Roundtable Preview: The OCC Contributors preview - Survivor Series 2006
We're back for another roundtable preview. We still have no Ric Gillespie, I guess Sex Reassignment surgery isn't a same-day opporation afterall. However, Wade (AKA: OldCountryGive&Taker) is joining us for the roundtable on what will hopefully be a regular basis.
Art: Tonight is the 19th annual Survivor Series here in Philadelphia, it'll be the second WWE PPV that I've attended, the first being Royal Rumble 2004. The undercard on that particular show was weak so I hope that not only will the SS matches deliver but also that the undercard matches are somewhat decent.
Casey: Its time to preview the thanksgiving night trad…oh, hasn’t been that for more than a decade now. I wish it were as had this aired Thanksgiving night or eve I may have ordered it but alas WWE shall once again get no money from me.
Euan: Here we go WWE Survivor Series 2006, the first PPV in a while i can truly say I am looking forward to watching. Seriously, i don't think i can bitch about anything this month....oh yeah Benoit/Chavo but what do you expect from the land of the damned that is Smackdown?
First Blood Match: Mr. Kennedy vs. Undertaker
Wade: They must be running out of opponents for Undertaker to face on Smackdown! If they have him in a First Blood match with Ken Kennedy. Undertaker is gonna win this and then they should think of moving him over to RAW.
Winner: Undertaker
Art: Not really into this feud, and conventional wisdom says that Kennedy will win this one and I
agree, Taker bleeding isn't as bad getting pinned and it will continue
this feud (OH NO~!). Also I love Taker's entrance so it'll be somewhat
worth it.
Winner: Mr. Kennedy
Casey: Euan asks why we have to put up with Kennedy. It’s a fair question, but lets forget why and look at how. This is a first blood match which means that Undertaker can lose without having to do a job. First blood is not a signature Taker match so there’s no risk of him losing in say a casket match or something (although he has lost those, let us all remember Royal Rumble 1994). So this feud must continue because the WWE hates its fans or something.
Winner: Ken Kennedy> McMah…err…what?
Euan: Why? Why do we need to see Mr. Kennedy have another shitty match with the Undertaker? I think Undertaker is awesome and he can do no wrong in my book
but Kennedy after a promising start plain sucks now. That said this will be a First Blood match so wrestling ability does not really count for much, provided
you can bust your opponent open with a weapon of sorts you will be fine. Undertaker to win and hopefully he will go that one step further and just kill
Mr. Kennedy.
Winner: Undertaker
WWE Women’s Championship: Lita vs. Mickie James
Wade: I just have 1 question: What the hell is happening to the Women's Division? Trish wins the belt in her last match and now this is going to be Lita's last match. This is a hard match to call, as surprising as that sounds. If Lita wins, where does that leave the Women's Title? If Mickie wins there will only be 1 women's wrestler to defend against that I know of. I'll go with Mickie to see where things go from here.
Winner: Mickie James
Art: Mickie James will win the
title from Lita tonight and I'm curious how the crowd will react to Lita at the end, will we give her a positive send-off or will Philadelphia bombard her with "crack-whore" chants? You'll have to wait and see.
Winner: Mickie James
Casey: Everyone knows the deal. This is Lita’s last match. I personally think that the WWE should make this a running joke. Have Lita go out exactly the same way that Trish did, then crown a new champion only to have said champion announce they are leaving soon. Repeat this process until all nameless, faceless, personalityless (is that even a word?) divas are gone. But don’t worry about me saying people should be fired in this time of good will toward men, Vince Russo is booking TNA so they’ll all end up there anyway.
Winner: Mickie James
Euan: This will be Lita's final match in WWE and i cannot blame her for wanting to get the fuck out of the Women's division before Candice Michelle wins the title and God flames the earth as punishment. However, i do not think she will be taking the Women's Championship away with her on Sunday ala Trish providing Mickie James is fit to wrestle after taking Lita's thighs to her jaw on Raw. I will say that Lita will be losing her title but who to is to be decided.
Winner: Mickie James
United States Championship: Chavo Guerrero vs. Chris Benoit
Wade: They've decided to have Chavo feud with another wrestler who was close to the late, great Eddie Guerrero now. I haven't seen this feud but I hope it isn't
centered around Eddie. Benoit is gonna win this match despite interference from Vickie.
