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WWE Fastlane (Road to WrestleMania) Thread (2016)

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Controversial ending to Royal Rumble (HHH winning WHC is not necessarily a popular decision), but at the end of the day, it was WWE's best PPV in a long time.

As much as WWE says they want to make this year's Fastlane "big time", in the end it will be nothing more than building to WrestleMania, which is why I subtitled it "Road to WrestleMania".

Feuds for WrestleMania already established:

Charlotte vs. Sasha Banks
Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens
Brock Lesnar vs. Bray Wyatt (and family)
Roman Reigns vs. HHH

Feuds to be established:
Dean Ambrose vs. Chris Jericho?
AJ Styles (w/Finn Balor and Bullet Club?) vs.?
New Day vs.?
Kalisto vs. ADR?
League of Nations?
Secondary Divas feud?

Bottom line is WWE has started 2016 on the right foot - it's actually interesting right now.
 
And I suppose I can post this again - Reigns is now familiar with HHH's specialty:

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jdoggivjc said:
Controversial ending to Royal Rumble (HHH winning WHC is not necessarily a popular decision), but at the end of the day, it was WWE's best PPV in a long time.

As much as WWE says they want to make this year's Fastlane "big time", in the end it will be nothing more than building to WrestleMania, which is why I subtitled it "Road to WrestleMania".

Feuds for WrestleMania already established:

Charlotte vs. Sasha Banks
Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens
Brock Lesnar vs. Bray Wyatt (and family)
Roman Reigns vs. HHH

Feuds to be established:
Dean Ambrose vs. Chris Jericho?
AJ Styles (w/Finn Balor and Bullet Club?) vs.?
New Day vs.?
Kalisto vs. ADR?
League of Nations?
Secondary Divas feud?

Bottom line is WWE has started 2016 on the right foot - it's actually interesting right now.
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My guess is they debut Enzo and Big Cass and that's who New Day feuds with into Wrestlemania. If they go with Balor Club, my guess is they feud with The League of Nations.
 
xboxfever said:
My guess is they debut Enzo and Big Cass and that's who New Day feuds with into Wrestlemania. If they go with Balor Club, my guess is they feud with The League of Nations.
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I like the Enzo and Cass idea.

Bálor/Bullet Club is intriguing, as they'd be a face faction in WWE. Bullet Club has been a heel faction - albeit a very popular one ala nWo - in every promotion they've appeared.
 
Interesting WrestleMania and beyond thought.

HHH vs Reigns match at WrestleMania - Vince interfering with the match backfires and costs HHH the match and WHC. Over the next few weeks the relationship between HHH and Vince spirals, where eventually Vince fires HHH. Then several former NXT stars who haven't gotten a fair shake or have had a rough go of it lately - Tyler Breeze, The Ascension, Neville, Paige, Becky Lynch, perhaps Rusev, Cesaro, Kalisto and other very recent NXT call ups - come out to back up up HHH. Vince laughs it off, calling it a collection of wannabe stars that will never be able to grasp the Brass Ring. Note I did not include Kevin Owens in this - he is clearly a "WWE guy" as he's made it clear his distaste for NXT. Out comes some more "credible" superstars - Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, New Day, perhaps the Wyatts - come out. Vince starts getting a little concerned. John Cena's music hits. Ideally you'd turn him heel and have him side with Vince, but since Cena's made it clear he's never going heel again, have him join the other superstars, lambasting Vince that he's destroying the future of WWE by continuing to hold the future down (yes, I get the irony of this statement).

You've just started the WWE-NXT war and inter-McMahon family power struggle for control of WWE which will ultimately be Vince's swan song.

Yeah, I get it's just the Invasion, but it has a lot of potential.
 
xboxfever said:
My guess is they debut Enzo and Big Cass and that's who New Day feuds with into Wrestlemania. If they go with Balor Club, my guess is they feud with The League of Nations.
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I'm putting this out there, maybe New Day turns face because the Wyatts attack them?

I mean they've run out of face teams to face and you don't need to call up someone everytime.
 
I think the Kevin Owens-Dean Ambrose thing could go on for years. Two dudes with similar personalities except one is face and the other is heel. Two dudes who, in an I Quit match, would never quit.

I think Zayn can be big time, but I'm always going to be comparing him to the Ambrose-Owens match last night. Those two put on a show.

I also think Daniel Bryan would put up amazing matches with Zayn but we'll never see that.
 
BLRNerd said:
I'm putting this out there, maybe New Day turns face because the Wyatts attack them?

I mean they've run out of face teams to face and you don't need to call up someone everytime.
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It's an idea, but the general consensus from the online community is the Wyatts are going face for a feud with The Authority. Those seeds were planted all last week (along with the Wyatt-Lesnar feud), even last night when HHH tried to bargain with Wyatt, leading him to slap HHH in the face.
 
I feel like the Wyatts are nearly a Ministry of Darkness, I'd just like to see more crazy action of them doing crazy stuff instead of just talking and having things go dark.

Like, kidnap Stephanie. Or somehow brainwash Stephanie to believe she is Sister Abigail.
 
ISUCubswin said:
I feel like the Wyatts are nearly a Ministry of Darkness, I'd just like to see more crazy action of them doing crazy stuff instead of just talking and having things go dark.

