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How bout this for a storyline.....There has been talk about The Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels at next years Wrestlemania and by the past few years have been teased a bit with regards to their Royal Rumble altercations. How bout Royal Rumble 2009....it comes down to 4 wrestlers and Shawn Michaels gets eliminated by The Undertaker, and The Undertaker eventually loses the Royal Rumble. The Undertaker gets a title shot anyways at No Way Out, and Shawn Michaels costs him the match.  The next night on RAW or later on SMACKDOWN, Shawn Michaels confronts The Undertaker about costing him his title match at Wrestlemania, and challenges him to a match at Wrestlemania 25..with the whole campaign of Shawn Michaels - "I put a end to Ric Flairs career, and I will put a end to your streak".  This will all lead to a credible and possible Undertaker lost at Wrestlemania with Undertaker Wrestlemania footage and his winning streak leading to the PPV, with The Undertaker winning a hard fought match!  Your thought?

Sounds like a pretty good storyline, although I don't know if Shawn Michaels wanting to end Undertaker's streak really fits in with Michaels costing Taker the title.  Wouldn't Michaels rather Taker win the belt, then challenge him for it, and the streak at Mania?  Either way, I agree that the teases at the Rumble the last two years have certainly made fans wonder about a Michaels-Taker match. 

Is it me or is it the worst ideal to have Batista vs. Cena at Summerslam. I was hoping for that to happen at Wrestlemania and hoping for an Undertaker vs. Triple H. However is it safe to say that it's impossible to separate these guys on such as Batista and Cena away from each other and both participant in different feuds and not cross paths up until the road to mania. The same with the Undertaker and Triple H or is WWE looking to hurry up and cash in on these feuds as soon as possible.

I don't think it is impossible at all to keep two stars apart on the same brand and save the match for Wrestlemania, and I think that is what they should have done with Batista-Cena.  It really puzzles me that WWE would do this match with a three-week build, when it could have had a lot more meaning (and probably drawn more buys) with a longer, and better, setup period. If anything, WWE isn't even cashing in on it, since Hell In A Cell was going to be drawing buys anyway. 

I know this is a "WWE logic" question, but shouldn't the RAW tag titles be vacant? Surely there's no legal way one participant can start a match on one team, tag out, switch allegiances, and then tag in someone from that new team. If Rhodes was on Dibiase's team, then the belts weren't defended by the tag champs. And if he was on Holly's team, and the tag title change is acknowledged in a handicap match, only Dibiase is a tag champ. To me, the belts should be vacant until a match between Dibiase/Rhodes versus Holly and a partner of his choosing (it looks like Dustin is available now). Perhaps now that Adamle has things well in hand we'll see a ruling on this.

I could probably make a smart alec remark about you putting more thought into the tag title picture than WWE has in years, but I'd probably be telling the truth.  It obviously doesn't fit with the logic of a tag match, but then again, WWE as often done things without bothering to explain how it has happened.  

I have a question with regards to Undertaker Wrestlemania Streak. How did it come about? I don't imagine for one minute that before his first Wrestlemania match they thought up the idea of the streak, so when did it first get brought to their attention.

I believe it was around Wrestlemania 11 that they started noting that Undertaker had never lost at Wrestlemania, but it was number 13, when he won the title from Sid that they really began playing it up.  Up until then, he had just been booked to win his Mania matches on a case by case basis, and it turned into "the streak". 

Could the WWE be borrowing from the "Usual Suspects"? Is Mike Adamle the next Keyser Soze? He was acting like a complete idiot since the start of his tenure as an announcer. Could the WWE create their own Keyser Soze and have Mike Adamle as the master mind behind the last 6 months of RAW.

I'm not sure if Mike Adamle could pull off, in a believable way, that he is the master mind of anything.  Still, you never know, they could book him that way.  Or he could end up being thrown in the back of a garbage truck in a few months by Vince McMahon.

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