Author: Padraig Fahy

Welcome to my HIAC prediction series.

It has been over a year since I started doing these predictions and I feel like I have a knack for this wrestling thing….So let’s keep it going!

Non-Title Matches

Enzo Amore & Big Cass vs. Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson – PREDICTION: The Club. It would be nice for them to be a threat to the tag teams and thus it should be nice for them to with Enzo & Cass.

Title Matches

The New Day (c) vs Cesaro & Sheamus for the WWE RAW Tag Team Championships – PREDICTION: The New Day – I honestly cannot see Cesaro and Sheamus gaining the belts and breaking the records that The New Day is trying to break. It would be nice for them to hold it for another while…possibly until Wrestlmania.

TJ Perkins (c) vs Brian Kendrick for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship – PREDICTION: Brian Kendrick – It is time for the belt to change hands, I thik I have only seen TJP fight twice since getting that belt and should be a nice win for Brian!

Roman Reigns (c) vs Rusev in HELL IN A CELL for the WWE United States Championship – PREDICTION: Roman to retain. I actually want Roman to retain as it would show his domination over Rusev.

Kevin Owens (c) vs Seth Rollings in HELL IN A CELL for the WWE Universal Championship – PREDICTION: Seth Rollings – It would be nice for him to get back the title that he never lost properly and this time in the form of the UC! Go get it Seth!

Sasha Banks (c) vs Charlotte Flair in HELL IN A CELL for the WWE Raw Women’s Championship – PREDICTION: Sasha to retain – It would be nice for Sasha to retain as she is a great fighter and it would make sense for her to retain this title.

I could see a couple of long matches given the few matches (mostly the UC and Women’s match)

Roll on Sunday!

I could have sworn this was next Sunday, but it is THIS Sunday

Anyway, here is the predictions for this Sunday’s WWE PPV, No Mercy!

(c) = Champion

Bold = Winner

Non-Title Matches

Randy Orton vs Bray Wyatt – PREDICTION: Bray Wyatt. It is time for Bray to break the loss streak in PPV’s and it would make him look big. Bigger than he has ever been.

Jack Swagger vs Baron Corbin – PREDICTION: Jack Swagger. Announced Wednesday evening…Jack Swagger just got signed to SD Live, so it would be nice if he got the win, just to give him a push! It’s Swaggie Time!

Title Matches

The Miz (c) vs Dolph Ziggler in a Championship vs Career for the WWE Intercontinental Championship. If Ziggler loses, he must retire. PREDICTION: Dolph Ziggler – We have been screaming fora DZ Push and it would be a BIG upset if The Miz was to win.

Heath Slater & Rhyno (c) vs The Usos for the WWE Smackdown Tag Team Championship – PREDICTION: Heath & Rhyno – I can see them have a story line, but Rhyno needs to get involved more and stop having Heath taking centre stage. But alas, they are good and they deserve to keep the belts.

Becky Lynch (c) vs Alexa Bliss for the WWE Smackdown Women’s Championship – PREDICTION: Becky Lynch – Alexa is not ready to be a title holder and it would pain me if Becky was to drop the title. (22:57 – Looks like this match is off due to Becky Lynch reporting sick – Source) so with that said:

Naomi vs Alexa Bliss in a NON-Title Match – Naomi won…

Dean Ambrose vs John Cena vs AJ Styles (c) in a Triple Threat for the WWE World Championship: PREDICTION: John Cena. (I forgot about this match) – John Cena will go 16 time to match the man and he is going to beat the champ the runs the camp to become the man!

And that is it for now… I am sure that there will be more matches tonight on Smackdown Live at 1am!

Updates on Monday!

EDIT: I missed out on the 8-man tag that happened on the preshow (Winner: The Hype Bros & American Alpha)

Nikki Bella vs Carmella was also forgotten about. There were last minute booking decisions that I didn’t see and on top of that I didn’t watch SDLive last week. 😛

Hi everyone.

It’s that time of the month again (Yeah, sorry that I forgot about Backlash…) where we predict the results of matches being held on WWE RAW’s PPV, Clash of Champions which is on this Sunday night at 1am on WWE Network and from https://taima.tv/r/sc

Bold = Winner
(c) = Champion

Kick-off Show

Alicia Fox vs Nia Jax = PREDICTION: Nia Jax. Alicia may be 10 years with the company but that doesn’t mean that she finally gets a push. A dominating show from Nia Jax would see her victorious over Alicia.

Main Card

Non-Title Matches

Cesaro vs Sheamus in the final of the Best of 7 contest – PREDICTION: Cesaro. Well, who was surprised that this was going to happen. Cesaro needs the win over Sheamus and we need to get Cesaro in the title picture! No contest

Sami Zayn vs Chris Jericho in a "I’m a better friend of Kevin Owens" match – PREDICTION: Sami Zayn. Ok, I made up the match name because that is essentially what it is. If this is really a under-rated match, then it should be on the Pre-Show…but alas, it is on the main card.

Title matches

The New Day (c) vs Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson for the WWE RAW Tag Team Championship – PREDICTION: The New Day. New Day should be able to break the records for holding the title belts for the longest time. Hopefully they can keep it until WM 33.

Rusev (w/Lana) (c) vs Roman Reigns for the WWE United States Championship – PREDICTION: Roman Reigns. Roman needs a belt in some shape so he can look strong. It will give Rusev a break so he can go on a proper honeymoon with Lana!

Charlotte (w/ Dana Brooke) (c) vs Sasha Banks vs Bayley for the WWE RAW Women’s Championship – PREDICTION: Bayley. Everyone wants Sasha to get the belt off Charlotte but I feel that there will be an upset victory for the Women’s Division.

