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Satan's rectum year 2022 is almost over! Now it’s time to guess where our sport is heading in the year 2023, surely a year of nothing but naked frolicking on sun-kissed fields and never having to think about imminent nuclear devastation! The old thread will run until the actual end of this year. We'll see who ”won” in 2022 then. I’d love it if you’d look through your own predictions and post what you got right and wrong. Thanks to the Forums Posters who've already posted their results! I'd ask you to check them once more after the year is over - provided something turned out to be true or untrue after all in these last few weeks of the year. Anyway, here pretty much anything goes, you can predict match-ups and their outcomes, entire storylines, heel/face turns, championships changing hands, individual spots in matches, roster changes, injuries, retirements, debuts, PPV locations or lengths, it can be about what happens at the very first match of the year or maybe it'll be something we'll have to wait until December 31st 2023 for, it can be about one wrestler, one promotion or even trends in the medium of pro wrestling as a whole, star ratings, MOTYC/WMOTYC nominations - whatever you want, and don't limit yourself to the stuff I listed there. You can also make it as general or as specific as you like. People have taken very different approaches to predictions, check out last year’s predictions in the old thread. Let’s predict then, shall we? Predictions can be posted until this year ends (+ a couple of days maybe), then I’ll dump everyone’s guesses into the second and third posts. You're allowed to edit your predictions however much you want until the deadline. ’em and when you get something right during the course of the year you can post about it as well!!! 2021 PREDICTION GAME WINNERS: STAR MAN (most impressively correct predictions): IceAgeComing A WINNER IS YOU (best percentage correct): A Fancy Hat 141 2/3 OUT OF 100: Guillermus A FOR EFFORT / VENOMOUS AWARD FOR VENOMOUS (tons of predictions, most of them wrong): Venomous ONE SHOT, ONE KILL (100% correct with one prediction): BrigadierSensible, Sanguinia 2020 PREDICTION GAME WINNERS: NOT SPOT ON BUT REALLY WELL DONE CONSIDERING THE CIRCUMSTANCES (most impressively correct predictions): Huntman PRETTY SURE YOU GOT THE BIGGEST PERCENTAGE OF PREDICTIONS RIGHT (APART FROM ONE-SHOTTERS) (best percentage correct (apart from posters with only one prediction)): Wazzu ONE SHOT, ONE KILL (100% correct with one prediction): Seth Rollins, Gumball Gumption, PublicOpinion A PESSIMIST'S DREAM (100% incorrect worst timeline predictions): Hefty Leftist A FOR EFFORT (tons of predictions, most of them wrong): Venomous
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 11:30 |
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# ? May 8, 2024 15:35 |
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Something Awful's pro wrestling predictions for 2023Trying posted:Vikingos going to do a triple flip senton GEORGE W BUSHI posted:NJPW A Fancy Hat posted:CM Punk will return to WWE for a very short run (5 matches tops) but won’t even finish that due to “backstage drama”. We’ll never find out the whole story but Punk will say his passion for pro wrestling was killed again. Sticky Nate posted:-CM Punk returns to wrestling (again) SG Bamboo posted:Changing it up this year, going to do at least one prediction for each promotion I follow LionYeti posted:AEW/ROH is the only promotion I feel comfortable enough making detailed predictions about Kosmo Gallion posted:Cody Rhodes will win either the WWE or the Universal title. After his win Cody will start to get booed heavily and become Always Bad'd or John Cena'd. Despite this, Cody will continue to put on amazing matches but will remain as tone deaf and oblivious as