Judgment Day Predictions!

FIRST AND FOREMOST: Take a look at the Judgment Day poster on the right. Kane is featured on it, yet Kane is not even booked for a match on this PPV - will he make some sort of impact? Keep an eye out for that.

Let the predictions begin! Let's go on down the card:

Carlito vs. Ric Flair
This is a cool feud. I think Ric Flair will eventually want to put Carlito over, but I also think that they'll want to drag out the feud beyond this PPV.
Winner: Ric Flair

Shawn Michaels vs. Randy Orton
We've heard rumors that HBK and Cena will be holding a feud this summer, which leads me to believe that HBK will pick up the win here. This might also be a good way for WWE to punish Orton for his recent actions.
Winner: HBK

Elijah Burke vs. CM Punk
I was going to pick Punk, but then I realized that there's no way for him to move up in ECW with Lashley vs. Snitsky being the next championship feud. This leads me to believe that the Burke vs. Punk feud will continue, and it's fine by me. Through some cheap method (maybe interference from Cor Von?)...
Winner: Elijah Burke

Chris Benoit vs. MVP for the United States Championship
So I've picked MVP to beat Benoit for the past two PPVs...I'll pick him again. He and Benoit put on AWESOME matches and I think the feud will continue.
Winner: MVP

Vince McMahon, Shane McMahon, and Umaga vs. Bobby Lashley for the ECW Championship
This is the match that will put Bobby Lashley over...I'm not sure how well a feud with Snitsky will follow this.
Winner: Bobby Lashley

Edge vs. Batista for the World Heavyweight Championship
If WWE wanted Batista to be the World Heavyweight Champion then they would have had him beat Taker in that cage match. I think Batista will be feuding with Mark Henry anyway while Edge feuds with...Matt Hardy.
Winner: Edge

John Cena vs. The Great Khali for the WWE Championship
This one is actually very tough to call. I think that the purpose of this feud is to try to get Cena over to the point where he's not booed anymore, so if Cena lost and then won it back in the next couple of months then that might really put him over. Yet I've learned...never bet against Vince's guys. (Also: look for some interference from HBK to help Cena pull out the victory)
Winner: John Cena

That's the card! Post your responses, especially your disagreements. I'll post a follow-up to the PPV to see how I did.

Drew Arnold, writing for The Irish Whip

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Post-Judgment Day Champ Possibilities

As I was reading Ben's latest post, I was thinking about the quality of the champions that WWE currently has. I went down the list and saw almost no good wrestlers. When I thought of the possibilities of champion combinations after Judgment Day...I curled up into the fetal position and cried. For example...(obviously I am making up probable matches that could take place at Judgment Day.)

WWE CHAMPIONSHIP: John Cena...The Great Khali...That's like asking someone if they would rather drown or be burned to death. This is a horrible feud, and I will definitely NOT spend any sort of money on watching this match at Judgment Day.

INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPIONSHIP: Santino Marella vs. Chris Masters. Great...a guy we've never heard of against a guy who made his name by taking steroids. And apparently the man who can barely even apply a full-nelson (Chris Masters-Masterlock) is supposed to win...man that's exciting...

TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS (RAW): The Hardy Boyz! Fantastic. We have good champions in the tag-team division! The only problem is that 1. Nobody cares about the tag-team division anymore (sadly) and 2. They are "feuding" (not to sure) with Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch. If they do have a match at Judgment Day, then it will be a great way for Jeff Hardy to show off his skills... while the others sit in the ring and watch.

TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS (SMACKDOWN): Deuce and Domino...see left...I say no more.

CRUISERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP: Chavo Guerrero is not exciting anymore at all. I hated that he agreed to take part in the Rey Mysterio/Randy Orton feud about Eddie's death. It just seems wrong, and ever since I have hated watching his matches. He could even feud with Stone Cold, and I probably would not watch it.

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP: Benoit vs. MVP is the only feud that I am currently interested in. They are great wrestlers, and they put on a good show. If Benoit wins then great, if MVP wins then great.

WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP: The Undertaker is dropping the belt to Batista in a cage apparently, because of his recent injury. And the new word out is that Batista will feud with Mark Henry. This is EXACTLY like the WWE Championship feud. You have a wrestler that WWE is tirelessly trying to push and a man who can't wrestle...which apparently is the combination for "success" in WWE's mind.

ECW WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: Vince McMahon vs. Bobby Lashley. Vince McMahon is not hardcore, Bobby Lashley is not hardcore...so why are they in ECW? And more importantly why are they fighting for the ECW World Championship? This doesn't make sense to me, because this does not give the crowd what they want to see. The crowd wants RVD vs. Sabu, or Funk vs. Dreamer. McMahon vs. Lashley is a match that should take place on Smackdown...it's not even good enough for their number 1 show (RAW).

Although I am looking into the future with some of these matches because they haven't been named yet, think about the current feuds that are taking place. While I was thinking about posting this, I thought "nah...our readers hear enough of how bad some of the wrestlers are" but then it dawned on me that we can't say it enough. I was really getting into RAW and even Smackdown the past few weeks because they had great matches, but now it seems like each feud just sucks. WWE could have easily created a great card for the upcoming pay-per-view, but they totally ruined it. I understand that a lot of this may be from all of the injuries in wrestling, because that has taken its toll. But they can do better then John Cena vs. The Great Khali.

If you see any way at all that these feuds are good for wrestling...then please tell me.

By the way...as another follow up to Ben's last article, Mr. Kennedy and the Undertaker (the most exciting wrestlers currently in WWE) are injured. This is horrible, and it will delay the "Kennedy Era". But when he returns, Mr. Kennedy will be ready to take over the business.

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Judgment Day Poster...and what it means

So here's a look at the poster for the Smackdown PPV Judgment Day which is scheduled for May 20. Obviously, Kane is the sole figure on the poster...do you know what this means?

Something that I had been anticipating will now surely happen: the May 19th storyline is back. Remember last year when Kane kept getting freaked out whenever somebody mentioned the date May 19th? (this day also happened to be the release date for his movie) This storyline more or less ended when Kane lost to an "Imposter Kane" at Vengeance.

Guess what - Imposter Kane is coming back. When Ben and I went to see RAW live a few weeks ago, one of the Heat matches was won by Freakin Deacon, the same man who played Imposter Kane last year. I would assume that his appearance was to get him back into the swing of things.

Look to see Imposter Kane interrupting on Smackdown soon...

Drew Arnold writing for The Irish Whip

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