TJ Perkins (c) vs Brian Kendrick for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship – PREDICTION: TJ Perkins. They wouldn’t have TJP have the belt for a couple of days just to lose it at the first PPV….while I can see a fued between the two, I can’t see the belt changing hands quite yet…Maybe at the Royal Rumble it will change.

Kevin Owens (c) vs Seth Rollings for the WWE Universal Championship – PREDICTION: Kevin Owens. KO is a new belt and again, he is keeping it warm for Finn Balor who will get it back whenever he returns from injury. Now, will the title have many changes between now and then? Probably not, so they will keep it on him for now. But Seth could pull an upset victory….unless there is interference from someone (probably Triple H)

And that is my predictions, what do you think? Let me know in the comments below.

Yesterday, Apple announced the new iPhone 7 and 7+ which now does not include a 3.5mm headphone jack.

Instead, they are bundling a lightning connector version of the same product and if you REALLY want to use a 3.5mm headphone connector, you can use the included adaptor.

What in the actual hell are you thinking Apple? How is removing a key feature of any device in the past 10 years ‘courageous’?

What brain did you nuke before making a design decision like this? Why are you charging $150 for a pair of Bluetooth "AirPods"?

Just…WHY?!

There was nothing wrong the the 3.5mm headphone jack. I use it every day to go to and from work, at lunch, when I’m travelling and now I have to carry extra battery packs because my iPhone battery and the battery in the "AirPods" are going to die in less than 12 hours of use.

Why remove the headphone jack to include another camera?

As I joked on Twitter:

iPhone 8: Removed cellular, wi-fi and speakers!

It shall be known as the Apple Camera.

@PadraigFahy on Twitter

Apple, You Can Fuck Right Off!

I got back from England last week and I didn’t get in the door until about 10:40pm. When I walked in, I turned all the lights and switches on for all different things, including my Internet.

It wasn’t until the next night that my Internet had went down for 3 minutes while playing a game (Which lead to me getting kicked and losing connection to TeamSpeak etc etc) – I thought nothing of it at the time.

It wasn’t until later into this week that I realised that the time that you switch on the router is the most important time!

Vodafone has some weird setting (Not sure if on the network level or on their Router level), but the Internet will only stay up for 24 hours before leasing it. Leasing should be getting you a new IP address, NOT bringing the whole connection!

So what is the solution?

The solution would be (That I have found) is to switch off the router at the wall (the plug) either before you get home from work, or during the night when you are normally sleeping. I got off work early yesterday, so I switched the router off at 5:20pm and switched it back on at 5:23pm.

With that logic, my Internet should go down at approx. 5:23pm today (Saturday) and I should notice it. But that would mean that when I am about to finish up work at 5:30pm, the router will have already rebooted and ready to use that night!

Oh Vodafone, you and your quirks!

(There is a TL;DR if you want to skip to it)

Holidays! Aren’t they just the best time of year. You can get away, put your hair down and put up your feet.

A time to relax and unwind…except when you sleep in 2 hours before the flight right?

Well, let me take you back to last night (Sunday) and I was ready to get on the 6:25am plane from Dublin to Birmingham! I said "I’ll got for a 1 hr to 90min nap". So I se the phone for midnight and I would get ready to go for the bus leaving Carlow at 2:35am!

This did not happen!

What happened was, I woke up just before 4:30am. Note: The bus that I was planning to get on at 2:30am was already at the airport at 4am, so I was super late.
I tried to get in touch with Ryanair to see if there was anything I could have done. Nothing. No lines open until 6am which was not good for me as the flight was 25 mins after that.

So I done the next best thing. I rang a taxi (Carlow Cabs to be specific) at 4:55am and say "I need to get to the Airport as fast as possible" The lovely women on the other end of the line was super nice and stated that she wouldn’t allow her drivers to speed, which was completely fine!

As I live a couple of doors down from Carlow Cabs, there was 1 guy who can go fast but not absolutely go mental. I apologise in advance for not knowing his name.

So, into the taxi just on the edge of 5am! He put the foot down! We could have been faster but there was rain in the hours before and thus made the road a bit slippy!

Belted down the road. Most of them were empty. "We will make it" said the driver as I was crossing my fingers…As we approached Dublin, it was starting to get worse and worse.

The driver got me to the departure door just before 5:50am (Note, the Gate was closing at 5:55am…so time was at the essence!)

Made my way to security…everything was moving fast, but not fast enough. The screen above was saying that the average wait time to get through was 17 mins. I nearly bricked one out in the middle of the queue. Panicking was already in full swing.

Found a opening…2 people in a queue…bolted to it. Took out my laptop and threw it into a box, bag and everything else into another one…Step through BEEP – AAAAGGGGHHHH. Bleeped by the scanner. Could it already be over? No. 1 minute later..good to go!

Checked the nearest departure board to see which gate the flight was…212! Holy Crap…
Gate 212 - Final Call

I ran. At one point, I wish I was an Olympic runner. Gate 212 was the key location! Stumbled across another departure board Gate 416 - Boarding. WHAT?! 416.
I actually shouted 416 and I think 2 officials noticed me…Quickly noticed it was a Aer Lingus flight and not Ryan…Looked above, Gate 212 - Final Call – My heart attack was calming down at this stage and I was rushing.

Got to Gate 212 and there was a BUNCH of people.
The signs…They lied to me. No one was board…Hell, the gate wasn’t even opened there.
I looked at my watch, 05:58 – It was supposed to be closed at 05:55! Oh Ryanair.

I got to the gate, got to the seat and I breathed a big sigh of relief not before a breakout in sweat from running and worrying.

Took after after 06:30 and arrived in Birmingham at 07:10.
Travelled to Tamworth where I am going to be staying for the next few days!

What an episode!

TL;DR – Fell asleep, woke up 2 hours late..Made the gate with -1 minute on the clock. Still made it.