What's up with changing PPV names? You like to confuse the veteran fans, don't you, WWE? Well done, it was accomplished.

Undertaker vs CM Punk vs Batista vs Rey Mysterio: I don't know what the future of the Batista-Rey Mysterio relationship is going to be. They were on-screen friends earlier (and maybe still are), but you could expect a heel turn from Batista because he lost to Mysterio on Smackdown. That will probably result in an Undertaker-Batista rivalry (which we have already seen before and I am not interested in seeing again) and a Punk-Mysterio rivalry after which Punk might get drafted to Raw to have fresh feuds with Orton and/ or DX. Alternately, they might choose to give Batista and Mysterio the tag-team titles, thereby breaking the Jericho-Big SLow partnership. After that, Jericho might go for the WHC title and feud with Taker (that is what I WANT! :-) ).

Now, I know a lot of sorry-a**es were unhappy about the fact that Undertaker was made to win the title at Hell in a Cell (in my terms, No Mercy) PPV. They even brought rumours about Punk's dress-code violation (and Undertaker's advice to him about it) to be the reason why Undertaker won the title. Well, you dumb nitwits, story-lines aren't made that way. The Undertaker has been in the business for 2 decades and is the most respected athlete, plus the locker-room leader. Everybody who has feuded or teamed with him on screen has benefited in popularity and become wiser/ smarter in the business. When he gives you advice, you'd better shut up and listen. Anyways, in this case it wasn't the dress-code advice which gave him the title. If he was power-hungry, he would've had 15 titles to his name now instead of 7 (most of those title reigns were anyway very short). HHH, Cena, Edge, etc anyways have had longer title reigns than Taker has had, and so you should point to them if you are talking about being title-greedy. The reason why Undertaker was given the title is that he never lost it last year but was wrongly stripped off it. So, the title is "his". And after the kind of performance he gave at Wrestlemania, you would only want your top performer to be the champion. The WWE have been trying to give him a long title reign since 2007 but it never works out because they make him go through a lot of struggle and screw-ups before winning the title like they made him go against Edge (which eats up several months), and they make him go through many no-disqualification matches like elimination-chamber, steel-cage, hell in a cell, last-man standing, casket, TLC, etc - so when he finally wins the title, he is already injured and needs a break.

This time, the WWE has finally changed the strategy and let him win the title immediately upon his return (barring one screw-up at Breaking Point which had to happen, otherwise it won't look like an Undertaker-story). It felt strange to some of the Undertaker fans like us because we are not used to see him win the title so easily but we are used to see him get screwed many times and then finally win it on a big stage. This gave the sorry Undertaker-haters a nice chance to say things like he is power-hungry, and he won it because of the dress-code advice. What BS, I tell you. Anybody and everybody in the WWE is more mature than that. And Undertaker himself has always been pushing stars up, be it Mankind, Kane, Stone Cold, Rock, Kurt Angle, Brock Lesnar, Orton, Khali, Batista, Edge or any other. Where were those Undertaker-haters when he got screwed out of matches and the title again and again throughtout his career? Where were they when it took 20 guys along with Yokozuna to put him in the casket, when Paul Bearer betrayed him and joined hands with Mankind, when Shawn Michaels hit him with a chair and let Bret Hart win, when Kane interfered and let Shawn win in the Hell in a Cell/ casket matches, when Vince/ HHH interfered and let Stone Cold retain the title against him, when Vince interfered and let Lesnar retain the title against him many times, when Big SLow injured him so that Lesnar could beat him at Hell in a Cell, when Kane buried him alive against Vince, when he tombstoned Booker for the title but then Big SLow interfered, when JBL used a chair and didn't get disqualified but Undertaker got disqualified upon using it in revenge, when Bob Orton interfered and helped his son Orton win, when MVP interfered and let Kennedy win, when Mark Henry assaulted him and Edge screwed him out of the title in 2007 by cashing Money-In-The-Bank, when Edge screwed him out of the Hell in a Cell match against Batista, when Edge screwed him in the triple-threat match at Armageddon, when Vickie Guerrero stripped him off the title, when Edge and his minions screwed him out of the title at the TLC match which resulted in Undertaker getting banished, when Vickie slapped Undertaker, when Teddy Long and Scott Armstrong cheated upon him? Now, if you think that Undertaker beating Punk in a 10-minute match was wrong, I have no words for you. All such Undertaker-haters can go to hell ;-) I have got over the fact that he won the title unexpectedly in a small PPV - its ok to have Punk job to the greatest wrestler of all time for once, and let's be happy that this time he won the title rather easily (the way Cena and Edge win each time anyways, and are loved by their fans for it). The reason why the match was short is that he was not 100% fit but he will soon be, since he got some more chance to rest by doing promos and dark-matches. And the reason why the match was the first match of the PPV is that the WWE wanted Undertaker to be the one who would be the first one to win a title in a Hell in a Cell match (since the title had never exchanged hands in it before). There had to be one HIAC match at the start, one in the middle, and one at the end of the PPV. The choice for the first match was not due to Punk's dress-code, but due to the fact that the title had never been won at a HIAC, and they wanted Undertaker to be the first one to do the honours.

