Most predictable matches ever

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Let's not count local jobber squash matches as well. The one that springs into mind was Kurt Angle vs. Edge Hair vs. Hair match. Kurt Angle's hair was getting noticeably thinner and Edge was the young star they were building up to be the next big thing.

[BigWill]

I'll go with a pretty recent one.

Cena vs. Laurinaitis. It was sad how obvious the ending was, because the commentators were trying to sell it as some huge swerve when everyone could see what was going to happen from a mile away.

[Ricky Nightshade]

Face Sheamus matches.

Also, these tag matches with Rey and Sin Cara are kind of predictable.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Cena vs. Jericho at SummerSlam 2005. Cena squashed Jericho AND Carlito in a handicap match on the Raw before the show for crying out loud!

[PTBartman]

Cena/Rock vs Awsome Truth at the Survivor Series

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I know we're not counting jobber squashes, but that is one aspect of wrestling I sure do miss.

It still happens, sure, but it's just not the same.

It's always some random indy dudes, there's no "jobber" jobbers.

Like guys that are a big enough deal that they actually get mic time, have a mannerism or two; maybe even a catchphrase, a moveset and can pull modest amounts of crowd fire/heat despite the fact that they win like twice a year at best. (yet are somehow always a factor) (I also want to think that they have lame tights and a Greg Valentine mullet)

It's different now, I suppose. 'Rasslin' has become SRS business. It now pours out of every social media oriface. It ain't just on TV once a week with there only being magazines and a modest amount of PPVs each year to support it.

You just can't give fifteen minutes to Cena getting called out by "The Trickster" Don Perkins these days, I guess.

[Been burned too many times]

Punk vs. Cena - MITB 2011
ROH: A bunch of world title defenses.

[Bo Rida]

Sept 9, 2012 9:45:19 GMT -5 BigWill said:

I'll go with a pretty recent one.

Cena vs. Laurinaitis. It was sad how obvious the ending was, because the commentators were trying to sell it as some huge swerve when everyone could see what was going to happen from a mile away.

That was my immediate thought too, at least I made good money from that.

[BigBadZ]

Sept 9, 2012 9:45:19 GMT -5 BigWill said:

I'll go with a pretty recent one.

Cena vs. Laurinaitis. It was sad how obvious the ending was, because the commentators were trying to sell it as some huge swerve when everyone could see what was going to happen from a mile away.

It's hard for me to even think of others because that was so insulting to fans.

My contribution would have to be Undertaker Wrestlemania matches starting with 19

19)Big Show/ A-Train
20)Kane
21)Randy Orton
22)Mark Henry
23)Batista
24)Edge (arguable, IMO)

Not saying these were bad matches by any means but ya just knew Taker would win

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John Cena vs anyone, from 2005 to 2006. It wasn't even worth watching because you'd how it'd go before it even happened.

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Anytime that Jericho puts his career on the line.

Jericho vs. Nash hair vs. hair or whatever it was when Nash showed up with the awful dye job.

[Sparvid]

Off the top of my head, the last time I didn't at least go into an Undertaker Mania match without thinking "Yeah, Taker wins" was against Orton at 21. This being since he had just turned back heel for this feud, and was a young guy specifically known to kill legends.

I remember a prediction thread on some board before Mania 22, where one lone guy thought that Mark Henry might win, and I was like "Oh, come on!"

[Essential1]

Yokozuna and Owen Hart vs Smoking Gunns Wrestlemania 11.

Well most of the time a mystery partner is announced they go over.

[Sparkybob]

JBL vs The Big Show, No Way 2005.

It was quite obvious that they were sitting up John Cena to beat JBL at that year's Wrestlemania. But at least there was that cool spot with big show chokeslaming JBL through the ring.

[xCompackx]

Cena vs. Kane at Elimination Chamber this year. Also, I think Cena and Rock vs. Awesome Truth goes beyond the point of "predictable" into the land of "They should've just hung a giant billboard in bright lights saying that they were going to win"

[Metalheadbanger Man]

Triple H vs King Booker, Summerslam '07

[Dean-o]

Undertaker vs. Fake Undertaker, Summerslam 1994
Umaga vs. Bobby Lashley at WrestleMania 23. No way in hell Donald Trump was having his hair shaved off.

[4real]

Brock Lesnar vs. Eddie Guerrero No Way Out 2004

Great moment sure but the booking leading up to this match and the triple threat number 1 contenders match just before made it painfully obvious Eddie was winning.

[chazraps]

Sept 9, 2012 11:58:35 GMT -5 4real said:

Brock Lesnar vs. Eddie Guerrero No Way Out 2004

Great moment sure but the booking leading up to this match and the triple threat number 1 contenders match just before made it painfully obvious Eddie was winning.

I disagree on this for the same reason I disagree with saying anything Benoit did from January-April 2004 was predictable, at the time it was still not certain the WWE was really going to pull the trigger on them. Think at how many times those two have come close to the main event, only to hit the glass ceiling. Until the belt was around his waist, I was still somewhat doubtful it was going to happen.

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Not necessarily the result, but there was a match between Cena and Orton on Raw, I think 2010, and everything they did was so ridiculously predictable. They were both babyfaces so it was just generic Cena/Orton.