{"id":10892,"date":"2013-04-07T22:09:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T12:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=10892"},"modified":"2013-04-07T22:26:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T12:26:34","slug":"wrestlemania-29-prediction-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=10892","title":{"rendered":"Wrestlemania 29 Predictions Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wrestlemania 29 <\/em>is taking place tonight, emanating from the outdoor Metlife Stadium in New Jersey where a ridiculously large crowd of 80,000 people are expected for a show featuring a whole bunch of old dudes who have been wrestling forever.<\/p>\n

The card is a mixed bag.\u00a0 It features a lot of marquee matches but all of them are repeats.\u00a0 The headlining matches are John Cena vs The Rock, Triple H vs Brock Lesnar and CM Punk vs The Undertaker which have all taken place before in past years.\u00a0 Having said that, there is a lot of potential for some great matches and its always fun getting hyped for Wrestlemania <\/em>anyways.\u00a0 It’s generally treated as a ‘season finale’ for storylines and you can usually count on something significant happening on the show.<\/p>\n

Here’s a breakdown of the card and my tips.<\/p>\n

\"funkscholars\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A weird bit of trivia about Matt Bloom who is wrestling under the name Sweet-T in the Tons of Funk team.\u00a0 He has had two separate careers in WWE and his name has undergone the same evolution each time.\u00a0 He first started as Prince Albert, then became Albert, then became A-Train.\u00a0 When he returned after a hiatus in Japan, he was introduced as Lord Tensai, then became Tensai, then became Sweet T.<\/p>\n

I like this match because it embodies the silly fun of pro-wrestling that made me a fan during the Eighties.\u00a0 One team is a bunch of dancing fat guys and the other team are intellectual snobs.\u00a0 Cody Rhodes is most famous for his moustache which gets its own chants during matches.<\/p>\n

I’m going to go for Tons of Funk.\u00a0 They’re like a 21st century combination of Akeem and Dusty Rhodes.\u00a0 I expect they’ll win and then dance for a bit in their post match celebration.\u00a0 It’s a four hour show and there’s time to kill.<\/p>\n

Winners:\u00a0 <\/strong>Tons of Funk and the Funkadactyls<\/em><\/p>\n

\"y2jfandango\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris Jericho wrestles for fun nowadays.\u00a0 Having already accomplished multiple world title reigns in his career, he now balances his time between touring with his rock band Fozzy and wrestling during the Road To Wrestlemania season.\u00a0 Even he must be a little surprised that for his current run, the company decided to stick him in a feud with jobber to the stars Curt Hawkins who has been repackaged as the ballroom dancing fighter Fandango.\u00a0 Fandango’s gimmick is that he doesn’t wrestle<\/em>.\u00a0 Each week, he comes out, gets upset that the announce doesn’t announce his name with enough gusto and then walks away.\u00a0 It’s sort of a Honky Tonk Man type deal.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I expect Jericho to put him away and send him packing.\u00a0 A good tip for the shortest match of the night.<\/p>\n

Winner:\u00a0 <\/strong>Chris Jericho<\/em><\/p>\n

\"hellnozigge\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is one of my most anticipated matches on the card.\u00a0 All five performers here – Daniel Bryan, Kane, Dolph Ziggler, Big E Langston and AJ Lee – are great wrestlers who have a wonderful sense of comic timing.\u00a0 Both teams are borderline comedy wrestlers at this stage in the spirit of Edge & Christian in the early 2000s.\u00a0 Bryan and Kane implausibly became one of the most popular and over tag teams in recent memory through a series of sketches where they underwent anger management classes.\u00a0 As for Ziggler, Big E and AJ, they remind me of the type of the band of misfits you would see in a Josh Whedon production.\u00a0 Ziggler is a vain leader, AJ is a wisecracking comic book nerd and Big E is the muscle who has a fun little brother\/big sister relationship with AJ.<\/p>\n

I don’t really care who wins this match.\u00a0 I just want them to be given 10-15 minutes to have an entertaining back and forth match.\u00a0 Don’t let me down, WWE!<\/p>\n

Winners:\u00a0 <\/strong>Team Hell No<\/em><\/p>\n

\"rybackhenry\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Ryback versus Mark Henry is a weird proposition.\u00a0 Normally sticking two power wrestlers in a match together doesn’t really work.\u00a0 You only really get to appreciate their strength when they have a Shawn Michaels type of performer who can bounce off their strikes like a ping pong ball.<\/p>\n