So now, coming to my prediction for this match, I think the WWE have realized their mistakes about how they let Undertaker struggle a lot and get injured when he got his title, so this time they are letting him win and retain the title for as long as he can. I would therefore expect him to retain it. The reason why its a Fatal 4-way match is so that he gets some time to relax in the match. If he had to lose it, then he wouldn't have won it from Punk in the first place. Instead, Punk would've retained it and directly lost it to whoever is going to be the next champion in this PPV. So, the bottom-line is that Undertaker is retaining the title in this one.

Randy Orton vs John Cena: I don't know if Cena is going for shooting a movie or not. He is the top face of Raw, but usually a Loser-leaves-town match is only kept when he is actually going to leave and the match becomes the WWE's on-screen method of making it happen. I have a feeling that Cena will lose this one because we are sick of seeing the title exchange hands between him and Orton like a tennis ball. If Cena had to win this, he wouldn't have lost it at Hell in a Cell probably. And since its an "anything goes" match, it favours Orton more. So I am going with Orton winning this one and Cena leaving Raw. Maybe that he will take a break and after a few months, return to Smackdown.

John Morrison vs Miz: John Morrison.

Michelle McCool and Beth Phoenix and Natalya vs Melina and Kelly Kelly and Gail Kim: I have to go with Michelle's team as it looks stronger and because I like it more than the other team ;-) if Mickie James was on the other side, the result could've been different. But I think that this time, the heels will be too much to deal with for Melina and her team.

Team Raw vs Team Smackdown: With DX leading team Raw, there are little chances that the Raw team will lose. It is also possible that Big SLow or Jericho change their sides during the course of the match, or it is possible that this results in some kind of issues between them (I hope so, because then Jericho will go for the singles' title and feud with Undertaker for a good Wrestlemania 26 match). All said and done, this match will end with a Sweet Chin Music or a Pedegree.

