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Originally Posted by The CyNick
Do you know if Batista is free on 5 days notice? Do you know if he wants to come in to work multiple matches and ultimately lose?
You want a one night tournament to culminate with a MITB cash in? Sounds like an FU to people invested in the tournament.
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I will answer in order.
I don't, but if he has a movie to shill, it would be an easy way to do so. Multiple matches in which one is a squash, and a second is a similarly short match. If the money is right, he'll play ball. He's a wrestler.
Yes. That is the planned and expected outcome. Snivelling undeserving champions are a wrestling trope, and you know that. The whole point of the cash in at the end of the tournament was to put heat on the heel and sympathy on the face. And, it sets you up for Wrestlemania. The Authority doesn't give Reigns a title match while Sheamus feuds with Ambrose. Reigns draws #1 at the Rumble and runs the table.
The difference being that with Sheamus, you don't get the backlash you'd get from fans that a Lesnar gets and got. And fans will want a guy to get that belt was stolen from him. Even have him acknowledge the elephant in the room, that he wasn't ready last year.
Ultimately, what I suggested will probably happen in some form. Including the Sheamus cash in to screw Reigns.