The Masters Dojo: On the Road

Hello ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another edition of The Master’s Dojo!! Sorry this issue is coming in a bit late, but I’ve been viciously sick this past week. Now though, I’m ready to give you wrestling fans out there a fantastic article. In today’s issue, I’ll go over what happened at No Way Out, New Storylines and what I think of it all. So, without further adieu, let’s get it on!!!

Ok, so, No Way Out. I’ll start with the ECW Championship match. It was a pretty good match. I love watching Finlay fight. However, he didn’t win. Jack Swagger retained his title, and now that sets up Swagger vs. Christian at WrestleMania 25. I thought that it was time that Finlay got a title. But, I think a Christian/Swagger rivalry might be a bit better than a Christian/Finlay rivalry. Maybe. By the way, why did Christian’s return have no hype? We were all waiting for his return, and we got that, but there was no hype at all. Anyway, I’m pretty pumped up for a big title match at WrestleMania.

Next up, the No Holds Barred match between Shane McMahon and Randy Orton. Unlike the last match, I predicted this one correctly. And I also correctly predicted that Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase would involve themselves in the match. Shane did fight back against Legacy though…and then got nailed with an RKO. It was a good match all in all.

Another match which took place was the all or nothing match between JBL and HBK. This was another match I predicted correctly. This match ended like all HBK matches do, with some Sweet Chin Music. I’m really glad this feud is over. It was a bad angle from when it started at Armageddon. A nice thing that took place in this match was how Shawn Michaels’ wife, Rebecca, was watching from ringside. Rebecca is pretty good looking, but that’s neither here nor there. Now, these two only have one more scheduled, important match, and that’s next week on RAW, but I’ll get to that later.

Ok, now I’ll talk about the two matches we all most wanted to see, the Elimination Chambers. I’ll start with what was the first match of the night, the WWE Championship chamber. The competitors in this match were Triple H, Undertaker, Jeff Hardy, The Big Show, Vladimir Kozlov and Edge. As we all know, Triple H won this match to become a 13 time world champion. Triple H and Undertaker in as the final two in the match was great, I really liked that. I was extremely happy Kozlov didn’t win and I was glad Edge couldn’t retain … or at least, I was glad. But that’s getting off topic. Anyway, to finish this section up, I’ll give you the order of eliminations:

Edge by Jeff Hardy, Kozlov by Undertaker, the Big Show by Triple H, Jeff Hardy by Undertaker, Undertaker by Triple H. Ladies and gentlemen, your new WWE Champion, Triple H.

Now the final match of the night, the World Heavyweight Championship Elimination Chamber. The competitors were John Cena, Y2J Chris Jericho, Rey Mysterio, Mike Knox, Kane and…Edge. Yeah, Edge. It was supposed to be Kofi Kingston, but just before the match, while Kingston was entering the chamber, Edge came up from behind and brutally attacked him. I knew he wasn’t going to win, but he didn’t even make it to the ring. Anyway, Kane was eliminated by Rey Mysterio. I thought Kane would last longer. Then Mike Knox was eliminated by Chris Jericho. I predicted that he’d be eliminated second. Then the champ, John Cena, was eliminated by Edge. Oh the irony. Then Rey Mysterio eliminated Jericho, leaving just Edge and Rey Rey in the ring. At this point, I knew Edge would win, that’s what always happens. And once again, it did happen. Edge speared Rey, gets the cover, and becomes the new World Heavyweight Champion.

So now what’s going to happen to all of these rivalries? I’ve got some predictions about that. I’ll start with the feud on ECW that will be taking place between Jack Swagger and Christian. Christian will be challenging Swagger for the ECW Championship at WrestleMania. Jack Swagger is an up and coming Superstar. I think that he can and will be something really special, but I don’t think he’ll win at his first WrestleMania. Christian is a proven veteran, and Jack Swagger hasn’t proven himself yet. I do think, however, that this can blossom into a very good, interesting feud down the road.

Now what about HBK and JBL? Well, on this last episode RAW, Shawn Michaels announced that he and JBL will fight, and the winner will face off with the Undertaker at WrestleMania in the “streak match”. I think that this is a good idea. Obviously the WWE creative team doesn’t want to get the Undertaker involved in a title right now. If John “Bradshaw” Layfield wins, we’ll all be able to root for Undertaker to go 17-0 at WrestleMania. But what if Shawn Michaels is victorious? That could be arguably one of WrestleMania’s finest matches ever. I really think it could be. Think about it. Two former world champions, two legends, two aging stars. This could even be the swan song for Shawn Michaels, making it even bigger than it already would be!! This would be an epic success. But, let’s be fair to JBL. If he were to win, it wouldn’t necessarily be two legends, but still two former world champions and two good wrestlers. Well one good and one great, but that is neither here nor there. So any way the winds blows, this should be a great WrestleMania match.

Next will be what happens with Randy Orton and the WWE championship of Triple H. For those who don’t know, on RAW on February 16th, the show ended with Randy Orton punting Shane and Stephanie upside the head, then standing there with some doctors, some random personnel, Rhodes and DiBiase. Then, Triple H ran up to and into the ring and knelt over Stephanie with a pissed off look on his face. He was really angry, as you can tell. To me, this means two things. One, it will probably be revealed that Triple H and Stephanie are actually married, not like the storyline marriage they had back in the early part of this decade. Two, I think that Triple H will be taking his WWE Championship to Monday Night RAW, and Randy Orton will challenge him for it at WrestleMania, using his title shot he was awarded at WrestleMania. I think this would be an OK turn of events. Plus, to add to it all, RAW doesn’t have a World title. Smackdown has two. It makes sense. Anyway, it would probably have happened at the draft anyway.

Well, there is one more title angle I need to discuss, and that’s the World Heavyweight Championship. Edge won the title when, as I spoke of earlier, lost in the WWE title Elimination Chamber, then entered himself in the WHC Chamber and emerged as the victor. So what is going to happen to that title? Well, I’m thinking Cena moves to Smackdown. I’m serious. And I think that it really does make sense. Triple H (according to my opinion) will move to RAW, which opens up the space for another real superstar on the Smackdown roster. And since he told Edge that he couldn’t hide and he would find him, I think that might possibly be what he meant. And remember, these two feuded not to long ago, in 2005/2006 after Edge won his first Money in the Bank contract. I think it could work out again. It would even be the same kind of thing. Battling for a world title, between Edge and John Cena, and a woman will be involved. However, hot Lita was involved last time, and now it will be Vicky (or should I say Icky) Guerrero, the General Manager. This should turn into something really good.

Oh wait, there is one more big storyline (well, I guess two if you count divas, but I just want Michelle McCool to turn face and win the title again, because I don’t care if it’s boring, I just…ugh, I’m not going to take up space drooling over divas) to cover. It is the sibling rivalry of Matt and Jeff Hardy. Jeff is a high-flyer, Matt is somewhat…but not really. I really think Jeff will have the upper hand at the end when it is all said and done. And really, it’s the least the creative team can do after they finally gave him the WWE championship then took it away a month later.

Well ladies and gentlemen, it seems that another episode has come to a close. Thanks to all of you guys who read this, and I hope you all will come back next week for another issue. Until next time, I am out and the Dojo is closed.