Roundtable 5 - WWE Payback

[prophet]

Roundtable Number 5! Here's the current Leaderboard...

CMPUNKFAN - 32
prophet - 30
Georgerv - 30
Viazon - 28
BSM - 28
Hanley! - 25
Everlong - 24
xgamr - 24
ShaneOFan - 24
The Legend - 23
AkyDefGoldberg - 22
GameDesigner14 - 22
KaiserGlider - 22
Ace - 15
SlightlyJames - 14
Settee321 - 14
Daz - 12
Locke - 12
saucernips - 12
RatedRBowler - 8
Tom - 6
Enygma - 6
DBSoT - 6
CubsIn5 - 6
SortaCreative - 4
Romo - 3

As always anyone can play at anytime - you don't have to have played before and you don't need to PM me your predictions, simply post them below. Winner(s) will receive rep points. As we had 8 winners at the last PPV I'll include one or two bonus questions at the end to try and secure an outright winner this month, so don't forget about them.

*I'd completely forgotten about most of last months winners whilst waiting for my rep power to replenish so if you were one of our 8 Extreme Rules winners let me know and I'll have an admin rep you.*

WWE Payback!

No Holds Barred Elimination Match
The Shield vs Evolution
Winner:
Sole Survivor(s):

Last Man Standing
John Cena vs Bray Wyatt
Winner:

Intercontinental Championship
Bad News Barrett (c) vs Rob Van Dam
Winner:

United States Championship
Sheamus (c) vs Cesaro
Winner:

Divas Championship
Paige (c) vs Alicia Fox
Winner:

Hair vs Mask
Hornswoggle vs El Torito
Winner:

'Meh...Who Cares' Match
Rusev vs Big E
Winner:

Bonus Questions:
- What match will open the show?
- Will Daniel Bryan surrender or be stripped of his title?

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[color=#40FFBF][size=150]WWE Payback![/size][/color]

[color=#40FFBF]No Holds Barred Elimination Match[/color]
The Shield vs Evolution
Winner:
Sole Survivor(s):

[color=#40FFBF]Last Man Standing[/color]
John Cena vs Bray Wyatt
Winner:

[color=#40FFBF]Intercontinental Championship[/color]
Bad News Barrett (c) vs Rob Van Dam
Winner:

[color=#40FFBF]United States Championship[/color]
Sheamus (c) vs Cesaro
Winner:

[color=#40FFBF]Divas Championship[/color]
Paige (c) vs Alicia Fox
Winner:

[color=#40FFBF]Hair vs Mask[/color]
Hornswoggle vs El Torito
Winner:

[color=#40FFBF]'Meh...Who Cares' Match[/color]
Rusev vs Big E
Winner:

[color=#40FFBF]Bonus Questions:
- What match will open the show?
- Will Daniel Bryan surrender or be stripped of his title?[/color]

[Locke]

Oh Gods, I don't even wanna watch Payback.. lame buildup, and can't drink this weekend to ease the pain.

WWE Payback!

No Holds Barred Elimination Match
The Shield vs Evolution
Winner: Evolution
Sole Survivor(s): Batista vs Reigns last pair

Last Man Standing
John Cena vs Bray Wyatt
Winner: Cena

Intercontinental Championship
Bad News Barrett (c) vs Rob Van Dam
Winner: Barrett

United States Championship
Sheamus (c) vs Cesaro
Winner: Cesaro

Divas Championship
Paige (c) vs Alicia Fox
Winner: Alicia

Hair vs Mask
Hornswoggle vs El Torito
Winner: El Torito

'Meh...Who Cares' Match
Rusev vs Big E
Winner: Rusev

Bonus Questions:
- What match will open the show? Who fuckin' cares
- Will Daniel Bryan surrender or be stripped of his title? Yes

[CMPUNKFAN]

WWE Payback!

No Holds Barred Elimination Match
The Shield vs Evolution
Winner: The Shield
Sole Survivor(s): Roman Reigns

Last Man Standing
John Cena vs Bray Wyatt
Winner: Bray Wyatt

Intercontinental Championship
Bad News Barrett (c) vs Rob Van Dam
Winner: Bad News Barrett

United States Championship
Sheamus (c) vs Cesaro
Winner: Sheamus

Divas Championship
Paige (c) vs Alicia Fox
Winner: Paige

Hair vs Mask
Hornswoggle vs El Torito
Winner: El Torito

'Meh...Who Cares' Match
Rusev vs Big E
Winner: Rusev

Bonus Questions:
- What match will open the show? Bad News Barret vs. RVD
- Will Daniel Bryan surrender or be stripped of his title? No

[ShaneOfan]

WWE Payback!

