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Hey everyone! Ever since Night Of Champions 2015, through multiple accounts, every month before major WWE pay-per-views, I’ve come on here and booked the cards to make them as exciting, intriguing, and best possible scenarios for the future. I do both NXT and main-roster pay-per-views, as well as the occasional big milestone RAW or Smackdown weekly show. Without further ado, here is how Clash Of Champions 2019 should be booked!
MY
NIGHT/CLASH OF CHAMPIONS POSTS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS:
·
2015 (My first booking post ever): https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/3lpfiw/how_i_would_book_noc_2015/%E2%80%AC
KICKOFF-SHOW
·
We get the usual kickoff panel of Jonathan Coachman, Charly
Caruso, Sam Roberts and Beth Phoenix. Throughout the hour, the panel runs down
the match card giving their predictions, hyping up the matches and showing us
video packages. Right as we’re getting ready to transition to our kickoff match
of the night, 24/7 Champion R-Truth interrupts and says that he ran out of the
locker room after he’s been told he has to defend the 24/7 title tonight. The
usual cast of characters then invade the panel area and chase Truth through the
crowd into the ring. Matt Hardy hits a Twist Of Fate on Truth to win the title
and as Matt is retreating up the ramp, Mike Kanellis emerges from the back and
rolls up Hardy to win the bet for a second time. Truth has climbed up on the
scaffolding now and Kanellis turns around into a CROSSBODY FROM TRUTH, who
rolls him up to become a 16 TIME CHAMPION. Truth runs to the back and locks
himself in the bathroom to end the segment. I love the 24/7 title.
KICKOFF
MATCH: Drew Gulak (c) vs. Humberto Carrillo vs. Lince Dorado (Triple Threat
match for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship)
·
Welp, I hate to continue the tradition nowadays of the CW’s
making the kickoff every month, but it seems to be their designated spot. Lince
Dorado is out first followed by Handsome Humberto, and finally the leader of
the GULAXY, Drew-05-Live himself. We get formal ring introductions and
the match goes 13 minutes. I see this match as sort of a farewell, or a
final hurrah for 205 as a brand as it’s soon to be merged with NXT when we go 2
hours on USA, which I may or may not do a post for this week. It’s insane that
Dorado has been on the show since the very beginning and this is his FIRST
title shot. An absolute injustice. This match is gonna be batshit insane,
though. All three are very talented, but there is no other option here than to
have Drew retain. If you are the best in your division at what you do, then you
should be holding gold, and Drew is still the best right now. He’s the best
promo, most charismatic, best character, and probably most marketable of anyone
on the roster currently. He would be a great flag bearer heading into the
Wednesday Night Wars, and 205 always seems to like lengthy reigns
anyways. The match ends when Drew locks Dorado in the Gu-Lock for the
submission win. Dorado is the lowest on the tier list of 205 right now of
the three men in this match, so he should be the one to take the fall. Humberto
can get his one on one title shot on the first NXT on USA this week. Who would
win that match I’m unsure, but Gulak remains on top and we can continue the
storyline of dissension in Lucha House Party can continue.
WINNER
by SUBMISSION and STILL WWE Cruiserweight Champion: Drew Gulak
·
We go back to the panel and they give their final predictions
for the main event matches of the night. Coach signs us off and we get to the
main show.
MAIN-SHOW
·
We get a big video package to kick off, honoring all the titles
of WWE and their best holders and moments. We waste no time getting things
started afterward as Braun Strowman’s music hits and he makes his way down to
the ring.
1ST
MATCH: Braun Strowman and Seth Rollins (c) vs. Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode
(Tag Team match for the WWE RAW Tag Team Championships)
·
Braun is out first followed by the triple double champ, Seth Rollins.
RUDOLPH THE WRESTLING TAG TEAM, THEY HAVE A VERY SHINY NOSE… are out next and
during their entrance we get introduced to the foreign commentary teams. We
get formal ring introductions and the match goes 12 minutes. We start off
in the ring with Rollins and Ziggler, who have history having wrestled all
throughout 2018 for the IC Title. Some big spots in the match include when
Braun is legal and he’s got Rick Rude and Mr. Perfect dazed in opposite corners
of the ring, and he runs back and forth with big Stinger Splashes on both.
