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Official Chairshot Staff Picks: 2018 WWE Royal Rumble

Published

5 years ago

January 26, 2018

So Royal Rumble is a few days away, and that means that everyone is running around with speculation and predictions for the outcome of this Pay-per-view. Given these facts…you didn’t think we wouldn’t be partaking in the festivities of unabashedly throwing our opinions around like a sweeping declaration on How I Met Your Mother, did you? We corralled 12 of our personalities to partake in predictions, and we will be keeping a running tally all year, to see who is the most accurate in all of The Chairshot The choice that wins the majority vote, will officially be The Chairshot’s pick to win the match, regardless of how I feel about the choice.

Who voted? Harry Broadhurst (Raw Reaction), Tony Acero (Raw Reaction), Dan Phelan (The Architect of The Chairshot), PC Tunney (The Commissioner), Christopher Platt (Mr. Velvet Pipes), Greg DeMarco (The Kingpin), Patrick O’Dowd (The Realist), Big Dave (The Law), Marilee Gallagher (The Nice One), Steven Mitchell (Got Ya Covered), Jon Weigell (The Professional) and myself of course (they seem to like calling me El Snowflake), for putting together these picks. Next predictions article I will layout everyone’s record so we can see who’s pulling up the rear, to start off the year.

Now let’s get to the run down in case you’ve been trapped under ice for the last few weeks and have no clue what’s supposed to go down on this show:

Smackdown Live Tag Team Title Match: The Usos (c) vs Chad Gable & Shelton Benjamin

Coming off of a controversial Dusty Finish a few weeks ago, Gable and Benjamin feel like they were robbed of the titles. While The Usos defined the tag team division last year and have maintained their momentum as they look like the most complete team in WWE. Will a legal indiscretion seal their fate or will they live to fight another day, in the Uso Penitentiary?

Voting Breakdown:

DPP – The Usos

Big Dave – Gable & Benjamin

Platt – The Usos

PC – The Usos

Harry – The Usos

Tony – Gable & Benjamin

Andrew – Gable & Benjamin

Steve – The Usos

Weigell – The Usos

Patrick – The Usos

Greg – The Usos

Marilee – The Usos

The Usos – 9
Gable & Benjamin – 3

Official Chairshot Pick: The Usos retain

Raw Tag Team Title Match: Seth Rollins & Jason Jordan (c) vs Sheamus & Cesaro

In amusing symmetry the two former members of American Alpha are both in a Tag Title match, just not together, and not for the same one. Sheamus and Cesaro feel like Kurt Angle threw together Jordan and Rollins as an act of nepotism. However, if the last couple weeks leading up to this, The Diet Shield has been involved more with The Balor Club, while Sheamus and Cesaro have been losing to Titus Worldwide. Is this just an obligatory match to get us to Elimination Chamber when The Club take the titles off Rollins and Jordan; or will Sheamus and Cesaro pull off what would be considered an upset with the past few weeks bookings?

Voting Breakdown:

DPP – The Bar

Big Dave -The Bar

Platt – The Bar

PC – The Bar

Harry – The Bar

Tony – The Bar

Andrew – Rollins & Jordan

Steve – The Bar

Weigell – Rollins & Jordan

Patrick – Rollins & Jordan

Greg – Rollins & Jordan

Marilee – The Bar

Rollins & Jordan – 4
Sheamus & Cesaro – 8

Official Chairshot Pick: The Bar wins

WWE Heavyweight Championship 2v1 Handicap Match: AJ Styles (c) vs Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn

Well this match has so many odd questions. Is Daniel Bryan colluding with Kevin and Sami? Will WWE do Co-Champions again when the last one wasn’t exactly well received? Will Kevin and Sami explode mid match when egos get in the way? All I know is that Styles stuck his foot in his mouth by suggesting this, and now we get to see if he can pull it off.

Voting Breakdown:

DPP – AJ Styles

Big Dave – AJ Styles

Platt – AJ Styles

PC – AJ Styles

Harry – AJ Styles

Tony – AJ Styles

Andrew – AJ Styles

Steve – Kevin & Sami

Weigell – AJ Styles

Patrick – Kevin & Sami

Greg – AJ Styles

Marilee – AJ Styles

AJ Styles – 10
Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn – 2

Official Chairshot Pick: AJ Styles retains

WWE Universal Championship Triple Threat Match: Brock Lesnar (c) vs Braun Strowman vs Kane

Now even if everyone doesn’t agree on the winner, I haven’t met a person that thinks Kane is involved for any reason than to eat the pin. Braun is the guy everyone wants to see finally get over on Lesnar, but between standing tall the last 3 weeks and everyone’s inevitable Lesnar vs Reigns prediction, no one is fully sold. Lesnar will probably continue to do his shtick, but hell, here’s to hoping it’s at least a fun match.

Voting Breakdown:

DPP -Brock

Big Dave – Brock

Platt – Brock

PC – Brock

Harry – Brock

Tony – Brock

Andrew – Brock

Steve – Braun

Weigell – Brock

Patrick – Brock

Greg – Braun

Marilee – Brock

Lesnar – 10
Braun – 2
Kane – 0

Official Chairshot Pick: Brock Lesnar retains

Women’s Royal Rumble: 30 Woman Over the Top Rope

What can really be said about this beyond the fact it seems like it’s all about Asuka. This will either be her mowing through the division and standing tall, until Rousey debuts (assuming she doesn’t debut in the Rumble); or there will probably be a gimmicked reason why she fails, thus, reducing her overall threat a little bit. Is Asuka Wonder Woman, or is she mortal after all?

