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CopywrightMMXI: Jun 1, 2011; One time a guy stole some downhill skis out of my jeep and I was so mad I punched a mailbox. I'm against crime, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

I predicted Adam Cole would get fired due to twitch. I never imagined they�d let his contract expire and the twitch stream would be a contributing factor to him not re-signing though.

I was dead on with AEW getting Clash-type specials though.

Now bring on a Batista appearance and a 1.3 for Raw! :getin:

# ? Sep 10, 2021 15:53

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# ? May 8, 2024 12:56

El Gallinero Gros: Mar 17, 2010

CopywrightMMXI posted:

I predicted Adam Cole would get fired due to twitch. I never imagined they�d let his contract expire and the twitch stream would be a contributing factor to him not re-signing though.

I was dead on with AEW getting Clash-type specials though.

Now bring on a Batista appearance and a 1.3 for Raw!

I mean he didn't get fired but you were pretty loving close

# ? Sep 10, 2021 16:45

Coaaab: Aug 6, 2006; Wish I was there...

the brodie predictions are making me sad all over again

# ? Nov 29, 2021 19:10

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

All right, time for some ridiculous predictions. I'm trying out this new "post scheduler" extension that will let me choose when posts will appear on the board. Let's set this one to appear at 11:29 on today, the 31st of December 2020.

Kenny Omega's rematch with Moxley will be an exploding barbed wire exploding ring match. The resulting explosion will look so crappy that it will cause Atsushi Onita to relaunch FMW in order to redeem the good name of exploding rings

Miro will lose a tag match that involves one of his favourite arcade games getting smashed to pieces. This will anger him so much that he becomes the scariest man who has ever lived. Kip Sabian will be so scared of him that he starts wearing a box on his head

Not only will AEW and New Japan start working together, the Forbidden Door will be blown open to the point where IWGP titles change hands on AEW shows. Tomohiro Ishii will end up tagging with Orange Cassidy, who is now a member of CHAOS.

Despite being considered as a disappointment as the Joker in the AEW Revolution Casino Battle Royal, All Ego Ethan Page will become a mainstay of the promotion, will wrestle Sting at the next PPV and will gain the nickname "the tightest tits in the game"

Not only will Fuego Del Sol get signed, he will form a hugely popular tag team with his son, Fuego 2.

Jon Moxley will wrestle multiple times on New Japan Strong. He will also win the GCW title from Zack Ryder.

The Lucha Bros will lose the AAA tag titles to an unknown pair of luchadores called Los Super Ranas.

Chase Owens will beat Hiroshi Tanahashi and Taichi in singles matches.

NXT will be rebranded in primary colours with a focus on attracting a younger audience. The theme tune will include the lyrics "Pimpin' powder, and pussy tryna make pennies. See n*ggas lie on the stand, guess hell ain't harder than prison, who knows"

The biggest face on NXT will be Rick Steiner's son, who they never mention is Rick Steiner's son despite him looking and sounding like a combination of Rick and Scott Steiner. He will continue his father's feud with Chucky from the Child's Play movies.

By the end of 2021, three of the four people who held the NXT title in 2020 will be released.

The NXT champion will debut on RAW and get squashed by Jeff Hardy in less than two minutes.

WWE will build up a character for re-debut with a series of high production videos expanding his character's lore. He will to TV at the end of May, get released on June 2nd, and turn up on AEW 30 days later in a hot feud with Cody Rhodes.

WWE's only five star match of 2021 will be for the NXT-UK title. Despite everyone raving about the match, nobody will watch NXT-UK

The fall draft will bring nine NXT wrestlers up to either RAW or Smackdown. Within two months, five of them will be released.

After Retribution falls apart, WWE have big plans for Slapjack, as they promptly realise he's Australian, dress him as Crocodile Dundee, have him wrestle two dark matches, then release him before the gimmick makes TV

DDT will hold a match for the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship in which a book gets a pinfall over another book.

There will be a quarter hour of TV in which Roman Reigns is on WWE programming and The Bunny is on AEW programming. The Bunny will win the ratings.

# ? Nov 29, 2021 22:15

Coaaab: Aug 6, 2006; Wish I was there...

