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So, is everyone ready for Randy Orton's "surprise" face turn when he beats Bray Wyatt for the title?

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#1 ·
WWE really needs to start making their booking less obvious.
 
#6 ·
I feel like the Wyatts have not really done anything heelish since Orton joined them anyway. All they did was help Smackdown win the Survivor series, win the tag team belts briefly before putting over American Alpha, but beyond that its mostly been them fighting among themselves.
 
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#12 ·
Tells us OP if it's so obvious, why don't you tell us who's going to win the battle royal next week? How is Randy Orton going to win the title when he refused to face Wyatt at Mania?

Of course we know Orton will turn face, he never really turned heel, it's more about how and when he's going to turn on Wyatt that the WWE have kept us guessing and I think they've done a good job.
 
#15 ·
The battle royal will at least add some unpredictability to the angle.

I'm thinking it could go a few ways:

> AJ Styles wins, but when Orton decides to claim his title match afterall, Shane voids the battle royal, furthering the Shane/AJ angle.

> Harper wins. I'm skeptical that WWE would actually put Luke in the Mania title match though. Perhaps Bray, not wanting to face Luke, persuades Orton to face Harper again to determine the #1 conteder, as Bray would rather face someone he believes he controls than someone he does not.
 
#20 ·
If anything their booking as of late has been anything but obvious, which is part of the problem.

Predictable doesn't = bad.

Anyone over the age of 12 who ever watched a season of DragonBall Z or walked into a Marvel superhero film expecting the villain to win is a moron. You knew from '98 - '01 the road to WM would center around Rock and/or Austin.

Rikishi was not winning the Royal Rumble because you did not expect it.


The issue arises when you try too hard to be unpredictable and you end up delivering lackluster stories/angles once the shock wanes (KO's title win, anyone??) Orton/Wyatt being the title feud is a textbook example of that. This company hasn't gotten much of anything that was "unpredictable" correct as of late outside of Jericho & Owens' breakup. Unpredictability for unpredictabilitys sake (chasing "moments") almost always doesn't pay off in the long run and ends up being more contrived and hackneyed than anything when looking back on it years later, which is why you're about to have a love triangle featuring Luke Harper (who will go from jobbing to Kane clean to competing for the WWE Championship at Wrestlemania) as your top title feud when AJ/Orton, AJ/Wyatt, Cena/Ambrose, Cena/Taker or AJ/Taker would have been more predictable routes but a hell of a lot more logical & significant.
What do you think if alternative A comes to fruition and we still end up with Wyatt/Orton?
 
#26 ·
Cena wins the title only to tie Flair's record dropping it at next PPV to Bray, whose gonna drop it at WM to Orton? 2 relatively short title runs in short span. Bray needs to finally go over at WM and retain.



Orton joined them to destroy them slowly within. Or did he? If Harper wins Battle Royal and gets added making it Triple Threat at WM, during the match Harper re-joins Bray making it 2 on 1 Handi-Cap Match. Rowan make his return at ringside, making it 3 on 1 with the Original family back together once again. Wyatt Family played Orton for a fool and knew his plan.

Bray can start singing "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" again.
 
#10 ·
Ready and waiting.. but I don't think it will really effect the crowd.. it's 50/50 now it'll be 50/50 afterwards. The only surprising thing they could do is make Wyatt the face, but I don't see any way to organically do that right now, and does anyone really want to see a squeaky clean WWE babyface Wyatt?
 
#17 · (Edited)
If anything their booking as of late has been anything but obvious, which is part of the problem.

Predictable doesn't = bad.

Anyone over the age of 12 who ever watched a season of DragonBall Z or walked into a Marvel superhero film expecting the villain to win is a moron. You knew from '98 - '01 the road to WM would center around Rock and/or Austin.

Rikishi was not winning the Royal Rumble because you did not expect it.


The issue arises when you try too hard to be unpredictable and you end up delivering lackluster stories/angles once the shock wanes (KO's title win, anyone??) Orton/Wyatt being the title feud is a textbook example of that. This company hasn't gotten much of anything that was "unpredictable" correct as of late outside of Jericho & Owens' breakup. Unpredictability for unpredictabilitys sake (chasing "moments") almost always doesn't pay off in the long run and ends up being more contrived and hackneyed than anything when looking back on it years later, which is why you're about to have a love triangle featuring Luke Harper (who will go from jobbing to Kane clean to competing for the WWE Championship at Wrestlemania) as your top title feud when AJ/Orton, AJ/Wyatt, Cena/Ambrose, Cena/Taker or AJ/Taker would have been more predictable routes but a hell of a lot more logical & significant.
 
#22 ·
I reckon Bray sees it coming. Turns out Luke never actually left Wyatt and its all just a ruse to make Orton think he's breaking apart the family. Orton could RKO Wyatt out of nowhere then BAM Discuss Clothesline BAM Sister Abigail. Cue crazy laughter from Wyatt and the build for mania begins.
 
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