Choke's RAW Fantasy Rant / Cody Rhodes and Vickie Guerrero!?
Posted by: choke Dec 12, 2012 | 1602 views | 3 comments
I discuss this past Monday's RAW and the fantasy impact of the results of the show.
For these first few rants of the new season, they will mostly be mea culpas for blown calls during my season preview. Or more likely my critcizing the WWE for not doing what I want them to do and therefore resulting in less points for the people I want to or predicted would receive them
I'll admit I didn't do a heavy amount of research on Rhodes, so I probably dropped the ball on having him so low on my season preview. The last I'd heard or read was that it was an undisclosed timeline, so I figured even if he was going to be physically ready since the injury wasnt severe, that he was probably going to be repackaged into a different gimmick (no, the mustache doesnt count. Okay it kinda does). I especially thought with the singles push Sandow seemed to be receiving that they wouldn't pair the two up immediately again. OBVIOUSLY I WAS WRONG ON ALL COUNTS. I still like Rhodes Scholars to take the tag belts from Hell No which I think would have happened without he injury. Rhodes is a prime pick now if you're in a league as clueless as mine that didn't draft him at ALL. GUYS I TOOK BRAD MADDOX INSTEAD OF HIM. Shameful.
And Vickie. VICKIE?! Argh, how frustrating to call something correctly for months (I predicted over and over again that they'd do AJ/Vickie last season), and then have it finally explode on the new season, the first show at that. I put her lower than usual because it seemed like they were just going to move forward with Tamina/AJ and Vickie just in the annoying "EXCUSE ME!" role as usual, and not actual matches with Vickie involved. Plus Ziggler has been flying solo so she'd lose all those valuable accompanying, mic, and potential interference points. Now it's only been one week, but I'm still going to hold off saying she's a top tier pick. I dont know how many times they'll have her go over AJ to get match points against her, before Tamina gets involved again at least. Let's see if they prove me wrong, again.
Rising:
1. Cody Rhodes - Obvi
2. Kaityn - I think she'll win the pre-show TLC match to earn a #1 contenders match against Eve. Her or Layla. Lean Kaitlyn though.
3. Usos - Look, I'm not going to draft them either, but with the WWE having them eliminate PTP (?!) and Primo/Epico, I could see them getting some wins if/when Rhodes Scholars take the belt, to set up some championship matches. Something to think about at least
Falling
1. PTP - Speaking of which, REALLY? I mean I was racking my brain when that match started trying to figure out how Rhodes Scholars or PTP would get eliminated since they were clearly the two most relevant tag teams in there. Then it comes back from commercial break and the PTP were gone? DURING A COMMERCIAL BREAK? I give up with trying to figure out how the WWE wants to use these two.
2. Brodus Clay - Wrestlemania Season Milk carton alert #1
3. Brad Maddox - like I said, I drafted him, got all excited when he was the guest ref. Then I notice it's not scored. WHY? Went to the WWE to pull up his roster page. The man isn't even on the roster yet? I'm losing it guys. I'm really losing it.
Also for this season I will be doing a Smackdown Preview Fantasy Report which will be posted BEFORE Smackdown each week. It will detail the MATCHES (no result spoilers) that are upcoming on the show, and things to possibly expect for preparing for the trade window to open immediately at the conclusion of the show.