Lamuella posted:

DDT will hold a match for the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship in which a book gets a pinfall over another book.

easily the most plausible item on that list

# ? Nov 29, 2021 22:29

Benne: Sep 2, 2011; STOP DOING HEROIN

I might do some more later but here's just a couple so far

Tato posted:

Wrestlemania will once again be held in a Thunderdome type environment due to Covid. It will span THREE nights this year, with a "cinematic" match ending two of the evenings. WreslteMania stayed a two-night event, and there were no cinematic matches this year

Jimmy Uso will turn on his brother after coming back from injury to officially split that team. Jey Uso will eventually beat Roman Reigns, but not for the WWE Championship (Roman won't have it by then). That whole story never really went anywhere, the Usos are still together and Roman has been champion all year

The biggest victory Impact gets in its "feud" with AEW will be a non-title win over the TNT Championship holder with interference involved. Christian beat Omega for the Impact title, but naturally that happened on AEW's TV. The TNT champion never appeared in Impact

Think of the most excruciating and terrible Fiend segment this year. One that made you embarrassed for all the wrestlers involved and question why you're still watching. Something 20 times more embarrassing will be booked with The Fiend in 2021. Box-like structure

Bo Dallas returns to NXT and wins the NXT Title He's literally on a nice farm now

TUE, Gargano, and Ciampa will all still be on NXT by the end of 2021. Well, you're about half right

Fox announcers will get so disgusted with promoting Smackdown (and its failing ratings) that by the 2021 NFL Season, Joe Buck is just making fart noises on air while the contractually obligated promos air. Buck clearly hates doing those ad reads

RAW will air an entire 3 hour go home show for a PPV and there will be no discussion thread opened at all in this forum for it. We've had GDTs with single-digit posts, so close enough!

Pylons posted:

Hangman Adam Page kicks out of the One Winged Angel. Nope

Yaya posted:

Jim Ross won't be on commentary anymore by the end of 2021 Eventually became true but for unfortunate reasons. Get well soon, Jim

Forbidden portal remains forbidden and unopened. Still open and very much not forbidden anymore

Juice Robinson will appear on AEW Programming but ultimately re-sign with New Japan Juice worked a handful of Impact dates but never appeared in AEW. Reportedly done with NJPW soon.

Lead Pipe Cinch posted:

Jim Ross out, Veda Scott in as full time AEW commentary. I don't know what Veda is doing these days but it's not with AEW

Hangman Adam Page takes the title off of Kenny Omega no later than All Out 2021. He drops it to PAC before 2022. Almost nailed it but one PPV later.

Britt Baker and Kris Statlander have runs with the AEW Women�s Title in 2021. Yes on Britt, no on Kris

The Forbidden Portal opens, but in 2021 it involves more AEW talent on excursion rather than NJPW talent on AEW TV. Travel restrictions still make this hard, but a handful of AEW guys have worked Strong. NJPW guys have consistently appeared on AEW TV.

The new AEW show launches after Double or Nothing and becomes more what Dark used to be. Dark becomes functionally developmental. Rampage launched a month before All Out, and so far is booked to be as important as Dynamite. Dark remains on the B-tier.

ChrisBTY posted:

Monday Night Raw will not go below a 1.3 overall We might get there yet
Dynamite will not go above a 1.1 overall Punk and Bryan's debuts popped big numbers in the fall
The AEW World Title will change hands once; from Kenny to Page Yes
Cody will continue to be a face who is constantly teasing at being a heel so he can keep using his tweener entrance ramp though the entire year. That is quite literally the storyline now
The TNT title will change hands no fewer than 5 times. Only three title changes this year, from Darby to Miro to Sammy
There will not be more than one woman's match on any single episode of Dynamite or whatever the new show is called. Dynamite and Rampage have had multiple shows with two women's matches
No worker currently listed as being part of the Raw or Smackdown brands will appear in AEW this year. Uh, wanna start counting?
The Young Bucks will drop the Tag Team titles to Best Friends. Bucks dropped the belts to Lucha Bros
A prominent AEW wrestler will be 'spoken out' against but will not be punished for it. Does Jay Lethal count?
NXT will not budge from it's Wednesday night slot even as ratings dwindle. They got chased off to Tuesdays as part of Hunter's humiliation.

GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

NJPW finally get around to running the Osaka Dome This is never happening is it

Keiji Mutoh defeats Go Shiozaki to become the third man to hold all three of the big titles before dropping it to Kaito Kiyomiya lol if you think Mutoh is ever putting over Kaito

NXT Japan finally gets around to happening but it struggles to generate any real interest and only serves to snatch up talent that could be doing more exciting things Never got off the ground as the company abandoned its expansion plans

Stardom continues to grow with the Bushiroad machine behind it and 2022's Double Dome is announced as NJPW on 1.4 and Stardom on 1.5 Stardom had a good year but is still not doing anything with NJPW.

Will Ospreay wins the IWGP title and the WK16 main event is Ospreay vs Okada Nailed it

Rina Yamashita challenges for the King of FREEDOMS Championship She held the FREEDOM tag titles but I don't believe ever challenged for the singles belt

CyberFight acquires two new promotions, Ganbare quietly leaves Not really

Lio Rush wins BOSJ Lio Rush retired and unretired for like the 6th time and is in AEW right now. BOSJ didn't use any foreign talent

Konosuke Takeshita goes to AEW for an extended tour He worked a couple of Elevation matches, but nothing bigger came from it

AJPW changes ownership No

Yoshiko and Kairi Hojo both appear at the Stardom Budokan show Kairi is still in exile somewhere

Hayato Tamura ends up in NJPW by the end of the year No

duckdealer posted:

AEW will air a show averaging over 1.5 million viewers. They came close but I don't think crossed this mark

NJPW will run the Osaka Dome lol

Kenny Omega is confronted by Kota Ibushi during an AEW show Kota was too busy trying to put over the crappy new IWGP title to do anything in AEW

MJF become AEW champion Still might happen in 2022

Aleister Black signs with AEW Malaki Black is way cooler

WWE's biggest attendance of 2021 will be less than 20,000 people They brought back full crowds for SummerSlam, which drew around 45,000

A DDT / NOAH / TJPW / whatever else CyberAgent owns show will be announced for the Tokyo Dome NJPW and NOAH are doing a joint show next month, but it's in Yokohama instead of the Tokyo Dome

Huntman posted:

Did okay-ish last year, back for more!!!

- Brodie Lee and/or Miro will appear in the 2021 G1 Welp
- A NJPW talent will show up in AEW. Maybe even at the first PPV with fans allowed back? KENTA, Suzuki, Kojima, Nagata, and Ishii all made TV appearances
- And an AEW talent will be at Wrestle Kingdom. Japan still wasn't allowing foreign travel at the time
- Edge will re-retire before the year is done. He's still around, apparently
- JR won't be on commentary by the end of 2021 or at the very least, they'll reserve him for PPVs or special matches. Get well soon, Jim
- "Speedball" Mike Bailey will either be in AEW or killing it on the US indies. Bailey just signed with Impact
- Someone from the WWE women's division will make a big splash in AEW. Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby Soho
- One main event/upper midcard name will leave WWE to AEW. Maybe Aleister? Bingo
- NXT stays on Wednesdays, but talks about moving it either back to the Network or another day are extremely common by the end of the year. Humiliation for Loser Hunter
- Whatever AEW's second show is will hit a strong enough debut rating to start said conversations about moving NXT. Rampage did well over a million with Punk's return
- Kenny Omega, Adam Page, and MJF will be the AEW World Champs of 2021 with Moxley angling for the belt heading into 2022. Yes on Omega and Page. MJF might get there in 2022. Who knows with Moxley at this point.
- Bucks will drop their tag titles at Double or Nothing. To make it extra spicy, they may lose to a team that isn't AEW exclusive like the Good Brothers or something wacky. Bucks dropped the belts to Lucha Bros at All Out
- Britt will be AEW Women's Champion and might drop it to Kris or a returning Riho before the year's done. Britt won the title at Double or Nothing and has held it the rest of the year
- TNT Championship is a bit harder to predict, but I'll say at least 3 or 4 champions in 2021. Darby, Miro, and Sammy
- The AEW trios belts are made and all the matches rule, probably will get a sick tournament out of it too. We got a second women's belt instead. The TBS tournament has been pretty good so far.
- Probably gonna get AEW's version of WarGames finally. Cody will probably (definitely) be in it. We finally got Blood and Guts in the spring, but Cody wasn't in it

Probably gonna come back before the year is done and edit in some more.

