T-Lo v. Johnny Ace Speculation
 

Now this is merely speculation on my part, and I haven't read anything about plans for this to actually happen, but judging from Raw, it looks like there's a chance that we'll get a match at Wrestlemania involving Theodore Long and John Laurinitas to see who gains control of both Raw and Smackdown.

It would be foolish and downright insulting to have the actual match be between the two of them, so I was thinking that maybe both men will find representatives and THOSE two will have a match. Otunga seems like a pretty clear choice for John's side. Who will be on Teddy's side? Maybe it'll be some sort of multi-man tag match involving Christian/Del Rio/Mark Henry as well? Are they even healthy enough to wrestle yet?

I dunno, I'm just thinking about the situation out loud at this point. How do you guys think it'll go down?

From Noid's Mania Card Thread...

They have 6 weeks to heal.

After the promo at the last PPV, I think there is no doubt it will be Christian, ADR and Henry, and probably Otunga in an 8 man tag. 8 Man tag matches have become a pretty common addition to WM the last few years.

We hit this up a bit in the raw thread, would love to see

Orton, Kofi, Santino and Anyone else that fits (Returning Rey? Young guy they are pushing like Ryan, Clay etc) facing those 4.

I like the idea of each of them having a representative, although Christian and Del Rio have been ready to wrestle for a few weeks now and Henry wrestled last night

Oh thank god, I thought you meant I the ring for a second there.

I'm not saying it won't happen, but with MITB allegedly being back on the card, I don't think it could support a multi-man tag match with enough talent to support that and MITB.

However, make MITB an even number of people and split them between Johhny's guys and Tesdy's guys for a little team element on top of going for the briefcase and decide it that way and it could be delightful.

Should have saved this Angle for Bragging Rights if they're bringing that PPV back.

Team Money in the Bank...that might be kinda awesome.

I don't mind Money in the Bank at Wrestlemania, and I actually prefer it there...but do they plan on keeping the Money in the Bank PPV still? If so, it's overkill.

Yeah, I nearly made Orton my 4th man for Teddy but I couldn't see them not featuring Orton in a bigger role.

Also, if there is a MitB, the likes of Christian, Cody, Del Rio, etc. should be in there.

NAh, the MITB PPV isn't on the schedule this year

They've already scrapped the Mitb PPV haven't they?

Also yeah I mentioned in another thread where I was trying to fit guys into both an 8 man tag for this as well as a Mitb but ran out of eligible faces quite quickly.

I would imagine Orton in a bigger role too, but now with the injury to Wade Barrett (who I was thinking would be Orton's opponent), they just might have to shoe horn him in somewhere else.

Christian, Del Rio, Henry, and Otunga vs. Orton, Ezekiel Jackson, Justin Gabriel, and Santino

Take out gabriel and add Rey Mysterio and you've probably got it

Instead, lets have Teddy Long Vs Johnny Ace in a steel cage match.

Yeah, that would make the angle much more sense.

called this before the chamber, either a one on one or Johnny Ace/Otunga vs. Teddy Long/Santino

want it to happen too, would be funny as fuck just like Cole v Lawler last yr.

Teddy Long vs. Johnny Ace *SD, RAW spoilers
 

As we saw at the Elimination Chamber, several superstars have sided with Johnny Ace and his bid to take over WWE television.

Teddy Long will not stand for this and the feud escalated at the end of this week's live Smackdown.

No one wants to see these two in an actual wrestling match and I'm sure WWE management would not put it on. Could there be a potential tag match/ elimination-tag match at Wrestlemania to settle the score?

Henry, Christian, Otunga, Del Rio

vs.

Santino, Justin Gabriel, "blank," "blank,"

I know there is a MITB match too, but guys like Kofi, Miz, R-Truth, Ziggler, etc.. should be in that... imo.

Does anyone think this could go through? Any other suggestions on who could be in the match? Any shocking return entrants or Legends who could add to this?

Money in the Bank:

1. Cody Rhodes
2. Dolph Ziggler
3. Jack Swagger
4. Justin Gabriel
5. Kane
6. Kofi Kingston
7. The Miz
8. R-Truth
9. Randy Orton
10. Ted DiBiase

Team Laurinaitis vs. Team Long:

Alberto Del Rio
Christian
David Otunga
Drew McIntyre
Mark Henry

Vs.

Big Show
The Great Khali
Rey Mysterio
Santino Marella
Shaquille O'Neal

* Dolph Ziggler wins Money in the Bank while Team Long defeats Team Laurinaitis after Drew McIntyre turns on the heels and helps Shaq get the pin on David Otunga.

So, whatever team wins that person gets power right? Is that how we're doing it. Could just be David Otunga vs. some Smackdown guy for it.

