Well, my theory is, Rey's a shapeshifter. That would explain the ability to rapidly gain and lose weight without steroids. Though it does beg the question of why he's a three foot tall Mexican in a business based on size and skin colour.

Hmmm, this could be a chance for morrison to get some ppv time and feud for the IC belt.

Does this mean John Morrison goes to breaking point?

Like ODO he must have problems with getting the 'human form' just right.

(:$ that I know who ODO is)

fuck Rey "I only got a title run cuz my friend died" Mysterio...I hope he never gets back even to the IC Title!

What an astute observation.

Ziggler = awesome. Liked him from the start.

Think it's more likely that the title goes on Finlay, though.

lol. How is that more likely?

Have you seen who's leading Tipsters this year?

Triple Threat

Rey vs Ziggler vs Morrison

Ziggler or Morrison win and have them feud for awhile leading into survivor series

Ziggler is terrible

I disagree.

Although Ziggler by all means isn't God's gift, he has tons of natural charisma and Rey has made him look like a million bucks. Now with Mysterio gone, we'll see if he can actually deliver.

He's almost a heel straight out of the 90's, and that ain't a bad thing.

Disappointed and surprised to read this. Rey's a model-superstar and it's kinda sucky for this to happen, I've been enjoying him most I have done in quite some time too. He, alongside his opponents, were doing great things for the IC title.

As for Ziggler, well, I can't get over how fucking stupid his name is. Literally can't take him serious 'cos his names so ridiculous.

I think Dolph has enough charisma and talent to take him far. I hate Rey Mysterio but his matches with Dolph actually made me look forward to seeing a match involving him.

He is definitely a straight out of the 90s heel. I think he makes it work.

That damn name though.

Somehow I think this will be how it goes. The whole "vacate the title and have the #1 contender and another top star battle for it at the next ppv" scenerio.

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If memory serves me right some guys haven't had to serve there suspension effective immediately so he could very well go another month before he has to start it ugh.

Can you explain it to me, then?

Or would that be too emarrassing?

TPWW has hated rey for a couple years now. I don't know why. One could assume it is because of how rey's first title run was handled, but that wasn't his fault, so it would be retarded to blame him for that. I don't get it really.

As for Ziggler, I was just kidding. He doesn't suck. But he's nothing special either from what I've seen, and he's surely not on rey's level.

I didn't think it was actually hating Rey so much as how he was being used. The Word Title run was terrible and so is angle where he goes up against a giant. But when he's against a normal person it's fun to watch again.

There is nothing about Rey Mysterio I enjoy watching. I dont like his costumes, his entrance music. I hate the 619. I understand he can put on a good match and does some nice moves, but I cant take him seriously.

Well fuck me. Do you think when he touched heads with the kids on his way to the ring, someone slipped something 'in him'? Or perhaps him in them.

Dolph Ziggler is awesome because he went from being Just Joe to one of the reasons I watch Smackdown. Hi I'm Dolph Ziggler and I'm fucking intense. And also fucking Maria.

Now that's awesome.

I am shocked!

Not really shocked that he had been juicing really, but shocked that WWE went public with the annoucement!

I was shocked as well that WWE made it public. I would think since Rey has a large kid-based fan range that they would have kept it private and just did a fake injury story

all those disappointed little faces under those Rey masks. :'(

The Finlay pick isn't all that crazy. Ziggy's title shot is technically for Breaking Point, not necessarily against Rey Mysterio. Considering the two other contenders in the "Intercontinental Division" right now are Finlay (face) and Mike Knox (heel), and Ziggy's a heel, it makes sense to give the title to the other face to preserve the heel/face match at Breaking Point.

I still feel that Rey had no business being anywhere in the conversation about the WHC, let alone actually win it.

He has always struck me as just another Spot Monkey. I laughed my ass off when Scott Hall lawn-darted him into the WCW production truck.

Ziggler might not get the belt directly from Rey anymore, but he WILL be getting it sooner rather than later. It's great how he kinda plays up the fact that he's a "stereotypical character".


And I can see Finlay getting the belt, and losing it to The Zigster due to interference by Sweetums.

Almost, four pages of why Ziggler is so fucking awesome!

I don't want rep or anything but Goddammit Dolph Ziggler is Awseome because he is PERFECTION and a natural born US Citizen and he is going to be IC CHAMP!!!!!.

I got really hammered just to celebrate Rey getting suspended.

This thread is making me hate Dolph Ziggler more. :mad:

Hi, I'm the intercontinental champion.

I'd say that since they say "effective" as of September 2, they were planning on him being suspended then. Which is timing for him to drop on The 1st, which would be the SD taping.

Quoted, for the reason that it tells the truth of the matter.

<--- Gettin Ziggy wit' it!

shit you got me there, your absolutely right...is there anyone clean in wwe??

Rey has a new area code 420....

xero told me this happened.
i was honestly shocked.. decided it was more than likely for pain killers..



then thought about our NEW IC champion, dolph ziggler. loving his music

Couple people mentioned here before that he would be only fined if it was for pot.

This is very true. I would also keep Matt Hardy and John Morrison in mind as potential winners of the IC Title on SmackDown!. With Hardy seemingly getting nudged aside for Taker, despite having a logical feud with CM Punk over the World Heavyweight Title waiting, I can see Hardy winning the IC Title as a sort of "we haven't forgotten about you" present. Especially since Michael Hayes loves Matt Hardy.