Aesculus posted:

SANADA will defeat Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP... intercontinential championship at New Beginning in Sapporo The IC got merged with the IWGP so poor SANADA is never touching that thing

dsriggs posted:

The AEW title will change hands 3 times, ending the year with Darby Allin as champion. Omega-to-Page was the only title change this year

Americans refusing to get vaccinated will continue to make foreign wrestlers touring America impractical until at least August/September. A handful of Japanese wrestlers did not-so-subtle vaccine tours over the summer

PWG will re-start in late 2021, but nobody will care Yeah, sorry

Jim Ross will finally hang up the hat after being released by AEW mid-year, prefering a 2 man Schiavone/Excalibur booth instead. JR stayed in the booth until very recently

WWE will continue to be dogshit, garnering record-low ratings once again. Well yeah

The best episode of Dynamite will defeat the worst episode of Raw in total viewers, and a handful of Raws AND Smackdowns in The Demo. Dynamite did indeed beat Raw in the 18-49 a couple times

This won't actually be a non-Maki Itoh one.

mooseinfants posted:

Britt Baker loses the AEW Women's title to Yuka Sakazaki Britt has been champion most of the year

Edge will re-retire after only ever wrestling Randy Orton since returning. I think he's still feuding with Rollins for some reason

AEW, emboldened by having established a loyal 1 million viewer fanbase, fires their first proper countersalvo at WWE by scheduling their second show on Monday or Friday night Rampage runs Friday nights, but doesn't go head-to-head with Smackdown.

One of either Brock Lesnar, Goldberg, or John Cena will hold a top title in WWE. All three guys challenged for titles but never won one

# ? Nov 30, 2021 00:04

duckdealer: Feb 28, 2011

Sure my predictions were wrong and bad but I was kinda, sorta right about Cyber Agent running the Tokyo Dome! ( DDT did an empty arena show there and it involved TJPW wrestlers as well )

# ? Nov 30, 2021 00:17

a cyborg mug: Mar 8, 2010

Benne posted:

I might do some more later but here's just a couple so far

Thank you very much friend, this�ll be a big help later <3

I�ve actually got the next thread locked & loaded already and will post it late this week or perhaps the next

# ? Nov 30, 2021 00:19

Benne: Sep 2, 2011; STOP DOING HEROIN

Let's do a few more of these before turning the page on 2021

Lamuella posted:

- The Dark Order will schism, with a heel side led by Brodie Lee and a babyface side centred on Reynolds and Silver Unfortunately we'll never know how the Page/Brodie story would've played out. Page is still allied with the Dark Order.

- AEW will introduce six man tag titles in a sixteen team tournament Still waiting!

- if international travel becomes possible again, New Japan will do a show at Madison Square Garden that sells out. AEW will do international shows in the UK and one or more other countries. At least one contracted AEW wrestler who hasn't yet wrestled for New Japan will do so. New Japan proper hasn't come back, but Strong really came into its own as a successful US spinoff, with several AEW talents working their shows. As for AEW running international, Tony really wants to do a London show and you gotta imagine that's coming sooner than later.

- Toa Henare will compete for a singles title. Henare turned heel and joined United Empire, now working as Aaron Henare. He's mostly the pin eater for that unit and hasn't been in any title matches.

- by the end of the year an episode of AEW Dynamite will have had a higher 18-49 rating than that week's RAW. Yup

- if international travel becomes possible, one or more TJPW contracted star who hasn't yet competed in AEW will do so. I'm not quite brave enough to predict Miyu Yamashita. Aside from Riho I don't think AEW has used any TJPW talent since the tournament

- The Collective will run a series of shows but they will be focused on All Out weekend rather than Wrestlemania weekend. A few indies ran All Out weekend but it doesn't seem to be a "thing" on the level of Mania weekend yet.