Winner: Chris Benoit
Art: If Benoit wasn't in this match I'd be scattering the drizzling shits on this one... Chavo's a decent wrestler but the whole Eddie/Vicki/Chavo estate/exploitation angle has just turned me off to watching Smackdown for close to a year now... this feud is starting up so I think Vicki will become some part of a screwjob (ON SURVIVOR SERIES?? NEVER~!!!) and Chavo ends up winning the title.
Winner: Chavo Guerrero
Casey: Euan sums up my thoughts on this storyline pretty well. It would not surprise me to one day learn that the WWE forced Vickie Guerrero in to this angle by tying royalty payments off of Eddie’s merchandise to her participation in this storyline. Maybe she doesn’t want to do it, a check gets lost in the mail. Anyway, there is a match here and it is a match that I might care about if not buried by the crap that is this angle.
Winner: Chris Benoit
Euan: The continuation of the most tasteless storyline in history in my opinion. I think this may be one of the reasons i gave up watching Smackdown, i hate everything about this. Nothing before has turned me off a wrestling show before but this did it. I think it's the way they have not only used the death of one of the greatest wrestlers the world has seen to get someone over but then to act like he is still a character when he performed his posthumous heel turn on Chris Benoit a few weeks ago. I have nothing against Vicky Guerrero, she needed the money and this was going to be the only way to get it but Chavo could, in my opinion, have stopped this from ever happening in the first place and let it go. Benoit to retain and i apologise for the lack of whackyness in this prediction, i just wanted to air an opinion.
Winner: Chris Benoit
World Heavyweight Championship: Batista vs. King Booker
Wade: Booker has been pretty good as World Champion and it's a good idea to have Batista chase the title. Add in this match being in the same place where he had to relinquish it and you got the makings of a great match. King Booker is going to be dethroned as World Champion.
Winner: Batista
Art: Frankly I haven't been following this feud as I don't watch Smackdown on a regular basis, won't be great but should be a good match at the most and I think Batista's going to win this one... at least I got that impression from watching this week's SD.
Winner: Batista
Casey: All you need to know about this match is that they teased on Smackdown (I read the spoilers, me watch, as if) that this would be Batista’s last shot at the title. While I realize this is wrestling and stipulations mean nothing at all, this was to me a pretty big clue of what I already believed to be true.
Winner: All hail King Boo…Batista
Euan: I will admit right now that i do not watch Smackdown most weeks as simply nothing on the show interests me, not even the greatness of King Booker is enough reason to say "Hey, i wanna watch Friday Night Smackdown." I think this should be an entertaining match but not a long one considering there are three traditional Survivor Series matches later on in the show. Batista has returned to the old Batista we grew to love before his injury forced him to take time out and he returned as just another guy. Batista will finally recapture the World Heavyweight Championship and end the King's reign over Smackdown. What happens next?
Winner: Batista
Survivor Series Elimination Match: Ric Flair (captain), Dusty Rhodes, Sgt. Slaughter & Ron Simmons w/Arn Anderson vs. Kenny (captain), Johnny, Nicky & Mikey w/Mitch
Wade: Ah, the Legends match. They must not have many Legends to work with if they dropped this down to 4 on 4. I like the partners they got for Flair and it'll be great to see Arn Anderson around the ring again. I don't know how they've been booking this feud but I don't even have to think twice about who I think is winning this match. I think the Legends will make a clean sweep.
Winners: Flair’s Team
Art: Yeah I'm going for another face team win but The Spirit Squad are living on borrowed time as its demise has slowly unfolded on TV the last few weeks. Hell, I might even pick up a "DAMN~!" t-shirt along the way... Flair's team go over for sure.
Winners: Flair’s Team
Casey: This is so obvious even Vince Russo could, well he wouldn’t get it right, he just would get it less wrong than his actual angles. Anyway, the Squad bumps for the legends who hit their signature spots, and this pushes the Squad closer to the breaking point if not completely over the cliff. I predict that the entire legend’s team survives.