I must say that if you remove the Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels match from Wrestlemania, then Summerslam was the best PPV of the year. Some of its non-title matches were better than the title-matches/ so-called main-events at this year's Wrestlemania. For me, the Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels match "saved" Wrestlemania - for God's sake, it was the 25th anniversary of wrestling's biggest event and this match had to occur here. If it had not happened, the Silver Jubilee of this sports-entertainment spectacular would've been a waste. In my estimation, this was the greatest WWE match of all time, and better than Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels at Hell in a Cell or Undertaker vs Mankind at Hell in a Cell or Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels or Shawn Michaels vs Kurt Angle. Why? Well, for example - have you ever seen Bret Hart flying over the top rope? When Undertaker did that and almost landed on his head, I was dead scared that this monumental match might be over. Luckily, it wasn't so. The other wrestlers can't do half the things that Undertaker does (like walking the top rope or flying over it or tombstone piledriving the heaviest guys like Mark Henry) - forget about doing it at an age of 44? Take 2 of the longest lasting tough-guys in the industry who will arguably go down as the 2 greatest ever, the guys who have been through every rivalry and every super-star that you can think of in any era, with two of the most contrasting characters/ personas - and they have always done magic when they were in the ring together, be it in the first Hell in a Cell match or the Royal Rumble 2007 finish, or this. The creative build-up to the match which had Michaels doing Undertaker-like promos (coming out with angels dressed in white and similar attire as Undertaker's, then the graveyard promo, and their word-duels in the ring), followed by the match which had every possible skill of wrestling at display from submission-moves to athletic-moves to power-moves to the Oh My God moments like when Undertaker flew over the rope and almost broke his neck to the Wow moments like when the Undertaker converted Michaels' moon-sault to a tombstone piledriver in an incredibly creative finish - I think this match was WWE's greatest achievement until date. Jim Ross called it the greatest match ever, and I know why.

Coming to Summerslam - I am surprised that the Undertaker returned on that PPV! I didn't expect him to return on the same PPV as Shawn Michaels, although technically Shawn had made appearances and had "returned" before the PPV on Raw (but not in a billed fight). You would ideally save the return of your 2 greatest super-stars for 2 different PPV's to be able to maximize the viewership of each. However, since the next few PPV's after Summerslam are not really A-grade ones, I think it made sense to make Undertaker return on it. It became the exclamation point to the PPV after the CM Punk vs Jeff Hardy match, and true to Undertaker's character, it proved that he can come to attack you anywhere/ anytime. One of the reasons why I was not expecting him to return at Summerslam earlier was that he was not completely healed from his injuries and had to expedite his return for the company (since Hardy was taking time-off, so somebody else was required on the main-event - this does not mean by any means that Undertaker is a replacement for  Hardy because he is far greater than Hardy and Punk put together). As last year, he chose to return at being 90% fit rather than a full 100% to do good for the business. It was also obvious that he is not completely healed from the fact that he didn't fight in any matches before Breaking Point, but he was making only short appearances to choke-slam Punk (because just a sight of the Undertaker keeps the crowd happy, due to the Wow factor it carries with itself). This might be the reason why he was also not tombstone piledriving Punk, or not using the last-ride - because the choke-slam takes lesser effort than those 2. That might also be the reason why the match between Punk and Undertaker at Breaking Point was kept as a submission match, so that Undertaker does not have to use the tombstone or the last-ride in the match. The short duration of the match and the fact that he did not connect his old school top-rope walk confirmed it for me that he is not completely fit yet.

Now, why did they do a screw-job here? Of course it was a mimicry of the 1997 Survivor series Montreal screw-job with Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels - with the difference being that this time the Undertaker would've known (in reality) that this was the scripted finish (though that is not what will be shown in the story-line, to emotionally boost the rivalry and make it look personal) - Bret Hart didn't know (in reality) as to what was planned until it happened. To me, it looked very lame that the WWE said that the reason for the match being re-started is the ban on the Hell's Gate/ Devil's Gate/ Devil's Triangle/ Gogoplata/ Death Valley Vice (as I prefer to call it, since the WWE calls it with a 100 names). Give me a freaking break - when Undertaker was re-instated last year at Summerslam, it was practically assumed that the ban from Hell's Gate is over because he has used it many times after returning in both, regular one-fall matches as well as in no-disqualification matches. For example, he used it against Big SLow in the steel-cage match, he used it against Shelton Benjamin on Smackdown, and he also used it against Shawn Michaels in Wrestlemania (when Michaels broke the hold by reaching the ropes) - now if the move was banned, then Undertaker should've been disqualified then and there for using it. However, they couldn't have done that because the match was supposed to be big.