A Fancy Hat posted:

AEW will have at least one episode that beats Monday Night Raw in total ratings, leading to absolute chaos in WWE world and insane publicity stunts like celebrity guest hosts coming back, multiple title changes on free TV, and stuff like cage matches and inferno matches happening on Raw Dynamite has won 18-49 a couple of times but not in the total viewership yet. WWE responded by just firing more people.

WWE will lose one extremely high profile star (I'm talking on the level of AJ Styles or Asuka or New Day) to AEW, leading to a lot of people saying "Woah, I forgot that person was actually really entertaining!" Bryan Danielson is by far the biggest defection yet

We'll get crowds back in some form in the fall, and there will be a stark contrast between how easily AEW can fill an area versus how challenging it becomes for WWE Most promotions were back to full crowds by the summer, and AEW is eating WWE's lunch in the New York market.

edogawa rando posted:

One of WWE�s shows will not survive the year. NXT UK and 205 Live still live

Thauros posted:

very difficult year to do predictions for given the pandemic but....

first time title winners will include ibushi at IWGP heavyweight and desperado at IWGP junior Yes and yes

naito vs. hiromu match happens, presumably at budokan Hiromu got injured yet again and we're still waiting for that match

one non BR/CA/DRAGONGATE men's promotion in japan closes up shop None that I'm aware of. Miraculously, Zero1 and Big Japan are still chugging along.

a new japan veteran wrestler retires in february again. i'm guessing tenzan? Tenzan actually wrestled more matches in 2021 than in 2020. I imagine any potential retirement plans got shelved with NJPW's shorthanded roster.

tekkers make a rare sucessful defense of the IWGP heavyweight tag titles at the dome Tekkers lost the belts to GoD at the Dome and they mostly just traded it back and forth all year

Envisioned posted:

-Kenny is champ all year His title reign lasted 346 days, so close enough

-Hangman, Reynolds, and Silver are the first trios champs Still no trios belts

-Hangman beats Brodie at All Out to split from the Dark Order and begin his march to the title. He'll end the year as #1 contender, beat Kenny at Revolution 2022 For obvious reasons plans changed, and Hangman started his title chase in the summer. He finally beat Omega at Full Gear.

-Jake Hager will be the one to jump back to WWE WWE has more or less closed its doors on bringing in veteran talent

-Karrion Kross will be the year's shiny new toy from NXT called to the main roster. He'll speedrun Miro's booking and Scarlett will be with Bobby Lashley within 6 months of the callup Kross didn't even make it 3 months on the main roster before getting released. Scarlett never made a TV appearance.

-Retribution will somehow still be around and will also still not have had a ppv match They got broken up offscreen and 2 of the 4 members have since been released

bartok posted:

Brock Lesnar makes a surprise appearance at the first 2021 WWE show with a real crowd. Brock will also squash whoever beats Roman for championship on the Smackdown "season premiere" on FS1. Lesnar returned at SummerSlam which was the first full-crowd show, so this part is right. He lost to Roman at the blood money show and has been off TV serving a kayfabe suspension.

Sami Zayn will not be wrestling for WWE by the end of the year but won't appear on AEW until 2022 because of some bullshit contract dispute with WWE like Rey Mysterio and PAC. Zayn is still on TV, still being booked like an absolute geek

John Cena will not have a proper wrestling match in 2021 but won't officially retire from WWE. Cena wrestled Roman at SummerSlam and also worked a house show tour

WWE 2K22 will have CM Punk as the pre-order bonus character ala Ultimate Warrior. Punk will wrestle a match or two for WWE but won't significantly boost the ratings. Something tells me this won't be happening any time soon

Edward Mass posted:

-The Undisputed Era's current members (Strong, Fish, O'Reily, Cole) will not be promoted to Raw or SmackDown's rosters in 2021. In a roundabout way, this was right
-WrestleMania 37 will indeed take place at Raymond James Stadium, despite COVID-19 still being a thing. Two-night show with limited attendance
-Blood & Guts happens, and it's Team AEW vs. Team Impact Wrestling (featuring Kenny Omega, who is the one submitted). Blood and Guts was the Inner Circle vs. the Pinnacle
-A CyberFight merger happens between Noah and DDT, but not TJPW. The CF promotions are still separate entities, though they do run joint shows from time to time
-Dave Meltzer gives fewer than seven matches 5+ stars I actually looked this up and Dave rated 19 matches 5 stars or better