Winners: Flair, Rhodes, Slaughter and Simmons
Euan: Let the fun begin in the first of our triple main event!!!!! This match will be comedy from beginning to end and with the edition of Ron Simmons replacing Roddy Piper on Raw, this match will be nothing short of a classic. All i want from this match is the following: Ric Flair saying "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" a number of times, Dusty Rhodes must dance as i laugh harder every time i see it, Sgt. Slaughter calling someone a maggot and Ron Simmons to say "DAMN!" after Team Greatness defeats the Spirit Squad.
Winners: Team Greatness
Survivor Series Elimination Match: John Cena (Captain), Kane, Lashley, Sabu & RVD vs. Big Show (Captain), Test, MVP, Finlay & Umaga
Wade; I've heard this was originally going to be a RAW team against a Smackdown! team against an ECW team. That would've been a cooler match but this set up is good too. I'm going with Cena's team with the order of elimination being: MVP, Lashley, Finlay, Test, Sabu, RVD, Umaga and Show.
Winners: Cena’s Team
Art: Another interesting match-up, Show's got Finlay on his team, the rest of them can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. The line-ups here are a bit weak in my opinion but you still have Cena, RVD, Lashely and Finlay in the mix... expect some clusterfucks to rear their ugly heads at times, I would have to hope that Team Cena wins this one.
Winners: Cena’s Team
Casey: I think that the booking for this is pretty simple. Its time to make Umaga a star. How do we make Umaga a star at the Survivor Series? Well…
Winner: and soul Survivor, Umaga
Euan: This will be fun but in the horrible wrestling department as we have Big Show who is about as mobile as a dead horse, MVP who is a gay Power Ranger and Test who just sucks. As much as I dislike John Cena, he has been very good over the past few months in his feud with Edge. I am looking forward to seeing Lashley and Finlay go at it as it's always fun to watch but Lashley in ECW should be interesting. But I am going to say Team Cena will take the victory.
Winners: Cena, Kane, Lashley, RVD and Sabu
Survivor Series Elimination Match: DX (co-captains) CM Punk, Matt & Jeff Hardy vs. Rated RKO (co-captains), Johnny Nitro, Mike Knox & Gregory Helms
Wade: I remember asking Casey about who Mike Knox is last week and I got the "You don't wanna know" reply. Take that and the (what I think is) far superior team of Team DX and I have to go with Team DX. The order of elimination I'll go with here is: Mike Knox, CM Punk, Gregory Helms, Matt Hardy, Johnny Nitro, Edge and Orton.
Winners: DX’s Team
Art: This is the SS match I'm looking most forward to, both teams (except for shitbag Knox) are filled with strong talent and I'm anticipating a fun match here and I'm calling for Team DX to win this one...
Winners: Team DX
Casey: This should probably be one damn fun little match. I also think this will be the longest match on the show. As for who goes over, well I look at these matches scientifically. One of these teams is captained by DX and the other team is not. What this means is that the team not captained by DX has as much chance of winning this match as TNA has of beating Raw in the ratings the night after Survivor Series.
Winners: Degeneration X (Survivors either HHH and Shawn or just HHH)
Euan: It is great to see CM Punk's name mentioned in the main event of one of the biggest PPVs of the year, i have followed Punk's career since his ROH days and it makes me so happy to see him doing this well in WWE as i had real fears they would fuck his character up completely and destroy his legacy. The return of the Hardy Boyz also brings a strange sense of joy to me as they were one of my favorite tag teams growing up and after Jeff Hardy nearly killing himself on Monday night it will be interesting to see how he fairs after three big matches in one week. I am really into the DX/Team RKO feud at the moment, it at least makes sense that Edge and Randy Orton both want rid of DX after weeks of humiliation at their hands. However i do not see Team RKO walking out
of Survivor Series winners so Team DX to win.
Winners: Team DX
Casey: I’m glad that Euan is glad he’ll be ordering this show because that makes me glad that he can recap it. In all seriousness it looks like a decent enough lineup but we just have too many shows in too short a space and due to the holidays I may have ordered my last wrestling/MMA show until 12/30. Ah, Who am I kidding? TNA Live coverage at OCC on 12/10 everybody.
Art will probably type up his thoughts for the SNH after he gets back from attending this event. The rest of us wish Art a good time at the show.