You can't have such selective memory, WWE - that you choose the move to be legal in some matches when you want and then you choose to remember its banishment in other matches. For the Undertaker', its not a problem if a move is banned because he has such a large arsenal of them. Even if its about submission-moves, he can use the Triangle choke or the Dragon Sleeper hold which he used to apply earlier. For the same reason, the fact that "Undertaker will not be allowed to use Hell's Gate in a match" seems like a stupid stipulation to me because it makes it sound like he doesn't have any other moves, when in reality he has more moves than any super-star and the Hell's Gate is a pretty new one and not really his signature move. What I'm trying to say is - if they had to find a way to screw Undertaker out of the match, there could've been many better ways to do it - and this was one of the worst ways to do it because its technically a contradiction as they've allowed the Hell's Gate to be used in matches after Undertaker's return last year. If you're expecting to please those sorry kiddie-fans who wouldn't remember that it was used after he returned last year, you're keeping the wrong audience happy. You ought to be doing something to keep your veteran and long-lasting fans happy. Since Undertaker won the Royal Rumble in 2007, I am waiting to see a long title reign. Then he gets screwed out of it by Edge due to injury. After his return, I see Edge stealing the title and making a fool out of him like a 100 times, until he finally wins the Elimination chamber and then the title at Wrestlemania. But then I see him being stripped off the belt, I see him getting slapped by Vickie, I even see him being banished! When he returns, I see Big SLow claiming to have knocked him out although it was done after the use of the exposed steel of the turn-buckle. And this year, after his long-awaited return, this is what I get to see. I mean it - WWE, many loyal fans like me are soon going to stop watching wrestling if you think our memory is as bad as yours, and if you think we are fools and if you don't give us what we want.

Looking at Undertaker's state now, I don't think he will ever get the long title reign that he was promised before retirement because he gets into more number of gimmick matches (like Hell in a Cell, TLC, casket, steel cage, last man standing, elimination chamber) than anyone else because he is the only one who can create such intense rivalries by promoting his opponents and do such good story-telling - which results in him getting injured and unable to hold the title for a long time. This is why I don't like the fact that Undertaker is fighting Punk at a Hell in a Cell match. First of all, the rivalry has not yet become so long or so intense that it be culminated in a Hell in a Cell. Secondly, this dilutes the importance of Hell in a Cell because now there are so many matches of that type in the PPV (earlier, we had only one Hell in a Cell match each year and it was of the most intense rivalry). Moreover, what's up with WWE renaming their PPV's? It makes it so difficult for people like us (who have been watching the earlier PPV's since years) to remember them. But oh, I am sorry I forgot - the WWE is not about keeping us loyal fans happy because they don't like our loyalty, but they only want to keep the new kiddie fans happy (as though Hell in a Cell is a rated PG-13 name, if the earlier one was not?) Moreover, isn't Hell in a Cell supposed to be No Mercy, which is where Undertaker has a losing streak? So, I have given up hope on Undertaker winning the title at Hell in a Cell either (because he is not 100% fit for a title-reign and because his rivalries are usually long, hence his feud with Teddy Long won't be over). I doubt it that Vince was (story-line-wise) involved in what Teddy Long did, because I don't think that Vince wants to repeat the earlier stories (the Bret Hart real screw-job or his rivalry with Stone Cold). This year, finally, Vince is not really like a heel (he was greeted very well by the fans upon his return before Wrestlemania and he was generally on the face-side when Orton attacked him) - there is no reason to turn him into a complete heel now and get into a rivalry with the Undertaker. Because then we will see Vince hiring some fat Tom, Dick or Harry to defend himself (just like Vickie Guerrero hired Big SLow) and then a couple of lazy, boring matches (because guys like Big SLow are just slow and can't wrestle or create good matches).