Like, kidnap Stephanie. Or somehow brainwash Stephanie to believe she is Sister Abigail.
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While that would be crazy awesome, I just don't see them messing with their marriage like that. Their marriage seems to be the one thing that's off limits, and I'm okay with that.
 
We can debate whether HHH should or shouldn't be the Royal Rumble winner and new WHC (and I'd probably agree with you - I don't necessarily like it, especially since we're bound to get a 20-minute Authority promo crowning HHH which will do nothing but stoke the feud with Reigns). Bottom line, though, is this year they handled a lot of key eliminations appropriately to prevent the fans from turning on the match:

Owens eliminated Styles (you hate to see Styles leave, but how can you hate on Owens, especially since they might be starting a program? Very strategic)
Zayn eliminated Owens (the elimination everyone wanted if Owens wasn't going to win it. That gives Owens 3 potential feuds)
Zayn eliminated in the Wyatt Family reset
Wyatt Family eliminated Lesnar
HHH eliminated Reigns

Forgetting HHH, it was an incredibly well-booked Rumble. You have a lot of IWC trolls saying "Worst Rumble ever" and saying they're cancelling their Network subscription over it - apparently forgetting just how bad 2014 (Batista the winner when Reigns or Punk should have won, and Bryan wasn't even in it) and 2015 (when Bray Wyatt probably should have won. A lot of people wanted Bryan to win, but those idiots don't realize the last thing you want is to have Bryan face Lesnar neck and nerve injuries) was so much worse. 1999 was even worse. I agree with the others that say this was probably the best Rumble since 2010.
 
ISUCubswin said:
I think Zayn can be big time, but I'm always going to be comparing him to the Ambrose-Owens match last night. Those two put on a show.
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I agree - Owens and Ambrose have such great in-ring chemistry. Not just the wrestling ability and the promos, but the ring psychology and the in-match taunting. Them exchanging "I hate yous" last night was hilarious and perfectly appropriate.

That being said, in the long run, Ambrose will always be in the mix with Reigns and Rollins, and Owens, Zayn, and Bálor will always be mixing it up. And the Wyatts will always torment ALL of them. And don't forget about Cesaro.

Honestly, WWE has so much talent right now - there's no excuse for them not to go on an Attitude Era like glory run for the next decade. The midcard with Tyler Breeze, Kalisto, Neville, New Day, Enzo and Cass, Usos (once they recover from overexposure) could be so strong as well. It just has to be booked properly - the major problem for the last X number of years.
 
jdoggivjc said:
We can debate whether HHH should or shouldn't be the Royal Rumble winner and new WHC (and I'd probably agree with you - I don't necessarily like it, especially since we're bound to get a 20-minute Authority promo crowning HHH which will do nothing but stoke the feud with Reigns). Bottom line, though, is this year they handled a lot of key eliminations appropriately to prevent the fans from turning on the match:

Owens eliminated Styles (you hate to see Styles leave, but how can you hate on Owens, especially since they might be starting a program? Very strategic)
Zayn eliminated Owens (the elimination everyone wanted if Owens wasn't going to win it. That gives Owens 3 potential feuds)
Zayn eliminated in the Wyatt Family reset
Wyatt Family eliminated Lesnar
HHH eliminated Reigns

Forgetting HHH, it was an incredibly well-booked Rumble. You have a lot of IWC trolls saying "Worst Rumble ever" and saying they're cancelling their Network subscription over it - apparently forgetting just how bad 2014 (Batista the winner when Reigns or Punk should have won, and Bryan wasn't even in it) and 2015 (when Bray Wyatt probably should have won. A lot of people wanted Bryan to win, but those idiots don't realize the last thing you want is to have Bryan face Lesnar neck and nerve injuries) was so much worse. 1999 was even worse. I agree with the others that say this was probably the best Rumble since 2010.
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The IWC looks at every booking decision like the Big 12 refs made it. They can be interesting, but it's hard to count on them for more than that.
 
ISUCubswin said:
I feel like the Wyatts are nearly a Ministry of Darkness, I'd just like to see more crazy action of them doing crazy stuff instead of just talking and having things go dark.

Like, kidnap Stephanie. Or somehow brainwash Stephanie to believe she is Sister Abigail.
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They were getting really close to that line with Roman for about a week there.
 
Someone at the Rumble last night took this video of AJ Styles' intro. It gives you a better feel for the timing of the pop, instead of the WWE camera that is just staring at Roman Reigns' face the entire time.

[video=youtube;QMQogEkyUL8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMQogEkyUL8[/video]
 
Predicting Daniel Bryan is the surprise star making his return.

Whoever it is, smart by the WWE not to have them return during the Rumble, with HHH winning it all and Styles/Zayne making debuts.
 
ISUCubswin said:
Predicting Daniel Bryan is the surprise star making his return.

Whoever it is, smart by the WWE not to have them return during the Rumble, with HHH winning it all and Styles/Zayne making debuts.
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Could be Cesaro, which would also be welcome. An article from last week said he was ahead on his recovery.

But with the way the injury bug has hit WWE, they can't afford to keep blackballing a Daniel Bryan that every doctor in the world other than the ones on WWE's payroll says is healthy and ready to return to the ring.
 
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