Instead of one briefcase hanging down, have 4. Depending on whick one you grab, it determines which title you get to challenge for within the next year. Like a small added bonus for winning for your GM.

i can see a ten man tag featuring

team laurinaitus
mark herny
david otunga
christian
alberto del rio
jack swagger
vs
team long
santino
ezeikal jackson
randy orton (if not in anything else if so drew mcintrye)
big show
rey mysterio (if heatlhy if not justin gabriel)

The way Big Zeke keeps getting bodied by Otunga, I dunno if he'll have a spot on the card or not. I'd be fine without him, honestly.

would never happen . WWE doesnt copy TNA ideas . Its the other way around .

I think an 8-man tag and an 8-man MITB is a great idea. I don't like guys not getting on Mania when a lot of them deserve it.

Team Larry - Mark Henry, Otunga, Swagger, and Cody vs Team Teddy - Big Show, Santino, Big Zeke, and Shaq (I guess)

MITB - Alberto Del Rio, Christian, Rey Rey, Dolph, Kofi, Orton, Gaybriel, and R-Truth

I would rather have ADR, Xian, and Rey in the tag match. It's easier to cover for ring rust if you put them in something where they basically only need to do their key spots than something with the expectations of MITB.

ADR, Christian, Henry, and Otunga vs. Rey, Santino, Zeke, and Khali

MITB - Orton vs. Dolph vs. Miz vs. Truth vs. Kofi vs. Drew vs. Gabriel vs. Swagger

Throw in Show vs. Cody, Beth vs. Kharma, and Ryder vs. Kane and that's a solid undercard to support the four big matches.

Teddy Long is horrible btw, absolutely horrible.

Come on now playa, holla holla!

I agree.

Nice one.

Wouldn't mind having MITB excluded from WM actually just as long it's not scrapped altogether and take place on a different PPV instead.

I can't see Jackson and Gabriel getting a WM payday over other people if they are leaving out the Mitb. Maybe put Kofi and R-Truth in their place in those teams.

On the other hand, I've got a feeling we might get Kofi and R-Truth vs Ziggler and Swagger for the tag titles, with one of the teams picking the belts up from Primo and Epico in the next couple of weeks.

Through all of this, I can't think of a match for The Miz :-\

That's a problem? Shit, the way Miz has been going on TV I don't wanna see him.

Maybe The Miz will be in Daniel Bryan's corner.

I could actually see this. Perhaps Miz, Bryan, and Cole?

At this point, I'd even be ok with Miz being a guest ref in the DB/Sheamus match.

I wouldn't even be surprised if The Miz tried to get himself added to the match to make it a 3-way, since he's so obsessed with main eventing Wrestlemania. I just think he'll be involved in that match some way.

I'm almost certain of that ABT. Not using Miz at WM would be a complete waste, regardless of how much backstage heat he may have.

WrestleMania turning out something like this would not surprise me one bit:

The Rock vs. John Cena

WWE Championship
CM Punk (c) vs. Chris Jericho

World Heavyweight Championship
Daniel Bryan (c) vs. Sheamus

Hell in a Cell
The Undertaker vs. Triple H

The Miz vs. Randy Orton

Team Laurinaitis vs. Team Long
Alberto Del Rio, Christian, David Otunga, Drew McIntyre & Mark Henry vs. The Great Khali, Justin Gabriel, Rey Mysterio, Santino Marella and someone like Ezekiel Jackson, Mason Ryan, Ted DiBiase or even Alex Riley (depending on who they want to give the pay-day to)

Kane vs. Zack Ryder

Intercontinental Championship
Cody Rhodes (c) vs. Big Show

Divas Championship
Beth Phoenix (c) vs. Kharma

WWE Tag Team Championship
Kofi Kingston & R-Truth (c) vs. Dolph Ziggler & Jack Swagger

The biggest question mark is just which faces they want in Team Long. They have had Ezekiel Jackson aligned with Teddy Long lately, but he just doesn't seem like he'd be a good fit for the PPV. He's been getting schooled by David Otunga, possibly just to get Otunga over. They slipped Justin Gabriel onto the Elimination Chamber PPV, so maybe they really want to get the kid over? They should probably have some solid workers in there, and not just big men they want to get over in time. That's why I went with Mason Ryan or Ezekiel Jackson. Right now, I think the WWE might have slightly more long-term interest in Ryan. I do think that Alex Riley would be much better choice, but he seems to have pissed someone off.

Kane vs. Zack Ryder may also not have a match, but both men will be on the PPV. Perhaps Kane will just attack Ryder, or something? Or maybe Ryder will save Eve from destruction at Kane's hands, even though she's a bitch, just because he's a nice guy like that.

The Miz vs. Randy Orton makes total sense in context to what is going on over on SmackDown! -- what with The Miz suddenly being on Bryan's dick, not having anything to do for WrestleMania and Randy Orton being put on the shelf with Bryan. It's easy to arrange some sort of Orton vs. Miz encounter from that. It's possible that they might get involved in the World Title picture more directly, though.