Euan: Overall apart from a single match, this should be one hell of a show that i am more than happy to pay £14.95 to watch.
Art: Tonight is the 19th annual Survivor Series here in Philadelphia, it'll be the second WWE PPV that I've attended, the first being Royal Rumble 2004. The undercard on that particular show was weak so I hope that not only will the SS matches deliver but also that the undercard matches are somewhat decent.
Casey: Its time to preview the thanksgiving night trad…oh, hasn’t been that for more than a decade now. I wish it were as had this aired Thanksgiving night or eve I may have ordered it but alas WWE shall once again get no money from me.
Euan: Here we go WWE Survivor Series 2006, the first PPV in a while i can truly say I am looking forward to watching. Seriously, i don't think i can bitch about anything this month....oh yeah Benoit/Chavo but what do you expect from the land of the damned that is Smackdown?
First Blood Match: Mr. Kennedy vs. Undertaker
Wade: They must be running out of opponents for Undertaker to face on Smackdown! If they have him in a First Blood match with Ken Kennedy. Undertaker is gonna win this and then they should think of moving him over to RAW.
Winner: Undertaker
Art: Not really into this feud, and conventional wisdom says that Kennedy will win this one and I
agree, Taker bleeding isn't as bad getting pinned and it will continue
this feud (OH NO~!). Also I love Taker's entrance so it'll be somewhat
worth it.
Winner: Mr. Kennedy
Casey: Euan asks why we have to put up with Kennedy. It’s a fair question, but lets forget why and look at how. This is a first blood match which means that Undertaker can lose without having to do a job. First blood is not a signature Taker match so there’s no risk of him losing in say a casket match or something (although he has lost those, let us all remember Royal Rumble 1994). So this feud must continue because the WWE hates its fans or something.
Winner: Ken Kennedy> McMah…err…what?
Euan: Why? Why do we need to see Mr. Kennedy have another shitty match with the Undertaker? I think Undertaker is awesome and he can do no wrong in my book
but Kennedy after a promising start plain sucks now. That said this will be a First Blood match so wrestling ability does not really count for much, provided
you can bust your opponent open with a weapon of sorts you will be fine. Undertaker to win and hopefully he will go that one step further and just kill
Mr. Kennedy.
Winner: Undertaker
WWE Women’s Championship: Lita vs. Mickie James
Wade: I just have 1 question: What the hell is happening to the Women's Division? Trish wins the belt in her last match and now this is going to be Lita's last match. This is a hard match to call, as surprising as that sounds. If Lita wins, where does that leave the Women's Title? If Mickie wins there will only be 1 women's wrestler to defend against that I know of. I'll go with Mickie to see where things go from here.
Winner: Mickie James
Art: Mickie James will win the
title from Lita tonight and I'm curious how the crowd will react to Lita at the end, will we give her a positive send-off or will Philadelphia bombard her with "crack-whore" chants? You'll have to wait and see.
Winner: Mickie James
Casey: Everyone knows the deal. This is Lita’s last match. I personally think that the WWE should make this a running joke. Have Lita go out exactly the same way that Trish did, then crown a new champion only to have said champion announce they are leaving soon. Repeat this process until all nameless, faceless, personalityless (is that even a word?) divas are gone. But don’t worry about me saying people should be fired in this time of good will toward men, Vince Russo is booking TNA so they’ll all end up there anyway.
Winner: Mickie James
Euan: This will be Lita's final match in WWE and i cannot blame her for wanting to get the fuck out of the Women's division before Candice Michelle wins the title and God flames the earth as punishment. However, i do not think she will be taking the Women's Championship away with her on Sunday ala Trish providing Mickie James is fit to wrestle after taking Lita's thighs to her jaw on Raw. I will say that Lita will be losing her title but who to is to be decided.
Winner: Mickie James
United States Championship: Chavo Guerrero vs. Chris Benoit
Wade: They've decided to have Chavo feud with another wrestler who was close to the late, great Eddie Guerrero now. I haven't seen this feud but I hope it isn't
centered around Eddie. Benoit is gonna win this match despite interference from Vickie.