I just hope that somehow, the partnership between Chris Jericho and Big SLow breaks (considering that they are both heels and ego-maniacs, it is bound to break soon) and Jericho somehow rises to the title scene and wins it from Punk. Undertaker can then win the Rumble next year once again to challenge Jericho for the belt and win it one last time at Wrestlemania. Undertaker and Jericho will make a great match because Jericho is a good wrestler, and even if Undertaker has to hold it for a short while (for example, till Summerslam), it would do justice to a long career. I would prefer that he retires as champion because if Trish could do that, why can't he do it too when is actually the greatest ever (assuming that he is retiring next year, although his retirement rumours have been there since a decade and he always proves them wrong), and preferably at Survivor series because that is where he started his career. It would do good story-telling that way. He could win his last match as champion, then Paul Bearer could make an appearance and invite him to join his long-time friend in Death Valley - then Undertaker could leave the belt in the ring and walk out with Bearer, ending the greatest career we'd ever get to see. The belt can later be given to somebody else based on a Battle Royale or something of that sort.

Time for some non-Undertaker talk now. I think DX vs Legacy was a great match at Breaking Point and no matter how much we dislike it, Legacy had to win it by submission. Why? Because DX is the greatest tag-team/ factum ever. They have accomplished everything that they ever had to do and they can't stay in the WWE forever because they are getting old. So they can't dominate the newer factums forever and they have to promote them. I think Legacy might lose at Hell in a Cell, to keep DX's respect in-tact, however they will still be able to claim forever that they were the first ones to make DX tap out or submit. Now, what I would prefer is that if somehow Legacy wins the match because it will cement their future, do no damage to DX's reputation and most importantly, it could somehow start off a feud between HHH and Shawn Michaels if they have a dispute and break up. That would be classic because it might somehow lead to Shawn Michaels' retirement match against HHH at Wrestlemania next year, which would be another Match of the Year contender. I can't wait for it to happen - I don't mind if DX loses the matches and breaks off, as long as that match is there to see :-)

Predictions for No Mercy, sorry, Hell in a Cell (bah, who cares now):

Undertaker vs CM Punk  - CM Punk wins through some interference or screw-job or cheating. Although there is a very bleak chance that Undertaker might win because he appears on the poster - but I don't think it would make sense to hurry his title reign when he is not fit and that too to make him win on a B-grade PPV. Moreover, Punk has recently won the belt so I expect him to hold it for some time.

John Cena vs Randy Orton - John Cena (sadly). He has just won the belt and will perhaps retain it for a while to increase the merchandize sales and to keep the kiddie fans happy. I think the only match which should've been held inside the demonic structure this year was HHH vs Randy Orton as that was the most intense rivalry.

DX vs Legacy - DX.

Big SLow and Chris Jericho vs Batista and Rey Mysterio - SLow and Jericho.

Dolph Ziggler (who?) vs John Morrison - John Morrison.

The Miz vs Jack Swagger vs Kofi Kingston - Jack Swagger (perhaps after pinning Miz). Somebody please tell him to change his looks a bit (maybe keep a Frenchie or go bald) to look more dangerous and get a character like Orton's to become a hit because he has wrestling-skill.

Alicia Fox vs Mickie James - Mickie James. Sigh, I want Beth Phoenix as champion.

I must say that the WWE is not much worth watching without the dead-man ;-) the kind of intensity that the dead-man brings to rivalries (regardless of whether they are title-rivalries or not), as he has been doing right since the 1990s (remember the priceless feuds with Mankind, Kane, Shawn Michaels, the Hell in a Cell introduction, the inferno matches, etc) and continues to do now (recent rivalries against Batista and Edge) - is something that no other superstar has or will ever be able to do - in my estimation, not even HHH.

