(Started writing
on Thursday, finished writing on the 16th) This weekend is WWE
Night of Champions, the Pay-Per-View where every WWE championship title is
defended. Personally I think that should
happen on every PPV but then again there are 6 titles in the WWE it would be an
awful lot of matches that were strictly title matches each PPV. Maybe they
should cut back on the number of titles? Anyway, that’s really another topic
for another day. The Pay Per View is looking decent and it is on my birthday
(September 16th) but I am choosing to celebrate that day with some
friends instead of catching the Pay Per View. With that said, I decided with
the lack of site updates that it was time I made an update before my birthday
weekend begins. So with that said, here are my thoughts and predictions for
this weekend’s Pay-Per-View.
YouTube Pre-Show Battle Royal – Winner Gets United
States Championship Title Shot That Night Against Antonio Caesaro ©: The WWE has a large roster and without any official
names and number of contenders listed, I really don’t know how to predict this
one. Christian previously won the last
No. 1 Contender Battle Royal for the Intercontinental Championship. This along
with him apparently getting time off the road leads me to think that he won’t
be appearing in this bout. Since Santino
lost the title to Antonio Caesaro and they kind of have been continuing with
the feud, I’m just going to pick him as my predicted winner. Someone I think
that should/needs to be elevated is Tyson Kidd. Even if he didn’t win the title
after the battle royal, just this match leading to a feud between him and
Antonio and just putting him as a more high profile star would make me
happy. Either way, I doubt any of these
winners will defeat Antonio for the title right away as WWE seems to have faith
in him.
Who I Want To Win The Battle Royal: Tyson Kidd
Who I Think Will Win The Battle Royal: Santino Marella
Who I Want to Win the Title Match: Antonio Caesaro
Who I Think Will Win the Title Match: Antonio Caesaro
WWE Divas Championship Match – Layla © vs. Kaitlyn: Another Divas match that I don’t care about. Because
I feel like I’ve been negative on every Divas match on my PPV predictions, I’ve
decided to say at least one thing positive about this match/feud: The Eve
Torres playing Ms. Nice Lady during this feud is kind of interesting I suppose.
Other than that… Next Please!
Who I Want To Win: :Shrugs: Who Will Win: New Divas
Champion, Kaitlyn
WWE Intercontinental Championship Fatal Four –Way –
The Miz © vs. Cody Rhodes vs. Rey Mysterio vs. Sin Cara: Added on Friday Night Smackdown, this should be a fun
match. Cody has worked well with Rey and
Sin Cara for the matches in their feuds and The Miz himself is a pretty good
worker too. Personally, I don’t think we
will see a title change in this match. Rumor has it, that WWE wants to continue
to have Rey Mysterio and Sin Cara team up in matches and possibly square off at
WrestleMania 29. I don’t think any
serious tension will happen with the two tonight (it’s too early) but the next
title reign I see for Rey and Sin Cara’s first title will likely be the WWE
tag-team championship at some point.
There’s a chance the belt may transition off of The Miz to Cody Rhodes,
but personally, I just don’t see it happening with these recent strings of long
last title reigns in the WWE (which I hope continue to happen!) So I’m just going with Miz.
Who I Want To Win: The Miz Who I Think Will Win: The Miz
Randy Orton vs. Dolph Ziggler: What’s this?!? A Non-Title match on WWE NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS?!?!?
Blasphemy I sez! Anyway, this should be
a good match. They had a match not too long ago on Raw that I thought was
pretty solid and honestly, they are getting more time so they can only improve. Dolph got a victory over Randy on Raw and he
did lose to Chris Jericho at SummerSlam. There’s still time to him to lose a
few matches to make him look vulnerable until he cashes in his Money in the
Bank Briefcase (which may very well be on the PPV!) Randy Orton has had a bit of losing streak
since returning from his suspension. He’s lost to Alberto Del Rio and Dolph
Ziggler as well, so I don’t think the WWE wants him to lose too much more times
considering he is still a popular fan favorite.
