... .vs. Blogger: Survivor Series Edition

Last week, I mentioned in the comment section in one of my posts that there would be a Bookie .vs. Blogger post for this weekend. Unforeseen circumstances have resulted in The Bookie not being available this week, so I won't be able to do a proper edition for Survivor Series.

What I will do as a make good is show you what I would have entered had we been able to do this.

For those checking in for the first time - in Bookie .vs. Blogger, myself and a bookmaker who follows pro wrestling meet up for the major shows on the WWE calendar and compare our picks. We've recently began to play against each other by placing confidence points next to our picks. The selection with the most points is the person/team we have the strongest feeling will win and so on.

Here they are starting with the least amount of points and working upwards. We had both decided to only do the Raw .vs. Smackdown matches for this show. Therefore, the Cruiserweight Championship match is exempt.

1 Point Pick - Smackdown Tag Team
When I first started drafting my picks and order, I had all of the elimination matches being won by the Smackdown brand but I kept finding myself trying to make a case for the Raw team. I forced myself to stick with Smackdown winning this because it has - in my opinion - the stronger lineup of teams.

2 Point Pick - Raw Men's Team
This is the hardest match to call of the weekend. This is why I've put it as close to the bottom as I can. On Raw, Stephanie pointed out that Team Raw has beaten the Smackdown team in two consecutive years when she was making the deal with Braun Strowman.
The deal between Stephanie and Strowman is another thing that kind of points to Team Smackdown as I can't shake off the feeling that Baron Corbin will cause the team to lose just so Strowman doesn't get the match against him. However, I could see Stephanie being mad at Corbin and still giving Strowman the Corbin match as payback for making Team Smackdown win.
As I noted above, I had Team Smackdown winning all three elimination matches and I had to change one and this was it.
 I can see Strowman and Drew McIntyre being the survivors (not sole survivors, Michael Cole!) and this could be a hint for WrestleMania 35.

3 Point Pick - AOP
The AOP needs this as we haven't really seen them face proper competition on Raw.

4 Point Pick - Smackdown Women
This one is pure fantasy booking, but I think the reason why the company didn't announce the fifth participant on Team Smackdown is because they're hoping Becky Lynch is cleared in time.
There's a method behind my reasoning. You know Ronda Rousey and her PPV opponents always go to the Performance Center to work out matches and everything before their bouts? Well, I have a feeling the decision to move from Becky Lynch to Charlotte Flair might have been because Lynch wouldn't have been cleared to do the rehearsing at the PC from Wednesday onwards and that's why the company had to move quickly to the new match.
Becky would still need to be cleared for Sunday, though.
Oh, and if my guess works out, the obvious end is Becky eliminating Nia Jax somehow. Possibly not by submission as they need Nia strong for the Ronda match.

5 Point Pick - Shinsuke Nakamura
This match has Dean Ambrose costing Seth Rollins all over it. That's really all I can write about it.

6 Point Pick - Ronda Rousey
I wrote a bit about this one earlier today. In my opinion, Ronda Rousey shouldn't be losing at any point until WrestleMania 35 or later. Especially if she's going to be one of the headline attractions of the April event.

7 Point Pick - Brock Lesnar
When I mentioned that I was going to have a Bookie .vs. Blogger post last week, I stated that Brock Lesnar was going to be given one point. This was obviously before his opponent was changed from AJ Styles to Daniel Bryan. I now have him at the top. I think this will be like Lesnar's match with Braun Strowman at Crown Jewel with Lesnar not taking any offence and just beating up his opponent.

And there we have it. I plan to publish a post sometime next week where I'll go through the picks and point out where I went right and wrong.

Here are the points shared out in descending order:

7 - Brock Lesnar
6 - Ronda Rousey
5 - Shinsuke Nakamura
4 - Team Smackdown Women
3 - AOP
2 - Team Raw Men
1 - Team Smackdown Tag Teams