STONE COLD 64 posted:

Katsuyori Shibata will beat KENTA's rear end. We can still dream

The winner of the 2021 G1-Climax Tournament will be...Kazuchika Okada. Yes

Death Triangle will win an AEW Trios Tournament. Still no trios belts!

AEW will have at least one more intergender match. They've done a couple of mixed tag matches, most notably Cody & Velvet vs. Shaq & Jade, but nothing actually intergender.

Kenny Omega will retain the AEW World Championship on all AEW PPVs. Almost made it before he lost to Hangman at Full Gear

Darby Allin will get a match for the world title on a PPV. Darby was busy being TNT champion and feuding with Ethan Page

Sting will captain a team for Blood & Guts, even if it's just in a managerial role. Sting was not involved in Blood and Guts

AEW will run a PPV out of TIAA Bank Field (drat you MRT!!! you scooped my big prediction for the year!!!) This might still happen one day

The AEW Console Video Game will have a metacritic score of at least 91. The game's release date is extremely TBD

Wrestlemania will be only one night and will go on for too long. There will be fans with paid tickets. Mania was two nights with limited crowds

WWE will in fact run two shows in Saudi Arabia again. The second one will have some controversy occur that the wrestlers once again won't act on. They ran one show that mostly went off without incident

The first two-time champion in AEW will be....The Young Bucks. They were champs for most of the year and just dropped it to Lucha Bros

The forbidden door will remain officially unopened, but relations will warm significantly. KENTA kicked down the door for good

G1 Climax will be in the fall again. There will be three matches rated 5 stars or higher. The G1 got more mixed reviews than usual this year. Only one match, Shingo vs. Ishii, got 5+ from Dave.

ROH, GCW, Billy's NWA, and IMPACT! will survive the year. Pro Wrestling Guerrilla will not run shows until September when they return for the biggest BOLA yet. ROH didn't last the year, but the others did

BOLA will feature the first wrestling card to feature both an AEW contracted wrestler and a WWE contracted wrestler on it. We didn't get a BOLA this year, but they just announced one for January and time will tell what talent shows up

EVIL will win the IWGP HW championship again. Thankfully no

Kurt Angle will appear on an episode of Dynamite. Kurt has mostly stayed out of the public eye since leaving WWE

There will be an angle between an as of today contracted NFL player and Chris Jericho that occurs in AEW. Not the NFL, but we did get a sports crossover with Shaq feuding with Cody

Cody will beat SHAQ. The match will surprise many people and get at least 3.5 stars from Meltz. Shaq's team won when Jade pinned Velvet. The match loving ruled.

NXT Japan will be announced but not launched. Keiji Mutoh will be the face of it. Much like Brie Bella, NXT Japan died in the womb

The 2021 Bryan & Vinny & Friends Christmas Show will be the most debaucherous one yet. Guess we'll find out soon

Nick Gage will appear on an episode of Dynamite. Gage wrestled Jericho on TNT, which I still can't believe is a real thing that happened

vivazomo posted:

General:

American wrestling TV shows only get a slight bump in their TV ratings when fans return Both WWE and AEW got noticeable bumps with full crowds back

There's some lawsuit between WWE & AEW over something stupid Nothing of the sort has happened

CM Punk doesn't sign with anybody because he thinks he can get a bigger deal from WWE by waiting another year lol

WWE:

Velveteen Dream gets released Yup

Sami Zayn re-signs with WWE Supposedly his contract is up soon, but who knows

NXT gets replaced in the fall schedule Still on USA even after the drastic rebranding

They play a cinematic match on the titantron during a show with a crowd, and the crowd gets really restless and angry Cinematic matches went away the moment they got crowds back

The Bellas come back to wrestle because the ratings for their show need a boost The Bellas never wrestled in 2021

Becky Lynch returns but retires from being a full-time wrestler soon after Becky immediately squashed Bianca to become champion again and then turned heel for good measure

AEW:

The second show begins, ends up just being a slower-paced, midcard focused b-show Rampage is booked to be as important as Dynamite with top stars wrestling in big matches. It's also brilliantly paced at just one hour and has become the easiest watch in wrestling.

