From: jkwst5+@pitt.edu (Joseph K Wright)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: Royal Rumble
Summary: Several Strange Predictions
Date: 23 Jan 93 20:09:44 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

I have some thoughts on the Royal Rumble that everyonr may (or may not) be
interested in seeing.

1. It's about time someone posted the possibilty that Razor Ramon will 
actually beat Bret Hart, or at least could. THis is McMahon, folks, every
year he seems to use the Rumble to be unpredictable once a year. I thought
the comparison to RR '91 was a fairly likely scenario.

2. Another recent thing I saw here, only in passing, was that someone 
mentioned almost kiddingly that maybe Flair would win and then forfeit his
title shot by losing the loser-leaves-WWF match. (By the way, was someone
teasing with the Flair vs. Ramon title, or was that serious?) This would
allow Vince to do whatever he wanted between now and April 4 with the
WMIX main event.

2b. WARNING: THIS WILL BE A PIPE DREAM, BUT ONE I WILL INDUULGE MYSELF WITH.

Flair wins the Rumble, and leaves town after Monday night. He goes on to
quickly recapture the WCW title, and then announces that he will demand
the title shot at WMIX. Vince and Watts agree, begrudgingly, to a title 
unification match between Flair and Hart. The match takes place and is the
greatest match we have ever seen, ending inm a time limit draw. (Too much
of a stretch even for this pipe dream to unify the titles.) To make the
situation slightly more feasible, Mcmahon agreed to letting Flair win Rumble,
but wasn't planning to give him the title match, Flair and/or Watts take
him to court demanding that Flair get the match. Third possibility, Flair
pulls a shoot in the Rumble, winning when he shouldn't have, and then 
carries out scenario 1 or 2.

3. Back to reality, (As much as reality relates to wrestling anyway) Vince
startsn a mega-feud at the Rumble by having Undertaker and Yokozuna
eliminate each other. It would be the best way to get the two invincibles
out of the Rumble, paving the way for a smaller wrestler (Perfect, Lawler,
Savage, Backlund, etc.) to win. I think this is more realistic in light
of the fact that Vince has been showcasing more human sized people in 
main events of late. Can you imagine the roar of the crowd at WMIX if
Undertaker and Yokosumo wrestle, 'zuma doing the sitting down from the
second rope thing, getting of, and seeing Mr. Death slowly, unaffectedly,
sitting up. Vince loves to make marks go crazy at WManias.

4. If there is anyone, mark or non-mark, who thinks the Beverlies have the
slightest chance of winning tomorrow, say "I". I didn't think so.

5. If it goes off, Moon vs. Taylor will be the best, most even match on the
undercard. Just a side note, I was watching the CoC in a TV lounge here at
school, and someone walked in and asked if his cousin was wrestling. I asked
who his cousin was and he said Terry Taylor was his wrestling name. I asked 
what his real name was, and he said, Paul Klause, which I believe is
different from what was posted on a recent names list. Then I said that no,
he was in the other organization, and asked if he knew why Terry hadn't
been very active lately. He said that Terry had just completed HIS LAW
DEGREE!!! Can you see this happening in court?:

JUDGE: Will Mr. Rooster, I mean Mr. Prosecutor, please approach the bench?
(Jury snickers, Taylor walks up and punches the judge)

Sorry for longwindedness. Anywaay, this will be my last contact with rspw
until next weekend. I won't get to see RR until THURSDAY NIGHT, and I
don't want to know what's going to happen ahead of time. If you want to annoy
me to the point where I will hunt you down and kill you and your immediate
family, please mail me the results on Monday. Otherwise, the speculation
is over about RR, so let's hook 'em up.

Joe Wright
Pitt

"Some people are afraid of heights, not me, I'm afraid of widths."
Steven Wright