WWE Battleground 2015 PPV Pre Show Thread *Spoilers*

JP Liz V1

Sunday July 19, 2015, at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri


Confirmed


Brock Lesnar vs. Seth Rollins for WWEHC

Roman Reigns vs. Bray Wyatt


Likely


Ryback Vs. Big Show Vs. Miz for IC title


Sheamus Vs. Randy Orton


John Cena Vs. Kevin Owens

ERG89

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Ryback Vs. Big Show Vs. Miz for IC title


Sheamus Vs. Randy Orton

I'm more emotionally invested in the growth of grass in my lawn than these two matches but the rubber match of Owens vs Cena & Rollins vs. Lesnar should be great. Reigns vs. Wyatt could be a good hard hitting match or could suck, hard to know.

lycan238

To be honest I would stay up just to see Rollins vs Lesnar again. I guess this will be another PPV with a member of the Shield in the Main Event and no Cena.

rovert

Here is the card so far

* WWE Title Match: Champion Seth Rollins vs. Brock Lesnar
* WWE US Title Match: Champion John Cena vs. Kevin Owens
* WWE IC Title Match: Champion Ryback vs. Big Show vs. The Miz
* WWE Tag Team Title Match: Champions The Prime Time Players vs. The New Day
* Bray Wyatt vs. Roman Reigns

rovert

Meltzer expects these two fresh matches at Battleground:

Randy Orton vs. Sheamus and Nikki Bella vs. Paige are likely to be added to Battleground. Nikki vs. Paige was on the books for the show as recently as a week ago.

Ok I am lying about the fresh part.

lycan238

rovert wrote: »

Meltzer expects these two fresh matches at Battleground:



Ok I am lying about the fresh part.

Ok now that sounds like it wont be worth staying up for. Apart from Brock at the moment there is not too much excitement on that show (that I can discuss before the show)

Lord TSC

Brock vs Rollins is something pretty fresh and it will be interesting to see what happens.

Cena vs Owens will be a great match. We know that because we've seen it twice already in recent times, but that means the law of diminishing returns kicks in. There's also the issue of do they actually let Owens go over, how clean does he go over, and if he goes over, do they let Cena move on from the feud clean (something they never really do).

Speaking of diminishing returns, Orton vs Sheamus will test how fast the fast forward function can go....

Ryback/Owens/Show is an unknown. Could be good, could be bad, but at least that makes it interesting.

Paige/Bella needed a run in from the NXT Girls about a month ago at the latest, so it desperately needs to happen now.

Wyatt vs Reigns had the crowds going wild not so long ago when it was 3 vs 3. Bet the reaction won't be as big this time round, and in many ways, that exemplifies the problems with WWE more than anything else on this card.

And the tag titles match should be fine, but won't be special.

beakerjoe

While I agree that Brock vs Rollins is something pretty fresh,the build is killing it. The booking of Rollins is not what a WWE Champion should be.

Cena vs Owens : Owens needs to go over or whats the point. Didnt like how he was booked on Raw, but hopefully its just a blip.

Orton and Sheamo : Couldnt give a monkeys

Ryback/Owens/Show might be watchable but my hopes arent high.

Paige/Bella can be good but the feud is spinning its wheels. Seems its been in stall mode for a while

I just cant invest in Wyatt and Reigns much to be honest but both need a win so it has that going for it at least.

rovert

So Meltzer was right:
https://twitter.com/WWE/status/620648169869824000

Moneymaker

Aggravated sigh*

the groutch

And it won't even be the worst match on the card, that's how lacking in depth of quality the WWE product is nowadays.

Lord TSC

I think you could predict Sheamus vs Orton for most PPVs and be right more often than wrong...

rovert

http://www.wwe.com/shows/wwebattleground/ryback-injured-27658773

Triple threat off

rovert

Via Ryback's Twitter:

After Raw Monday I woke up Tuesday morning before some media appearances with a severe staph infection in my right knee. I was brought to a Hospital and put on strong antibiotics and had 90 cc of fluid drained out of knee in a 24 hour period. We caught it in time thanks to the Great WWE medical team and I will make a full recovery. Will be kept in the hospital for several days and I will not be able to defend my Intercontinental Championship this Sunday. I am sorry to all my fans and the WWE. I will be back shortly, but I have to get this corrected.

grames_bond

wonder if the "King vs King" match will be bumped to the main card or will we get a different replacement match.

The Ayatolla

Rumours of an Undertaker return, possibly leaked to boost subscribers ahead of Summerslam.