No Holds Barred Elimination Match
The Shield vs Evolution
Winner: Shield
Sole Survivor(s): Reigns

Last Man Standing
John Cena vs Bray Wyatt
Winner: Wyatt

Intercontinental Championship
Bad News Barrett (c) vs Rob Van Dam
Winner: Barrett

United States Championship
Sheamus (c) vs Cesaro
Winner: Cesaro

Divas Championship
Paige (c) vs Alicia Fox
Winner: Paige

Hair vs Mask
Hornswoggle vs El Torito
Winner: Torito

'Meh...Who Cares' Match
Rusev vs Big E
Winner: Rusev

Bonus Questions:
- What match will open the show? US
- Will Daniel Bryan surrender or be stripped of his title? Yes

[AkydefGoldberg]

WWE Payback!

No Holds Barred Elimination Match
The Shield vs Evolution
Winner: The Shield
Sole Survivor(s): Roman Reigns

Last Man Standing
John Cena vs Bray Wyatt
Winner: Cena

Intercontinental Championship
Bad News Barrett (c) vs Rob Van Dam
Winner: Barrett

United States Championship
Sheamus (c) vs Cesaro
Winner: Sheamus

Divas Championship
Paige (c) vs Alicia Fox
Winner: Fox

Hair vs Mask
Hornswoggle vs El Torito
Winner: wtf? Pfft, El Torito

'Meh...Who Cares' Match
Rusev vs Big E
Winner: Rusev (only because Lara is fit)

Bonus Questions:
- What match will open the show?
- Will Daniel Bryan surrender or be stripped of his title?
Bad News Barret
Stripped

[The Legend]

WWE Payback!

No Holds Barred Elimination Match
The Shield vs Evolution

I have a feeling this will be the end of the Evolution vs Shield feud as it is currently constituted with these six man tag matches. Because of that, the Shield will come out on top on this feud. This is probably the match I'm most looking forward to and it should be another fantastic encounter and perhaps even close the show. I'd love to see the survivor(s) get automatic entry into the Money in the Bank match.

Winner: Shield
Sole Survivor(s): Roman Reigns

Last Man Standing
John Cena vs Bray Wyatt

If they allow this match to play out to its fullest potential this could be a fantastic showdown. Cena and Wyatt can both take a beating and dish one out, I just hope they don't go the route of a cheesy finish as has been a trend in recent years with these matches. I've said all along Cena needs to win the final encounter because of how they set this feud up and I fully expect that to be true here.

Winner: John Cena

Intercontinental Championship
Bad News Barrett (c) vs Rob Van Dam

This is a filler feud and Wade Barrett will definitely retain the title. They could extend the feud with a DQ victory for RVD, but Barrett keeps the title and I'll say he even gets the win.

Winner: Bad News Barrett

United States Championship
Sheamus (c) vs Cesaro

Cesaro needs something to really boost his momentum again after a drop off from WM time. He needs this title far more than Sheamus does and he should win because of it. Cesaro! Cesaro! Cesaro!

Winner: Cesaro

Divas Championship
Paige (c) vs Alicia Fox

This match will decide the roundtable winners and losers I feel. I can't tell whether WWE realizes they made a mistake putting the title on Paige so quickly without knowing exactly how to book her yet, or whether they think this is a good way of going about an underdog role for her. Which it is decides how the match will go. I'll say they stick it out with Paige for a little while longer.

Winner: Paige

Hair vs Mask
Hornswoggle vs El Torito

If Hornswoggle wins and Torito loses the Matadores gimmick dies. If Hornswoggle gets his head shaved he just becomes a bald member of 3MB. While I'm sure there's some people that would like to see the Matadores gimmick die I just don't see it happening. Torito wins.

Winner: El Torito

'Meh...Who Cares' Match
Rusev vs Big E

Much like how after Ryback fell flat they introduced Big E to take that spot and receive a push, now Rusev is on the roster to take Big E's spot. Rusev wins this one hands down.

