Loopydate's Official (As Though Anyone Cares) Armageddon Predictions
(Note: also 400th post, yay me!)
Tag Team Turmoil
The show starts with that annoying-ass siren blaring "Holler...if ya hear me!" Steiner and Test come to the ring
sans Stacy. Test starts to cut a heel promo about Stacy always getting in the way, blah blah blah. He's interrupted by crappy techno music, and here come Lance Storm and Val Venis. Good back and forth action between the two teams (keeping Test in the ring for the most part 'cause, let's face it, Steiner sucks) culminates in Test setting Lance up for the Big Boot. Test is distracted by Stacy up on the entrance ramp and gets suckered into a superkick from Storm for the three count.
La Res' music hits next, and Conway and Dupree come down to battle Lance and Val. This match is better than the first and ends with Conway and Dupree hitting their finisher on Storm. As the referee forces the illegal man out of the ring, Val breaks up the pin with the Money Shot, then rolls Lance on top for another win.
The Hurricane and Rosey come out fourth for the first face vs. face battle of the night. Lance and Val are pretty tired by this point, and the fresh superheroes take the fight right to them. The finish comes when Rosey gets Val up in a Samoan drop, and Hurricane hits the flipping neckbreaker to end it.
The upstarts Mark Jindrak and Garrison Cade come out, leaving JR and the King to rave about the Dudley Boyz's chances of winning this, being the last team to come out. Mark and Lan...er...Garrison do a pretty good job of keeping Hurricane out of his corner for a good several minutes before he finally makes the tag to the S.H.I.T. Rosey begins cleaning house, knocking Lance...er...Garrison to the floor before hitting a big legdrop on Jindrak. Cade breaks up the pin by pulling the referee out of the ring. While the ref is distracted, Jindrak lays Rosey out with a chair. Cade keeps Hurricane out of the ring while the referee makes the count.
The pyro bombs come down and "Bombshell" begins to play, but...there's no sign of the Dudley Boyz! The music stops, and Jindrak and Cade get on the mics claiming a forfeit victory since the Dudleys are "too chicken" to come out and fight them. The music starts again, and Bubba and D-Von come out, bloody and battered. Spike Dudley comes out to try to talk his brothers out of fighting, trying to find out what happened, but he takes a massive table bump at the hands of the rookies. Enraged, the Dudleys take the fight to Jindrak and Cade, but they're just too injured. After dispatching Bubba to the floor, the rookies hit their elevated dropkick on D-Von for the Tag Team Titles.
As JR and the King speculate on who attacked the Dudleyz, it's time for our second title match of the evening.
Intercontinental Title Match
Mick Foley comes out first, followed by Orton (with Flair) and RVD. At one point in the match, RVD goes up top for a Five-Star Frogsplash. Flair jumps up on the apron, and gets a Mandible Claw for his troubles. However, while RVD is pinning Orton, Jindrak and Cade come out to the ring. Jindrak makes a big scene of pulling Flair away from the action, but while Foley's distracted, Cade hits a big elbow drop on RVD. As Cade slides out of the ring, Orton picks Van Dam up, gives him an RKO, and Evolution has a new champion!
Booker T vs. Mark Henry
I really don't care that much about this match, so my rundown is pretty basic: Henry wins it with the World's Strongest Slam (worst. Name for a finisher. Ever.)
Shawn Michaels vs. Batista
This one will be better than a lot of people expect. I see Batista controlling for most of it until Michaels gets his momentum going (like in most of his mid-'90s title defenses against Sid, Mankind, Vader, etc.) Batista blocks the Sweet Chin Music, however, and plants him with his sit-down powerbomb. Batista pulls off the big upset, and Evolution is 2-for-2!
Battle of the Sexes
I think Lita will see most of the action in this match, starting against Christian. She may sell her injury from the house show this week, so maybe they'll play up that Christian is sick for preying on an injured woman. Christian tags in Jericho, who hasn't seen much ring time, and Lita makes the hot tag to Trish. There is a long staredown where neither does anything. Christian gets up in Jericho's face, but Jericho just keeps saying "I can't do it. I'm sorry." He leaves the ring, and Christian is PISSED. He turns around, but is nailed by a Chick Kick. One, two, three, the women win it. But what's going on with Jericho?
World Heavyweight Title Match
Triple H can't win this match, because the New Evolution (Orton, Batista, Jindrak, and Cade [tonight's big winners]) need to turn on HHH and Flair pretty soon over H's failure.
Triple H will think he's got the match won after he hits the Pedigree on Kane, but he won't realize that Goldberg (who he thinks he took out with a sledgehammer earlier) is right behind him. H turns around, spear, jackhammer, Goldberg retains.
Those are my picks. I know I lost a lot of detail as it went on, but...meh, I got tired.