This is going to sound crazy... my prediction for the Shield/Evolution feud. At ER Evolution wins after either Ambrose or Rollins fucks up and gets caught for the 1,2,3... Reigns looks pissed after the match but doesn't say anything... the next month between PPVs they start with the split hints again... losing their first match after the PPV because Rollins screwed up.. losing their second match because Ambrose screws up... finally the last couple weeks before the PPV Reigns starts each match and never tags in his partners... he singlehandedly defeats their opponents and walks out of the ring after each match. Rollins gets them together backstage and talks to them and seemingly gets them back on the same page just before the Payback PPV... at Payback they are facing Evolution again... Shield comes out dominating.. they're clicking on every cylinder... the match goes back and forth a little and Shield pick up the win. After the match they go to bump fists and Reigns punches Ambrose making him fall... turns around and spears Rollins... goes to the corner and sets up the Superman punch.. nails Ambrose as he is getting up and then Evolution get back in the ring and all 4 raise each other's arms... then proceed to beat the living crap out of Ambrose and Rollins... Reigns join Evolution and now the Shield is looking for a new member.... STING joins the Shield the next night on RAW!!! HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT! At the next PPV it's Evolution (Orton/Batista/Reigns) vs Shield (Rollins/Ambrose/Sting).
This sounded like a good idea.......
.....and then you typed "Sting". You could have typed "Neville", "Graves", "Zayn"....really anybody not named "Mojo Rawley" from NXT and I would have been okay. But the thought of Sting actually wrestling a match just turns me completely off. Bring him in on a Legends contract and let him do something backstage or stuff and I'm okay, but don't put him in the ring. I would rather have Punk return and become part of the "New Shield" than Sting.
And I'm a fan of Sting's, have been for years. But he shouldn't be wrestling any longer.
And I may be the only one in the IWC looking forward to Kane/Bryan, but I'm looking forward to Kane/Bryan. Besides, the Shield gets a bigger rub from facing HHH/Orton/Batista than Bryan would get from facing HHH again. His match against Kane, which is fairly obvious to be a Bryan victory, means little. It's his first PPV title defense. Of course he's going to win it. He's not a transitional champion, so he's going to win his first major defense. Most first-time champions (and, despite the fact he's technically a 3-time champion, this is his first real title reign) get a couple of "easy" title defenses to start off. Since Bryan's likely carrying the belt until at least Summerslam, it makes sense for him to make his first PPV defense against a guy who's likely on his way out. The fact that it's Bryan's old tag team partner (and reportedly a guy who Bryan is close friends with) may mean nothing to the jaded IWC smarks who think they know better how to tell the stories than people who get paid to do it and are generally highly successful at it, but it means something to those two and the other folks in the back and, after the promos we'll get between Bryan and Kane in the next two weeks leading into ER (both guys are noted for their ability to build tension on the mic), it will mean something to the WWE Universe.
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