Voting Breakdown:

DPP – Asuka

Big Dave – Asuka

Platt – Asuka

PC – Nia Jax

Harry – Asuka

Tony – Asuka

Andrew – Becky Lynch

Steve – Asuka

Weigell – Asuka

Patrick – Asuka

Greg – Asuka

Marilee -Ronda Rousey

Asuka – 9
Becky Lynch – 1
Nia Jax – 1
Ronda Rousey – 1

Official Chairshot Pick: Asuka wins

Men’s Royal Rumble: 30 Man Over the Top Rope

Surprisingly, this one hasn’t been a narrative built around mainly one person. Las Vegas has a Nakamura as the favorite, however, coming off dropping the Intercontinental Title to The Miz, Roman Reigns is now more plausible to win the rumble. If Roman wins another Rumble in Philly, there may be riots in the streets. But either way, the ending will at least be surprising.

Voting Breakdown:

DPP – Shinsuke Nakamura

Big Dave – Shinsuke Nakamura

Platt – Roman Reigns

PC – Finn Balor

Harry – Shinsuke Nakamura

Tony – Shinsuke Nakamura

Andrew – Roman Reigns

Steve – Shinsuke Nakamura

Weigell – Dolph Ziggler

Patrick – Roman Reigns

Greg – Shinsuke Nakamura

Marilee – Roman Reigns

Nakamura – 6
Reigns – 4
Ziggler – 1
Balor – 1

Official Chairshot Pick: Shinsuke Nakamura wins

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!

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King’s WrestleMania Rewind: Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka from WrestleMania 34

Chris king is back with one of the most underrated matches in WrestleMania history–Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka!

Published

2 months ago

April 2, 2023

Chris King

WWE WrestleMania 34 Charlotte Flair Asuka

Chris king is back with one of the most underrated matches in WrestleMania history–Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka!

We look back at Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka at WWE WrestleMania 34. ‘The Empress of Tomorrow’ put her unprecedented and historic undefeated streak of 914 days on the line against ‘The Queen’s’ SmackDown Women’s Championship.

For years, this was considered a dream match while Asuka dominated the roster in NXT, while Flair won numerous championships on the main roster on both Raw and SmackDown. The Empress made her long-awaited debut on the September 11th episode of Raw and began to tear through the competition.

Asuka outlasted all twenty-nine other women in the historic first-ever Women’s Royal Rumble match to challenge for the title of her choosing. At Fastlane, she made her choice.

The WWE Universe was so excited for this match myself included. Both superstars delivered a fantastic performance on the Grandest Stage of Them All executing counter after counter. Asuka showed off some nasty-looking kicks to her opponent, and Flair hit a thunderous Spanish Fly off the top rope. Flair was seconds away from defeat at the hands of The Empress but she locked in Figure Eight and Asuka was forced to tap out.

I can’t even begin to explain how shocked I was at this outcome, as nearly everyone expected The Empress to continue her undefeated streak and walk away with the women’s title. This controversial decision was the downfall of Asuka’s momentum. She would ultimately win the SmackDown Women’s Championship at the 2018 TLC pay-per-view in the triple-threat ladder match.

Fast forward to this year when Asuka has recently returned with her Japanese-inspired persona Kana. Kana is dangerous and ruthless and is heading into a championship with Bianca Belair at WrestleMania 39. The Empress has regained all her momentum and is highly favored to walk away with the Raw Women’s Championship. Let’s hope that Asuka and Belair can tear the house down and deliver an A+ grade match both women are fully capable of.

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!

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King: Dominik Mysterio Needs To Do This At WrestleMania

Chris King is here with what WWE should do with Dominik Mysterio at WrestleMania in his long-awaited match against his father Rey Mysterio Jr.

Published

2 months ago

April 1, 2023

Chris King

Chris King is here with what WWE should do with Dominik Mysterio at WrestleMania in his long-awaited match against his father Rey Mysterio Jr.

On this week’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown, Rey Mysterio finally snapped and beat some sense into his disrespectful punk-ass kid Dominik. The member of the Judgement Day came out to push his father again for a match on the Grandest Stage of Them All, this time with his mother and sister at ringside. The ungrateful punk told his mom to “Shut Up,” as a father even I wanted to jump through the screen and whoop his ass.

Back in October of last year, Mysterio made the emotional decision to possibly quit the company but, instead, Triple H persuaded the Lucha libre superstar to move over to SmackDown to avoid his son. This came after Dominik shockingly turned on his father at Clash at the Castle. Mysterio did everything he could to refuse his despicable son’s challenge for Mania but, a man can only be pushed so far. Mysterio will be inducted into the 2023 WWE Hall of Fame and I expect Dominik to embarrass his father during his speech to further this personal feud.

Yes, the WWE Universe hates Dominik and wants to see him get the ever-loving crap kicked out of him but, this feud is missing a special ingredient to capitalize on the biggest heat possible. Throughout this feud, Dominik has made mention of the legendary Eddie Guerrero on several occasions going back to the “iconic” 2005 feud.

I know WWE might not want to go this route but, Dominik MUST come out to Eddie Guerrero’s theme at Mania. The disrespectful punk needs to come out in a lowrider to garner nuclear heat. It doesn’t matter if The Judgement Day comes out and causes interference for Dominik to get the win, all that matters is that both superstars get the biggest payoff of this nearly year-long feud. Just imagine the Roman Reigns heat after he defeated The Undertaker and multiply that by ten. Dominik portrays the perfect heel and he truly is the missing ingredient that The Judgement Day needed to grow and evolve into a top faction.