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[TheGreatShowtime]

Anyone ever read Mark Maddens articles on wrestlezone?EDMOTHEfukkING G won't like this one he's suggesting Orton is about to be pushed out of the e.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tsAW8jGukY"]Tank Abbott Beats Up Mark Madden WCW - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

- Earlier this week, Hulk Hogan gave props to John Cena on Twitter. A fan asked Hogan if he liked Cena and he replied:

"yes I love John Cena,you can always depend on him to deliver,do business and work harder than anybody else. HH"

Hogan also said he would like to induct Randy Savage into the WWE Hall of Fame one day.

Everybody knows Steph should be the one who inducts him.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Regarding The Undertaker's status, there is still nothing definite. If there has been a final decision made, it is being kept very quiet.

As noted, Taker was not backstage at Monday's RAW from Nashville, even though he was photographed at a Nashville Predators hockey game the night before. However, Taker reportedly did have a meeting with Vince McMahon while in town.

It's said that Taker does not want to come back and have to fake his way through a mediocre match, which is why his status is up in the air. He had major shoulder and hip surgery over the past year which made it impossible for him to do any serious training for a long time. Taker couldn't lift upper body because of shoulder rehab and couldn't do lower body because of the hip rehab.

As of a few days ago, the internal word was that Taker is still "planned" to face CM Punk this year. People close to Taker believe that if he doesn't do WrestleMania 29, then his career is not over and it would simply mean he didn't have enough time to fully recover from everything. The expectation is that he would like to do WrestleMania 30 in 2014 and that the show could be built around his farewell since he will be 49 years old at that point.

 

[VegetasHairline]

Why would they have The Undertaker wrestle CM Punk at Wrestlemania? Only storyline that could have been legit and worth the draw was a streak vs streak build up. Now it just wouldn't be the same with Punk having dropped the belt to Rock.

 

[R=G]

Logical booking went out the door the moment Cena was pushed to the top in April 2005. Punk is all that is left for Taker since they're obviously doing that Cripple H/Lesnar garbage.

 

[PeripheralSummers]

Why would they have The Undertaker wrestle CM Punk at Wrestlemania? Only storyline that could have been legit and worth the draw was a streak vs streak build up. Now it just wouldn't be the same with Punk having dropped the belt to Rock.

Punk can still claim that his streak as champion is the most meaningful streak and Taker's streak as undefeated at Wrestlemania means nothing.

They use the lights out gimmick by the Shield and instead have Taker appear. This would have to happen soon (E.g. tomorrow?).

This is something I heard on a LAW podcast and thought it was a pretty good idea. Obviously Title vs Streak would have been better but that's not a possibility anymore.

 

[Da King]

Punk can still claim that his streak as champion is the most meaningful streak and Taker's streak as undefeated at Wrestlemania means nothing.

that's a stretch, so weak that it would make the angle 10x worse

 

[PeripheralSummers]

that's a stretch, so weak that it would make the angle 10x worse

I would take Punk's claim to having the best streak in WWE over the end of an era deal they did with HHH but that's just me .

 

[Da King]

I would take Punk's claim to having the best streak in WWE over the end of an era deal they did with HHH but that's just me .

but the problem is his champ streak is over, no one going to buy "he got screwed so his streak still going on" streak for punk


now if we champ going into WM that be a different story

 

[R=G]

As expected,

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is rumored to be there tonight

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

what is meltzer and them's take on the ppv and EC result?

 

[R=G]

It's official..the Rock makes the WWE his puppets for WM 29

WWE and Paramount Pictures issued a press release Tuesday announcing a promotional partnership to promote The Rock's upcoming movies, "G.I. Joe Retaliation" (due out March 29) and "Pain & Gain" (April 26).

WWE heavily promoted G.I. Joe 2 during the Elimination Chamber PPV and Monday's Raw this week. Pain & Gain hype will pick up around WrestleMania leading into the theatrical release at the end of April.

From the press release: "Pain & Gain will have a major presence at WrestleMania 29 at MetLife Stadium on Sunday, April 7, and at WrestleMania Axxess, a four-day interactive WWE fan experience at the IZOD Center in East Rutherford, N.J., from Thursday, April 4 to Sunday, April 7."

WWE and Paramount also summarized the deal: "The cross-platform partnership includes integration opportunities on WWE programming as well as appearances by film star and WWE champion Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson on Monday Night Raw and WrestleMania 29. In addition to storyline integration on its TV broadcasts, WWE will utilize all of its assets, including live events, digital, and social media to promote the films and engage millions of fans each week."

 

[R=G]

what is meltzer and them's take on the ppv and EC result?

Welcome to our live coverage of the Elimination Chamber PPV show from the New Orleans Arena.

We're looking for your thoughts on tonight's show, so you can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to dave@wrestlingobserver.com

BRODUS CLAY & TENSAI VS. CODY RHODES & DAMIEN SANDOW

Rhodes & Sandow came out and said that due to all the demands by people in social media, they are doing a reunion tour. Evidently this is short-lived given that they were just the foils for, as Matt Striker called them, The Dancing Bears. Short match, about what you'd expect, ending when Clay & Tensai used a sandwich on Sandow, then, Rhodes, and then did a double splash on Rhodes for the pin.