That said, Mark Henry is probably the most motivated that he has been in his sixteen year career and the continued success of Ryback’s character is predicated on his ability to delivery jaw-dropping power moves.\u00a0 This match should<\/em> finish with Ryback winning by delivering his finishing move Shellshock on Henry.\u00a0 It will be a sight to see if he can do it.<\/p>\n

Winner:<\/strong>\u00a0 Ryback<\/em><\/p>\n

\"shieldbff\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Shield are a shockingly well booked new stable of vigilantes who beat up top tier faces and beat them clean.\u00a0 The only thing they’re lacking is a stronger sense of purpose and storyline direction.\u00a0 I mean, they came in, defeated a team of Randy Orton, Sheamus and John Cena clean as a whistle.\u00a0 So where do you go to from there?\u00a0 It’s not like we have the Freebirds rule and they can win a 3-man tag team belt or anything.\u00a0 I have a feeling that the Super Best Friends will win here.\u00a0 I don’t really mind that.\u00a0 I just want The Shield to have something more specific to do after this.<\/p>\n

Winners:\u00a0 <\/strong>Team Hoss<\/em><\/p>\n

\"delrioswagger\"<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the most interesting matches on the card for the backstage politics involved.\u00a0 Jack Swagger was unexpectedly given a push to the main event of Wrestlemania<\/em> out of nowhere and then promptly got arrested for driving under the influence of marajuana.\u00a0 Presuambly Del Rio wins the match here but it will be interesting to see how the match unfolds and whether Swagger is given his marching orders afterwards.<\/p>\n

Another point of interest is that in recent years, the company has gone from treating this title as an equal to the WWE Championship to the current situation where its viewed more as a mid-card belt, akin to the Intercontinental title.\u00a0 Last year\u00a0 the WHC match was the curtain jerker in a 17 second match.\u00a0 Will it receive the same treatment again this year?<\/p>\n

Winner:\u00a0 <\/strong>Alberto Del Rio<\/em><\/p>\n

\"takerpunk\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The match with the most foregone conclusion on the card.\u00a0 I’m pretty sure they advertise this match as The Undertakers beats CM Punk.\u00a0 And rightly so.\u00a0 In the last four weeks, CM Punk has been tormenting The Undertaker over the real life death of his manager Paul Bearer.\u00a0 He even went as far as to kayfabe scatter his ashes over The Undertaker’s body.\u00a0 I presume this match will be about twenty minutes of The Undertaker beating the shit out of CM Punk.\u00a0 I think it is widely accepted that this is The Undertaker’s penultimate Wrestlemania<\/em> performance.\u00a0 He probably has one good match left in him after this one.\u00a0 It would be kinda neat if at Wrestlemania 30<\/em> he puts his two decade long undefeated streak on the line against a heel John Cena…<\/p>\n

A weird thing about wrestling is that this match is a reward for CM Punk.\u00a0 Punk has had an inconsistent career in WWE but that all changed recently when he had a superb 2012 where he held the WWE Championship for over 400 days.\u00a0 In a round about way, getting the Wrestlemania<\/em> match against The Undertaker where he gets the snot beaten out of him is considered an honour.<\/p>\n

Winner:\u00a0 <\/strong>The Undertaker<\/p>\n

\"triplehlesnar\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Brock Lesnar is all kinds of awesome and I’m glad he’s back in wrestling.\u00a0 His last match with Triple H was pretty good too.\u00a0 Triple H tried to give a retirement speech at the end of the match only to get laughed out of the building by a smarky Los Angeles crowd that chanted ‘you tapped out’ at him.\u00a0 Now he’s looking like doing a second take at Wrestlemania<\/em> with a formal billing for the retirement match.\u00a0 Storytelling convention tells us that Triple H will lose this match.\u00a0 If he’s not going to lose, why bother with the retirement stipulation in the first place?\u00a0 He’s been wrestling for 20 years, has won everything there is to win and barely wrestles anymore anyway.\u00a0 Is this finally the end of an era?\u00a0 I think so.<\/p>\n

Winner:\u00a0 <\/strong>Brock Lesnar<\/p>\n

\"rockcena\"<\/a><\/p>\n

For all the shit that the WWE gets for its short-term booking on the fly, its pretty crazy to think that this feud has pretty much been running for about 24 months, starting at Wrestlemania 27 when The Rock was the guest referee in John Cena’s match that year and building to this second encounter at Wrestlemania 29 where John Cena finally beats The Rock.<\/p>\n

The only really point of interest here is whether Cena turns heel.\u00a0 People who are bored of his character have been clamouring for a heel turn for years<\/em>.\u00a0 Has the moment finally arrived?\u00a0 We shall see.<\/p>\n

Winner:\u00a0 <\/strong>John Cena<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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