactly my point. Snitsky actually sucks the skill out of anyone he wrestles (take that how you will.)

Yeah, I do agree that it wasn't a cool return. And the minute he came out and I saw Snitsky, I was very upset and disapointed. But who else fits in that role over on the "hoss" show? Murdoch? One of the heartthrobs? Vis? Masters?

Carlito is the only mid-level heel I could even imagine him getting something out of at this point. And thats a total maybe, since Carlito apparently only tries on PPV.

RVD could've just squashed Snitsky in 90 seconds. There's no reason for the sack of crap to get as much offense as he did. If you didn't watch wrestling for the last 6 months and that was the first match since then, you'd think Snitsky was getting the push and RVD was the job boy.

Thank the LORD! The only match I want to see is on now. Then I can get back to sorting through the tapes I got from MillenniumMan. :)

WHA THE FUCK!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!

Poor Spirit Squad. Well, at least they guys got called-up from OVW.

Poor people who have to watch the Spirit Squad. I'm liking the running gag of people scaring Big Momma. I wanted it to be Tatanka this week. :(

Well, it was Eugene. After announcing he went to rehab, I was hoping Nick Dinsmore was going to come-back with a new gimmick.

They should've played that out on TV. Eugene gets hooked up with the "wrong crowd." Maybe bring back that fat guy in white from 1999 who was supposed to be Droz and Albert's drug dealer.


Edit: WOO! SNME pimping!

That'd be pretty low....so I'm surprised they didn't do it.

Wow...Flair and HHH is decent for an episode of Raw. If I didn't know HHH was winning tonight, I would thought Flair would have had a good chance of winning cleanly over H.

I feel dirty for saying this, but Flair/HHH might go into my list of ***+ matches onWWE TV. :D

Already ahead of you. Wait, the match just ended?! I thought it was going to go another minute. Just kind of hit the Pedigree without Flair even trying to reverse it, even though he had offense the entire match.

That commercial sucked.

Shawn Michaels not being able to be ni the tournament - bad thing. Shelton Benjamin replacing him - good thing.