WWE Boring Rights? Could Have Been Better!

Well WWE Bragging Rights came to pass, and along with it the knowledge that although many of My predictions did not pan out that the possibility is still open for most of them to happen.  I still eagerly anticipate that John Cena will make a full heel turn, and I think that there are many subtle hints that it is still going to happen.  Perhaps story development at WWE is waitng for a bigger pay-per-view, and for the results of the senate race in Connecticut.

Presenting Cena's heel turn will be all about presentation and surprise.  I know that he captures that all important 8 to 10 year old demographic the WWE has been after for the past few years, since it became a TV-PG Rated show.  If you look at it logically the WWE cleaning up its act (changing the F.U. to an A.A. and the like) was just the first step in cleaning up the company's image prior to Linda deciding she was suddenly going into politics.  And just as I knew it when I visited Fairfield this summer and walked into a pizza place where a commercial was running showing "Liberal" Linda McMahon kicking Jim Ross in the balls the senate race itself has been just as entertaining and dramatic as anything in WWE.

But back to Cena, who I had predicted would "accidentally" hit Randy Orton with a chair while the ref was knocked out at Bragging Rights while trying to hit Wade Barrett, before getting an evil look on his face and proceeding to beat Orton unconscious, and then getting the ref back into the ring to count the pin.  If you look at the things that have happened the past few weeks you get the sense that things are being purposefully to show him in a good light.  The Raw before Bragging Rights Barrett ordered him to do an A.A. on a beaten down Orton, before changing his mind at the last second and having him hand him over.  Then again last night Barrett ordered David Otunga to lay day and be pinned, again so that Cena would not be precieved as doing anything remotely bad, even under Barrett's "orders".

Now as to the sublte hints of Cena's impending heel turn?  Well the first would be the poster for WWE Survivor Series that was posted on Saturday.  The poster shows a scowling Wade Barrett on it, and since he is the only superstar on the poster it would seem to be an indication that he more than likely is going to become WWE Champion at the next pay-per-view.  Then last night on WWE Monday Night Raw when Cena confronted Barrett in the locker room there was another sublte hint in the background between the two men.  Sitting in a locker cubby was a Nexus hat.  I don't believe I have to point out the fact that the only person in Nexus who wears a hat is John Cena.  If you still have Raw on your DVR you will also note that the locker room was re-dressed for Barrett's confrontation with David Otunga, with other Nexus paraphanelia up but the hat missing.

The last little sublte hint was that as of last night all currently active on-screen Nexus members have held WWE championship gold  with the exception of Wade Barrett himself, so one can only but assume that the plan is to put the WWE Championship on him soon becuase traditionally the leader of any heel faction is going to be the top singles champion (i.e. Ric Flair, Raven, Triple H, Hollywood Hogan).

As for Bragging Rights it was a mix of the average and beyond all expectations.  I find it a little shocking that in the Bragging Rights match itself the defeat of Team Raw was played up as defeat from within.  Not that Team Smackdown didn't have all the tools to be victorious, but I was quite certain that Nexus would interject themselves into the match to help Smackdown win for no other reason than to humiliate Raw.

Daniel Bryan vs. Dolph Ziggler I think was another outstanding example of a repeating theme, as last year The Miz won his one on one Bragging Rights match for Raw.  It was spectacular, and most would agree the rematch on Raw was just as spectacular.

Then there was Nexus's actual involvement in the PPV.  Cena and Otunga winning the WWE Tag Team Championship was totally unexpected.  It was also the first subtle hint that Smackdown will eventually, as I predict, have a Nexus prescence on it sometime in the very near future.  Why else would the decision be made to have a hot and dominant team like Smackdown's Drew McIntyre and Cody Rhodes drop the titles so quickly to an untested Raw tag team?  And then there was the interference in the Buried Alive match (which I was sure the Undertaker was going to win as him being beaten back to back in a Hell In A Cell and a Buried Alive match seemed unlikely under any circumsttances).  On Raw Wade Barrett assured that they had their reasons for helping Kane, but remember this is not the first time that Nexus helped Kane destroy the Undertaker.  I think the act of Nexus burying the Undertaker (the man viewed as the most dominant figure on Smackdown) is very symbolic, and shows to me that Nexus has plans for a Smackdown take-over.

In regard to the "Greater Plan" I think that there are a great many players in place.  My feeling is that Raw and Smackdown are going to be portrayed as being "taken over" by Nexus as secret members come to light in the wake of a John Cena heel turn.  I believe that Alex Riley, Tyler Reks, Caylen Croft, Trent Baretta, Sheamus, Zach Ryder and David Hart Smith are in fact secretly members of  Nexus.  The supposed former members Darren Young, Skip Sheffield and Michael Tarver are probably just waiting in the wings and biding their time so the fans will forget about them..  And let's not forget "Raw GM" Michael Cole, who is now reading and reacting to the e-mails a lot too fast.  And again I still firmly believe that Triple H will be revealed as the mastermind of Nexus, sometime atfer the Connecticut senate race is over.

As to what is upcoming at the next pay-per-view WWE Survivor Series.   Maybe I sound like a broken record, but Wade Barrett will win the WWE Championship when John Cena turns heel and takes out Randy Orton.  The catch is that Cena is the guest referee for the match, and if Barrett looses he will be fired, but if he wins he will supposedly be released from his obligations to Nexus.  It's all show to make Cena's heel turn that much sweeter. Immediately following the match The Miz will bring in another referee and attempt to cash in Money In The Bank, and Alex Riley will reveal his involvement in Nexus by knocking Miz out with the Money In The Bank briefcase as Barrett feigns an injury from the previous match to hold the ref's attention after the bell rings, until he miraculously revives and covers The Miz.  Survivor Series will end with Cena as a heel, Barrett as the WWE Champion, the Money In The Bank "Gurantee" broken, and Michael Cole saying, "If you're not Nexus you're against us," as pandemonium erupts around the ring.