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rhysus2006 · 06-10-2008, 04:34 PM

WWE 2008: The Future Today

Great American Bash 2008 didn't come off to well as a good PPV as people thought that the WWE was too crowded. Vince had tried to fit alot of the roster onto the PPV, and it turned out to be one massive clusterfuck. Vince McMahon addressed this issue and announced on RAW that all three shows would merge into one roster. Vince McMahon mentioned that there are some seventy or more wrestlers in the company, and cuts to the roster would be made.

This left the fans waiting on what was going to happen as ECW and SmackDown! were cancelled for that week. Next week on RAW, the show opened with Vince McMahon, he announced that from that day on, the ECW Championship, the World Tag Team Championships, the World Heavyweight Championship and the United States Championship were all defunct and no longer titles in the WWE. This left us with the WWE Championship, the WWE Tag Championships, the Intercontinental Championship and the Women's Championship.

Vince McMahon went on to announce that he would be bringing back the WWE European Championship and the WWE Hardcore Championship to the show. He said that the Hardcore Championship would come with a 24/7 rule on it, meaning it can change hand at anytime, as long as a referee is there to count a fall. Vince McMahon then announced these six championships would find new champions in a series of tournaments, each taking part on RAW every week.

The next week on RAW started the tournament for the WWE Women's Championship and the WWE Championship. Triple H won the WWE Championship tournament beating John Cena in the finals, and Mickie James won the Women's Championship after beating Melina in the finals. The next week on RAW, the final RAW before SummerSlam, Matt Hardy won the Intercontinental Championship finals and the EdgeHeads won the WWE Tag Team Championships tournament.

SummerSlam Results:

WWE Championship
Triple H (c) def. John Cena & Randy Orton

Backstage Brawl (Hardcore Championship):
Tommy Dreamer (c) def. Shannon Moore

WWE European Championship Tournament Final:
Edge def. Kane

WWE European Championship Semi Final:
Edge def. Umaga

Backstage Brawl (Hardcore Championship):
Tommy Dreamer (c) def. Snitsky

WWE European Championship Semi Final:
Kane def. Chavo Guerrero

Official WWE Hardcore Championship Match:
Tommy Dreamer def. Jeff Hardy

AJ Styles def. CM Punk

Non-title:
Shawn Michaels def. Matt Hardy

Now, after the event that was SummerSlam, I bring you: WWE - The Future Today!

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TITLES:

WWE Championship
Champion || Defeated || Where? || Date ||

Triple H ||Randy Orton || Backlash 2008 || 27-04-08 ||
Triple H became a 12-time champion at Backlash 2008, but when Vince McMahon announced the roster merge, the title was vacated

Vacated || N/A || RAW || 28-07-08 ||
After Vince McMahon vacated the championship, he started a tournament to find a new champion.

Triple H || John Cena || RAW || 04-08-08 ||
On the 4th August 2008 edition of RAW, Triple H won the vacated WWE Championship, beating John Cena in the finals of the tournament to become a 13-time World Champion.

WWE European Championship
Champion || Defeated || Where? || Date ||

Vacated || N/A || N/A || 21-07-02 ||
The European Championship became defunct and therefore vacant when Rob Van Dam beat Jeff Hardy to unify it with the Intercontinental Championship.

Edge || Kane || SummerSlam 2008 || 17-08-08 ||
Edge beat Kane in the finals of the European Title Tournament at SummerSlam 2008 to win the European Championship for the first time in his career.

WWE Intercontinental Championship
Champion || Defeated || Where? || Date ||

Chris Jericho || Jeff Hardy || RAW || 10-03-08 ||
Chris Jericho defeated Jeff Hardy in March to win the Intercontinental Championship for the 8th time in his career.

Vacated || N/A || RAW || 28-07-08 ||
After Vince McMahon vacated the championship, he started a tournament to find a new champion.

Matt Hardy || Chris Jericho || RAW || 11-08-08 ||
Matt Hardy won his first Intercontinental Title on RAW, beating Chris Jericho in the tournament finals.

WWE Tag Championships
Champion || Defeated || Where? || Date ||

John Morrison & The Miz || MVP & Matt Hardy || SmackDown! || 16-11-07 ||
Morrison & Miz won tag team gold after defeating MVP & Matt Hardy at a SmackDown! show.

Vacated || N/A || RAW || 28-07-08 ||
After Vince McMahon vacated the championships, he started a tournament to find new champions.

EdgeHeads || Londrick || RAW || 11-08-08 ||
EdgeHeads won their first tag title reign after beating Londrick in the tournament finals.

WWE Women's Champion
Champion || Defeated || Where? || Date ||

Mickie James || Beth Phoenix || RAW || 14-05-08 ||
Mickie James beat Beth Phoenix on RAW to become a 4-time Women's Champion.

Vacated || N/A || RAW || 28-07-08 ||
After Vince McMahon vacated the championship, he started a tournament to find a new champion.

