Hello again, after an unpredictable pay per view and subsequent Monday Night Raw, there was a whole lot of shaking up as far as returning superstars and the World and WWE Title pictures. First, on my last entry, I gave my predictions on this past Sunday's PPV. Out of six matches, I only got four right, taking into account that I did NOT predict who would be the sole survivor(s).
That leads me into my next subject, in the WWE Title match, as all of you that bought the event saw, your new WWE Champion is a returning Edge. Expect four very obvious people to be targeting the Rated R Superstar: Jeff Hardy (Screwed out of title opportunity,) HHH (Lost title to unknown opponent,) Vladimir Koslov (Will pursue whomever holds the championship,) and the Undertaker(Fresh off of feud with Big Show, may look to grab title one last time after sending Edge through the ring a few months back.)
On the Raw side of the house, John Cena successfully captured the World Heavyweight Championship in his first match back in three months against former champ Chris Jericho. Their return match has been booked for Armageddon after Jericho's win in a triple threat #1 Contender's Match. Also, Melina returned to action this past Monday and may eventually be another contender after Beth Phoenix's Women's Championship, especially after being injured by Phoenix.
In the Land of the Extreme, expect much of the same between Matt Hardy and Mark Henry as the World's Strongest Man tries everything in his strength in the coming weeks to regain the ECW Title.
I've noticed on one person's blog that they believe that some "new blood" should be injected into the title pictures on all of the shows. Not to take sides or anything, but I've noticed some differences besides the usual John Cena or HHH holding the top prizes, as you already know, Matt Hardy holds ECW's only active title, while title shots have been doled out to names like Jeff Hardy, Vladimir Koslov, Evan Bourne (Thanks to the WWE Universe @ Cyber Sunday,) Even CM Punk has held the ECW and World titles, and he's a fresh face himself, having worked longer in the indies than in the WWE. All I can say in the end is the WWE is going to place the belts on superstars that can sell tickets and pay per views. The only thing you can do as fans is continue to cheer for your favorites and convince the powers that be that your favorite superstar can carry the WWE on his back. Even some signage would work too.
To give you a bit of a reminder of how fans can influence a promotion, history does recall that although WCW, when it was an active promotion, had a reputation for holding the young talent back, the only one who broke that glass ceiling was a man named Bill Goldberg. His then-growing fanbase and popularity, along with his "undefeated streak" took him from being an unknown to the World Heavyweight Title.
Until Next Time,
Chris


hay there chris,
davidjust a quick thought on your blog,i fully agree with you on certain superstars having there chances at world championships,such as cm punk,jeff hardy,koslov,shawn micheals even appears on that list over the last few months,some people dont think about these superstars having thoses chances,maybe they simply forget,who knows? i would like to see other superstars such as the gold standard shelton benjaman or maybe mvp given a wwe title oppentunity,i do think superstars like them are easyly looked past and some think they are not worthy....as much as i love jeff hardy and triple h,i do think they should stand back and give someone else a shot at the gold.....what do you think?
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