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Triple H, October 2011:

“When I grew up, I hated Hogan. I thought he was terrible and didn’t like to watch him. I was like Punk in a way. I liked the Steamboats and Flairs and the ones that could go. Would I be right in saying that Hogan was the wrong guy to go with, and they should’ve changed directions and gone with Steamboat because he was the better wrestler? Ludicrous.” - Triple H. October, 2011.

TNA Slammiversary 2012

Monday, October 15, 2012

Lockdown was here. 

 

TNA Title: Austin Aries d. AJ Styles
X: Bobby Roode d. RVD
Tags: Tex Mex d. Dudleys
Kurt Angle d. Samoa Joe
Chris Daniels d. Frankie Kazarian
Ken Kennedy (w/Burke) d. Abyss
Jeff Hardy d. Kid Kash
Crimson/Garrett Bischoff d. Robby E/Robby T

Slammiversary is the big event on Counterfactual TNA's calendar; let's start at the bottom - Crimson and Matt Morgan are in an endless, awful feud; after Crimson/Bischoff win here, they are stomped out by Morgan/Magnus - that is broken up by the agents, DLo and Al Snow, Snow and Magnus wind up in a shoving match.  The defining element of Counterfactual Jeff Hardy's character is he's never won a singles belt, spending the past several years coming up painfully short - and now he's finally snapped; Kash comes in as old friend of RVD (Van Dam gets him the job) Jeff and Van Dam were tag champs but they fell apart at the last show; Jeff takes incredible insult at Kash, who gives off a real down and out vibe, comparing the two of them - just two old high flyers trying to get by - and Jeff goes full heel here, beating Kash, flipping off the fans - and then, in the next match, he assists Ken Kennedy (of the heel tag team Future Endeavors) in beating Abyss.  That loss causes Abyss to disappear, and he will eventually be searched for by a man purporting to be his brother Joseph.  Daniels and Kazarian are veteran babyfaces doing a 50/50 program; Joe is a Horseman (Roode/Williams) and they end careers (Jarrett, Sting, Flair, the Machine Guns) Angle has just lost a feud to Aries and appears ripe for the picking; Joe says he's going to put Angle's pelt up on his wall - but he doesn't, Angle goes over.  Tex Mex takes the tag title from the Dudleys, this is a babyface match - Bubba just turned face from his real life Bully Ray character to rejoin old partner Devon in a last ride sort of a program - they're challenged by Storm/Hernandez with the idea being that Bubba and Storm are competing to see who is the greatest tag wrestler who ever lived (Bubba's been champ with a total of 3 partners across all promotions, Storm's a 5 time TNA Tag Champ). Tex Mex goes over.  When Roode keeps his X belt over RVD that means he'll go into BFG as champ for a year; no one has ever held the X belt for more than a year, so that's the built in angle to come - Future Endeavors, now led by Jeff, attack RVD postmatch.  And in the main - dickish heel Aries who has been telling everyone that it was his time in TNA; his time to claim his spot as World Champion - does just that.  

Real World Final Resolution will mean Counterfactual BFG - your main event is (most likely) an Aries/Styles rematch.  

Road to Survivor Series 2011 - Part 2

Monday, October 01, 2012

Part 1 is here.

CM Punk v. John Cena
The Rock v. Dos Caras, Jr.
Ikea Death Match: @TruthKills v. Ka$h Kingston
Randy Orton v. Cody Rhodes

Punk’s the only GDI standing after Summer Slam, but he’s nowhere to be seen; Cena lost to Danielson, but he returns about a month or so after Summer Slam to resume cutting promos on the now missing group.  Cena admits to losing the battle, but says GDI lost the war; the guys with Underground are now running WWF, Cena will be wrestling someone at Survivor Series and the 3 time WWF Champion CM Punk is nowhere to be found. Cena cuts a second similar promo the following week.

That leads to Punk’s showing up the following week in what is still Bret’s office, but is now occupied by Regal.

Punk’s wary – Regal’s got 4-5 members of Underground surrounding him.

Regal thanks Punk for coming to the meeting,

Regal says at Survivor Series he will officially become WWF Commissioner and he thinks there might be a place for Punk in the new WWF. 

Punk tells him to go to hell.

Regal offers him a slot at Survivor Series against Cena.  On one one.  No interference.  No postmatch attacks.  No double cross. 