While I always prefer Dolph Ziggler to Randy in terms of ring skills
(and will select him as my who I want to win), it’s not a big deal as they need
to have the briefcase holder lose before he cashes in and wins. So this victory
will go towards Randy!
Who I Want To Win: Dolph Ziggler Who I Think Will Win: Randy
Orton
WWE Tag- Team Championship Match – R-Truth/Kofi
Kingston © vs. Kane/Daniel Bryan:
Starting this off, I’ll admit I didn’t like the Anger Management sessions these
two were having up until Kane delivered the hilarious promo about his problems
throughout life and the WWE (including electrocuting someone’s testicles.) Once
that promo happened and Daniel Bryan and Kane were forced to “HUG IT OUT” and
team up in tag-team matches. Good comedy
right there and while I wish Daniel Bryan was a world champ or at least in the
title scene right now, this program gives them something to do and keep both
men that I’m a fan of relevant. Onto the
tag- team match itself, while I really wanted to see the Prime Time Players
finally win the tag-titles (I think they’re hilarious and one of the truly best
teams in the WWE right now… not that there’s many others) I was getting tired
of seeing them square off against R-Truth and Kofi Kingston and continuously
losing. Anyway, while I’d rather have
people that actually are tag-teams team up instead of thrown together teams
like this one, Daniel Bryan and Kane make a great comedic team. They might even
have a few good tag-matches and I know the WWE seems to enjoy tag-teams with
tension more often than not these days.
With that said and with Kofi/R-Truth boring me as a team, I see a title
change happening tonight and it should be glorious!
Who I Want to Win: Kane and Daniel Bryan
Who I Think Will Win: Kane and Daniel Bryan
World Heavyweight Championship Match – Sheamus © vs.
Alberto Del Rio: It’s September
and this feud is STILL going on?!?! End it already!!! I was bored with their
Money in the Bank match and thought their SummerSlam match was just okay. The
feud has done nothing for me as I don’t think Sheamus and Del Rio have good
tension. The addition of the Brogue Kick
being banned was a decent idea for this match however Sheamus already had a
strong entourage of moves in his set such as White Noise and the Razor’s Edge
(not sure what they called it for him.) I like his new Irish Clover Leaf
submission, however like I’ve talked to a friend in a wrestling group I post on
Facebook with, he said he should have debuted that finisher at the PPV if they
plan on having him win with it rather than use it on David Otunga during TV
tapings. Right now they’re just hyping that Sheamus may be weak in this match
without the Brogue Kick but now that they have shown him doing the new
submission, one would think he’ll just win that way. They may throw us a curve
ball by having Alberto Del Rio win (which with his stale character, I hope not)
or a Dolph Ziggler MITB cash-in (I’m predicting they’ll wait.) Just let Sheamus
win and find this man a new opponent please!
Who I Want To Win: Sheamus Who I Think Will Win: Sheamus
WWE Championship Match – CM Punk © vs. John Cena: All good things must come to an end. Yes, I’m hinting
that it will be time to end the reign of CM Punk unfortunately. I’m really
hoping it won’t happen but considering it is in John Cena’s hometown,
considering it has been several months since Cena hasn’t been a world champion
in any capacity, I think it is time. Paul Heyman is now a new factor in this
feud (which for me has really turned things around for this feud that I wasn’t
really into before) but I think he will play a factor after the match somehow. Any other person, I’m sure Paul Heyman would
cause that person to lose to CM Punk, but this is John Cena we’re talking about
here, WWE always has him find some way to win the match to make the ages 4-11
demographic happy and piss off the rest of the internet. I don’t think this will end their feud,
especially since I’m sure WWE would love the idea of doing a Hell in a Cell
match between John Cena-CM Punk (which I’d enjoy as well) for the next
PPV. While I think it’s inevitable we
see this title change hands, I’m not betting any money, so I won’t be upset if
I’m wrong on this prediction. On top of
that, even Cena’s hometown crowd boos him.
Who I Want To Win: CM Punk Who I Think Will Win: John Cena
Thank you for reading my
Night of Champions Predictions. I’m
hoping to do more updates in the future. Follow me on Facebook for news on my
next updates. Have a good Sunday everybody!