Dynamite holds steady in the ratings as Raw falls Going live on the West Coast has hurt them, but otherwise this tracks

Matt Hardy gets released from AEW, goes back to WWE for a retirement run He's still doing this thing in AEW

Sting wrestles once Sting wrestled more than once!

Dustin Rhodes retires Still going!

The rookie QB that the Jaguars draft will make an appearance on Dynamite I think Trevor Lawrence just made an in-crowd appearance after getting drafted. Urban Meyer got a brief cameo in Stadium Stampede.

Jerusalem posted:

Trying a mix of likely things, unlikely things, and extremely unlikely things:

- AEW Dynamite regularly hits over 1 million viewers, and exceeds 1.2 million several times. More or less
- Raw loses its third hour (I will keep predicting this till is happens, please Jesus make it happen ). Bad news
- Vince panics and brings Undertaker back to wrestle on a non-Wrestlemania PPV. Taker seems pretty set on finally staying retired this time
- Wrestlemania still takes place in a 50,000+ seat stadium, but with only 15k tickets for sale. They drew around 20k for both nights
- On at least one week, at least one hour of Raw will get a sub one million rating. Maybe next year
- NXT starts hitting sub 500k total viewers regularly. They've settled in at around 500-550k since rebranding
- Kota Ibushi defeats Naito on Night 1 of Wrestle Kingdom to win the IWGP Championship, and successfully defends it against Switchblade Jay White on Night 2. Nailed it
- Jon Moxley will defend the IWGP US Title both in the United States and Japan respectively, winning the first but losing the second. Moxley never made it back to Japan. He defended the title against KENTA, Nagata, and Karl Anderson before dropping it to Lance Archer on Dynamite.
- There will be 5 distinct NXT Champions in 2021, only 2 of them will ever defend their title (either successfully or unsuccessfully), the other three will be vacated due to injury. There were four NXT champions -- Finn Balor, Karrion Kross, Samoa Joe, and Tomasso Ciampa. Joe vacated the belt to either an injury or forced retirement or whatever the gently caress.
- Kenny Omega will hold the AEW Championship for 9 months, then lose the title to Hangman Adam Page. 11 months, but close enough
- Hangman Adam Page will NOT be the AEW Champion at the end of 2021. Egg on your face!
- Taichi will lead an insurrection against Minoru Suzuki for leadership of Suzuki-Gun, and succeed thanks to the support of his best friend Zack Sabre Jr. They still haven't done anything with this story despite teasing it for years on end.

SatoshiMiwa posted:

Predictions!

-Kota Ibushi will win the Double Gold and hold it till Dominion Ibushi won the Double Gold, merged it into the new IWGP World Championship that nobody likes, and then lost it to Will Ospreay at Sakura Genesis. Whomp whomp.
-Hiroshi Tanahashi will win the New Japan Cup Will Ospreay won it. Tana was NEVER champion and thus not in the tournament.
-Best of the Super Juniors winner will be Sho SHO is currently first place in the standings so maybe?
-New Japan will try to run a full attendance Tokyo Dome before the Olympics if vaccination is full effect/Covid is under control Welp, COVID still not under control
-The G1 winner will be Okada Yup

