World Heavyweight Title Match:
Batista © vs. Triple H

Hulk Hogan and Shawn Michaels vs. Hassan and Divari

I.C. Title Match:
Shelton Benjamin © vs. Chris Jericho

Last Man Standing:
Edge vs. Chris Benoit

Kane vs. Viscera

And there are seriously no other officially announced matches at this point.

Tie Breakers:

1. Who Gets Pinned, Submitted, etc. in the Hogan/Michaels vs. Hassan and Divari match?

2. What will the finish of the World Title match be?

3. How many thrown together matches will be on this PPV?

4. How many of the five announced matches will end cleanly?

World Heavyweight Title Match:
Batista © vs. Triple H
Prediction: Batista retains

Hulk Hogan and Shawn Michaels vs. Hassan and Divari
Prediction: Hogan & Michaels

I.C. Title Match:
Shelton Benjamin © vs. Chris Jericho
Prediction: Benjamin retains

Last Man Standing:
Edge vs. Chris Benoit
Prediction: Edge

Kane vs. Viscera
Prediction: KAAAAAAAANE~!

And there are seriously no other officially announced matches at this point.

Tie Breakers:

1. Who Gets Pinned, Submitted, etc. in the Hogan/Michaels vs. Hassan and Divari match?
Prediction: Daivari (or however it's spelled)

2. What will the finish of the World Title match be?
Prediction: Batista pins Hunter with the Batista-Bomb.

3. How many thrown together matches will be on this PPV?
Prediction: 1

4. How many of the five announced matches will end cleanly?
Prediction: 3

World Heavyweight Title Match:
Batista ©

Hulk Hogan and Shawn Michaels

I.C. Title Match:
Shelton Benjamin ©

Last Man Standing:
Edge

Kane


Tie Breakers:

1. Who Gets Pinned, Submitted, etc. in the Hogan/Michaels vs. Hassan and Divari match? Divari

2. What will the finish of the World Title match be? DQ win for Batista

3. How many thrown together matches will be on this PPV? 2

4. How many of the five announced matches will end cleanly? 2

World Heavyweight Title Match:
Batista

Hulk Hogan and Shawn Michaels

I.C. Title Match:
Shelton Benjamin

Last Man Standing:
Edge

Viscera


Tie Breakers:

1. Who Gets Pinned, Submitted, etc. in the Hogan/Michaels vs. Hassan and Divari match? Divari

2. What will the finish of the World Title match be? Batista breaks Triple H in half

3. How many thrown together matches will be on this PPV? 3

4. How many of the five announced matches will end cleanly? 1

0 matches? Come on... Last Man Standing is no rules, so no matter WHAT the finish, it's going to be clean (under the rules that is), so there's a minimum of 1 clean finish. :)

i can amend it to 1...but i was thinking clean in a purist's sense

World Heavyweight Title Match:
Batista © vs. Triple H
Winner: Batista

Hulk Hogan and Shawn Michaels vs. Hassan and Divari
Winner: Hassan/Davari

I.C. Title Match:
Shelton Benjamin © vs. Chris Jericho
Winner: Benjamin

Last Man Standing:
Edge vs. Chris Benoit
Winner: Benoit

Kane vs. Viscera
Winner: Kane (Loser: all of us)

And there are seriously no other officially announced matches at this point.

Tie Breakers:

1. Who Gets Pinned, Submitted, etc. in the Hogan/Michaels vs. Hassan and Divari match? Michaels pinned.

2. What will the finish of the World Title match be?
Belt Shot, Batista win.

3. How many thrown together matches will be on this PPV?
2. For bonus points: Tag Team Turmoil (Tajiri/Regal v Christian/Tomko v Hurricane/Rosey v Maven/Dean v Those Gay Dudes) And maybe Masters v Venis or something.

4. How many of the five announced matches will end cleanly?
3

This thing looks like some of the Smackdown PPVs from last year that had undercards of Kenzo v Booker and shit. What the fuck is this. Look no further to see the problem with have 27 ppvs a year.

World Heavyweight Title Match:
Batista © vs. Triple H

Hulk Hogan and Shawn Michaels vs. Hassan and Divari

I.C. Title Match:
Shelton Benjamin © vs. Chris Jericho

Last Man Standing:
Edge vs. Chris Benoit

Kane vs. Viscera

And there are seriously no other officially announced matches at this point.

Tie Breakers:

1. Who Gets Pinned, Submitted, etc. in the Hogan/Michaels vs. Hassan and Divari match?

Hogan will pin Daivari.

2. What will the finish of the World Title match be?

Batista will get disqualified, thus giving Triple H the rematch at Vengeance.

3. How many thrown together matches will be on this PPV?

1

4. How many of the five announced matches will end cleanly?

3

World Heavyweight Title Match:
Batista © vs. Triple H
winner: Batista

Hulk Hogan and Shawn Michaels vs. Hassan and Divari
winners: Hassan and Daivari

I.C. Title Match:
Shelton Benjamin © vs. Chris Jericho
winner: Shelton Benjamin

Last Man Standing:
Edge vs. Chris Benoit
winner: Edge

Kane vs. Viscera
winner: Kane

And there are seriously no other officially announced matches at this point.

