10 HUGE WWE Super Show-Down Predictions You Need To Know
IIconics and Buddy Murphy star, Stehanie McMahon steals, and Triple H goes over Down Under?
Back here again, then.
Well, not back here exactly. WWE hasn’t been in Australia for nearly a decade, and hasn’t presented a show on this scale in the country for over 15 years. Oddly enough, Triple H was in that main event too.
Glohal Warning was an August 2002 supercard that took advantage of The Rock’s renewed presence on the roster to book an any-era dream match in the headline spot. ‘The Game’ and ‘The Great One’ we’re positioned against Brock Lesnar shortly before he became the youngest performer to win the WWE Undisputed Championship at SummerSlam just weeks later.
The show was released on DVD and - despite uncharacteristically poor production quality - looked as big as it literally was. 56,734 fans packed out the Colonial Stadium in Melbourne to watch the blockbuster event, and WWE will hope for even more to stroll through the turnstiles of the Cricket Ground down the road for a show they’ve already billed as “The Biggest WWE Live Event Ever In Australia”.
”Biggest” will absolutely be the case (particularly if the company gimmick the figure as they’ve done for recent WrestleManias), but can a mammoth crowd carry a card that looks on rather perplexing o paper?
10. Bobby Lashley And John Cena Vs. Elias And Kevin Owens
Short of Bobby Lashley and John Cena playing a game of piggy-in-the-middle with Lio Rush over Kevin Owens (and if Vince McMahon gets involved in constructing this match, is that even out of the question?), is it possible for the heels to be involved in anything entertaining before the crushing fist of defeat b*tchslaps one of them right in the face?
John Cena bantered off the entire world when he introduced his “Sixth Move Of Doom” at a Chinese house show, but nobody absorbed the worst of it more than recipient Elias. Was this a practice run for his quick trip to Australia?
WWE.com went to the trouble of talking about Cena and Lashley’s complex backstory in their preview of this contest, but it seems unlikely that the talent will go to quite as much trouble to tell the tale in front of the huge Melbourne crowd.
Much like ‘Big Match John’s WrestleMania p*ss-about with The Undertaker, it may fall to the former NXT Drifter to inject some life into this so-called main event. If he can summon the heat he managed on the go-home Raw, the heels may yet claw something enjoyable from a match certain to end in their listless demise.