Quote: Grimm said: I haven't watched the shows lately, but it's pretty obvious they're setting up:
Angle vs. HBK and
Taker/Kane vs. Snitsky/Heidenreich for WM.
I do think Batista and Cena have a pretty good chance of winning the titles. I think they'll get a period of holding them to see how well they do, and if ratings and attendance go up and sustain themselves, things might turn around. Might happen, might not.
Based on the Royal Rumble, you're right. Based on the actual development on Smackdown, you're wrong. However, since WWE rarely properly develops anything anymore, you're probably right.
I'm not basing anything on the weekly show development, but rather an overall view of what WWE has going on. Unless Raw adds another ppv for this month, they don't have another Raw only ppv until April. While Smackdown has No Way Out this month in between the shared Rumble and Mania ppvs. Which is why I see Cena getting his title shot for Mania, and why they needed to give Batista the Rumble win to set the Raw main event (that's another argument, but it illustrates my method).
Mania is one of the big spotlights for brand vs. brand matches and these two (HBK vs. Angle and Taker/Kane vs. Snitsky/Heidenreich) fit the bill quite nicely. Whereas Taker vs. Angle could fit on No Way Out without disrupting any of this.
