Who will win at WWE Unforgiven?

Dr. Wrestling: Who will win at WWE Unforgiven?

Written by: Dr. Wrestling - September 03rd, 2008

This week for That's My Story and I'm Sticking To It, I'll be telling you who I think the winners will be at Unforgiven.

Before I discuss the actually card, I want to take a minute to talk about the main concept of the PPV, which is a "championship scramble" match. The rules of the match are there will be five wrestlers in the match and when a competitor gets a pin, they become the "temporary" champion. There will be a twenty minute time limit and anyone can be pinned with the "official champion being the wrestler that gets that last pin fall of the match. It's a really interesting concept that I think could create some really good back and fourth action. The scramble matches really make Unforgiven probably the most interesting PPV in the past three or four months because with the scramble rules, it's almost a guarantee that there will be a new champion but who? The question of if or who the new champion will be almost makes Unforgiven a "must see" PPV, which is rare for the WWE.

The WWE World tag team titles will be on the line when Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase defend against Cryme Tyme. This should be a very entertaining match because these are two really entertaining teams and they are probably the best two teams in the WWE at the moment. Cryme Tyme is pure entertainment and they do what very few wrestlers do in pro wrestling today and that's interact with the crowd. The "money! money! yeah! yeah!" catch phrase gets the crowd involved with the show and that along with Cryme Tyme's funny antics, it creates some entertaining television. Rhodes and Dibiase are becoming good heels and play their roles well. Rhodes has actually developed some personality as a heel and Dibiase has some good mics skills, which has really helped the team develop their heel characters. It's tough to pick a winner here because if you take the titles from Rhodes and Dibiase it hurts their push some what but Cryme Tyme should have already had a run with the tag titles so they could use a reign as tag champions to solidify themselves as a true fixture of the tag division on Raw. I'll pick Rhodes and Dibiase to get the win with some type of outside interference. After they lost the titles for a week, it would really halt Rhodes and Dibiase's momentum as a team if they would lose the titles again just a month after winning them back.

The Diva's title match will feature Michelle McCool v.s. Maryse. This probably won't be a technical classic and from the match she had on Smackdown this past week, it seems like Maryse has zero wrestling ability so let's hope the WWE keeps this one short. I will predict that McCool retains the title and it would seem like the WWE is building to have Natyla v.s. McCool for the title some time in the near future.

The ECW title match will feature The Miz, Finlay, Chavo Guerrero, Matt Hardy, and Mark Henry. Chavo is a former ECW champion and was probably the worst transitional champion in pro wrestling history so I doubt he will win the ECW title at Unforgiven. Chavo just doesn't have the charisma to make the audience care about his match and his career highlight has to be win he was the tag champions with his uncle, Eddie Guerrero. The Guerreros are a legendary family in wrestling and Chavo is carrying on the name but he will probably always be in Eddie's shadow, Finlay is currently involved in a lower mid card feud with Mike Knox so I wouldn't expect him to win the ECW title but even though he won't win the title, it should be noted that Finlay is a great technical wrestler. If The Miz wins the ECW title, the ratings will probably drop lower then Impact's ratings and then ECW would be canceled so let's all hope that The Miz doesn't win the ECW title...Ha Ha If there's going to be a new ECW champion, I think Matt Hardy has the best chance of it because as I mentioned in a past column, he has a cult following and has some skill in the ring so he could be at least an okay ECW champion. That being said, I have to pick Hardy to win the title because with the scramble rules it seems like there's going to be at least one new champion so I think Hardy will be the new ECW champion at Unforgiven.