Fun fact I realised while trying to decide who I would predict winners in a Kofi Kingston/R-Truth vs. Dolph Ziggler/Jack Swagger match: The WWE Tag Team Championship have not changed hands at a WrestleMania ever. The official WWE.com history lists them as the titles created on SmackDown! in 2002 (for whatever reason they chose this as the dominant history). To find a Tag Team Title change at WrestleMania, you have to go back to Edge & Christian winning the World Tag Team Titles at WrestleMania 2000. Well, I guess you could count Carlito & Primo winning the World Tag Team Titles at WrestleMania XXV, but that wasn't on the main show.

Also, I'm too lazy to really go back and check this, but I have a feeling that Santino Marella has actually technically defeated more people at WrestleMania than anyone else. Performing as Santina Marella, he beat 24 other girls in a Battle Royal at WrestleMania XXV. He was also on a winning team at WrestleMania last year which defeated Wade Barrett, Justin Gabriel, Heath Slater & Ezekiel Jackson. If he beats Christian, Alberto Del Rio, Mark Henry and David Otunga this year, that means he would have technically scored a win against 32 people at just three WrestleManias -- averaging out to about 10.67 opponents beaten each performance. If, as I hope he is, Drew McIntyre also makes it into Team Ace (since he has active problems with Theodore Long), then Santino winning at WrestleMania this year would bring his average up to a round 11.

Especially when your first champions are Kurt Angle & Chris Benoit -- one man who has left an obvious black man on his legacy, and another who, unfortunately, has a lot of people worried that he will.

Noid I don't think WWE will do 10 matches at Wrestlemania...

Rock/Cena
Triple H/Undertaker (maybe with HBK added as ref or a three way)
Punk/Jericho
Bryan/Sheamus (probably with Miz attacking Bryan or Sheamus)
Team Larry (Del Rio, Christian, Henry, and Otunga) vs Team Teddy (Orton, Santino, Ryder, and Mysterio) - Kane kills Ryder for Larry's victory
Truth/Kofi vs Dolph/Swagger
Beth vs Kharma or Nattie (or both)
Big Show vs Cody

The reason It hink eight would be better is so that the four main events can get their proper time, Rock/Cena, Taker/HHH, and Jericho/Punk all could/should go over 20 minutes in an ideal world. With Taker/HHH probably getting the most time other than Punk/Jericho. Punk deserves more time at Mania than anyone this year I think.

The Miz not getting a match at Mania would be great for his character because it sets up a feud with Sheamus if he kicks his ass after the match and then bitches about not getting booked (/dennis stamp)

Also Kane can stay off of Mania as far as a match goes, just continue his stuff with Ryder and cut to Cena backstage saying he doesn't have time to protect Ryder tonight. This could facilitate Ryder/Cena/Kane after Mania to carry for a few months.

This would've been the perfect time for the War Games match to happen.

I'm convinced WWE will never do a true War Games match (2 rings, long cage), but I think they will eventually do the same concept (4v4,5v5 - alternating entrants) in the Hell in a Cell.

LOL

Meant to say "mark." :-\

You know what? I actually like that.

Really, because they've pulled more dumb shit than the idea of Johnny Ace (;)) v. Teddy Long before...

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Both shit matches.

bunch of awkward interference, Teddy eats an Ace Crusher, match ends.

Cmon misawa and Kenta v Steve Williams and ace was great!

I kind of like the idea of Teddy Long getting more involved in storylines for this year's WrestleMania. The dude has been in the business for ages, and although his gimmick is essentially a guy that is just happy to have his job, I'd like to see what sort of depth Long can bring to the table.

Raw and SmackDown get a General Manager facelift!
By: Greg Adkins February 28, 2012
Tags: WWE Raw SuperShow: February 27, 2012, SuperSmackDown: February 21, 2012, John Laurinaitis


Both Raw and SmackDown are about to get extreme makeovers. In an effort to help determine which General Manager should control both shows, the WWE Board of Directors has decided to switch control of each show next week. SmackDown GM Theodore Long will take control of Monday night’s Raw while Raw GM John Laurinaitis takes the reins of next Friday’s SmackDown.

The decision comes one week after Laurinaitis announced at Elimination Chamber that he will seek control over both shows, bolstered by flattering testimonials by Superstars Mark Henry, Christian and Alberto Del Rio. A perturbed Long made it clear to Laurinaitis that he’s not about to take the threat to his position lying down.

Last week on SmackDown, the two got into a heated argument as they tried to overrule one another during a match between WWE Champion CM Punk vs. World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan. Last night on Raw SuperShow, the two were at it again as tensions continued to escalate. What will the GMs have in store for their respective rival as they switch roles? And how will each try to outshine the other? Tune into both Raw and SmackDown to see the lengths they’ll go to impress the Board of Directors – and get back at each other.