he was in AEW. Lamuella posted:OK, here we go Rarity posted:AEW: rare Magic card l00k posted:A live, non-pre-empted Raw will have an hour on USA below 1 million. CopywrightMMXI posted:WWE Edward Mass posted:-The WWE Championship and WWE Universal Championship are split, leading to... Quantum of Phallus posted:Rampage gets cancelled Seams posted:- Dick Togo will lose his managers license Cavauro posted:somebody's show their penkis on ppv. Cavauro posted:the young bucks will do an angle where they change their name to the (something else) bucks for a little while, different each night, and they will wrestle one match as the cm bucks Fluffy Bunnies posted:
Animal-Mother posted:-Vince McMahon will suffer a massive heart attack. He will be lifting weights and eating steak one week later. SalTheBard posted:NJPW - Jerusalem posted:I think I forgot to do this in 2022! So in 2023, here's a mixture of things I think might happen, that I wish will happen, that probably won't happen and that I really hope do NOT happen: Pikavangelist posted:Ronda Rousey gets future endeavored for posting QAnon bullshit on social media. zetamind2000 posted:- The Rock will beat Roman at WrestleMania PantherWill posted:A PWG title will be defended on AEW programming. SatoshiMiwa posted:Predictions! JOHN CENA posted:aew will put on a sixth ppv that will inexplicably be held in chicago, it will do 115k buys JOHN CENA posted:AND KATSUYORI SHIBATA WILL BEAT KENTA'S rear end! Xerzes posted:Akira Tozawa ends 2023 with a Dragon Gate title Dacap posted:Sasha Banks is signed by AEW and is women’s champ before 2024 Venomous posted:alrighty then. Armitage posted:Let me try some predictions: BrigadierSensible posted:I JUNGLE BOY posted:WWE Spiffster posted:ROH 0konner posted:There will be a blade job on a wwe Premium Live Event. Kevino07 posted:A New Japan contracted wrestler will win the All Atlantic Title MancXVI posted:- Cody Rhodes will be released before Wrestlemania Fentry posted:MJF will have multiple defenses over Bryan, Wardlow, an NJPW competitor and others before losing to Eddie Kingston. This will drive him insane. bartok posted:Willow Nightingale will be the one to beat Athena for the ROH Women's Championship Oil! posted:AAA will bring in AEW talent to all their major PPVs and it will have no build and pan out to nothing. ThePariah posted:AEW Davros1 posted:WWE will buy AAA, rebrand it "NXT AAA", then shut it down entirely. Sandman McMahon posted:MJF will drop the title to Darby Allin a cyborg mug posted:WWE IcePhoenix posted:Shida will win AEW gold again John Dudebro posted:maki itoh will win the princess of princess championship Maigius posted:There will be at least three tournaments in AEW. Penguin Patrol posted:-Kota Ibushi will wrestle for Cyberfight, but not for Bushiroad or AEW edogawa rando posted:AEW Hefty Leftist posted:i want my pessimists dream award back Crapple! posted:Some people who I think will hold titles sometime this year: forkboy84 posted:So. Predictions, in no real order. TelevisedInsanity posted:AEW: a cyborg mug fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Jan 2, 2023 |
# ? Dec 8, 2022 11:31 |
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You're gonna love to see all the wacky poo poo people come up with let me tell ya hwhat
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 11:31 |
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I predict that CM Punk will cut an ill-advised shoot promo at a media scrum that will torpedo his career and lead to him exiting the industry in disgrace
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 11:47 |
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Better late than never, right?
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 11:47 |
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Hey who’s to say he won’t do it again next year!
