WWE Wrestlemania 22 Thread *May Include Spoilers*

[thuganomics]

A Money In The Bank ladder match is expected to happen again at Wrestlemania 22. Not sure if they are planning on having it as a interpromotional match with 3 SD! and 3 RAW superstars, but either way it will be great.

 

[PARANoIR]

They should make it a 10 man MITB. Thatd be fun.

 

[sydneysharkbrisbane68]

Trying to work out the line up for Mania, i have not allowed for any wrestlers to be reactivated eg Stone Cold, Rock, Foley etc, and to come with card wwe is looking at here goes.

raw side

John Cena v Triple H (wwe Champ)

Ric Flair v Shelton Benjamin (I-C)

Carlito v Rob Van Dam

Shawn Michaels v Shane & Vince McMahon

Trish Stratus v Mickey James

Smackdown

Kurt Angle v Randy Orton (world champ)

Booker T v Boogeyman (US Champ)

JBL v Lashley

Undertaker v Mark Henry

Chris Benoit v Finlay

Cross promotion

Big Show & Kane v Joey Mercury & Johnny Nitro (unification Tag Title)

Money in the bank

Edge v Chris Masters v Rey Misterio Jnr v Gregory Helms v winner of battle royal

Obligatory Bra & Panties match, and a battle Royal as the dark match

 

[lockyno1]

I will defiantely say that won't happen for the main reason is that we won't have 4 new champions by Wrestlemania! And as much as I want it to happen the WWE is too silly to unify the tag titles.

 

[PARANoIR]

I dont think he said that we would have 4 new champions by mania?

 

[thuganomics]

Yer I think he was just saying the matches with the title on the line.

 

[thuganomics]

Smackdown main event announced on Smackdown.

Spoiler: SD! Main Event is ...

Randy Orton vs Kurt Angle (c) vs Rey Mysterio in a Triple Threat match for the World Heavyweight Championship

RAW Main event is

Triple H vs John Cena (c) - WWE Championship.

 

[Misanthrope]

So, current card is:

CONFIRMED

Triple H vs. John Cena (c) for the WWE World Championship

Kurt Angle (c) vs. Randy Orton vs. Rey Mysterio for the World Heavyweight Championship

ALL BUT CONFIRMED
Money in the Bank II featuring Carlito

Edge vs. Mick Foley

Shawn Michaels vs. Vince McMahon in some form

 

[lockyno1]

Just a question, do you guys think Shane McMahon may be involved? Maybe Shane &Vince vs the Rockers with Michaels' career on the line?

 

[Eelectrica]

Just want to say with regards to MITB 2, I hope they put 3 SD stars and 3 Raw stars. If so my participants for the match would be:

SD: Lashley, Matt Hardy and either Kid Kash or Rey Myserio if the ME isn't a triple threat.
RAW: Carlito, Chris Masters, RVD
3 extra Raw stars if it's raw only: Shelton, Chavo & I don't know who the 6th person would be if it was Raw only.

 

[thuganomics]

Apparently original plans were to have JBL vs Benoit for the US title, but with JBL's injury they are looking closer at Plan B, which I believe is Benoit vs Finley.

 

[Parra_Eels]

why put shelton in mitb when he has a title to defend.

 

[Misanthrope]

why put shelton in mitb when he has a title to defend.

He had the title to defend last year and didn't do so. The WWE don't care about any titles outside of the two world championships

 

[Shaun Hewitt]

MITB imo should be...

Carlito Vs Masters Vs RVD Vs Lashley Vs Tatanka Vs SD wildcard (either Hardy or Boogeyman....but preferbly Batista making a shock return)

 

[thuganomics]

He had the title to defend last year and didn't do so. The WWE don't care about any titles outside of the two world championships

Well in my opinion they have done pretty well with the US title in the past 6 months or so. I'd like to see Shelton defend the IC title at Mania against RVD, but both will probably be involved in MITB, which is probably fair enough.

 

[Misanthrope]

Pretty well? They've had a Booker T vs. Benoit feud since November. It's decent but I wouldn't call it anything particularly interesting. The two perennial upper midcarders feuding doesn't excite me.

And WTF? Tatanka? The man is ancient and can barely work a decent match. Why on earth would you suggest him for a spot based match?

 

[PARANoIR]

Um..Tatanka in MITB, WTF?!

 

[thuganomics]

Pretty well? They've had a Booker T vs. Benoit feud since November. It's decent but I wouldn't call it anything particularly interesting. The two perennial upper midcarders feuding doesn't excite me.

From my stand point I thought the feud was done pretty well. For match quality, most of the matches for the US title (Orton vs Benoit, Benoit vs Booker) were all at nearly the 3-4 star mark. I thought the feud was well done, and they did well considering Booker's injury. The comment of the WWE only caring about the top 2 titles isn't neccesarily true.

 

[Misanthrope]

The comment of the WWE only caring about the top 2 titles isn't neccesarily true.

Uh, yes it is. The only reason they had a feud of that length was because the WWE had nothing else to do with Benoit and Booker T. It's nothing to do with the title's prestige at all. Hence neither the IC or US strap being defended at most PPVs. As for the feud being interesting, it was basically a carbon copy of their WCW best of seven feud (save for the interesting substition of Orton in Booker's place, but that was more a desperate move than brilliant planning)

 

[thuganomics]

Uh, yes it is. The only reason they had a feud of that length was because the WWE had nothing else to do with Benoit and Booker T. It's nothing to do with the title's prestige at all. Hence neither the IC or US strap being defended at most PPVs. As for the feud being interesting, it was basically a carbon copy of their WCW best of seven feud (save for the interesting substition of Orton in Booker's place, but that was more a desperate move than brilliant planning)

If you were running the WWE are you telling me that you wouldn't concentrate on your top 2 titles? I agree that the I.C title since Flair won it was misused, but the US title has been defended and build up a great feud. I don't really care if they copied it from the WCW, it was still a well built up feud.

How can you say it was a desperate move to put Orton in the feud as well. Booker got a injury, and they made a plan to come up with a solution that would include Orton.