Who Could Be The Next No. 1 Contendor on Smackdown! Now?

[RemyRed]

Seeing as how all of the Main Eventers are still in feuds (unless Undertaker is finished with his) who could be left to face JBL? Could a rematch with Booker T be possible?

[MVP]

Spoiler below, highlight to read (just in case)

It'll probably be Big Show seeing as how he pinned Angle last night to win the Survivor Series match.

[John la Rock]

Ya Big Show seems like the right choice. Then Angle will beat him at the Rumble

[Mr. Nerfect]

I hope we see Theodore R. Long come out and announce a six-man tag, with the winners getting launched higher in the WWE Championship ranks. Eddie Guerrero, The Big Show & Rob Van Dam vs. Kurt Angle, Luther Reigns & Mark Jindrak. JBL and Orlando Jordan watch and screw several guys out of picking up wins for their teams. Booker T comes otu and attacks JBL, and we finally see the faces win.

The next week Teddy Long announces that at Armageddon, we'll see JBL defend against Booker T. And since he doesn't want to face Angle, Guerrero, The Big Show or RVD, he's going to add them to the match and make it a six-man sudden death match. And to top it all off, it will be in a Hell in a Cell.

That same night, Rey Mysterio gets beaten down by The Dudleys, and RVD makes the save. Long then removes RVD from the HIAC at Armageddon, and gives him a Tag Team Match with Rey Mysterio against The Dudleys. If RVD & Rey win, Mysterio is the new Cruiserweight Champion, and they are #1 Contender's for the WWE Tag Team Championship.

Theodore R. Long says the six-man at Armageddon is still on, and RVD's replacement will simply be............The Undertaker.

[Mr. JL]

WWE Championship
John Bradshaw Layfield V. Big Show

The prospect of the fans turning obn them in the match would be quite great. While Big Show has improved immensly, I still do not think he is ready to face JBL for the title. Those two on a Pay Per View main event will probally not draw too well. Just because those guys are friggin' huge. Unless, JBL can pull a Lesnar and Suplex the Big Show from the top rope and throw each other around the ring, and take some big back bumbs out on the floor, the fans are going to boo the fuck out of them. If Big Show pulled out his 'moonsault' to win the title, their match will be remembered for a LONG time and in a good way.

[Loose Cannon]

Ya Big Show seems like the right choice. Then Angle will beat him at the Rumble

LOL. Look at the post above you, what's it say?

[John la Rock]

lol Big Show doing a Moonsault

[Xero]

lol Big Show doing a Moonsault
He's done it. Now, though, I don't know. He was lighter back when he pulled it off in WCW.

Big Show vs. JBL would BOMB on PPV. No matter which way I look at it, it can't go good unless they BOTH pull their best matches of their careers out of their asses. But that is probably the way WWE is going, so yeah.

I would say have Angle take the title from JBL, whether it be at the Rumble or Armageddon. Angle could pull a decent match out of JBL, I'm sure of it. Then, if WWE is dead set for it, have the Undertaker win the Royal Rumble for the first time in his career, and go on to WrestleMania where he will beat Angle, ONLY because I believe that Taker's streak should be ended to put someone who needs it over, not to someone like Angle who is already as established as he ever will be.

Just please WWE, PLEASE! DO NOT let JBL headline WrestleMania. Some people may like the way JBL is going, but JBL in a WrestleMania main event? Good God no!

[The Cerebral Assassin]

Big Show is the type of wrestler that doesn't need a title to get over, neither is Undertaker.

It should come down to Eddie G or Kurt Angle.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Has Cena faced JBL at all?

[Mr. JL]

I think Angle should only appear during 'Mania' time. Otherwise he is just killing his body for nothing.

Fans love Mania and I'd rather have Angle wrestle in a high profile matches at Mania for 6 more years rather than have him wrestle for 3 years straight doing nothing of any importance on the B show.

[Johnny Vegas]

JBL just needs to face Eddie G and put the title back on Latino Heat...Since the WWE wants to blame EDDIE for the lack of ratings on SD!, i highly doubt they are any better with JBL as champion.

[The Answer]

RVD here's hoping

[PorkSoda]

Josh Mathews.

[Gouda]

Doug Basham.

[samichna]

Big John Studd

[PerfectOne]

He's done it. Now, though, I don't know. He was lighter back when he pulled it off in WCW.

Big Show vs. JBL would BOMB on PPV. No matter which way I look at it, it can't go good unless they BOTH pull their best matches of their careers out of their asses. But that is probably the way WWE is going, so yeah.

I would say have Angle take the title from JBL, whether it be at the Rumble or Armageddon. Angle could pull a decent match out of JBL, I'm sure of it. Then, if WWE is dead set for it, have the Undertaker win the Royal Rumble for the first time in his career, and go on to WrestleMania where he will beat Angle, ONLY because I believe that Taker's streak should be ended to put someone who needs it over, not to someone like Angle who is already as established as he ever will be.