Ziggler falls down after a few and Braun runs toward Roode to finish him off
but Roode hooks Braun by the head and nails a Glorious DDT for the near
fall. The match ends soon after another big spot where Ziggler jumps on
Strowman’s wide back and locks in a Sleeperhold and Braun looks to be fading.
Rollins, trying to save the match for the match for his team, slides into the
ring and superkicks Ziggler but Ziggler hangs onto Strowman as they both fall
and NAILS A ZIGZAG. This doesn’t keep Strowman down for long though as Strowman
begins to argue with Rollins who thinks he deliberately meant to superkick him.
Braun snaps and sends Rollins to the outside with a big boot. Braun nails a
RUNNING POWERSLAM ONTO THE APRON and then dumps Rollins next to the announce
table WHICH HE FLIPS ONTO ROLLINS and then storms to the back, up the ramp.
Roode, Ziggler and Rollins are all down and the referee counts to 10 on
Rollins, ending the match off a count-out. This is a match that just could not
end clean, or with any sort of decisive finish like a pinfall. If you beat
RuDolph, who have only just begun teaming for a few weeks now, you’ll make both
look weak, and you could really have something with them. And if you just beat
Braun and Rollins clean, WHY would you do that? What’s the reasoning in making
the two men in your WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP match later in the night lose and look
weak that same night? It dims the excitement for the singles match. We would
get some sort of rematch the next night where Strowman defends the titles by
himself after Rollins refuses to defend with him after the attack on him here,
and Roode and Ziggler could win the titles to end this program the next night
on RAW after The Fiend attacks Braun to set up for a match at HIAC, so Braun
doesn’t look weak.
WINNERS
by COUNT-OUT: Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode; however STILL the WWE RAW Tag
Team Champions; Braun Strowman and Seth Rollins
·
We get an ad for Tapout.
2ND
MATCH: Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross (c) vs. Fire And Desire (Mandy Rose &
Sonya Deville) (Tag Team match for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships)
·
Fire and Desire are out first followed by Bliss and Cross. The
match goes around 10 minutes. This feud has been troubling, the little
build it’s had. The promo with Mandy calling Cross ugly was dumb and just not
nessecary. There’s no way that Cross and Bliss should lose to the big bully
team, so the Women’s Tag Titles are retained and the match ends when
Bliss hits a Twisted Bliss on Mandy Rose followed by the Fisherman’s neckbreaker
finisher by Cross, who pins the woman who humiliated her. It’s how wrasslin
works, folks. The babyfaces avenge the devious doings of the heels. Not much
more to say here.
WINNERS
by PINFALL and STILL WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions: Alexa Bliss and Nikki
Cross
·
We get a backstage interview with Sasha Banks. She announces
that the RAW Women’s Title is main eventing and vows to beat Becky.
3RD
MATCH: Shinsuke Nakamura (c) (w/ Sami Zayn) vs. The Miz (Singles match for the
WWE Intercontinental Championship)
·
Miz is out first followed by Zaynamura. King Of Ska Style.
Yeaohhhhohhhohhhohhhohhh. I say it all the time, please hire me WWE solely to
come up with your tag team names. The match goes 11 minutes.
Everyone’s thinking about this match is that WWE doesn’t like Jericho having
the record for most IC title reigns now that he has defected to that one
T-shirt company. Honestly, there’s no way they care. I think all wrestling is
great and that the business thriving anywhere is great for everyone, but I don’t
even think that WWE is that petty. Nakamura and Zayn together are a great new
alliance that is too young to ruin by having the title taken off Nakamura.
After all, this is how WWE SHOULD book and not how WWE WOULD book, so the best
thing to do is keep the title on Nakamura, just for a little bit longer. The
match ends when Miz has Nakamura locked in the Figure 4 and Zayn hops up on the
apron to distract the ref as Nakamura begins to tap. The ref doesn’t see it and
Miz releases the hold to go take out Zayn. Zayn jumps off the apron and Miz
turns around into a big Kinshasa from Shinsuke for the retain. If this
pairing fails horribly within the next few weeks, then just book a rematch
between Miz and Nak with Zayn banned from ringside, something like that to make
it a different match than this, and have Miz win the title there. I would like
to see Miz tie the record eventually, but just not yet.
