01-22-2003, 04:34 AM
They should probably hold off on another Benoit/Angle match for a while. There's still plenty of great matches left between those two, I'd just hold off on it until later in the year. What I'd like to see:
No Way Out - Benoit over Team Angle in a handicapped match. Continues the Benoit/Angle rivalry, without having them meet in the ring. Angle and Lesnar obviously should win their matches here to keep them strong for WM. Maybe Brock over Eddy, Angle over Taker. Something along those lines...
I'd bring Hogan back as a heel; bitter old guard unwilling to step aside for the younger generation. Give him some flunkies - maybe align him with Show and Albert, which would loosely tie him in to the Angle/Benoit rivalry and establish him as a heel. Have Show and Albert injure Benoit the week after NWO under Hogan's direction, Hogan could brag about he was right, and the younger faces on Smackdown don't have what it takes, blah blah blah. The next week, Benoit could cut a promo saying he's down but not out, and challenge Hogan to a cage match at WM. Benoit goes over in what seems to be an impossible scenario for him (push the cage as an equalizer of sorts, but will the cage be enough to stop potential interference from Show, Albert, Team Angle, Heyman?). Benoit goes over clean, and from there they could build to his next title shot.
No Way Out - Benoit over Team Angle in a handicapped match. Continues the Benoit/Angle rivalry, without having them meet in the ring. Angle and Lesnar obviously should win their matches here to keep them strong for WM. Maybe Brock over Eddy, Angle over Taker. Something along those lines...
I'd bring Hogan back as a heel; bitter old guard unwilling to step aside for the younger generation. Give him some flunkies - maybe align him with Show and Albert, which would loosely tie him in to the Angle/Benoit rivalry and establish him as a heel. Have Show and Albert injure Benoit the week after NWO under Hogan's direction, Hogan could brag about he was right, and the younger faces on Smackdown don't have what it takes, blah blah blah. The next week, Benoit could cut a promo saying he's down but not out, and challenge Hogan to a cage match at WM. Benoit goes over in what seems to be an impossible scenario for him (push the cage as an equalizer of sorts, but will the cage be enough to stop potential interference from Show, Albert, Team Angle, Heyman?). Benoit goes over clean, and from there they could build to his next title shot.