The Chris Jericho .v.s. Shawn Micheals match will be "unsanctioned" and it would seem like it will be the final match (at least for now) in the feud. The Jericho/HBK saga has gone on for nearly five months and was really useful in turning Jericho heel, which has really rejuvenated Jericho's character after his return to the WWE fell flat in January. It's being reported on various websites that HBK has torn his tricep and after the match at Unforgiven he will be out of action so based on that I have to pick Jericho to get the win here because it would fit with the storyline and some fans will think Jericho really did "end" HBK's career. Although it's unfortunate that HBK is hurt, it actually provides an opportunity for him and Jericho to write yet another chapter in this feud at a possibly bigger stage such as the Royal Rumble or Wrestlemania. That being said, this will probably be a really good match because of the months worth of build up and although Micheals is reportedly injured, I still expect both HBK and Jericho to try to have the best match possible. That being said, with HBK being injured again the predictable question that will be asked is should/will HBK retire? I have to say, I don't think HBK will retire for a few more years because he is still a top level performer and when he retires it will probably be at a Wrestlemania.

The World Heavy Weight title match will feature the U.S. champion,Shelton Benjamin, The Brian Kendrick, Jeff Hardy, MVP, and the WWE champion, Triple H. I think it's fairly obvious that Triple H is going to retain the title here so I'm going to discuss alittle bit about each other the challengers. Shelton Benjamin finally won the U.S. title a few months ago and he should have been given a chance to be a top star on a brand years ago. It's cool to see him finally getting the push he deserves but since he is the U.S. champion he won't be winning the WWE title at Unforgiven. This match could be MVP's time to shine and he could show that he can be a legitimate main event wrestler, which could lead to a possible feud with Triple H for the WWE title at some point in the future. I'm not even a fan of MVP and I think his in ring work is average at best but his gimmick along with his character is almost tailor made for a main event spot so if he can show some skill in the main event at Unforgiven, he might get a chance in the main event on a more regular basis. I'm not sure what else can be said about Jeff Hardy because he's had his time in the main event and after that he was suspended for sixty days and another violation would get him fired from the company so it really wouldn't be logical for the WWE to invest more time/money into Hardy. It would seem like Hardy will stay at the level he is currently at because an upper level mid carder can let him continue to be a star as well as sell merchandise but it would probably be too risky for the WWE to give him a main event spot again. Brain Kendrick was a jobber on Raw a few months ago but now he has a new gimmick and he is in a main event match at a PPV. I have to say, the decision to give Kendrick a push is a great decision by the WWE and the promo Kendrick did on Smackdown last week proves he has the potential to be a main event star. Not right at the moment but I think in time he can become a top star if he continues to develop his new character the way he has so far. Kendrick was trained by Shawn Micheals and in some ways he could be the next generation HBK so to speak because there's many similarities between the start of Shawn Micheals' HBK character and the start of Kendrick's new character. HBK had a white ring jacket and Kendrick has a white ring jacket. HBK had Desel and Kendrick has Ezekiel as a body guard. Aside from that, Kendrick has shown in the past that he can indeed be in the main event of a show and there's a few examples of that. Kendrick was in the first ever ROH title match when he wrestled Christopher Daniels, Doug Williams, and Low Ki in a sixty minute Iron Man match. He has also toured Japan for the Zero One promotion and even though the WWE is an entirely different level, those examples prove that Kendrick has at least the in ring ability to be a major star.

The World Heavy Weight title features CM Punk, JBL, Kane, Rey Mysterio, and Batista. It's tough to pick a winner here because the WWE could have CM Punk retain it to make him seem like a legitimate champion or someone else could win the title to have an "odds finally catch up to Punk" type of storyline but if that's the case who wins the title? I don't think it will be either Kane or Rey because Rey was added last minute and the feud between them really isn't based around the title so there's really no reason to put the title on either of them at this point. I don't see JBL winning the title either because he's already had shots at the title so if he was going to win the title, he probably would have won it already when he challenged Punk last month. If CM Punk doesn't retain the title at Unforgiven, Batista will probably be the one to win the title because he hasn't been pinned by Punk yet but I just don''t think Batista will win the title back so I will pick Punk to retain the title. That's just a guess because I really have no idea who could win here but either way it should be a great match.

Overall, I think Unforgiven will be a good PPV with some surprises and it should be worth the $40 it costs to watch it.

Until next week
That's My Story and I'm Sticking To It
Dr. Wrestling


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