Winner: Rusev

Bonus Questions:
- What match will open the show? El Torito vs Hornswoggle, of course - it is after all the pre-show match. If that's not what you meant you should have been more clear, but I'll take Bad News Barrett vs Rob Van Dam as the first match in the 8 o'clock hour.
- Will Daniel Bryan surrender or be stripped of his title? Yes he will surrender/be stripped.

[BSM]

WWE Payback!

No Holds Barred Elimination Match
The Shield vs Evolution
Winner: Shield
Sole Survivor(s): Reigns

Last Man Standing
John Cena vs Bray Wyatt
Winner: Cena

Intercontinental Championship
Bad News Barrett (c) vs Rob Van Dam
Winner: Barrett

United States Championship
Sheamus (c) vs Cesaro
Winner: Cesaro

Divas Championship
Paige (c) vs Alicia Fox
Winner: Paige

Hair vs Mask
Hornswoggle vs El Torito
Winner: El Torito

'Meh...Who Cares' Match
Rusev vs Big E
Winner: Rusev

Bonus Questions:
- What match will open the show?
- Will Daniel Bryan surrender or be stripped of his title?

BNB vs. RVD
Yes

[prophet]

WWE Payback!

No Holds Barred Elimination Match
The Shield vs Evolution
Winner: Evolution
Sole Survivor(s): Triple H and Randy Orton

I read a report the other day from a future WWE Magazine interview with Dean Ambrose in which he refers to Rollins and Reigns as his 'former partners' - read into that what you will, it may be old but I'll go for Evolution regardless because I can't see them taking another loss on PPV. I've chosen HHH and Orton as the sole survivors because I fully expect Batista to be written off TV soon to go promote his movie and if he was the only one eliminated that might be how they choose to go about it.


Last Man Standing
John Cena vs Bray Wyatt
Winner: John Cena

Cena doesn't lose matches like this with these types of stipulations so I think him winning is a given. The only way I see Wyatt winning is if someone interferes to help him...doubtful though.


Intercontinental Championship
Bad News Barrett (c) vs Rob Van Dam
Winner: Bad News Barrett

Pretty straight-forward, BNB won't be dropping the title so soon.


United States Championship
Sheamus (c) vs Cesaro
Winner: Sheamus

Certainly a tougher one to call but Sheamus shouldn't be dropping the title so soon after winning it either. Plus he just defeated BNB on Smackdown clean, so having him losing 3 days later doesn't make sense. Cesaro doesn't need to hold a crappy mid-card title either.


Divas Championship
Paige (c) vs Alicia Fox
Winner: Paige

Alicia Fox to her credit has been killing it on RAW lately whereas they've constantly made Paige look like a bitch but if I'm correct this is down to horrible, lazy, stupid booking as opposed to them actually meaning to make the champion look as bad as they have. So I'll go with a Paige retain though it wouldn't surprise me if Fox won.


Hair vs Mask
Hornswoggle vs El Torito
Winner: El Torito

The mask has more relevance to the performer than hair does...so yeah.


'Meh...Who Cares' Match
Rusev vs Big E
Winner: Rusev

Yawn.


Bonus Questions:
- What match will open the show? Sheamus vs Cesaro
- Will Daniel Bryan surrender or be stripped of his title? No. If they were going to strip him or have him relinquish the title I firmly believe they would have done so already.

[KaiserGlider]

WWE Payback!

No Holds Barred Elimination Match
The Shield vs Evolution
Winner: Shield
Sole Survivor(s): Reigns

Last Man Standing
John Cena vs Bray Wyatt
Winner: Wyatt

Intercontinental Championship
Bad News Barrett (c) vs Rob Van Dam
Winner: Barrett

United States Championship
Sheamus (c) vs Cesaro
Winner: Cesaro

Divas Championship
Paige (c) vs Alicia Fox
Winner: Paige

Hair vs Mask
Hornswoggle vs El Torito
Winner: El Torito

'Meh...Who Cares' Match
Rusev vs Big E
Winner: Rusev

Bonus Questions:
- What match will open the show? Sheamus vs Cesaro
- Will Daniel Bryan surrender or be stripped of his title? No.

[DBSoT]

WWE Payback!