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 11:55 |
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Vikingos going to do a triple flip senton
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 12:04 |
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NJPW - Tetsuya Naito finally has his moment winning the title and doing the roll call in front of cheering crowds - Shota Umino becomes IWGP Champion - Jake Lee, Tajiri and Yusuke Kodama show up as the basis of a new unit - More of NJPW’s older guys get loaned out to other Japanese promotions and the American indies. Taichi works many AJPW shows - Karl Fredericks returns to NJPW - Yota Tsuji and Yuya Uemura return to Japan in the first half of the year - Suzuki-gun wrap up but Bullet Club continue and have a big tenth anniversary celebration - The Yokohama Arena Wrestle Kingdom is NOT a crossover with AEW but built around Keiji Mutoh’s final NJPW match - They go up to a 32 man G1 - Lio Rush proves everyone wrong and is a reliable member of the NJPW roster - Oleg Boltin has a very abbreviated young lion run and graduates or goes on excursion within months of his debut - Some cult favourites will be dropped from the G1 to make way for the new blood. Taichi, Tomohiro Ishii, KENTA, YOSHI-HASHI and Yujiro Takahashi lose their spots. Chase Owens and Toru Yano inexplicably make the cut. - Master Wato wins the junior four way at WK Will try to think of some for other promotions GEORGE W BUSHI fucked around with this message at 12:17 on Dec 10, 2022 |
# ? Dec 8, 2022 12:20 |
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CM Punk will return to WWE for a very short run (5 matches tops) but won’t even finish that due to “backstage drama”. We’ll never find out the whole story but Punk will say his passion for pro wrestling was killed again. NXT will return to being an online-only show focused mostly on getting new talent TV-ready. AEW’s UK show will be headlined by PAC vs MJF for the world title. Wrestlemania will not feature The Rock in any capacity, but WWE will keep “hinting” that he might be there, up until the show itself. There will be a dedicated ROH show. It will be an hour long in a less than ideal time slot, but the first episode will have Jericho, FTR, and a returning Adam Cole in action. We will get another Forbidden Door PPV this summer. It will take place in the US. At some point in 2023 The Young Bucks will announce that 2024 will be their last year of being full-time wrestlers. Lee Moriarty, Jungle Boy, Miro, Willow Nightingale, Best Friends, and Kris Statlander will all win titles in AEW. Adam Cole will return to the ring. Jeff Jarrett will be in a 5 star match in AEW, probably a multi-man tag match. Cody Rhodes will be getting booed by the end of the year, possibly after having Brandi appear as an on-screen valet.
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 12:24 |
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:NJPW That is a bold one
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 13:01 |
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-CM Punk returns to wrestling (again) -Powerhouse Hobbs wins the TNT title at Revolution -WWE/GCW relationship -WWE tries to get a show on Wednesday nights -Jake Lee does not wrestle in the G1 -Ishii does not wrestle in the G1 -Keiji Muto beats Shinsuke Nakamura -Masakatsu Funaki has less than 3 clean singles losses -Bully Ray becomes Impact champion -Bully Ray becomes NWA champion Sticky Nate fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Dec 9, 2022 |
# ? Dec 8, 2022 14:13 |
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Changing it up this year, going to do at least one prediction for each promotion I follow - Cheering will finally resume at all Japanese shows NJPW - Douki will win a title - Jay White will be deposed as Bullet Club leader - Jake Lee will either win the New Japan Cup or make the G1 finals DDT - Naomi Yoshimura will win a singles title - Jun Akiyama will lose his title to ASUKA - Pheromones will cotinue to suck for the whole year AJPW - Yuma Aoyagi will win the Triple Crown - Voodoo Murders will continue to suck the whole year AEW - Konosuke Takeshita will win the All Atlantic title, will backdoor more of his DDT buddies into the AEW sphere GLEAT - El Lindaman will lose the G-REX title, but not to Kaito Ishida GanPro - The Spirit of Ganbare title will change hands before May, not going to predict who wins it because Hartley Jackson still has one more defence this year SEAdLINNNG - Hiroyo will successfully defend against Arisa Big Japan - BJW will continue to exist despite nobody watching it - Fuminori Abe will work less than 10 shows in places that are easy to watch for me TJPW - Maki Itoh will not defeat Miyu Yamashita in a singles match - Marika Kobashi will wrestle at least one match in TJPW - 2023 will be the Year of Mahiro Kiryu
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 14:21 |
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AEW/ROH is the only promotion I feel comfortable enough making detailed predictions about ROH will have a weekly slot on a Z tier cable network and HBO Max, it will do bulk tapings and 2-3 major PPV events a year. Honor Club will be folded into HBO Max BBT will start ceding some booking control of the day to day to someone else probably Tony Shivonne Miro will not be a major player in AEW going forward Willow Nightengale will be TBS Champion (less sure if she's going to beat Jade for it) Adam Cole will be back before the 4th of July Juice Robinson will hold AEW gold at some point Eddie Kingston will Not win the AEW Title Takeshita will win All Atlantic Title and bring it to Japan and will have banger matches that will be inserted into Rampage. These are bold predictions, stuff I'm less sure about Rampage and possibly Dynamite will be available on a yet to be announced premium tier of HBO Max along with the full Dynamite and PPV back catalog. There will be some sort of Stardom Womens US Championship and it will be defended at Forbidden Door 2 There will be a short run of CM Punk in WWE it will not go as well as the internet hopes The crowd will turn on Cody before Thanskgiving 2023
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 18:51 |
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LionYeti posted:There will be some sort of Stardom Womens US Championship and it will be defended at Forbidden Door 2 The IWGP Women's championship is basically this
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 19:00 |
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Rarity posted:The IWGP Women's championship is basically this Ahh wasn't aware it existed, and that will totally be defended at Forbidden Door 2.