WINNER
by PINFALL and STILL WWE Intercontinental Champion: Shinsuke Nakamura
·
We get an ad for WWEShop.
4TH
MATCH: AJ Styles (c) (w/ Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson) vs. Cedric Alexander
(Singles match for the WWE United States Championship)
·
Ceddy Alexander is out first followed by the champ AJ Styles,
with the ORIGINAL, THE ONLY CLUB THAT MATTERS, the O.C. We get formal
ring introductions for this one and the match gets 15 minutes. This could
honestly steal the whole damn night. I’m SO happy that guys like Cedric who
were once being wasted away in the small, small town of 205 finally being able
to wrestle on the big stage and prove that everyone should’ve been watching
them all along. Guys like Murphy, Ali, and now Cedric have all proved that they
are more than capable of hanging with the bigger guys and that it can be
absolutely believable that any of them could bring the fight. That being said,
it’s too early for Cedric to win any titles. You can really build up something
special with him. He’s such a great babyface. He’s amazing in the chase for
titles as we saw on 205 and the O.C. is still a great stable that has lots of
juice left in it as as championship act. The match ends when the O.C.
get ejected from ringside and AJ goes over to the ref to try and protest this
but he turns around right into the Lumbar Check and just before the ref counts
3, Gallows and Anderson pull the ref out by his foot and the ref is sent
crashing onto the floor. Gallows and Anderson see an opportunity here and they
hit a Magic Killer on Cedric. The ref is revived now and the O.C. are heading
up the ramp, convinced they have it won but ALEXANDER KICKS OUT. Styles swoops
to the apron and hits one last big Phenomenal Forearm to finish it off.
Styles retains, but Cedric looks amazing in defeat after outlasting so many big
moves. It’s only up from here.
WINNER
by PINFALL and STILL WWE United States Champion: AJ Styles
·
We get a video package for the New Day/Revival match as our next
transition, detailing the attacks and attempts to cripple Xavier Woods by
FTRKO.
5TH
MATCH: The New Day (Big E & Xavier Woods) (c) vs. The Revival (Dash Wilder
& Scott Dawson) (Tag Team match for the WWE SmackDown Tag Team
Championship)
·
The Revival are out first followed by the champs. The
match goes 14 minutes and it seems as if we’re about to get ring introductions
but in the middle of Greg Hamilton introducing New Day, the Revival Woods and
Big E mid-sentence and the bell rings, starting the match off on a brawl with
all four men in the ring. FTRKO is a big money stable. This feud cannot end
here. I’ll have my card for HIAC at the end of this post, go to that to see the
match I have in mind between these factions, it’s pure sex. That being said, I
think it’s best for the Revival to win the belts here. It’s a mess, the Revival
are a RAW team, I know, but it’s best for them to win the titles here to lead
into that HIAC match. I’m not gonna spoil the rest of this post, but I think
that one of these teams should be dripping in gold come the FOX debut. New Day
are all gonna win the belts back in that match anyways, so don’t worry. The
match ends after Dawson and Wilder grind Woods injured ankle to a pulp and hit
the Shatter machine to pick up the titles. With this win, they also become the
first team (besides Chad Gable, who’s done it, but with different partners) to
have held the NXT, RAW and SmackDown tag titles. ⅔ of FTRKO now hold
championship gold, and the sun looks to be setting on a New Day.
WINNERS
by PINFALL and NEW WWE SmackDown Tag Team Champions: The Revival
·
We go to the announcers as they plug the official theme song of
the PPV, and then we get a video package for Bayley/Charlotte.
6TH
MATCH: Bayley (c) vs. Charlotte Flair (Singles match for the WWE SmackDown
Women’s Championship)
·
Bayley is out first followed by the challenger, Charlotte
Flair. The match goes 16 minutes. Charlotte has become a 9-time
champion in just 3 years and it’s definitely time to slow that on down a little
bit. Charlotte can wait for the big double digits. I’m sure she’ll be fine.