No Holds Barred Elimination Match
The Shield vs Evolution
Winner: Evolution
Sole Survivor(s): HHH

Last Man Standing
John Cena vs Bray Wyatt
Winner: Cena. Its a last man standing match. Come on now.

Intercontinental Championship
Bad News Barrett (c) vs Rob Van Dam
Winner: BNB

United States Championship
Sheamus (c) vs Cesaro
Winner: Cesaro. Sheamus was designed to be a transitional champion. Also it makes it more of surprise when he turns heel.

Divas Championship
Paige (c) vs Alicia Fox
Winner: Paige

Hair vs Mask
Hornswoggle vs El Torito
Winner: El Torito. As if they would take off his mask.

'Meh...Who Cares' Match
Rusev vs Big E
Winner: Rusev. Just beating up black guys apparently.

[color=#40FFBF]Bonus Questions
- What match will open the show? Sheamus vs Cesaro
- Will Daniel Bryan surrender or be stripped of his title? Neither, Brie will quit to protect him.

[Viazon]

WWE Payback!

No Holds Barred Elimination Match
The Shield vs Evolution
Winner: Evolution
Sole Survivor(s): Orton. Pure guess.

Last Man Standing
John Cena vs Bray Wyatt
Winner: John Cena

Intercontinental Championship
Bad News Barrett (c) vs Rob Van Dam
Winner: Barrett

United States Championship
Sheamus (c) vs Cesaro
Winner: Sheamus has just won the title. I say he will win but will be by DQ.

Divas Championship
Paige (c) vs Alicia Fox
Winner: Paige.

Hair vs Mask
Hornswoggle vs El Torito
Winner: Can't believe this is an actual PPV match. But El Torito

'Meh...Who Cares' Match
Rusev vs Big E
Winner: Rusev

Bonus Questions:
- What match will open the show? Rusev vs Big E
- Will Daniel Bryan surrender or be stripped of his title? No

[Hanley!]

WWE Payback!

No Holds Barred Elimination Match
The Shield vs Evolution
Winner: Evolution
Sole Survivor(s): Triple H

Last Man Standing
John Cena vs Bray Wyatt
Winner: John Cena

Intercontinental Championship
Bad News Barrett (c) vs Rob Van Dam
Winner: Barrett

United States Championship
Sheamus (c) vs Cesaro
Winner: Sheamus

Divas Championship
Paige (c) vs Alicia Fox
Winner: Paige.

Hair vs Mask
Hornswoggle vs El Torito
Winner: El Torito

'Meh...Who Cares' Match
Rusev vs Big E
Winner: Rusev

Bonus Questions:
- What match will open the show? Sheamus v Cesaro
- Will Daniel Bryan surrender or be stripped of his title? No[/quote]

[Westcoastvibes]

WWE Payback!

No Holds Barred Elimination Match
The Shield vs Evolution
Winner: The Shield
Sole Survivor(s): Seth Rollins

Last Man Standing
John Cena vs Bray Wyatt
Winner: Bray Wyatt

Intercontinental Championship
Bad News Barrett (c) vs Rob Van Dam
Winner: Barrett - It better be Barrett

United States Championship
Sheamus (c) vs Cesaro
Winner: Sheamus

Divas Championship
Paige (c) vs Alicia Fox
Winner: Paige

Hair vs Mask
Hornswoggle vs El Torito
Winner: Gonna say El Torito, but in reality it don't fucking matter

'Meh...Who Cares' Match
Rusev vs Big E
Winner: Rusev

Bonus Questions:
- What match will open the show? Meh...Who Cares' Match
- Will Daniel Bryan surrender or be stripped of his title? neither, he is to proud to surrender and IMO his injury is mostly kayfabe so this will get pushed until he is forced to compete or be striped at the ?90? day must defend rule

[xgamr]

WWE Payback!

No Holds Barred Elimination Match
The Shield vs Evolution
Winner: The Shield
Sole Survivor(s): Roman Reigns

Last Man Standing
John Cena vs Bray Wyatt
Winner: Bray Wyatt

Intercontinental Championship
Bad News Barrett (c) vs Rob Van Dam
Winner: Bad News Barrett

United States Championship
Sheamus (c) vs Cesaro
Winner: Cesaro

Divas Championship
Paige (c) vs Alicia Fox
Winner: Paige

Hair vs Mask
Hornswoggle vs El Torito
Winner: El Torito

'Meh...Who Cares' Match
Rusev vs Big E
Winner: Rusev

Bonus Questions:
- What match will open the show? - Rusev/Big E
- Will Daniel Bryan surrender or be stripped of his title?- Yes

[GameDesigner14]

WWE Payback!