Punk asks why he should believe Regal.  Regal says he’s sick of Cena.  Cena’s not Underground but he walks around like he somehow carries the WWF flag.  There is no WWF standardbearer who isn't Underground; Cena was useful for awhile, but now its time to dispose of him. In the new WWF he wouldn’t mind if Cena wasn’t around – and Punk’s the guy to get rid of him.  And if after that, Punk wants out of his contract, so be it.  Unlike Bret, Regal isn’t interested in keeping him against his will. 

Punk pauses – and extends his hand to Regal.

Regal seems a little surprised – but he takes it.

As it develops, the match isn’t going to be a garbage match, and that’s Cena’s idea – Punk brings a light tube to the ring to hand to Cena and Cena turns it down.  Cena says he’s worked every day in the WWF for this one moment, a straight wrestling match at Madison Square Garden against a former WWF Champion.  

Cena says it’s the biggest moment of his life. 

Punk says it’s not the biggest moment in his, he’s main evented Wrestlemania, he’s won the WWF title, the reason Cena was able to get away with running down GDI for so long was because that nobody ever thought he was particularly important.

Punk says its just another day at the office, he goes to MSG, beats Cena, gets out his contract and moves on. That allows Cena to push the "you don't care about these fans, this place, you're the same guy who threw down the title belt" button - and Punk to respond that the fans aren't children, they know why he's leaving and they know where they will be able to find him next.  

The Rock returns to the WWF for one night only at Survivor Series 2011.

The Rock, recall, clowned Caras at Mania and since then Caras has been calling him out, including bringing in Tony Atlas as his driver at Summer Slam. 

After Summer Slam Caras continues to go at Rock – the Usos were introduced as Rock’s cousins on WWF Underground, this summer’s version of Tough Enough, and they got bullied off the competition – they come back in the build to get embarrassed by Caras.  Ideally, they get Rocky Johnson to come back and get stomped out, but he’s not on the payroll, so I can’t count on that.

I’d like the announcement of the match to be part of a talkshow appearance, Rock’s promoting a movie on whatever show he’s on (Kimmel would do it) and announces that he’s returning to the WWF for one more match.  That he started his career in New York City at Survivor Series in 1996 and 15 years later he’s going to come back for one last match.  He briefly explains there’s a guy named Dos Caras (he can make fun of his name) who has an ass whipping coming, and so the Rock’s going to give him one.
In what is apparently a throwaway, I like Kimmel showing some silly clip of Nemeth, and then saying something like “I guess that’s the champ now– what is that guy’s name?”  The Rock can hit his “it doesn’t matter…” line. 

It’s not full kayfabe, it’s Rock being Rock largely joking around– ideally getting some mainstream rub for his return to the ring.

He doesn’t enter even one arena one time before Survivor Series; he can cut a couple/three satellite promos to show he’s serious about the match, but it’s Caras/Vickie/Ricardo/Atlas doing their shtick that keeps the momentum going.  

Crazy ass Killings walked out on the match against former tag partner Kingston at Summer Slam because he had a shift at Ikea – he cuts a promo where he brings furniture into the ring to show the good deals they have; Kingston comes out to basically ask him what the hell has happened, and it winds up with Killings putting Kingston through a bookcase. 

That’s the essential build for this match; there’s going to be Ikea furniture, and the guys are going to smash into it.  Killings is the crazy guy; Kingston is now pissed off at the craziness, and they’re gonna hit each other with end tables at MSG.

Finally, a listless Orton lost at Summer Slam and he gets put on blast by Cody.  Cody says Orton’s become a little bitch – here we are, with this Underground group having taken over, stepping on the throat of every wrestler in the WWF who wasn’t trained there, and the guy who was supposed to be Defiant, the guy who told every boss he ever had to go screw himself, the guy who  kicked Cody’s own dad in the head – he’s just given up.  Cody says if Orton doesn’t want to be Defiant – then he’ll be Defiant. 

Cody slaps Orton across the face, Orton just exits. 

And that’s the last match.  All of that plus Bret returns to officially hand off the commissionership. Once again, the card.

WWF Title: Nick Nemeth (w/Kelly) v. Mistico
IC Title: Sheamus (w/McIntyre) v. Johnny Nitro (w/Miz/Natty)
Tags: Empire v. Opening Tag Winners
CM Punk v. John Cena (if Punk wins, he’s released from his contract)
The Rock v. Dos Caras, Jr. (w/Vickie/Ricardo/Atlas)
#IkeaDeathMatch: @TruthKills v. Ka$h Kiingston
Randy Orton v. Cody Rhodes
Number One Contender: Mark Henry/Santino v. Hunico/Mase

Unrelated, since part I of the build - your friendly Counterfactual author got married.  True story!

The next TNA show comes up later this month; Survivor Series in November.  

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