Bayley really needs this win, she just realigned with the returning Sasha Banks
and this new delusional tweener character of hers could use the title a little
while longer. I also don’t think that Charlotte should lose clean as, hate her
or love her, she’s the biggest women’s star they have (while Rousey is off
makin’ babies and farming). The match ends when Bayley goes to the
outside to get a chair. It looks like she’s about to use it on Charlotte and
the ref is warning her that she’ll be DQ’ed. Charlotte stands up, Bayley tosses
the chair at Charlotte, Charlotte catches it, Bayley catches her off guard with
a roll-up with her feet on the ropes for the retain. Bayley is a slimier
version of her past self, and the chair would be a callback to when her and
Sasha beat her down with the chair the night after they did the same to Becky a
few weeks back. This is a way for Bayley to keep the title, while continuing to
raise questions about which side of the good or evil coin she falls on. Plus,
my vision is really just to have Sasha holding the RAW Women’s Title, Bayley
holding the Smackdown Women’s Title, and both of them collectively holding the
Women’s Tag Titles. Boss N’ Hug with all the Women’s gold, heading into
Survivor Series where we would FINALLY get our big main roster Sasha vs. Bayley
PPV match. There's no better route to go right now.
WINNER
by PINFALL and STILL WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion: Bayley
·
We get a video package for Rowan/Reigns.
7TH
MATCH: Erick Rowan vs. Roman Reigns (Singles match)
·
Roman is our first followed by Rowan. Man, this is gonna get a
little hard to read since their names are so similar, so I’m just gonna refer
to Rowan as Erick for the rest of this post. The match goes 12 minutes.
Doesn’t need to be some needlessly drawn out and extended brawl, just a
relatively fast paced brawl that will end up being a real slobber knocker. Erick
has REALLY impressed me with his promo work in this feud, confusing as it may
have been. I love the guy and his work, but there’s no way this angle should be
ending with THE VINTNER as the true cultprit. This is all leading to Bryan vs.
Reigns in the cell, as I have at the end of this post for my HIAC card. I’m
SURE of it. The two get incredibly physical with each other and The
match ends when Erick has steel stairs in his hand and puts them down on the
mat in front of him, seeming to be plotting some devious attack, but he turns
around and tries to run at Reigns in the corner but Reigns powers out of the
corner and SPEARS ROWAN ONTO THE TOP OF THE STEPS. The ref counts on top of the
steps and Reigns gets the win. It’s unlikely that he’s even there, but MAN
do I wish Harper would be brought back and involved in this storyline somehow.
I was weary about including him in this match since he might not even be there
but I would love to see him get involved in this match somehow, costing Rowan
and Bryan and returning as a babyface on the side of Reigns. It seems he is in
WWE limbo, though. There’s probably some sort of secret stipulation on this
match that if Rowan loses, Harper gets 6 more months tacked onto his contract.
Poor bastard.
**WINNER by PINFALL: Roman Reigns
·
We get an ad for Hell In A Cell next month, followed by a video
package for Kofi/Orton.
8TH
MATCH: Kofi Kingston (c) vs. Randy Orton (Singles match for the WWE
Championship)
·
Kofi is out first follower by Randal Keith Orton. We get
formal ring introductions and the match lasts 15 minutes. Being completely
honest here, their Summerslam match was boring as hell so I’m giving them less
time here then I usually would for a world title match. Hopefully better things
happen the second time around. I know they’re capable. This feud in terms of
storytelling however, has fuckin ruled. I’ve loved everything about the
character work in this rivalry, and I really think that this should extend just
one more month until HIAC, FTRKO vs. New Day, winner take all. That match will
be BONKERS. That being said, I think the smart move here is to give the title
to Orton to boost ratings for the Smackdown debut on Fox since Orton is a real
big name, and then casually lead into New Day winning all their titles back in
the cell to end the rivalry between the teams. The match ends when
Orton is making a comeback and nails Kingston with the draping DDT. Orton goes
to the corner and teases the Punt Kick, starts running but Kofi leaps over
Orton, tries for a Trouble in Paradise, Orton ducks, spins Kofi around and
nails an RKO for his umpteenth title. I am dead set on the 6-man Tag inside
the Cell for all the titles being the main event at HIAC. Somethings gotta
give. Hell’s gonna freeze over. Post-match, Big E and Woods come out to comfort
Kofi, and a New Day, stripped of all their gold, despondent and broken, walk to
the back together. But this will not be the case for long.