No Holds Barred Elimination Match
The Shield vs Evolution
Winner: The Shield....just tired of Evolution.
Sole Survivor(s): Roman Reigns

Last Man Standing
John Cena vs Bray Wyatt
Winner: John Cena of course

Intercontinental Championship
Bad News Barrett (c) vs Rob Van Dam
Winner: Bad News Barrett

United States Championship
Sheamus (c) vs Cesaro
Winner: Cesaro

Divas Championship
Paige (c) vs Alicia Fox
Winner: Paige...hate the new side of Alicia

Hair vs Mask
Hornswoggle vs El Torito
Winner: El Torito

'Meh...Who Cares' Match
Rusev vs Big E
Winner: Rusev

Bonus Questions:
- What match will open the show? Barrett vs RVD
- Will Daniel Bryan surrender or be stripped of his title? Surrender

[Everlong]

WWE Payback!

No Holds Barred Elimination Match
The Shield vs Evolution
Winner: The Shield
Sole Survivor(s): Roman Reigns

UGH THEY HAD THEIR CHANCE TO DO WAR GAMES AND BLEW IT

Last Man Standing
John Cena vs Bray Wyatt
Winner: Cena

Lol as if Cena loses a LMS.

Intercontinental Championship
Bad News Barrett (c) vs Rob Van Dam
Winner: Barrett

United States Championship
Sheamus (c) vs Cesaro
Winner: Sheamus

Divas Championship
Paige (c) vs Alicia Fox
Winner: Alicia Fox

Hair vs Mask
Hornswoggle vs El Torito
Winner: El Torito

'Meh...Who Cares' Match
Rusev vs Big E
Winner: Rusev

Bonus Questions:
- What match will open the show? Sheamus/Cesaro
- Will Daniel Bryan surrender or be stripped of his title? No

[Georgerv]

WWE Payback!

No Holds Barred Elimination Match
The Shield vs Evolution
Winner: Shield
Sole Survivor(s): Reigns
I'm thinking Batista splits himself from Evolution so he can go off and promote GOTG

Last Man Standing
John Cena vs Bray Wyatt
Winner: Cena
He has to win really for this story to work at all
Intercontinental Championship
Bad News Barrett (c) vs Rob Van Dam
Winner: Barrett
No chance RVD wins here

United States Championship
Sheamus (c) vs Cesaro
Winner: Sheamus
Heyman may cost Cesaro the title, either accidently so they can build Heyman's split from Cesaro slowly and lead it to Cesaro/Brock, or on purpose leading to a Cesaro/Sheamus double turn

Divas Championship
Paige (c) vs Alicia Fox
Winner: Paige
She won't lose the title until at least when AJ returns

Hair vs Mask
Hornswoggle vs El Torito
Winner: Torito
Just for the image of a bald Hornswoggle

'Meh...Who Cares' Match
Rusev vs Big E
Winner: Rusev
RUSEV CRUSH!

Bonus Questions:
- What match will open the show? The main show opens with either of the two midcard titles so I flipped a coin and got Barrett and RVD
- Will Daniel Bryan surrender or be stripped of his title? Yup, I reckon he gets stripped of it and Brie attacks Steph finally

[prophet]

Sorry for how late this is, completely forgot

Locke - 4
CMPUNKFAN - 7
ShaneOfan - 6
AkyDefGoldberg - 6
The Legend - 6
BSM - 6
prophet - 8
KaiserGlider - 7
DBSoT - 7
Viazon - 7
Hanley! - 8
Westcoastvibes - 7
xgamr - 5
GameDesigner14 - 6
Everlong - 8
Georgerv - 7

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There we have it, the winners for this month were myself, @Hanley! and @Everlong - I'll rep you both now and update the overall leaderboard.

[Everlong]

How the fuck did I win?

[prophet]

How the fuck did I win?

Getting both bonus questions correct is what did it!