I know he is healing injuries, and why wouldn't he be if he is given such a taxing schedule with matches left right and center all over the place against every kind of superstar and in every kind of stipulation (hell in a cell, casket, steel cage, elimination chamber, etc). And he would have to do them, because he still does better story-telling and puts better matches than anyone else does. Every match at Wrestlemania 25 was worth laughing at, except the Undertaker-Shawn Michaels match, which ought to teach every kid-fan a lesson as to what real wrestling is about. John Cena cannot ever equal Stone Cold Steve Austin and Randy Orton, as good as he is, can still not equal the Rock. And when the real back-bones (who have been the back-bones of this company for longer than anyone else) - the Undertaker, Shawn Michaels and HHH - retire, then what would happen? Who will save the WWE?

Anyway, so since the dead-man is still away, I will make my speculations about his return and plans for the next 1 year. He has not been in any personally intense rivalry after he got done with Big SLow (which was also not an intense rivalry as the ones with Batista and Edge), so I don't see him fighting in this year's Hell in a Cell (thank God, give the old man some rest and let the kids show what they have got - though it is not as much as the dead-man has got). I think this year's Hell in a Cell would be HHH vs Randy Orton as that seems to be the hottest rivalry of the year. I would love to see Randy come out on top in that one - he really needs the boost and is doing a good job for the business as champion. I think he deserved all the investment that the company has put into making him the top-star of this year - I had predicted his Rumble victory and his title victory at Backlash in my earlier blogs too, and I can estimate why it was done.

As for the dead-man, I think his next feud will be Chris Jericho. I remember Jericho mentioning a year back that he wanted to feud with Undertaker, and now that he is in Smackdown (which is effectively the Undertaker's brand), he has all the chance. Jericho is drawing a lot of heat as a heel (bad guy) right now and he is a good wrestler too, so he can put good matches with the dead-man, who can stand in the ring with superstars of any type and create good matches with them - be it the slow ones like Khali or the quicker ones like Shawn Michaels. Jericho had good confrontrations with Ricky Steamboat recently (man, can Steamboat wrestle!) and I think that he will soon start making claims as to how he has killed every legend in the WWE ever. How? Jericho will win the WHC championship belt soon and one fine day, he will be bragging in the ring about how he is the best ever and how he has put all legends to rest, starting with Ric Flair.... until the infamous church-bell tolls and enters the greatest legend of them all - the Phenom, the Undertaker! Jericho's look will sell it all. Undertaker will claim that he never lost the title which was stolen from him last year, and that should be enough to start this top-class rivalry.

I see them in a few non-title matches first which Undertaker will win, and in a few title-matches which Jericho will win (perhaps at Survivor series or Armageddon) through some kind of cheating or cheap-shots. Then the Undertaker will win the Royal Rumble next year once more (I can't think of anyone else who will win it as Batista/ Cena/ Orton - they all have won it recently and made the most of it - Undertaker was the only one who won it but couldn't make the most out of it because after winning the belt from Batista in 2007, he got injured and had to drop the title to Edge). Since the Undertaker was in a title match at last year's Wrestlemania also (with Edge), you would imagine that the WWE wants to give their best man a long title reign before he calls it quits. Nobody has earned it more (because he was very often not in title-feuds but still the most top-class feuds like the ones with Mankind and Kane), and after the Wrestlemania 25 match, I say make Undertaker and Shawn as the WHC and WWE champions for the next 1 year and show the kiddie Cenas and Kingstons and Mysterios how the title is held in style. Anyway, so coming back to my prediction, Undertaker wins next year's Rumble and then challenges Jericho to a spectacular match at Wrestlemania 26 - they will put up an awesome show which will end with a tombstone piledriver on Y2J (hopefully Undertaker's annual suicide-dive over-the-top-rope connects well this time and Jericho stands there instead of pulling a stupid cameraman who doesn't know where to stand to face the impact). And then starteth the reign of the dead-man.... for once, bring back the dark ages!

I am not watching Backlash because the Undertaker is not in a match.

Jack Swagger vs Christian: I couldn't care less about this one - I hope Christian wins this time.

