Pro Wrestling Predictions for 2023

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a cyborg mug: Mar 8, 2010

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. :justpost:

�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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Something Awful's pro wrestling predictions for 2023

Trying posted:

Vikingos going to do a triple flip senton

GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

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

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.

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.

Sticky Nate posted:

-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

SG Bamboo posted:

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

LionYeti posted:

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

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.

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.

Lamuella posted:

OK, here we go

At least one current big name AEW talent will leave the company in a way that forces booking plans to be rewritten.

At least one current big name WWE talent will hold a title in AEW

WWE will get more than zero but less than three 5+* matches

Konosuke Takeshita will wrestle for a singles title on pay per view

A weekly Ring Of Honor show of some kind will both debut and still be on the air by the end of the year. It will get about the same ratings that Rampage currently gets.

Gabriel Kidd will keep his poo poo together and not have to take any further mental health breaks before the end of the year

An episode of RAW will get less than 1,400,000 viewers

~~A CyberFight promotion (DDT, Ganbare, TJPW, Pro Wrestling Noah) will hold a branded US show (rather than just their talent appearing on other shows)~~ (this has apparently already been announced, oops)

A holder of a CyberFight promotion title will wrestle on an AEW show and bring the belt with them.

Jim Ross will step away from weekly wrestling commentary but still make pay per view appearances.

CM Punk will not wrestle a match

An AEW title will be defended in Japan.

Arisu Endo will win a singles match by pinfall or submission

Rarity posted:

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 Mon� 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

rare Magic card l00k posted:

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.

CopywrightMMXI posted:

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.

Edward Mass posted:

-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

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:

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.

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 -
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

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:

- 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.

Pikavangelist posted:

Ronda Rousey gets future endeavored for posting QAnon bullshit on social media.

zetamind2000 posted:

- 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

PantherWill posted:

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.

SatoshiMiwa posted:

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

JOHN CENA posted:

aew will put on a sixth ppv that will inexplicably be held in chicago, it will do 115k buys

the uk dynamite will not be a sell out but will be a critically acclaimed card.

mjf will lose the world title at winter is coming 2023

aew will have their deal with wmd renewed but it won't be for a whole lot more than the current deal

nigel mcguinness will appear on the first episode of the new ring of honor series

bryan danielson vs samoa joe will happen on a show

sting will have his retirement match against darby allin

roman reigns will defeat dwayne johnson at wrestlemania

mjf will do cross promotion with dana whites slap league

the xfl will successfully have their season from start to finish and not go under.

the second roh ppv of 2023 will be headlined by a tag title match and draw okay, like between 1500 and 4000.

britt baker will defeat jade cargill for the tbs title and goon reactions will definitely be something to see

JOHN CENA posted:

AND KATSUYORI SHIBATA WILL BEAT KENTA'S rear end!

Xerzes posted:

Akira Tozawa ends 2023 with a Dragon Gate title

If I predict it every year I will eventually be right

Dacap posted:

Sasha Banks is signed by AEW and is women�s champ before 2024

Kylie Rae appears in the Royal Rumble

Roman loses at least one of his two titles to Cody

ROH drops at least one title (or merges it with another)

Austin has another mania match that is less well received than his Owens match

Rampage gets a new timeslot

CM Punk returns and puts over MJF before Kingston wins the big plat at Grand Slam

Betting on these title holders sometime in �23

All Atlantic Champion Konosuke Takeshita
AEW Champion Eddie Kingston
AEW Trios Champions Best Friends
ROH Pure Champ Lee Moriarty
TBS Champ Willow Nightingale

Nyla Rose either gets an intergender match with Sepentico or at least gets to Beast Bomb him (partial credit)

AEW does a Toronto pape

Venomous posted:

alrighty then.

81% right last year. I don't see that number decreasing for a fourth year in a row. If it does, oh well, good for me I guess. As history has proven, however, I am pretty poo poo at this. Preferably I'd like to get 99% of these wrong.

gently caress it though. One more year, then I'll see if I enjoy this enough to keep going.

By this time next year (December 13th 2023), the following will be the champions and tournament winners of these major companies:

WWE:

WWE Champion: Cody Rhodes
Universal Champion: Roman Reigns
Intercontinental Champion: Ricochet
US Champion: Bron Breakker
Raw Tag Team Champions: The Creed Brothers
Smackdown Tag Team Champions: The Usos
Raw Women's Champion: Asuka
Smackdown Women's Champion: Liv Morgan
Women's Tag Team Champions: Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch
NXT Champion: Dragon Lee
NXT NA Champion: Charlie Dempsey
NXT Tag Team Champions: Christ alive, idk, uhhhh Damon Kemp and Roddy Strong
NXT Women's Champion: looks like Kylie Rae's new name is Briana Ray, so let's go with her
NXT Women's Tag Team Champions: uhhh Sol Ruca and Fallon Henley

and now, three titles that don't yet exist and, God help us, are probably going to exist this time next year:
NXT Europe Champion: Ilja Dragunov
NXT Europe Women's Champion: trying to think of a wrestler on the continent that's likely to jump to the Fed. Let's say Aliss Ink.
NXT Europe Tag Team Champions: likewise, I have no idea really. gently caress it, Michael Oku and Connor Mills.

