But you already knew that! Well I hope you did and tuned in for the 2011 Royal Rumble to see Alberto Del Rio fulfil his destiny.
This year’s rumble was one of the easier results to predict, as seenon my blog, as Del Rio dropped many hints that he will win the Royal Rumble, as many superstars failed to make such a statement.
The Royal Rumble saw some great surprises with cameo appearances from Booker T and Diesel (Kevin Nash) and overall the rumble impressed after a slow start. The rumble was kicked off with the chaos between The Corre and The New Nexus, which makes a potential match at Wrestlemania. Especially after taking Husky Harris out of action on Raw making each group have three surplus wrestlers after their ‘leader’.
We saw cameos from Booker T and Diesel, which was a brilliant move by WWE. We always see the usual old school wrestlers that are getting to repetitive, so to move forward in time to get Booker and Nash was a great move.
John Cena’s elimination was a good creative move by WWE. It was shocking, different and sets up The Miz v Cena at Wrestlemania. However WWE, as suggested in my last blog, might mix things up at this year’s Elimination Chamber.
The Elimination Chamber has taken a different approach to usual this year as the WWE Title will be defended outside of the steel structure. The chamber on Raw will consist of John Cena, CM Punk, R-Truth, Sheamus, John Morrison and Randy Orton to decide the number one contender at Wrestlemania.
Having no WWE title on the line in the Chamber does take some of the surprise element out of the match. Expect Cena to win, with The New Nexus probably costing Randy Orton the match in some way to further ignite that rivalry with CM Punk before Mania.
So, in the WWE title match we have The Miz v Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler. It may seem weird, boring and pointless but it has a reason behind it. Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler, as stated this week on Raw, has never had a match at Wrestlemania. Classic WWE line to say ‘by the way, I’m going to have a fight at Wrestlemania’ don’t worry though, it won’t be Lawler v Cena for his newly won WWE title. The match will probably (definitely) involve Michael Cole interfering and costing Lawler the match.
On Smackdown, there is the usual concept of the World Heavyweight Title being fought for inside the Chamber. The winner will face Alberto Del Rio at the ‘Grand Daddy of them all’ and Edge will retain to face Del Rio. He does face a challenge from Rey Mysterio, Kane, Wade Barrett, Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger but expect one of these to be a part of and win the Money in the Bank match (which may be scrapped, but hopefully not)
It sounds very obvious, but with Edge being the biggest face on Smackdown at the moment, and Del Rio hoping to be the biggest heel on Smackdown, you expect these two to be put together in the second main event at Wrestlemania.
But where does this all leave The Undertaker’s Streak and Triple H’s soon return?
If you saw Raw, with the promo video that said the date ’21.2.11’ then it would suggest Taker will be back on a Monday Night Raw, not at the Elimination Chamber. It’s an odd one, as it’s assumed he’ll face Barrett, and still will. Why they couldn’t do it one night earlier at the Elimination Chamber to give some added entertainment to the Smackdown title match isn’t known, so we will have to see.
There have been rumours flying around that the date and promo actually relates to Sting joining the WWE. If this happened, it would be good for the one off event. However, everyone on the internet is billing this up to be some amazing match. Surely Taker would win still, Sting probably wouldn't be around long term and so it would be good on the night, but in the long term would it gain anything? putting Barrett against Taker for me would better enhance young talent.
Triple H didn’t return at the Rumble, as said before, to make his impact greater at the Elimination Chamber. When the Raw rumble match was announced, I guessed that Sheamus would face The Miz and HHH would interfere, cost Sheamus the match and we have our Wrestlemania re match. It looks like he may return inside the chamber, (Shawn Michaels style?) and cost Sheamus the
number one spot. Hopefully it will be done with little fuss to add to the drama of it.
The Elimination Chamber last year brought much shock and moved the direction of matches last minute, this year it all seems to be set up at the Rumble, so the Chamber is a mere formality. It’s disappointing that the Chamber may lose some of its shock element but it does make sense for the Rumble to have the major set up of rivalries as it will get many more viewers than the Chamber.
So, through those thoughts you may have noticed where Wrestlemania might be heading, but to make it clear, here are the matches that you might expect to see…
WWE Title
The Miz v John Cena
World Heavyweight Title
Edge v Alberto Del Rio
CM Punk v Randy Orton
Sheamus v Triple H
Undertaker v Wade Barrett
The New Nexus (Otunga, McGillicutty and Mason Ryan) v The Corre (Slater, Gabriel and Jackson)
Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler v Michael Cole
We may also get 2 of the following:
Money in the Bank match
Intercontinental title match
Tag Team title match
Divas Championship match
US Title match
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