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There are plenty of matches which are easy to predict going in, and for many of them, the finishes are incredibly obvious even before the match has begun. What are some of the most predictable finishes you have ever see in a match?
Most of them are ladder matches I find. The most obvious one being Unforgiven 2006. As soon as the TLC match was announced, my first thought was 'FU off the ladder through a couple of tables'', and I'm sure I wasn't the only one who could see that finish coming a mile away.
Can you think of any examples of this?
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While it's not quite the same as your example, but whenever the wrestlers set up tables and then forgets about them. The most recent example was the Hell in a Cell between Edge and Taker. The same thing happened in the Shawn Michaels/Hunter at Armageddon 2002 and I assume many others including Wrestlemania 17. TNA has also done it as well. It's gotten to the point that whenever stacked on top of each other, I know exactly how the match will end.
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Anytime Khali is match up with someone who see's eye level with his navel? You pretty much know Khali is going to win. Now lets not get this confused with his loss to Hornswoggle, Horny can only see knee level. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 20 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
I cant say that I have noticed may predictable finishes in ppv main events. In fact I didnt even notice Jimmy's example. One could be when a heel dominates a match thanks to their valet, normally I have noticed the valet costs the heel the match in the end.
Most of them are ladder matches I find. The most obvious one being Unforgiven 2006. As soon as the TLC match was announced, my first thought was 'FU off the ladder through a couple of tables'', and I'm sure I wasn't the only one who could see that finish coming a mile away.
Why does that sound terribly familar? >______>
Pretty much 90% of matches with finishing moves or some roll-up, so alot of stuff is predictable.
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Another would be any sort of Scramble match where there's a set time limit to where it ends. Once we got to Unforgiven, it was pretty certain that least one (Or even more) of the matches were going to have someone win at the very end to stop someone from becoming champion. That ended up happening twice at Unforgiven.
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Another would be any sort of Scramble match where there's a set time limit to where it ends. Once we got to Unforgiven, it was pretty certain that least one (Or even more) of the matches were going to have someone win at the very end to stop someone from becoming champion. That ended up happening twice at Unforgiven.
I liked the finish to the ECW one with Matt having to fight everyone off and survive for the last couple of minutes, breaking up pin attempts etc.
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Not really the finish as such, but at Armageddon 2000, it was pretty obvious that somebody was going to get thrown off the cell as soon as the truck came down the aisle, especially considering it was full of what appeared to be sawdust. >_>
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Not really the finish as such, but at Armageddon 2000, it was pretty obvious that somebody was going to get thrown off the cell as soon as the truck came down the aisle, especially considering it was full of what appeared to be sawdust. >_>
What made it worse was the total lack of logic. Vince is the owner of the company, he could just stop the PPV if he wanted to prevent the match from happening so badly. Worst yet is the logic behind using a truck to tear down the cell. If you're trying to prevent injuries, would you really want to tear down a very heavy cell (With a cage) with 6 man inside? That could of hurt people far more than the match. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 20 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
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What made it worse was the total lack of logic. Vince is the owner of the company, he could just stop the PPV if he wanted to prevent the match from happening so badly. Worst yet is the logic behind using a truck to tear down the cell. If you're trying to prevent injuries, would you really want to tear down a very heavy cell (With a cage) with 6 man inside? That could of hurt people far more than the match. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 20 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Yeah very true on both points, but at the time it made the match more dramatic. The idea of Vince not wanting the match to go ahead was a good one, as it put the match over as brutal and something the fans had to see, but there were too many problems with realism.
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About the TLC point, that is one advantage of ladder matches (including MITB of course). The finish always seems to come out of nowhere rather than after some huge spot, so while arguably an anticlimax at times, you can't see it coming from a mile away like you can with table-related finishes.
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It's pretty stupid to have a timelimit match that most of the time it'll end with one second left, doesn't matter what stipulation it has or which wrestlers were wrestling. That's why I'm not bothering to watch the outcome of the wrestling match when there's 30 seconds left on the clock, because we all know how it's gonna turn out.
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