Mickie James || Melina || RAW || 04-08-08 ||
Mickie James won the Women's Tournament, beating Melina in the finals and becoming a 5-time Women's Champion.

WWE Hardcore Champion
Champion || Defeated || Where? || Date ||

Vacated || N/A || N/A || N/A ||
The last Hardcore Champion was Rob Van Dam, who won the title on the 26th August 2002, beating Tommy Dreamer.

Tommy Dreamer || Jeff Hardy || SummerSlam 2008 || 17-08-08 ||
Nearly six years inactive, the Hardcore title became active again at SummerSlam 2008 when Tommy Dreamer beat Jeff Hardy to win the title. He defended the title twice more in the same night. This is Dreamer's 15th Hardcore Title reign.

STAFF:

[F] Eve Torres (Interviewer)

[F] Jim Ross (Play by Play Announcer)

[F] Jerry Lawler (Color Commentator)

[F] Lilian Garcia (Announcer)

[H] William Regal (General Manager)

[H] Vickie Guerrero (Manager of Edge)

[H] Vince McMahon (Chairman)

PART-TIMERS:

[F] Mick Foley

[F] Ron Simmons

TAG TEAMS:

[H] Deuce 'N Domino (Deuce & Domino)

[H] EdgeHeads (Curt Hawkings & Zack Ryder) (WWE Tag Team Champions)

[F] The Hooligans (Brian Kendrick & Paul London)

[F] The Highlanders (Robbie McAllister & Rory McAllister)

[F] Jesse & Festus (Jesse Dalton & Festus Dalton)

[F] Cryme Tyme (JTG & Shad Gaspard)

[H] World's Greatest Tag Team (Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin)

STABLES:

[H] M Quad (Joey Mercury, John Morrison, The Miz & Melina)

[F] The New Hart Foundation (DH Smith, Ted DiBiase Jr. & Natalya Neidhart)

MAIN EVENTERS:

[F] Batista

[F] Chris Jericho

[H] Edge (WWE European Champion)

[F] John Cena

[H] Randy Orton

[F] Rey Mysterio

[H] Shawn Michaels

[H] Triple H (WWE Champion)

UPPER MIDCARDERS:

[F] Big Show

[H] AJ Styles

[F] CM Punk

[F] Jeff Hardy

[F] Kane

[F] Matt Hardy (WWE Intercontinental Champion)

[H] Mr. Kennedy

[H] Umaga

MIDCARDERS:

[F] D'Lo Brown (Yet to Debut)

[H] Mark Jindrak (Yet to Debut)

[H] Carlito

[H] Chuck Palumbo

[H] Chavo Guerrero

[H] Elijah Burke

[F] Finlay

[H] Gregory Helms

[F] Kofi Kingston

[H] Montel Vontavious Porter

[F] Paul Burchill

[F] Tommy Dreamer (WWE Hardcore Champion)

LOWCARDERS:

[F] Cody Rhodes

[F] Hardcore Holly

[H] Jamie Noble

[F] Jimmy Wang Yang

[H] Kenny Dykstra

[H] Santino Marella

[H] Tajiri (Yet to Debut)

[F] Zack Gowan (Yet to Debut)

DIVAS:

[F] Ashley Massaro

[H] Beth Phoenix

[F] Candice Michelle

[F] Maria Kanellis

[F] Michelle McCool

[F] Mickie James (WWE Women's Champion)

[F] Melina

[H] Natalya Neidhart

[H] Victoria

JOBBERS:

[F] Funaki

[F] Shannon Moore

[H] Snitsky

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2008 Schedule:

WWE Unforgiven - 7th September 2008
WWE No Mercy - 12th October 2008
WWE Cyber Sunday - 2nd November 2008
WWE Survivor Series - 23rd November 2008
WWE Armageddon - 21st December 2008

johncena23 · 06-10-2008, 10:34 PM

it could be good

rhysus2006 · 06-11-2008, 08:44 AM

**DTJ** · 06-11-2008, 10:32 PM

This looks good, interesting to see what you're gunna do with people like D'Lo and Gowen.

Raw looks okay, not much to say about it. I'll try and get a review up when its posted.

johncena23 · 06-12-2008, 12:06 AM

excellent, that would be for me too

rhysus2006 · 06-17-2008, 04:28 PM

I have updated the first post. I've updated the roster and the title history. The first show should be up soon. I have the first half of it completed.

Bobby Lashley Rulz · 06-17-2008, 10:29 PM

This looks pretty good. I like condensing everything into one roster, and bringing back two vintage titles

. I also love when WWE does tournments, so i am definently going to be reading.

**Anarchy Bri** · 06-19-2008, 01:47 PM

This looks good. I like the graphics. Go ahead and use the WWE.com thing. I don't mind it's not like I came up with it

. I like how you have your title history thing. Looks sweet.

**DriveByLeo** · 06-19-2008, 02:14 PM

This looks really good when is the show going to be up?

rhysus2006 · 06-19-2008, 03:02 PM

The show will be up soon. I have updated the preview with a WWE.com style page.