ALBERTO DEL RIO VS. BIG SHOW FOR THE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE

Del Rio won clean with the armbar by submission. The finish saw Big Show kick Ricardo Rodriguez off the apron and and grabbed his bucket. Del Rio was supposed to do an enzuigiri into the bucket into Show's head. He totally blew the move the first time, went right back to it the second time, and then did a second enzuigiri before the armbar. Earlier in the match, Del Rio had the armbar on but Show did a Gotch-lift and back suplex to break it. This wasn't as good as their previous matches but certainly nothing wrong with it.

ANTONIO CESARO VS. THE MIZ FOR THE U.S. TITLE

Looks like this feud is continuing. Cesaro worked on Miz's injured shoulder most of the way. Miz came back working on Cesaro's left knee, to set up the figure four. He went for it, but Cesaro tripped him and in falling, Miz's knee landed right on Cesaro's groin and ref Charles Robinson called for the DQ on Miz. A DQ for an accidental move. After the match, Miz gave Cesaro a blatant low blow. Work was fine but for a PPV, the finish was beyond bad.

CHRIS JERICHO VS. RANDY ORTON VS. MARK HENRY VS. DANIEL BRYAN VS. KANE VS. JACK SWAGGER IN THE ELIMINATION CHAMBER MATCH

Before the match we got a Jack Swagger & Zeb Colter interview. Apparently the story is that Colter and Swagger's father were in Vietnam together. Colter said he thinks Thomas Jefferson would be ashamed of the Louisiana Purchase because of what this has turned into. It really didn't get much heat, tho Colter's promo work was very good.

Chris Jericho vs. Daniel Bryan start. Jack Swagger in next. Kane in next. Orton in next. So Henry in last.

Henry pinned Bryan with world's strongest slam. Henry threw Orton through the plexiglass.

Henry pinned Kane with the world's strongest slam.

Swagger gave Henry a high kick, Jericho used a codebreaker on Henry and Orton pinned Henry after the RKO.

So it's Orton, Jericho and Swagger as the final three. Henry went back in the cage and gave all three the world's strongest slam until Booker T, Teddy Long and about five refs got Henry to leave the cage.

The last eight minutes were great with tons of near falls. Really strong performance by both Orton and Jericho. Orton blocked the lionsault and hit the RKO to pin Jericho. Swagger then immediately schoolboyed Orton and got the three count in a match that went more than 30:00.

So in theory, we've got Del Rio vs. Swagger as the world title match at Mania.

JOHN CENA & SHEAMUS & RYBACK VS. SETH ROLLINS & DEAN AMBROSE & ROMAN REIGNS

The Shield won. The ending saw Reigns first take out Sheamus with a spear through the barricade. Ryback was cleaning house. Cena gave Ambrose the Attitude Adjustment. Ryback had Rollins up for Shellshock when Reigns speared the hell out of Ryback and Rollins pinned Ryback to win the match. Very good match. All action. Ambrose is a hell of a talent. Ryback walked out on Sheamus and Cena after so something is up with him.

Dolph Ziggler (in his gear) came out for a promo saying he was the most gifted athlete in the history of wrestling. Booker T cameout and set up a match with Kofi Kingston

DOLPH ZIGGLER VS. KOFI KINGSTON

Ziggler won with the Zig Zag after dropping Kingston gut first on the top rope. After the match, Big E Langston beat down Kingston and gave him his move. There was a "One more time" chant when Langston laid out Kingston which I doubt is what they wree expecting. This had a lot of action in 4:00 with Kingston doing a lot of dives, twice with Dolph Ziggler moving and and him nailing Langston both times. At another point Kingston hit the Trouble in Paradise on Ziggler but Langston saved. Good given the limited time they were given.

KAITLYN VS. TAMINA SNUKA FOR THE DIVAS TITLE

Snuka missed a splash off the top rope and Kaitlyn pinned her with a spear. Quick match. Nothing wrong with it, but crowd not into it, nor would you expect them to be positioned in this spot.

THE ROCK VS. C.M. PUNK FOR THE WWE TITLE

Rock retained the title in a good match. Rock gave Punk most of the offense. The only tease of the title changing hands via DQ or count out stip was Punk giving Rock the Rock bottom on the Spanish announcers table, which didn't break. Rock beat the ten count to get in. Punk during the match kicked out of both the first rock bottom and a people's elbow. Punk also used the GTS but ref Mike Chioda had been knocked out of the ring so there was no ref to count. Punk also used a high kick and a second ref came in but that ref "hurt his ankle" so couldn't count. The finish saw Paul Heyman hold Rock and Punk went for a belt shot, Rock moved and Punk nailed Heyman. Rock then used the Rock bottom and Chioda came back in for the pin.

They pretty much all but said it was Rock vs. Cena at Mania.

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

I saw that but I meant more opinion or analysis and feedback than play by play.

Thanks though.

 

[R=G]

Without Realbrand, those audio links have been MIA