The swerve is there is no swerve.

[Ricky Nightshade]

After looking back at the Shane vs. Taker feud, what other storylines had so much buzz and speculation surround it that people talked about what plottwists could happen but they ended up with just a regular match that ended in the most simple way possible?

[cool]

Thread title is like an Xhibit meme.

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Triple H v Orton at WrestleMania 25. Could have been and should have been the overbooked mess of a lifetime with Legacy run ins, McMahon run ins, Batista returning... Nope, straight up wrestling match.

[CH Punk]

Apr 26, 2016 20:48:25 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

Triple H v Orton at WrestleMania 25. Could have been and should have been the overbooked mess of a lifetime with Legacy run ins, McMahon run ins, Batista returning... Nope, straight up wrestling match.

Add to that that the stipulation added to the match (if Triple H is DQ'd, he loses the title) was added by Vickie Guerrero while Triple H had EVERY McMahon on his side makes it one of the most confusing bookings they've done at Mania.

And regarding the OP, the CM Punk/Daniel Bryan/AJ Lee angle was building to having AJ pick a side by being the referee at Money in the Bank 2012. What happens? AJ counts the three, Punk retains and acts like she's not even there and he goes off to turn heel while AJ becomes GM (that is still a confusing decision) and Bryan goes mad.

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Apr 26, 2016 20:48:25 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

Triple H v Orton at WrestleMania 25. Could have been and should have been the overbooked mess of a lifetime with Legacy run ins, McMahon run ins, Batista returning... Nope, straight up wrestling match.

Yeah, still say that basically should've been Triple H / Taker at Mania 17 if it'd had a billion run-ins. Early big ref bump then twenty minutes of pretending it's no DQ, followed by Orton eventually managing to piss Triple H off into getting DQed in front of the ref (with that title change on a DQ stiupulation in place) and just beating him into a puddle, basically giving up the title in the name of revenge so Orton is hauled out on a stretcher but holds up the belt to end the show, basically doing the thing of at the end of the day, Triple H may have hurt him but he lost by giving Orton exactly what he wanted.

Also, I'm pretty sure Reigns / AJ is just going to be a straight match with no notable shenanigans during it and this whole Bullet Club thing is entirely to try and drum up some extra interest.

[Abadebe]

Cena vs Wyatt from Wrestlemania 30.

The whole feud was building to one of two conclusions.
The first option is to have Cena win the match via unclean fashion. The followup is Bray, even though he lost, can claim that he "corrupted" Cena and Cena himself has an interesting new direction for his character (like Bret after his match with Austin at WM13).
The second option is to give Cena the opportunity to take an unfair advantage, but he decides against it which leads to Bray winning the match. Bray can then claim a big victory at WM and Cena has an interesting new direction for his character in that he starts wondering if always taking the moral high ground is worth it.

Instead, Cena wins clean and life goes on as normal.

[Starshine]

Cena/Rock 2.

You have this bullshit narrative that the loss to Rock ruined Cenas professional and personal life. Then they just go out and have a regular match putting us back in exactly the same spot we were before the feud began two years prior.

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Apr 26, 2016 21:03:39 GMT -5 Abadebe said:

Cena vs Wyatt from Wrestlemania 30.

The whole feud was building to one of two conclusions.
The first option is to have Cena win the match via unclean fashion. The followup is Bray, even though he lost, can claim that he "corrupted" Cena and Cena himself has an interesting new direction for his character (like Bret after his match with Austin at WM13).
The second option is to give Cena the opportunity to take an unfair advantage, but he decides against it which leads to Bray winning the match. Bray can then claim a big victory at WM and Cena has an interesting new direction for his character in that he starts wondering if always taking the moral high ground is worth it.

Instead, Cena wins clean and life goes on as normal.

Also I still don't see how Cena proved he wasn't corrupted by first hitting everyone except Bray himself with a chair then trying to kill him in a Last Man Standing match.

[Bang Bang Bart]

Dean Ambrose & Roman Reigns vs. The Wyatt Family from SummerSlam last year.

Everyone was expecting either Reigns or Ambrose (especially Ambrose) to turn heel during the match. Turns out, nothing of that sort happened and AmbReigns simply won cleanly

[bootytea]

Most recent one was definitely Dean versus Brock.

The match just seemed so plain, especially since I was just waiting for the Wyatt Family to get involved.

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Apr 26, 2016 21:05:37 GMT -5 Starshine said:

Cena/Rock 2.

You have this bullshit narrative that the loss to Rock ruined Cenas professional and personal life. Then they just go out and have a regular match putting us back in exactly the same spot we were before the feud began two years prior.

That's been John Cena's entire career in a nutshell. Nothing changing, everything staying the same, and almost everyone except a few cases like Brock or Bryan, much worse off career wise because of it afterward.

Just knowing where Barrett and Wyatt are because of feuds with him infuriate me to no end...

[eJm]

Apr 26, 2016 20:48:25 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

Triple H v Orton at WrestleMania 25. Could have been and should have been the overbooked mess of a lifetime with Legacy run ins, McMahon run ins, Batista returning... Nope, straight up wrestling match.

HHH literally invaded a man's house to go after him for knocking out his wife and punting his father in law into next week.

And yet the match wasn't even no count out, never mind no holds barred.

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Apr 26, 2016 23:10:27 GMT -5 Bang Bang Bart said:

Dean Ambrose & Roman Reigns vs. The Wyatt Family from SummerSlam last year.

Everyone was expecting either Reigns or Ambrose (especially Ambrose) to turn heel during the match. Turns out, nothing of that sort happened and AmbReigns simply won cleanly

In that same vein, basically any match involving Reigns or Ambrose as opponents or partners in the last two years... Because it feels like we've been calling an Ambrose heel turn in just about every single one of them.

[alexwrightspackage]

Apr 27, 2016 0:47:22 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

Apr 26, 2016 23:10:27 GMT -5 Bang Bang Bart said:

Dean Ambrose & Roman Reigns vs. The Wyatt Family from SummerSlam last year.

Everyone was expecting either Reigns or Ambrose (especially Ambrose) to turn heel during the match. Turns out, nothing of that sort happened and AmbReigns simply won cleanly

In that same vein, basically any match involving Reigns or Ambrose as opponents or partners in the last two years... Because it feels like we've been calling an Ambrose heel turn in just about every single one of them.

HHH and Roman at 'Mania, I'd say, more in the general 'will Roman turn heel' bit.

Does Daniel Bryan at WM30 count?