Just please WWE, PLEASE! DO NOT let JBL headline WrestleMania. Some people may like the way JBL is going, but JBL in a WrestleMania main event? Good God no!

Here's how the match would lead to the biggest mark-out moment in many fan's lives. The match starts. Big Show Chokeslams JBL. He pins him. Match over.

I think it would be hilarious. Make Big Show a huge, unstoppable monster. Have JBL do something in the week prior to REALLY piss Show off, and just have it a total squatch match.

JBL can beat Eddie or somethign later on to reclaim legitimacy. But it would put Big Show over huge, and if he's gonna be champ for whatever reason, then he needs to really be put over somehow.

Plus, the match wouldn't suck, per se, because it would last like 1 minute.

[The CyNick]

I actually like the idea of some type of 6 person match for Armageddon (either HIAC or a Chamber match).

That way you can put the title right on Angle without going to Big Show. Show could then chase Angle at the Rumble (has multiple wins over him) but ultimately lose. And then Angle can defend against say Eddie at NWO.

But yeah the house shows have Big show-JBL all month, and I know that was the plan at one point, so.

To be fair to JBL-Show, HHH v Orton and Taker v JBL and HHH v HBK didn't do any business either, so its not like they have a match that will do a huge number

[Corkscrewed]

Whatever happened to the multi-month feud? Booker technically COULD get a rematch next month.

But it prolly won't happen.

[Aussie Skier]

BOOKER T :rant:
COME ON! he only lost cos of FUCKING ORLANDO JORDAN (i'm such a mark!!!). i wanted to kill OJ when he pulled the ref out of the ring :D

seriously:
Booker T wins it off JBL at armageddon.
Angle wins it off Booker T at Royal Rumble.
Taker wins it off Angle at Wrestlemania.
Angle wins it off Taker at Bad Blood.
Cena wins it off Angle at Summerslam.
Big Show wins it off Cena at Survivor Series.
Cena wins it off Big Show at Wrestlemania.
Eddie G wins it off Cena at No Mercy.
Batista wins it off Eddie G at Survivor Series.
Cena wins it off Batista at Royal Rumble
Charlie Haas wins it off Cena at Wrestlemania 23!

There you go, title runs:
Cena: 3
Angle: 2
Booker: 1
Eddie: 1
Big Show: 1
Batista: 1
Charlie Haas: 1

[Mr. Nerfect]

BOOKER T :rant:
COME ON! he only lost cos of FUCKING ORLANDO JORDAN (i'm such a mark!!!). i wanted to kill OJ when he pulled the ref out of the ring :D

seriously:
Booker T wins it off JBL at armageddon.
Angle wins it off Booker T at Royal Rumble.
Taker wins it off Angle at Wrestlemania.
Angle wins it off Taker at Bad Blood.
Cena wins it off Angle at Summerslam.
Big Show wins it off Cena at Survivor Series.
Cena wins it off Big Show at Wrestlemania.
Eddie G wins it off Cena at No Mercy.
Batista wins it off Eddie G at Survivor Series.
Cena wins it off Batista at Royal Rumble
Charlie Haas wins it off Cena at Wrestlemania 23!

There you go, title runs:
Cena: 3
Angle: 2
Booker: 1
Eddie: 1
Big Show: 1
Batista: 1
Charlie Haas: 1


That's if all the guys remain healthy and WWE active. I don't like the idea of Angle & Taker swapping the titles. I think a lot of other people would be better at doing that.

[Londoner]

I'm thinking along the lines of John Cena. I mean, he was meant to work a program with Carlito, but now he's injured. Big show would be a logical choice but I don't think that would do any good for Smackdown at all, it would be better for ratings if it were Cena cos the casual fan cares about him, more than the big show anyway.

Edit: Was just thinking also that when Carlito comes back, he could cost Cena the title to JBL in 3 months time or something, and they could re-start there feud.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I like that idea, ThugLife. A weird idea that came to me last night was what if JBL played a psychotic type character. Not one that screams and runs in, etc., just one that's paranoid and needs to be champion.

I was just sitting around and thought, if instead of promising to just leave SmackDown! if he lost the title, he could've make it an unofficial "All or Nothing Match". JBl could have told us a story about how his father kicked him out on his ass, and told him he's going to send his son into the world with nothing, and he's not going to call him a son until he has everything and can look his father in the eyes and say "Respect me! I am superior!". JBL could tell us how he promised himself that he would never lose the title to a man like Booker T, and how his career started with him sitting next to Booker T on a plane, and promising that if he ever lost to this man, he may as well have nothing.