I'm with thedamndest and Juan on this. Rey Mysterio has been pretty fucking good lately, and his reigns with the IC Title have done a lot to raise the belt. It's no longer a mid-card title, but an upper mid-card title, which is fantastic when young guys like Ziggler eventually win the belt. And I'm actually glad that the WWE have made Ziggler work for his reign. They haven't just thrown the IC Title on him because he's a rising star. This was scheduled to be his third PPV match against Rey Mysterio, and it was going to be a good moment when he won the IC Title.

And Ziggler is fantastic, by the way. He's got one of the better and more thought-out characters in the WWE. The SmackDown! writing team is taking good care of him. I've seen potential ever since "Nicky," and I'm craving a feud between Ziggler and Undertaker over the IC Title. That would be epic.

I love the way he yells "COUNT IT!" after his elbow drop. I just wish his finishing move had a name. I was looking forward to seeing Ziggler slap Rey in the face to spin him into that move, too. In 30 days, I hope for more Ziggler/Mysterio matches.

Ziggler made me remember what i thought about morrison and miz when they first showed up in WWE. Couldn't stand either of them at first...but they grow on you. Plus Ziggler's theme is Perfection. Hope it's on the next CD.

How I hope they handle this IC Title situation:

* Matt Hardy wins his first Intercontinental Championship on Superstars when he pins Rey Mysterio in a fast-paced Triple Threat also involving John Morrison. The babyface dynamic is unusual, and something I could see being fun.

* Theodore Long announces Rey's suspension on SmackDown!, Rey apologises and whatever, which brings out CM Punk who tears into Rey Mysterio, mocking Long calling him "The Face of SmackDown!." Punk could even bring up how Rey is doing to himself what Eddie Guerrero used to do. Rey and Punk get into a fight, and Long announces a match between them.

* Matt Hardy is pissed off at Punk for how he exiled his brother from the WWE, and the disrespect he showed Jeff afterwards, so Matt also wants to get his hands on Punk. The main event is changed to Punk & Dolph Ziggler vs. Matt Hardy & Rey Mysterio.

* Rey gets pinned by Dolph Ziggler in the main event, and CM Punk then goes to elbow city with Rey, as Ziggler takes out Matt Hardy.

Rey has consistantly been one of the most over, as well as marketable wrestlers in the company. It would be silly to restrict his exposure to just the cruiserweight or tag division. Plus, the only people who don't buy rey as a World title contender are a small portion of the IWC, which as a whole is a very small percentage of wwe's fanbase.

And I totally disagree with the spot monkey nonsense. Just because a guy uses high spots doesn't make him a spot monkey. Rey has great in-ring psychology, and story telling. He knows how to build to those spots and use them at the right time.

The problem with rey's title run was that they forgot how he got there in the first place. And I don't mean eddie's death, because he was facing main event guys long before that. His gimmick for the last 8 years has pretty much been that he is so quick and so good, that he can score a flash pin on anyone, at anytime. I mean, his first major fued in wwe was against kurt angle, and he scored a pin on him even. And he beat a ton of main eventers, from then, til when he won the title. But once he won it, they decided he needed controversy to hold onto the title. Retarded.

I don't really like Rey but he's been on the top of his game lately so this is quite the bummer.

love Ziggler though

I cant wait for..

Here is your winner..and NEW Intercontinental Champion..

Chris Jericho!

and then Big Show could go and beat Kofi for the US title like they teased before he started tagging with Jericho.

Then they'd each have 3 belts which would just be awesome...for Jericho anyway.

I agree with everything Fignuts has said in this thread.

This really sucks. I was looking forward to the big blow off at breaking point. As mentioned earlier, Mysterio has been incredible with his IC title run. Hopefully he learns from this, especially considering what's happened to some of his closest friends.

This is exactly it. The handling of Mysterio after he won the 2006 Royal Rumble was a bit ridiculous. They made him look like an idiot, and like someone they didn't trust in the main event. If they had just done Kurt Angle vs. Rey Mysterio at WrestleMania 22, things would have been sweet.

I've always been of the belief that a World Champion should be the top guy of a promotion -- and should be treated as such. When Rey Mysterio was World Heavyweight Champion, they kept putting him over as an underdog. If a man is good enough to have won the World Title, he's not a fluke. They should have put Rey over as pound-for-pound the most talented man in WWE history, as his size provides a case for that. But alas.

This scenario would be very, very cool.

The best two GIFs ever made.

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...Ziggler2-1.gif

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/k.../dolphkick.gif

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Does anyone think the WWE would do a storyline where it would ultimately be revealed in a couple months that it was Ziggler who planted whatever Rey got caught with so that he could get Rey out of the picture and win the IC title since he wasn't having any luck actually beating Rey for it?

That is actually quite brilliant, so no, they won't do that.

I'm pretty sure they don't want to run the risk of bringing their Wellness Policy into question again. And don't say it can't happen because of a storyline. You can bitch about how stupid it is, but if Trump "buying" Raw can scare the people....

Just when I thought the IC Title was getting important again. Rey goes and does this.

The only way I'd drag this into a story is with CM Punk.

Kevin Nash.

Anyway, Rey Mysterio has been the best he has been in years, and it's pretty disappointing to see him suspended. You guys sure can be a bunch of assholes. I am a big Dolph Ziggler fan, but I think him capturing the IC title outright from Rey would have looked a hell of a lot better than it basically being forfeited to him.

I called it..