WINNER
by PINFALL and NEW WWE Champion: Randy Orton
·
We get an ad for new original content coming to the WWE Network
in the next few months, followed by a video package for Braun/Seth.
9TH
MATCH: Seth Rollins (c) vs. Braun Strowman (Singles match for the WWE Universal
Championship)
·
BRAUN is out first followed by the triple double champ, Seth
Rollins. Rollins has his ribs taped up after the brutal attack from Strowman in
the opening match where they defended the Tag titles. We get formal
ring introductions and the match goes 21 minutes. The bell rings, but before
the two even get a chance to lock up, the Firefly Funhouse music hits and we
get a shot of Bray standing in front of what is an obvious and badly
greenscreen of him standing in front of fire. Bray has a cold stare at the
camera and we zoom in on his face for him to simply say “Good luck Braun. Good
luck Seth. See you in hell!” and then laughing ensues and he waves goodbye.
I honestly find it shocking that not once in this feud has it been mentioned
that Rollins and Strowman were actually the final two in the men’s Rumble match
this year. That’s kinda an important piece of the history between these two
guys. The match ends when the two are brawling on the outside and
Rollins nails a Curb Stomp to Braun on top of the announce table. Rollins rolls
in the ring and hits a frog splash off the top through Braun and the table,
rolls him into the ring, and gets the pin. Rollins retains the title, and
Braun would go from here into a feud with The Fiend at HIAC. I do not think in
any way that Wyatt should be challenging for the title, or any title for that
matter, until Wrestlemania. He is my first pick to win the men’s rumble this
upcoming year. It’s not in his character though to outlast everyone or to last
like an hour either so he has to come in pretty late. Like 25 at the earliest.
2020 is really going to be Bray’s year if this character doesn’t get messed up
and HIAC is just too early for him to become champion. All he’s been saying in
his promos lately has been “see you in hell”. He hasn’t said “See you in the
cell”. He could’ve just meant that he will be wrestling period at the PPV. Him
and Braun is a match long overdue, and the rumor is that Rollins next program
will be with the returning Drew McIntyre. I don’t love that Braun is losing yet
again in a title match, but I wouldn’t have booked this match in the first place.
The draft coming up in October will change everything so it’s hard to say where
the product is going, but it is what it is.
WINNER
by PINFALL and STILL WWE Universal Champion: Seth Rollins
·
We get an ad for Skittles, the official sponsor of the PPV.
10TH
MATCH: Becky Lynch (c) vs. Sasha Banks (Singles match for the WWE RAW Women’s
Championship)
·
The Boss is out first followed by The Man. The match
goes 24 minutes, the longest all night. There is no question that this
should main event. It’s the match that the most people are looking forward to
and it’s just the biggest they’ve got on this card. Plus, we need more women
PPV main events this year, they’ve only gone on last once this year, at
Wrestlemania. This match is perfect for this spot. The two ladies destroy each
other with all sorts of holds and strikes and finishers and dives. The
match ends with a series of reversal out of each other’s submissions. Becky
locks in the Disarmher, Sasha rolls over into the Bank Statement, and repeat.
Sasha has had it after a few seconds of this and she gets the torque on it for
the modern version of the Bank Statement. Becky manages to get to the ropes but
Sasha pulls her back into the middle of the ring, where Becky taps out.
