My 3-Month Prior Wrestlemania XXVIII Card

As I said, I'm going to continue doing these monthly.  Granted, this one's a day late, but better late than never.

1. The Rock vs John Cena - This is a given, obviously.
2. The Undertaker vs Triple H - As great as this match could be, I feel like Undertaker vs Kane would be better.  Nonetheless, this is the most likely match to happen at Mania this year, and these guys are going to leave everything they have out in that ring - possibly in a literal sense.

1.2.12 is Chris Jericho - and here's why.

Chris Jericho's WWF debut saw a countdown clock leading up to his debut.  There was no code to break or anything to figure out - it just forced you to sit and wait for the clock to hit zero in order to find out what it was for.

When he returned in 2007, we had a code that was meant for viewers to break.  It wasn't extremely difficult but if you weren't computer savvy or smart enough to realize that letters can be given number associations, you didn't know what it was and again, you just waited for it to happen.

In 2011, we have been given new promos and if they are for Chris Jericho, they certainly aren't going to be a countdown or some alphanumeric code for you to try breaking.  Jericho is an evolving character that hates being repetitive.  In 2011, the itbegins series is a series of symbolic representations of Chris Jericho and his first target when he returns on January Second.  In this post, I explain everything.

My 4-Month Prior Wrestlemania XXVIII Dream Card

It's been one month since my last Dream Wrestlemania XXVIII Card and most of my matches have changed.  Have I mentioned before that my thoughts are very flexible - very little is 100% rigid.  I've been doing a lot of YouTube work lately, so if you haven't yet, be sure to check out my channel and my videos by clicking the link just below the main banner at the top of the page.  I'm going to continue this Wrestlemania Series every single month forever - on Wrestlemania Sunday, it'll go from "Dream Card" to "Predictions", but even in May I'll throw out an 11-month Prior Wrestlemania XXIX Dream Card post.

Vengeance will be...few and far between.

I'm pretty much going to come right out and say it: it was difficult for me to get inspired to make this Vengeance post.  Not because I'm losing my passion; no, that's something that will never die.  But because Vengeance just seems like such an irrelevant PPV in my eyes.  It has a touch of irony to it, too, because I honestly don't see many of the people going into this PPV screaming "VENGEANCE WILL BE MINE" actually winning.  Mark Henry is saying Vengeance will be his, but as far as the storyline goes, Big Show is seeking vengeance WAY more than Henry.  That being said, I find it unfortunate that the WWE has 8 matches scheduled for this PPV.  It makes it feel even more insignificant and not worth buying than it already did, and that says a lot.  I've loved that the WWE has recently adopted the mindset that PPVs are better with fewer matches - for a long time there people were saying that WWE PPVs felt like nothing more than expensive episodes of Raw.  For the last couple of PPVs, there have been fewer matches on the card, the matches get more time, and longer matches feel more important than any match Raw can offer.  This PPV might not feel the same, but I still feel like with good time distribution, the matches that mean the most will still feel at least somewhat important.

Night of Chairmen (and Punks)

Wait just a second, that's not the name of the pay per view!  It's Night of Champions!  Oh please, you and I both know that the selling point of this PPV is the Punk/HHH match.  That's the match that's gotten the most attention over the past month and that's the match that has sold the most tickets and will sell the most PPV buys. The sad part is that, even if I wanted to name the highest drawing match next to the Punk/HHH match...I don't think I'd be able to do it.  It's a pretty clear cut two way tie, but Orton/Henry has been built up far better than Cena/Del Rio, and people actually see Mark Henry as a legitimate obstacle for Orton, where Del Rio is just another notch in John Cena's ring post...but at the same time, Cena sells tickets by being on the card more than Orton, and it isn't even close.  So which one is a better match?  I'll let you judge that, but it's my job to predict how the storylines are going to play out tonight.

"He's Pulling a Triple H"

The title of this topic is a direct quote from my twitter from last night.  I really enjoy tweeting during Monday Night Raw and PPVs (basically any live televised wrestling show) because it feels a lot more engaging than just watching and talking about what happened after it's all over. If you have a twitter, follow me, tell me who you are, and I'll gladly follow you back so we can live tweet during Raw in the coming weeks!

My Twitter: @aPond404

That being said, something has really been urking me that I feel like I need to get off my chest, and it is regarding Triple H.  It isn't EXCLUSIVELY about Triple H, but it's got to do with a really just plain unprofessional act that he seems to have originated that has been picked up and abused since he started doing it, almost to the point that it is now not seen as terribly unprofessional as it really is.  What am I talking about?  Well, to put it quite simply, I call it "pulling a Triple H".