Jeff Hardy vs Matt Hardy: I've heard that Jeff is quitting WWE, which made me really happy as I hate him a lot. His recent look is like a joker (he probably tried to imitate the legendary joker from the Batman but did a pathetic job of it), and I detest the push he received despite violating the WWE Wellness Policy and taking drugs. I was so happy when he lost at Wrestlemania, though I had "expected" him to win due to the fan-following he has with the kids and girls (the ones who know nothing about wrestling). I hope he loses again but I think that the kids would want to see him win this time, so perhaps Jeff will win. But he might lose another match again which will be his last, before he leaves the WWE (please do!)

Santina on Khali kiss cam: Santina will probably be exposed as Santino because his/ her hair will fall off. That would mean that Khali will get enraged and give a chop to Santino. Beth Phoenix will also be enraged with the fact that it was Santino who was pretending to be Santina. Eventually the crowd would want to see Khali and Beth kiss, and that is probably what will happen. The strongest male wrestler and the strongest female on the roster will kiss. Am not sure whether there is a face turn for Beth or a heel turn for Khali here but I just hope that it happens this way. Whether Beth breaks off with Santino later and starts a relationship with Khali or not remains to be seen.

Chris Jericho vs Ricky Steamboat: I am so impressed with the fact that Steamboat can still wrestle as he used to decades back. He has not lost touch at all despite not being in the ring since so many years, as he proved at Wrestlemania. He was the best performer at the show, keeping the Undertaker and Shawn Michaels aside. I actually thought that he would win the match but it didn't happen that way because the segment was all about Mickey Rourke, who disappointed me a lot. I hope this come-back for Steamboat only means one thing - he will win this time.

CM Punk vs Kane: Considering the losing streak Kane has had ever since he turned "heel" (bad-character), I don't see him winning this. He lost to Punk on a weekly show but then beat him in a tag-team match at Superstars, which probably gives the WWE another excuse to make him lose this time. It would hurt Punk's momentum as holder of the money-in-the-bank (MITB) if he loses, so I think Punk will win it. However, I hate this.... I wish so much that Kane would win! Kane was the most dominant and destructive force in the late 1990s much like Undertaker was in the early and mid 1990s, and he struck terror in the hearts of everyone including Stone Cold, Rock, Hulk Hogan, DX. He kicked a** all alone in the ring and cleaned house, and now he loses to guys like Rey Mysterio, Kofi Kingston and CM Punk? This rated PG-13 era sucks and I hate it that the WWE mould the results for the kids. Kane was a perfect choice to win the MITB because he can be made to defeat anyone and make it look real, and because his tweener-character allows him to feud with anyone. I hope they made this match about the MITB and made Kane win it from Punk. Hey, it might happen in the future if both of them stay on Smackdown!

John Cena vs Edge: I hope Cena loses, because it will allow Edge to bring the title back to Smackdown. Another option is that Cena will win the match but then Punk will cash in his MITB to win the belt and bring it back to Smackdown. But that might not happen because Punk is still a "face" (good-character), and he might cash it later in his home-town of Chicago (if there is a PPV happening there). I'm going with Edge winning this and then getting into a rivalry with Punk later who will win the belt.

HHH, Batista and Shane McMahon vs Randy Orton and 2 idiots: Randy Orton should have won at Wrestlemania itself. Its bad for the business if the Royal Rumble winner does not win the belt at Wrestlemania (that is what happened the last 2 times) because the fans will lose interest in the Rumble. It will not be able to retain its significance. Randy has to win the match this time. Who isn't sick of seeing HHH win the belt 16751239871384765327654214987 times? The only non-wrestler there is Shane, so perhaps Randy will RKO Shane for the win. It is possible that Shane/ Batista turn on each other because they have knocked eath other out or argued a few times in the last few weeks. I don't know if anyone will turn heel or not - I would be happy if HHH turned on them after losing the match and became heel. It will refresh his character a bit. Later on, he can reunite with Shawn Michaels to form DX and turn face again. I am hoping to see a Randy Orton vs Batista rivalry for the title after this.