A Primal Nut

Surely either Cesaro or Rusev have to cost Owens; after what he did to them?

beakerjoe

History tells us, Cena will win clean

I home Im wrong

Toobz

rovert wrote: »

Via Ryback's Twitter:

Don't wanna put a downer on anyone's day but this frees up big show to interfere on the main event as an authority member doesn't it?

Cheese Wagstaff

Toobz wrote: »

Don't wanna put a downer on anyone's day but this frees up big show to interfere on the main event as an authority member doesn't it?

If it means Rollins retains, I'll allow it

Toobz

Cheese Wagstaff wrote: »

If it means Rollins retains, I'll allow it

Big rollins fan too but the quality of the match will be affected.. Big show might go after him for Kane though!

Lord TSC

Toobz wrote: »

Big rollins fan too but the quality of the match will be affected.. Big show might go after him for Kane though!

I presume the end of Raw this week was to write Kane out tbh. He won't be there, or at least capable of interfering.

Toobz

Lord TSC wrote: »

I presume the end of Raw this week was to write Kane out tbh. He won't be there, or at least capable of interfering.

I know.. I mean big show will go after rollins on behalf of the authority and Kane!

Who knows!

rovert

Following Ryback’s forced withdrawal from Battleground earlier this week with a staph infection, WWE has announced that the entire Intercontinental Title match has been pulled from WWE Battleground.

Ryback had been initially been set to defend against Big Show and Miz, and while the graphic had been pulled from the Battleground page of WWE.com, there had been no confirmation about final plans for the match until now.

A Divas match was never announced either.

rovert

WWE NXT Women's champion Sasha Banks, Charlotte and Becky Lynch were all brought into St. Louis for the WWE Battleground PPV, so it appears they may be involved in a segment on the show. With the Intercontinental championship bout pulled from the show due to Ryback's injury, WWE certainly has time to fill on the show.

Interesting to note that WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair is also in town for the PPV.

Bexleground!!!!!!

JP Liz V1

The Miz Vs. Big Show could still happen Source

rovert

Charlotte vs. Brie Bella vs. Sasha Banks will take place on tonight's WWE Battleground PPV, PWInsider.com has learned.

So Brie is jobbing.

ERG89

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

The Miz Vs. Big Show could still happen

Well now I have to order the show
They should have announced that Women's match on Smackdown tbh

Reganio 2

What time is start lads

Blue_Dabadee

Lets get busy song is soo catchy.

chips1234

Reganio 2 wrote: »

What time is start lads

1am im presuming

Blue_Dabadee

Its always 12am for preshow and 1am for actual pay per view.

Ageyev

Reganio 2 wrote: »

What time is start lads

Pre-show is on now. Main show at 1am, will run until around 3.45am

Angron

F*cking hell Lawler, shut up about Barrett's nose, you just sound like a childish asshole.

ceegee

Did Jerry mention that Barretts got a big nose? Wouldnt want anyone to miss out on that info

The Ayatolla

Worth staying up to see if Taker shows. Few interesting matches too so will see how long I last !

Lithium93_

Mandatory home town pop for Randy Orton on the way.

IncognitoMan

Whats up with the camera here?

LeeJM

Really enjoyable opener here

Angron

Main thing I took from that was that Sheamus has a septum piercing now.

Reganio 2

Did Barrett win, missed the start

The Ayatolla

Reganio 2 wrote: »

Did Barrett win, missed the start

yup

Insect Overlord

Reganio 2 wrote: »

Did Barrett win, missed the start

Yup. You didn't miss much though. Lawler's commentary made the whole thing unbearable.

J. Marston

What height is Jojo?

harney

J. Marston wrote: »

What height is Jojo?

1.57 m according to google

Riddle101

J. Marston wrote: »

What height is Jojo?

5"2, same size as AJ Lee.

IncognitoMan

That is a strong dublin accent

Blue_Dabadee

Quite enough thread tonight. No surprise since this is only 2 match show.

Angron

Not the best start to a PPV really, there's just not been a lot to talk about.

Andersonisgod

It's been pretty average thus far. Orton vs Sheamus was fine but it could have been a replay from any of the 60,000 matches they've had and you wouldn't have noticed.
New Day vs PTP was notable only for Xavier at ringside and PTP retaining.
Now it's the filler feud Reigns is having to endure.

Moneymaker

"Bray Wyatt seems to be jealous, the WWE universe has fallen in love with Roman Reigns, they believe in him."

No Vince, just no. Sorry.