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Yeah there are a lot of potential face vs face matches on this show.
Face vs Face can be great (Austin v Rock) but it can also make for a dead crowd, as the fans dont want to take sides.
However, I do think this could be used for an angle at Mania.
The way it looks they'll have 3 face-face matches; Benoit-Jericho, Rey-Eddie and Orton-Taker. With the Benoit and Eddie matches I would have them set up similarly, they tag, they have some falling out, leads to a match at Mania.
At Mania after the Benoit-Jericho match we get a handshake to bury the hatchet, ditto for Rey-Eddie (crowd in LA should eat this one up), I would even have a handshake at the end of the Angle-HBK match. Even though were by no means friends, I would have them do a true respect handshake. Say when HBK extends his hand to Kurt, the commentators could say "well we've seen displays of respect in the previous two matches, but I dont expect that here". But Kurt does in fact shake his hand.
That leads to Taker-Orton. Few will expect Orton to win, but of course he will (should I mean). Fans should be a little shocked by this, and Taker could get up after the loss, look all mean like and spin Orton around...dramatic pause.....extends the hand. Commentators say "well this has been a night about respect, and now its Orton's turn to show respect". Orton grabs Takers hands, shakes it, pulls him back in and spits in his face!!! Orton then hits the RKO and does his "I'm a prick" pose over Taker.
I think that would be a cool way to turn him, and it makes the other matches (which should be just great matches on their own) part of a larger overall story for the night.
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