Immediately, your first thought is probably that well, Becky is on the cover of
the new video game coming out, there’s no way they’re gonna take the title off
of her! Maybe, but Reigns isn’t a champion right now either, and won’t be for a
while until this Bryan/Rowan feud ends, presumably at the next PPV. Becky and
Roman are still two of WWE’s top stars so I don’t think the title being taken
off Becky for a while will Impact game sales very much if at all. Becky’s
momentum has cooled off considerably anyways since Wrestlemania and she could
gain some of her fan support back if she were to be on the chase again. Sasha
has come back better than ever before and this is a title switch that needs to
happen. This feud is just getting started in my eyes and they could wrestle
again next month in the cell. It’s money waiting to be made. The show goes off
the air with Boss N’Hug standing over Becky holding their titles.
WINNER
by SUBMISSION and NEW WWE RAW Women’s Champion: Sasha Banks
FINAL
RESULTS:
|
No. |
Results |
Stipulations |
Times |
|
1PS |
Drew
Gulak (c) defeated Humberto Carillo and Lince Dorado by Submission |
Triple
Threat match for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship |
13
minutes |
|
2 |
Dolph
Ziggler and Robert Roode defeated Braun Strowman and Seth Rollins (c) by
Count-Out |
Tag
Team match for the WWE RAW Tag Team Championships |
12
minutes |
|
3 |
Alexa
Bliss and Nikki Cross (c) defeated Fire And Desire (Mandy Rose & Sonya
Deville) by Pinfall |
Tag
Team match for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships |
9
minutes |
|
4 |
Shinsuke
Nakamura (c) (w/ Sami Zayn) defeated The Miz by Pinfall |
Singles
match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship |
11
minutes |
|
5 |
AJ
Styles (c) (w/ Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson) defeated Cedric Alexander by
Pinfall |
Singles
match for the WWE United States Championship |
15
minutes |
|
6 |
The
New Day (Big E & Xavier Woods) (c) defeated The Revival by Pinfall |
Tag
Team match for the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championships |
14
minutes |
|
7 |
Bayley
(c) defeated Charlotte Flair by Pinfall |
Singles
match for the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship |
16
minutes |
|
8 |
Roman
Reigns defeated Erick Rowan by Pinfall |
Singles
match |
12
minutes |
|
9 |
Randy
Orton defeated Kofi Kingston (c) by Pinfall |
Singles
match for the WWE Championship |
15 minutes |
|
10 |
Seth
Rollins (c) defeated Braun Strowman by Pinfall |
Singles
match for the WWE Universal Championship |
21
minutes |
|
11 |
Sasha
Banks defeated Becky Lynch (c) by Submission |
Singles
match for the WWE RAW Women’s Championship |
24
minutes |
MY CARD
FOR HELL IN A CELL (October 6th, 2019; Golden 1 Center; Sacramento, CA)
|
No. |
Matches |
Stipulations |
|
1 |
FTRKO
(Randy Orton & The Revival) (c) vs. The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston
& Xavier Woods) |
6-man
Tag Team Winner Takes All Hell In A Cell match for the WWE Championship and
SmackDown Tag Team Championships |
|
2 |
Seth
Rollins (c) vs. Drew McIntyre |
Singles
match for the WWE Universal Championship |
|
3 |
Sasha
Banks (c) vs. Becky Lynch |
Hell
In A Cell match for the WWE RAW Women’s Championship |
|
4 |
Bayley
(c) vs. Charlotte Flair |
Singles
match; if Charlotte loses, she will quit WWE |
|
5 |
Shinsuke
Nakamura (c) vs. Sami Zayn vs. The Miz |
Triple
Threat match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship |
|
6 |
AJ Styles
(c) vs. ??? |
United
States Championship match |
|
7 |
Dolph
Ziggler and Robert Roode (c) vs. The O.C. (Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson) |
Tag
Team match for the WWE RAW Tag Team Championships |
|
8 |
Daniel
Bryan vs. Roman Reigns |
Hell
In A Cell match |
|
9 |
Braun
Strowman vs. “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt |
Singles
match |
Well,
that was the post. Thanks for reading! As always, let me know what you liked
and/or what you didn’t like from the post, and what from the post you’d like to
see actually happen on the show tonight! Be sure to look out for my
next post for the upcoming PPV “How WWE Should Book Hell In A Cell 2019”
the weekend of the PPV. Enjoy the show tonight, everyone. I am officially back
after a long hiatus.