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 19:10 |
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Cody Rhodes will win either the WWE or the Universal title. After his win Cody will start to get booed heavily and become Always Bad'd or John Cena'd. Despite this, Cody will continue to put on amazing matches but will remain as tone deaf and oblivious as he was in AEW. Jon Moxley finally gets to go on his vacation. CM Punk isn't done with AEW and will wrestle Kenny Omega. Satnam Singh and W. Morrissey will have a staredown. Takeshita will win a title in AEW. Best Friends will finally win the Tag Team titles. Santana and Ortiz will not win the titles and Santana will leave AEW. Sami Zayn will win the Royal Rumble and beat Roman Reigns at WrestleMania for the titles. Bow Wow, Snoop Dogg and Sasha Banks will appear together on AEW tv. Sasha/Mercedes will have a program against Jade Cargill. Bron Breaker will wrestle GUNTHER for the IC title. During the second half of the year, after he's lost the title, MJF will lean heavily into the "I'm going to WWE in 2024" angle. Kosmo Gallion fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Dec 18, 2022 |
# ? Dec 8, 2022 19:19 |
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OK, here we go
Lamuella fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Dec 8, 2022 |
# ? Dec 8, 2022 19:24 |
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AEW: - Eddie Kingston beats MJF to end the reign of terror and win the AEW Title at Grand Slam 2023. I will cry - Eddie drops the belt after one successful defence - CM Punk does not wrestle for AEW in 2023 - Mercedes Moné debuts for AEW. Trinity Fatu does not - Athena becomes AEW Women's champion - Tay Melo becomes TBS champion (I'll keep going till I'm right, dammit!) - Jungle Boy wins the Owen Cup - Sammy Guevara takes another shot at turning face, it still doesn't work - Kota Ibushi debuts - Bryan/ZSJ finally get their match at Forbidden Door 2 ROH: - ROH gets a weekly 1 hour show, the ROH belts disappear from AEW television - ROH's weekly show never has more than one woman's match per show - Chris Jericho holds the ROH World title through to Supercard of Honor - The ROH TV title is merged with the ROH World title - Kidd Bandit signs to ROH WWE: - Cody Rhodes returns at the Royal Rumble, wins and challenges for the Universal title at Wrestlemania. He loses - Bray Wyatt wrestles less than 10 times - Miro returns to the company - Ricochet is still working for WWE at the end of the year - Triple H runs out of ex-WWE pops so he starts releasing people to get some more NJPW: - Will Ospreay wins the G1 and beats Okada for the first time to win the IWGP title at WK 2024 - Shota Umino wins his block in the G1 - Dave gives Omega/Ospreay 7.5 stars - Taichi wins the New Japan Cup - Aussie Open win the tag titles at Wrestle Kingdom and hold them for the majority of the year - Ace Austin and Chris Bey win the Jr tag titles - Minoru Suzuki retires
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 19:39 |
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A live, non-pre-empted Raw will have an hour on USA below 1 million. At least one major WWE to AEW signing will go back to WWE. I said major, so Bobby Fish would not count. By the end of 2023, Rampage will have changed its regular time, day, or network. Neither Jungle Boy, Ricky Starks, Powerhouse Hobbs, Darby Allin, nor Sammy Guevara will win AEW titles. A third Dark show, called Dark: Mountaintop, will have debuted. At least one former TNA World Champion who has yet to appear on AEW programming will wrestle on Dynamite. Dax Harwood will have the next public AEW meltdown. James Gunn's raiding of wrestling will continue, as one of his major shows or movies will be announced with a major wrestling star in a leading role. My gut says Mister Terrific. David Sammartino will appear on WWE TV. CMLL will let us Americans easily watch their weekly shows again. Braun Strowman will be fired again. ECIII will take a picture funnier than him holding a dry piece of poorly seasoned chicken.