Winner: Chris Benoit
Art: If Benoit wasn't in this match I'd be scattering the drizzling shits on this one... Chavo's a decent wrestler but the whole Eddie/Vicki/Chavo estate/exploitation angle has just turned me off to watching Smackdown for close to a year now... this feud is starting up so I think Vicki will become some part of a screwjob (ON SURVIVOR SERIES?? NEVER~!!!) and Chavo ends up winning the title.
Winner: Chavo Guerrero
Casey: Euan sums up my thoughts on this storyline pretty well. It would not surprise me to one day learn that the WWE forced Vickie Guerrero in to this angle by tying royalty payments off of Eddie’s merchandise to her participation in this storyline. Maybe she doesn’t want to do it, a check gets lost in the mail. Anyway, there is a match here and it is a match that I might care about if not buried by the crap that is this angle.
Winner: Chris Benoit
Euan: The continuation of the most tasteless storyline in history in my opinion. I think this may be one of the reasons i gave up watching Smackdown, i hate everything about this. Nothing before has turned me off a wrestling show before but this did it. I think it's the way they have not only used the death of one of the greatest wrestlers the world has seen to get someone over but then to act like he is still a character when he performed his posthumous heel turn on Chris Benoit a few weeks ago. I have nothing against Vicky Guerrero, she needed the money and this was going to be the only way to get it but Chavo could, in my opinion, have stopped this from ever happening in the first place and let it go. Benoit to retain and i apologise for the lack of whackyness in this prediction, i just wanted to air an opinion.
Winner: Chris Benoit
World Heavyweight Championship: Batista vs. King Booker
Wade: Booker has been pretty good as World Champion and it's a good idea to have Batista chase the title. Add in this match being in the same place where he had to relinquish it and you got the makings of a great match. King Booker is going to be dethroned as World Champion.
Winner: Batista
Art: Frankly I haven't been following this feud as I don't watch Smackdown on a regular basis, won't be great but should be a good match at the most and I think Batista's going to win this one... at least I got that impression from watching this week's SD.
Winner: Batista
Casey: All you need to know about this match is that they teased on Smackdown (I read the spoilers, me watch, as if) that this would be Batista’s last shot at the title. While I realize this is wrestling and stipulations mean nothing at all, this was to me a pretty big clue of what I already believed to be true.
Winner: All hail King Boo…Batista
Euan: I will admit right now that i do not watch Smackdown most weeks as simply nothing on the show interests me, not even the greatness of King Booker is enough reason to say "Hey, i wanna watch Friday Night Smackdown." I think this should be an entertaining match but not a long one considering there are three traditional Survivor Series matches later on in the show. Batista has returned to the old Batista we grew to love before his injury forced him to take time out and he returned as just another guy. Batista will finally recapture the World Heavyweight Championship and end the King's reign over Smackdown. What happens next?
Winner: Batista
Survivor Series Elimination Match: Ric Flair (captain), Dusty Rhodes, Sgt. Slaughter & Ron Simmons w/Arn Anderson vs. Kenny (captain), Johnny, Nicky & Mikey w/Mitch
Wade: Ah, the Legends match. They must not have many Legends to work with if they dropped this down to 4 on 4. I like the partners they got for Flair and it'll be great to see Arn Anderson around the ring again. I don't know how they've been booking this feud but I don't even have to think twice about who I think is winning this match. I think the Legends will make a clean sweep.
Winners: Flair’s Team
Art: Yeah I'm going for another face team win but The Spirit Squad are living on borrowed time as its demise has slowly unfolded on TV the last few weeks. Hell, I might even pick up a "DAMN~!" t-shirt along the way... Flair's team go over for sure.
Winners: Flair’s Team
Casey: This is so obvious even Vince Russo could, well he wouldn’t get it right, he just would get it less wrong than his actual angles. Anyway, the Squad bumps for the legends who hit their signature spots, and this pushes the Squad closer to the breaking point if not completely over the cliff. I predict that the entire legend’s team survives.
Winners: Flair, Rhodes, Slaughter and Simmons
Euan: Let the fun begin in the first of our triple main event!!!!! This match will be comedy from beginning to end and with the edition of Ron Simmons replacing Roddy Piper on Raw, this match will be nothing short of a classic. All i want from this match is the following: Ric Flair saying "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" a number of times, Dusty Rhodes must dance as i laugh harder every time i see it, Sgt. Slaughter calling someone a maggot and Ron Simmons to say "DAMN!" after Team Greatness defeats the Spirit Squad.