-NOAH/DDT/TJPW will run the Tokyo Dome, either at full or Reduced capacity in Fall after the Olympics DDT ran an empty-arena Dome show with TJPW wrestlers featured
-The Smaller groups in Japan will try to run joint shows/merge to counter reduced capacity/lower ticket sales. Sadly it won't help as we'll see some big name feds go out of business Somehow almost all of the promotions held on, and we even saw a new promotion in GLEAT trying to make an impact.
- Winter will see a big charity multi promotion show at the Budokan if Covid is under control with New Japan/NOAH/Dragon Gate/DDT/Stardom etc. But absent from the show will be All Japan because...The NJPW/NOAH show is donating proceeds to the Red Cross, so I guess that counts
-All Japan ends up in a extreme cash crunch and ends up needing to either sell the company or go out of business. They end up spurning an offer from Cyber Agent and instead sell a percentage to WWE secretly to becom NXT Japan while still having the All Japan name. This leads to some top talent leaving the company Nothing has really changed for AJPW, even if they're basically a glorified indie now
- Kento Miyahara thus joins New Japan and ends up challenging and winning the Double Gold. He will face Okada at the dome with the angle build being that he's a better ace I'm sure Okada vs. Kiyomiya will be cool too

-Kenny Omega will end up holding the AEW, AAA, NWA, Impact, DDT Iron Man, DDT KO-D and IWGP US title at the same time in 2021 Omega held the AEW, AAA, and Impact titles, but ultimately the Belt Collector run didn't amount to much. He lost the Impact title to Christian, the AEW title to Page, and then vacated the AAA title with a million injuries.
- AEW will run a tag team tournament involving teams from other companies. The Good Brothers will win it and end up facing the Young Bucks for the Titles They had a No. 1 contender's tournament, but didn't feature any outside teams. The Good Brothers' last AEW match was in September.
- Young Bucks will hold till fall where Top flight will end up beating them and winning the titles Top Flight didn't last long before Darius Martin got injured, but Dante Martin got himself over and is on TV almost every week. Good for him.
- Hangman Page will beat Kenny For the title Yup
- Kenny will end up facing Kota Ibushi at the Tokyo dome in 2022 Wrestle Kingdom This was never going to happen even before Kenny took time off

And finally, the worst prediction in this whole thread:

Benne posted:

Is there a reason why people are expecting 86-year-old Mutoh to take the belt off Go?

What kind of moron would say that?

Benne fucked around with this message at 13:12 on Nov 30, 2021

# ? Nov 30, 2021 12:01

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

It's funny because All Japan are actually in as good shape financially as they've been in a while because someone involved in the ownership is involved in a film company that had a surprise hit & thus are flush.

Also cannot believe Zero1 still exists, even if it's purely for sold shows. At this point their roster is Tanaka, Otani, Chris Vice, Hartley Jackson, & 4 other dudes. Plus somehow a trainee woman for reasons I guess? NATSUMI seems good anyway

Pretty sure my predictions for the rest of history will include "and finally Naoya Nomura will return to All Japan from his injury" because I refuse to accept the inevitable

forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 12:41 on Nov 30, 2021

# ? Nov 30, 2021 12:12

Venomous: Nov 7, 2011

lmao, I still have just under three weeks for all of my predictions to magically become right

let's goooooooo

# ? Nov 30, 2021 12:38

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

Oh wow, I forgot I made those predictions. Most of them were really bad!

# ? Nov 30, 2021 12:46

a cyborg mug: Mar 8, 2010

The predictions are good, it's the world that's bad! Or good, however you want to see it!

# ? Nov 30, 2021 13:17

Thauros: Jan 29, 2003

Benne posted:

Let's do a few more of these before turning the page on 2021

shouldn't have included the qualifier "men's" or i would've been right (rip actwres girls)

# ? Dec 1, 2021 14:49

a cyborg mug: Mar 8, 2010

All of my extremely clairvoyant friends are cordially invited to post predictions for the excellent year 2022

# ? Dec 2, 2021 22:46

a cyborg mug: Mar 8, 2010

Don�t forget that your predictions for 2021 might not be resolved until the very end of the year! This bit of news just made one of my predictions come true, at least in part

https://www.postwrestling.com/2021/12/07/gabriel-kidd-graduates-from-njpws-young-lion-system/

a cyborg mug posted:

- Gabriel Kidd will also shed his Jr status by joining Suzuki-Gun

He didn�t join SZKG but hey, half right is half right :colbert:

Also I totally meant YL status by �Jr� because I�m a dumbass.

# ? Dec 7, 2021 22:17

Venomous: Nov 7, 2011

well hey, it's time once again for me to get everything wrong about wrestling in TYOOL 2021!

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