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 19:47 |
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Lamuella posted:[*] A CyberFight promotion (DDT, Ganbare, TJPW, Pro Wrestling Noah) will hold a branded US show (rather than just their talent appearing on other shows) Unless I'm misremembering this has already been announced, DDT is doing a copromoted show with GCW in California as well as one of their own
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 20:12 |
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SG Bamboo posted:Unless I'm misremembering this has already been announced, DDT is doing a copromoted show with GCW in California as well as one of their own I wasn't aware of this but will take it off my list nonetheless.
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 20:23 |
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WWE - they will test the waters by bringing in Velveteen dream as a guest trainer at the PC - they will to sign Okada to no success. They will land at least one major New Japan star though - they’ll renew with both fox and Universal, but Fox will become increasingly controlling of Smackdown stars appearing on peacock - Kevin Dunn will remain employed throughout the year - Roman Reigns will remain universal champ for the year, but they will split one of the belts off of him - FTR will return and get a strong push for 3 months before becoming forgotten about - William Regal will appear on tv before the 1 year agreement is up - The Rock Will job to Roman at Wrestlemania - Stone Cold will wrestle at Wrestlemania AEW - MJF will lose the title to Danielson at DoN - they’ll try to face turn MJF by revealing that he signed a new deal but it will kind of flop - Bandido and Takeshita will win the tag titles - House of Black will become trios champs - Miro will finally return to tv and win the all-Atlantic title - Thunder Rosa will leave the promotion - Fight Forever will be well-received but criticized for its small roster. They will have a very successful season pass for dlc - ROH will get a tv deal - AEW will be added to Max Impact - at least 3 wrestlers will be killed off when leaving - Joe Hendry will get signed by WWE, who will change his name and not understand the gimmick at all NWA - Tyrus will hold the title for the entire year. No one will care. Edit: added on December 29: I’m going to add one more - Bad Bunny will wrestle at Wrestlemania, and will hold WWE gold in 2023. CopywrightMMXI fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Dec 29, 2022 |
# ? Dec 8, 2022 21:40 |
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-The WWE Championship and WWE Universal Championship are split, leading to... -The Big Gold Belt returns to WWE, replacing the Universal Championship in some form -A Casino Battle Royal winner FINALLY captures gold in AEW -Hangman Page wins either the AEW TNT Championship or AEW All-Atlantic Championship -The man to dethrone Josh Alexander as Impact World Champion is a Bullet Club member -Impact Wrestling signs a new TV deal that gets them in over 80 million households in the United States -Will Osprey dethrones Mitsuharu Misawa as the wrestler with the most 5* matches from Dave Meltzer
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 22:03 |
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Rampage gets cancelled
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 23:33 |
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- Dick Togo will lose his managers license
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 23:54 |
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A belated Hooray for me for winning an award in 2021. I forget what I predicted, but it came true. So who cares what it was.
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# ? Dec 9, 2022 04:46 |
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somebody's show their penkis on ppv.
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# ? Dec 9, 2022 07:35 |
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BrigadierSensible posted:A belated Hooray for me for winning an award in 2021. It was the boldest of predictions: That Bo Dallas would not win any championships that year
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# ? Dec 9, 2022 07:36 |
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You know what, Vince didn't actually die but he disappeared from the company and Triple H did take over. I'm proud of me for that one. Good job, Fluffy. 2023 will bring us: Tony Khan leaves AEW in all but backing the company financially from afar. This will be after a Twitter meltdown. I might add more to this later. I'm not sure yet. Cavauro posted:somebody's show their penkis on ppv. a peeknis if you will.