JBL then tells us that if his career is meant to go in a circle, by losing to Booker T at Survivor Series, he will not only hand Booker T over the WWE Championship, but he will never appear in wrestling again, he will kiss Booker's ass in the middle of that ring and he will sell his company and give the money to Booker T, personally. JBL informs us that after Survivor Series, whether or not he has the WWE Championship, his millions of dollars, or his Chief of Staff Orlando Jordan or not, he is going to his father's house in Texas. He's going to look him in the eye and demand his respect. If he can't respect a man with the WWE Championship, and if he can't respect a man that's as good as his word, and relinquishes everything when he loses, then this life is not worth living.

While this pretty much eliminates the idea of Booker T winning, it allows more passion to be fuelled into JBL. We learn how he needs the title to survive, and that he's been fighting for success his entire life. The match goes down the same way at Survivor Series, except maybe for the finish. Orlando could have gone for the belt shot, but Booker T grabs him for a Bookend, but Orlando chucks the belt to JBL, and Layfield goes for the shot to the back of Booker's head, but gets Orlando in the face with the title. Orlando is busted. Booker T capatalises with a kick to the gut, and then hits a Scissors Kick, with JBL's face getting implanted into the WWE Championship he's holding when he hits the canvas. JBL is busted. Booker T throws the title outside, but the recovering Nick Patrick sees the title in motion, and sees Orlando and JBL unconscious and bleeding, so he disqualifies Booker T. This creates much more of a screwjob finish, and allows JBL to pick up a win only be a miscommunication with the referee.

Anyway, JBL then cuts a promo about how he is a made-man with everything after putting it all on the line. He states it wasn't even a gamble. Orlando then grabs the mic after JBL says something and looks pissed off. He then asks JBL what happened to the idea of going and demanding respect from his father. Orlando then says it doesn't matter, because after Survivor Series Orlando flew in Mr. Layfield on JBL Airlines. Then a remixed version of "Longhorn" plays, and in a black limo with "GBL" (or another initial for JBL's father first-name, whatever it may be) and out of the driver's seat pops an latino driver, and opens a door then out comes a snazzy older version of JBL.

JBL's father cuts a promo about how he respects his son, and then hugs his father, and JBL has tears in his eyes and then hits the Clothesline from Hell on his exposed father. JBL beats on his father until trainers and referees get him off. JBL keeps yelling "It's about time!" and "I'm a made-man!". JBL then gets in his limo and drives away without Orlando Jordan.

Backstage Teddy Long abuses Orlando and says there will be punishment for this, namely JBL's stripping of the WWE Championship. JBL's father manages to get up and approaches Mr. Long, and tells him that his son only carried out Layfield tradition. JBL's superior to him now, so he got what he deserved, and JBL took everything from him. Theodore Long looks at JBL's dad like he's nuts, and says there will still be punishment. JBL's dad pleads with Teddy Long not to punish JBL, but test him and push him. Let him fight for all or nothing. Long gets a smirk and says he's got the perfect all or nothing scenario. At Armageddon there will be Booker T, Kurt Angle, The Big Show, Eddie Guerrero & The Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell.

Anyway leading up the six-man HIAC, we see some really weird stuff start to happen. JBL seemingly loses his sanity, painting the WWE Championship red, talking to himself, and at one stage he even tries to commit suicide to escape his reality. Orlando manages to stick by JBL, though, and refocuses him into the match and being WWE Champion.

Anyway, they run a storyline where JBL's used all his lifelines. He's even sold his soul to the devil for the gift of a strong Clothesline. Then we see JBL dye his hair black, and get an evil smirk on his face. He's got a plan. At Armageddon we either see JBL go completely nuts as he doesn't have a plan and loses the title to Kurt Angle or The Undertaker, or we see Booker T get paid by JBL to willingly lose the match, starting a "You Sold Out" thing. Maybe even a tag team run with Orlando Jordan? The last option is The Dead Man willing jobs to JBL, and we see that JBL has started a new Ministry. The Undertaker has realised he is too old to be considered "The Dragon", and JBL has everything, and is already confirmed to feed the darkness when his time comes to lose everything. It turns out, though, that JBL tricked The Undertaker and assaults him with the help of Heidenreich, The Dudleys, Rob Van Dam (who joins Heyman at Armageddon), Orlando Jordan and/or Booker T.

The Undertaker would then win the WWE Championship at either the Royal Rumble or No Way Out, and more than likely would be challenged by Kurt Angle at WrestleMania.

I don't know. I don't really like the idea, but it's one that poses as intrigueing in my mind. It just came to men when I was bored. I just connected JBL's past, Hell in a Cell, The Undertaker getting closer to the end and the WWE Championship/money together and came up with that. Weird, I know.