No Way Out Synopsis

Going into No Way Out this Sunday on Pay-Per-View, many WWE superstars have a lot on the line. Some of them Championships they have fought and bled to win, or in some cases by a matter of happenstance, and for some superstars, they’re lives. Who has the most to lose this Sunday?

Undoubtedly, the spotlight from the two championship elimination chambers have officially been stolen. Thanks to Monday Night Raw two weeks ago, the main event for No Way Out will now feature Shawn Michaels fighting for his career against John Bradshaw Layfield.

Over the past few months, we have seen the moral destruction of The Heartbreak Kid at the hands of his “employer” JBL.

However, as previously stated, two weeks ago on Raw, JBL offered HBK a choice. He could choose to face JBL at No Way Out, with the stipulation that, if HBK could be him, he would be paid 1 year’s salary in advance, and never have to work for JBL again.

However, if HBK was to lose, JBL would own the name Shawn Michaels, and he would never be released from his contract with JBL. A morally absent-minded Showstopper agreed to the match.

So now the stage is set. HBK and JBL will do battle at No Way Our, only one month before the grandest stage of them all, Wrestlemania, where The Showstopper is undoubtedly dying to make an appearance.

If you were to ask me, I would pull for HBK to walk out of his with his head held high, and his family in the comfort zone. HBK has proved in the last month that not only can he compete with World Heavyweight Champion, John Cena, but that he can defeat him, something JBL has yet to accomplish since coming to Raw in 2008.

Even despite all that, Shawn Michaels is plain and simple, The Showstopper, The Main Event, The Headliner, Mr. Wrestlemania. What does JBL have on that? The self-proclaimed Wrestling God has no catchy nicknames, no death-defying stunts, no astounding victories to his name.

JBL is a tall-tale slipping away into the dust, while HBK is proving his fairy-tale is still alive and well. Look for Shawn Micheals to walk out defiantly with a huge, not necessarily one-sided, but huge victory over JBL on Sunday.

Onto other pressing matters, for the first time in perhaps all of WWE History, it looks as though Smackdown! will have the more intriguing main event. From what Raw has to offer in it’s Elimination Chamber Match, Smackdown’s is turning out to be a much bigger fight.

Just look at the superstars. Raw’s match contains Champion John Cena, Chris Jericho, Kane, Rey Mysterio, Kofi Kingston, and Mike Knox. First off, need I say more than Raw has failed? Kofi Kingston and Mike Knox are NOT World Heavyweight Champion material.

Giving the belt to Mysterio in 2006 was even a push, but these two? No. Smackdown on the other hand, offers Champion Edge, Triple H, The Big Show, Undertaker, Vladmir Koslov, and The Enigma, Jeff Hardy. Can you determine the better match just by the participants? Yes, I will be paying much more attention to the WWE Championship bout than the World Heavyweight Title.

Look for John Cena to retain his title for Raw. His strength, power, and experience with the title is virtually unmatched by his fellow chamber mates with the exception of Jericho, who will be too concerned with getting his lights shut out by Ric Flair this past Monday.

As for Smackdown, provided WWE has him return, I’d pull for the Enigma, Jeff Hardy. The Chamber is just what Jeff needs to win the title. A gruesome, mind-bending, death-defying battleground of destruction.

The brutality superstars suffer in this match is right up his alley, and his endurance and pain threshold will be his success in this match. It’s unlikely, but I’m pulling for Hardy regardless. Look for WWE, however, to give the title to Koslov.

They can’t keep him from winning it forever, that quest retired with Mick Foley.