Shawn's Obsession

[MetalBlade]

The most interesting angle in WWE right now, to me, involves Shawn's obsession with facing The Undertaker again at WrestleMania, and ending "The Streak" once and for all.
Having been personally denied a rematch by Taker himself, Shawn then said he now knew what he had to do - win the Royal Rumble, and take that choice away from The Undertaker, leaving it in Shawn's hands only to force the match to take place.
But then Shawn lost The Rumble - what now? Now he must enter and win the Elimination Chamber. But he failed to qualify...

This is where my storyline begins.
I feel Shawn will capitalise on the very last avenue open to him to ensure he faces Taker at WrestleMania, and ends "The Streak".
Shawn must first ensure Taker leaves The Elimination Chamber still as champion, so that he is defending at Mania. How he will do this I do not know, but I feel it must be an inside job involving HHH maybe taking a fall to make sure the belt stays with Taker.
Shawn will then qualify for the Money In The Bank match at Mania, and win.
Taker will then beat Rumble winner Edge in the main event, after which Shawn will run down and cash in his MITB, forcing Taker to defend - and lose, against Shawn there and then.
Thus ends "The Streak", and Shawn is the newly-crowned World Heavyweight Champeen.

I will keep watching this storyline with great interest, as I feel it only has one outcome, Taker losing to Shawn at WrestleMania.

[Woo]

I am starting to think they are gearing more towards Shawn facing HHH at Wrestlemania now, though I do really like the idea of him winning the MITB and cashing it in the same night. However I think if they do go with Shawn vs. Taker then Taker still wins. People will say "There's no way he beats Shawn twice!" and for the first time in years people will believe Taker might lose.... but he won't and Shawn will hopefully go full-blown heel in defeat.

[Steala]

I thought about the MITB scenerio in my fantasies, but then I realized that the combined age of the Undertaker and Shawn Michaels is 88. Can they really wrestle two matches in one night (particularly Shawn, who would have to take some bumps in the MITB match)? I'm sure they could, but I don't know what the quality of the match would be. Probably shit, considering the Undertaker is in it.

[MetalBlade]

It would be a very short match anyway, and would go some way towards solidifying Shawn's heel status. Shawn is already slowly turning on HHH, and it won't be long before sweet chins him out of DX.

[Knoxville]

Metalblade, the only flaw in your plan is that HHH is in the RAW EC not the Smackdown EC. So Hunter cant take a fall as it will have no impact at all.

But however I see how they may have set it up now. This week on Smackdown, Morrison "injured" his ankle. Dunno if it will go this way, but I see Teddy Long throwing Michaels in the EC and then winning the belt. Thus forcing Taker to use his rematch clause at WM. I still think Taker will win and Shawn will attack Taker turning him a fully fledged heel to close Mania. I just dont see htem giving the rub to someone like Michaels to end Takers streak. Surely it would go better on someone else who is, whats the word...

Younger?

[MetalBlade]

Oh yeah. I forgot HHH was in the Raw one... Oh well, somehow or other, I believe Shawn WILL face Taker at Mania and end the streak.
The angle with Morrison doing his ankle in is as good as any I guess. I thought it was badly done though on Smackdown as the landing did not look unusually bad at all.

[Woo]

I think the Morrison angle wasn't an angle at all. He really did hurt his ankle.

[OlympicHero]

My dream scenario would see HBK end the streak at Mania, become a full blown heel and join Punk's Straight Edge society! How awesome would that be?! Think of the amount of great feuds that could stem from an HBK and Punk association.....they could match up against the likes of HHH, Edge, Mysterio, Cena, Orton (after his inevitable face turn) and others.....

........well, I can dream!

[OlympicHero]

Well, the match is set.....Streak vs Career. This tells me that HBK will end the streak, because if this was to be his last match, i would expect him to be inducted into the Hall Of Fame (much like Ric Flair at Wrestlemania XXIV), and since theres been no mention of that happening I feel the streak will be ended this year. The "Streak vs Career" storyline merely adds to the drama of what should be yet another Mania classic between two of my top five favourite wrestlers of all time.

On the subject of HBK in the Hall Of Fame, i believe that will happen at NEXT year's Wrestlemania. He'll wrestle one last match (against either HHH or complete a Wrestlemania trilogy against Taker) and hopefully have the kind of send off that Flair received. As emotional as that night was, Id expect an Shawn Michaels Hall Of Fame weekend to be just as tear-jerking.

[Kevin Borg]

I hope Taker doesn't lose at Mania. I think the streak is awesome and hope we get to see it next year too, and hopefully he can end his career with it intact. I think what will happen (or call it wishful thinking) is that Taker will win, HBK will freakout and attack him after the match to cement his heel turn. Then he'll find a way of weaseling out of the "you're career is over" stipulation. Or maybe Shawn really is planning on retiring, but I just can't imagine the Undertaker losing the streak at WM26 - what would be accomplished by it?

EDIT: By the way, did anyone else feel like it was anti-climactic to have Undertaker just go "alright, fine you get your way lets rassle" ? It would have been much better if they had Shawn continuing to 'spiral' over the next few weeks. What's he going to do now that he's got his match?

EDIT2: Also, if HBK were to win, it'd be like WWE is saying "yeah, give in to your addictions and obsessions because in the end you'll get exactly what you want", and new PG wwe i think would not want to give this sort of endorsement to that sort of behaviour.

[Woo]

If Taker loses at Wrestlemania I will be very pissed off, especially against a guy like HBJ who has nothing to gain by winning.

[MetalBlade]

I do agree that this is most anticlimactic. The way it should have happened is that Taker must be FORCED to face Shawn at WrestleMania.
The only real way to do that was if Taker's title was at stake. Now all it looks like is that Taker has gone back on his word, and Shawn has played the teenager card and got what he wanted by whining and sulking and throwing tantrums.
There is now no necessity about it and no sense of fate having a hand in it, which would have suited Shawn's god-fearing persona and Taker's philosophy of fate.
Fate should have brought this battle, and not simple human traits like has been the case here.
NOT very good creative writing by WWE in this case.
For the record, I hope Taker's streak does stay intact, and Shawn turns heel and finds a way to snake out of the deal.
One other possibility is the angle of Shawn having sold his soul to Taker in order to get the match, and by reneging on the deal, Shawn now has Taker pursuing him throughout the rest of his career to claim back that which is His. But WWE are far to shallow and superficial too think of a storyline as deep as that.

[Knoxville]

Feb 27, 2010 0:25:33 GMT -1 Woo said:

If Taker loses at Wrestlemania I will be very pissed off, especially against a guy like HBK who has nothing to gain by winning.

My feelings exactly.

Shawn has nothing to gain over this apart from another notch on his ego.