Tie Breakers:

1. Who Gets Pinned, Submitted, etc. in the Hogan/Michaels vs. Hassan and Divari match? Michaels

2. What will the finish of the World Title match be? Batista fights off Flair interference and sledgehammer shot to retain, blah, blah, usual Trips shit

3. How many thrown together matches will be on this PPV? 2

4. How many of the five announced matches will end cleanly? 3

World Heavyweight Title Match:
Batista © vs. Triple H
MY PICK: HHH

Hulk Hogan and Shawn Michaels vs. Hassan and Divari
MY PICK: Hogan and Micheals

I.C. Title Match:
Shelton Benjamin © vs. Chris Jericho
MY PICK: Benjamin

Last Man Standing:
Edge vs. Chris Benoit
MY PICK: Edge

Kane vs. Viscera
MY PICK: Kane



Tie Breakers:

1. Who Gets Pinned, Submitted, etc. in the Hogan/Michaels vs. Hassan and Divari match? Divari

2. What will the finish of the World Title match be? Pedigree and pin after interference.

3. How many thrown together matches will be on this PPV? 3

4. How many of the five announced matches will end cleanly? 4

I already warned my girlfriend that if Triple H wins his 11th World title at Backlash, I am going to vomit. She responded by saying she'd make sure she had an empty seat next to her so she could make a quick escape.

Needless to say, I love her :)

I can't believe you guys get your girlfriends to watch wrestling.

Seriously. I have trouble with football, I couldn't imagine wrestling.

My girlfriend is an incredibly good sport and I have been good by only watching wrestling with her a handful of times. I think the last time I watched it with her was the Kane/Lita wedding.

That and Sundays are usually the only day we can get together because we both have busy college/work schedules.

World Heavyweight Title Match:
Batista def. Triple H

Hassan and Divari def. Hogan & Michaels

I.C. Title Match:
Shelton Benjamin def. Chris Jericho

Last Man Standing:
Edge def. Chris Benoit

Kane def. Viscera

Tie Breakers:

1. Who Gets Pinned, Submitted, etc. in the Hogan/Michaels vs. Hassan and Divari match? Michaels pinned

2. What will the finish of the World Title match be? Botched Interference

3. How many thrown together matches will be on this PPV? 2

4. How many of the five announced matches will end cleanly? 4

Batista def. Triple H

Hulk Hogan and Shawn Michaels def. Hassan and Divari

Shelton Benjamin def. Chris Jericho

Edge def. Chris Benoit

Kane def. Viscera

And there are seriously no other officially announced matches at this point.


Tie Breakers:

1. Who Gets Pinned, Submitted, etc. in the Hogan/Michaels vs. Hassan and Divari match?
Hogan pins Divari

2. What will the finish of the World Title match be?
Batista reverses the Pedigree and does a sit-out power-bomb and pins

3. How many thrown together matches will be on this PPV?
2

4. How many of the five announced matches will end cleanly?
3

I don't see 3 matches being thrown on. Batista/HHH can easily eat up 30 minutes, as can Jericho/Benjamin (I see 20 minutes here for the match, though), and another 20-30 for Edge/Benoit. That leaves about 70 minutes. With matches, promos, and recaps for the Tag Match and Kane/Viscera, that should leave room for 1 more match, MAYBE 2.

If I have to watch "The O.C." and Gilmore Girls, she can watch wrestling.

But I'm going to have to do something drastic to match her going to ROH with me twice

Don't diss Gilmore Girls... of course, I only watch it for whacking material.

Guoy!

DAMN!

I look like I'm going to win this... :)

...It was half that...

I meant the match, intros, recap... it easily ate up 30 minutes, because Christians promo ended at around 10:18 EST.

Here are the results:

Scrooge McSuck: 5-5
Mad Dog 5-5
GreatWhiteChoate 4-5
jamiegeist 4-5
SamoaRowe 5-5
Real F'n Show 4-5
WMD 4-5
Wrestlevessel 4-5
prof plague 5-5

So with the 4 way tie we head to the tiebreakers:

Tiebreaker 1: Who gets pinned, submitted in the tag match? Daivari so Scrooge, Mad Dog, SamoaRowe and prof plague move on

Tiebreaker 2: Finish to the main event? Scrooge is the only one to get it right.

So the winner of the first PPV pick em game is SCROOGE MCSUCK

Backlash was a rather predictable PPV, especially when I picked first. I usually suck at these things.

Yeah, no one did poorly, as the scores were all 5-5 or 4-5. Hopefully Judgment Day will be a bit more difficult to call.

It was rather predictable, as it is the PPV after WrestleMania.

I just recapped all of the answers. I shouldn't have been so specific when I said "Batista reverse the Pedigree..." because I said he was going to win cleanly with the Batista Bomb (although I did refer to it as a sit-out powerbomb).

Although Scrooge still would have won overall.