Winners: Team Greatness
Survivor Series Elimination Match: John Cena (Captain), Kane, Lashley, Sabu & RVD vs. Big Show (Captain), Test, MVP, Finlay & Umaga
Wade; I've heard this was originally going to be a RAW team against a Smackdown! team against an ECW team. That would've been a cooler match but this set up is good too. I'm going with Cena's team with the order of elimination being: MVP, Lashley, Finlay, Test, Sabu, RVD, Umaga and Show.
Winners: Cena’s Team
Art: Another interesting match-up, Show's got Finlay on his team, the rest of them can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. The line-ups here are a bit weak in my opinion but you still have Cena, RVD, Lashely and Finlay in the mix... expect some clusterfucks to rear their ugly heads at times, I would have to hope that Team Cena wins this one.
Winners: Cena’s Team
Casey: I think that the booking for this is pretty simple. Its time to make Umaga a star. How do we make Umaga a star at the Survivor Series? Well…
Winner: and soul Survivor, Umaga
Euan: This will be fun but in the horrible wrestling department as we have Big Show who is about as mobile as a dead horse, MVP who is a gay Power Ranger and Test who just sucks. As much as I dislike John Cena, he has been very good over the past few months in his feud with Edge. I am looking forward to seeing Lashley and Finlay go at it as it's always fun to watch but Lashley in ECW should be interesting. But I am going to say Team Cena will take the victory.
Winners: Cena, Kane, Lashley, RVD and Sabu
Survivor Series Elimination Match: DX (co-captains) CM Punk, Matt & Jeff Hardy vs. Rated RKO (co-captains), Johnny Nitro, Mike Knox & Gregory Helms
Wade: I remember asking Casey about who Mike Knox is last week and I got the "You don't wanna know" reply. Take that and the (what I think is) far superior team of Team DX and I have to go with Team DX. The order of elimination I'll go with here is: Mike Knox, CM Punk, Gregory Helms, Matt Hardy, Johnny Nitro, Edge and Orton.
Winners: DX’s Team
Art: This is the SS match I'm looking most forward to, both teams (except for shitbag Knox) are filled with strong talent and I'm anticipating a fun match here and I'm calling for Team DX to win this one...
Winners: Team DX
Casey: This should probably be one damn fun little match. I also think this will be the longest match on the show. As for who goes over, well I look at these matches scientifically. One of these teams is captained by DX and the other team is not. What this means is that the team not captained by DX has as much chance of winning this match as TNA has of beating Raw in the ratings the night after Survivor Series.
Winners: Degeneration X (Survivors either HHH and Shawn or just HHH)
Euan: It is great to see CM Punk's name mentioned in the main event of one of the biggest PPVs of the year, i have followed Punk's career since his ROH days and it makes me so happy to see him doing this well in WWE as i had real fears they would fuck his character up completely and destroy his legacy. The return of the Hardy Boyz also brings a strange sense of joy to me as they were one of my favorite tag teams growing up and after Jeff Hardy nearly killing himself on Monday night it will be interesting to see how he fairs after three big matches in one week. I am really into the DX/Team RKO feud at the moment, it at least makes sense that Edge and Randy Orton both want rid of DX after weeks of humiliation at their hands. However i do not see Team RKO walking out
of Survivor Series winners so Team DX to win.
Winners: Team DX
Casey: I’m glad that Euan is glad he’ll be ordering this show because that makes me glad that he can recap it. In all seriousness it looks like a decent enough lineup but we just have too many shows in too short a space and due to the holidays I may have ordered my last wrestling/MMA show until 12/30. Ah, Who am I kidding? TNA Live coverage at OCC on 12/10 everybody.
Art will probably type up his thoughts for the SNH after he gets back from attending this event. The rest of us wish Art a good time at the show.
Euan: Overall apart from a single match, this should be one hell of a show that i am more than happy to pay £14.95 to watch.
posted by Casey Trowbridge at 11/26/2006 02:57:00 PM
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nice review, I'll let you guys know how it goes.
Cheers.
Have fun at the show.
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