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# ? Dec 9, 2022 12:08 |
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-Vince McMahon will suffer a massive heart attack. He will be lifting weights and eating steak one week later.
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# ? Dec 9, 2022 19:03 |
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NJPW - This years G1 winner will be a first time winner WWE - This one is a softball, Roman Reigns will lose the title this year GCW - Nick Wayne will win one of GCW's titles
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# ? Dec 9, 2022 20:14 |
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Rampage gets cancelled i predicted this post in my head what do I win?
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# ? Dec 9, 2022 20:25 |
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Critical posted:i predicted this post in my head what do I win? The ultimate prize: a stranger’s kindness
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# ? Dec 9, 2022 20:40 |
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I think I forgot to do this in 2022! So in 2023, here's a mixture of things I think might happen, that I wish will happen, that probably won't happen and that I really hope do NOT happen: - WWE gets sold to NBC/Peacock before the next rights deal to avoid sinking all the money into an external company rather than just owning it themselves. - All Japan agrees to sell to WWE but this gets the kibosh when NBC purchases WWE. All Japan collapses and its key wrestlers filter out to various Japanese promotions. - NJPW and Stardom do at least 2 Crossover Shows in 2023. - Shinsuke Nakamura will wrestle on at least one New Japan show. - Bryan Danielson wrestles in the G1. - Konosuke Takeshita becomes the All Atlantic Champion in AEW. - Andrade El Idolo makes his return to WWE, is immediately paired with Santos Escobar. Reports will air before the end of the year that he isn't happy with how he is being booked. - Miu Watanabe will win the Princess of Princess Championship. - Kota Ibushi and Kenny Omega reunite on a DDT show and wrestle at least one tag match on AEW, a PPV match against The Young Bucks. - Taichi takes over Suzuki-Gun as their new leader, but it keeps the name and Suzuki remains a member, but now in a more background role. - The longest reigning GHC Champion for NOAH in 2023 will be aged 50+ years old. - CM Punk will return to WWE and wrestle on a Blood Money show in Saudi Arabia.
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# ? Dec 10, 2022 11:36 |
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Critical posted:i predicted this post in my head what do I win? The QoP Derangement Syndrome Award
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# ? Dec 10, 2022 12:05 |
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Ronda Rousey gets future endeavored for posting QAnon bullshit on social media.
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# ? Dec 11, 2022 01:24 |
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- The Rock will beat Roman at WrestleMania - Cody will not win any titles for the rest of the year - Control Your Narrative will have at least one more show - Maki Itoh will return to AEW and win a title
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# ? Dec 11, 2022 01:37 |
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the young bucks will do an angle where they change their name to the (something else) bucks for a little while, different each night, and they will wrestle one match as the cm bucks
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# ? Dec 11, 2022 03:54 |
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A PWG title will be defended on AEW programming. Current Dragon Gate talent will show up on AEW programming. Danielson versus ZSJ will finally happen on Dynamite. Hayter and Britt will wrestle each other for the AEW Women's World Title and will still remain friends no matter how the match ends. Jade Cargill will wrestle her first deathmatch. At least one member of Prominence will show up in AEW. And as a comedy prediction: WB makes John Cena show up on Dynamite with the threat of cancelling Peacemaker, if he doesn't. Also, it'll be Takeshita versus Hijo Del Vikingo in the BOLA final. PantherWill fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Dec 11, 2022 |
# ? Dec 11, 2022 05:02 |
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Predictions! -Kota Ibushi will work the G1 this year despite leaving New Japan -Jake Lee and Kento Miyahara work the g1 as well - the winner of Best of Super Junior is an outsider - MJF loses the title at the Spring PPV to Danielson - Eddie Kingston doesn't win an AEW title but wins the ROH World title instead - Ishii wins the ROH title from Eddie as Tony wants to be first booker to give Ishii a world title - ZSJ wins the New Japan Cup and wins the IWGP title - Naito wins it from ZSJ at Dominion - Ospreay wins the g1
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# ? Dec 11, 2022 05:19 |