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.