Royal Rumble winner: Cody Rhodes
Women's Royal Rumble winner: Charlotte Flair
Money In The Bank winner: Gunther
Women's Money In The Bank winner: Bianca Belair

AEW:

AEW Champion: Ricky Starks
AEW TNT Champion: Danhausen
AEW TBS Champion: Kris Statlander
AEW All-Atlantic Champion: Darby Allin
FTW Champion: Daniel Garcia
AEW Women's Champion: Jade Cargill
AEW Tag Team Champions: Orange Cassidy and Tomohiro Ishii
AEW 6-Man Champions: gently caress it, Chris Jericho, Matt Menard, and Angelo Parker

ROH:

ROH World Champion: Bandido
ROH Pure Champion: Lee Moriarty
ROH Women's World Champion: Willow Nightingale
ROH World Tag Team Champions: Juice Robinson and uhhh Anthony Henry
ROH World 6-Man Champions: Jay Lethal, Jeff Jarrett, and Satnam Singh

NJPW:

IWGP World Heavyweight Champion: Shota Umino
IWGP United States Champion: Bryan Danielson
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion: Francesco Akira
IWGP Tag Team Champions: Aussie Open
IWGP KOPW Champion: Zack Sabre Jr.
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions: BUSHI and Titán
IWGP Women's Champion: Syuri
IWGP TV Champion: Hiroshi Tanahashi
NEVER Openweight Champion: Ren Narita
Strong Openweight Champion: Blake Christian
NEVER 6-Man Champions: Tetsuya Naito, SANADA, and Hiromu Takahashi

New Japan Cup winner: Kazuchika Okada
Best of the Super Juniors winner: Robbie Eagles
G1 Climax winner: Jay White
(Will he hold it to the Tokyo Dome?: Yes)
Super Junior Tag League winners: Christ, idk. Lio Rush and YOH are in the finals this year, so let's say them again, why tf not
World Tag League winners: Aussie Open

AJPW:

Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion: Yuma Aoyagi
World Tag Team Champions: Kento Miyahara and Takuya Nomura
World Junior Heavyweight Champion: Dan Tamura
All Asia Tag Team Champions: ~~blurghhhhhhh idgaf~~ Jun Saito and Rei Saito
Gaora TV Champion: Toru Yano
AJPW TV 6-Man Tag Team Champions: *spins one more wheel* Black Menso-re, Kuma Arashi, and Atsuki Aoyagi

Champion Carnival winner: Naoya Nomura
Jr. Battle of Glory winner: Rising HAYATO
Royal Road Tournament winner: Yuma Aoyagi
World's Strongest Tag Determination League winners: Ryuki Honda and Shotaro Ashino

NOAH:

GHC Heavyweight Champion: Yoshiki Inamura
GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion: Hajime Ohara
GHC National Champion: Hideki Suzuki
GHC Tag Team Champions: Kaito Kiyomiya and Kenoh
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions: Ninja Mack and Extreme Tiger

N1 Victory Winner: Yoshiki Inamura

additionally:

-Vince probably won't be dead, even if he isn't running the company
-NXT Europe will be loving atrocious, but it will not completely kill the continent by this time next year (because their talent will still be able to take outside bookings for now lmao)
-CM Punk will wrestle in the next year
-there will be one big defection from NJPW to WWE, despite KUSHIDA's efforts to make them stay or at least go to AEW
-on that note, Konosuke Takeshita will probably wrestle someone from NJPW in AEW in the next year lmao

Armitage posted:

Let me try some predictions:

WWE:

- Cody Rhodes wins the Rumble and beats Roman Reigns at Wrestlemania
- Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens beat the Usos for the tag team titles at some point.
- The Rock will actually appear at Wrestlemania! However, he'll just cut a promo and Rock Bottom LA Knight or somebody.
- Vince McMahon doesn't come back despite the recent humors, however...
- The WWE looks like they're finally getting fans to react to longer, better wrestling matches. Booking and storylines are still quite weird, though. Things seem to be steady for awhile until back to back to back scandals happen:
- It's revealed that Vince McMahon has some storyline and booking influence, but in exchange is allowing HHH to have longer matches
- Drake Wuertz is quietly rehired at some point, but is on a short leash, and keeps his head down and stays out of trouble, for now.
- Soon after Nikkita Lyons' call up, she botches and injures someone, then goes on a racist rant on Twitter. She is fired and ends up in XPW.
- The above three lead to lower ratings and attendance for the rest of the year.
- A bunch of call ups happen throughout the year. Out of those, Bron Breakker and Grayson Waller make strides and appear to be the best of the bunch. Pretty Deadly do well and end up starting a feud with Owens and Zayn.
- Lyons, Akira Tozawa, Dana Brooke, Mustafa Ali are the highest profile releases. It's mostly NXT wrestlers that get released in 2023. Thunder Rosa is brought in to feud with Becky Lynch.
- HHH wants to cut RAW to two hours, and use the third hour as a flashback/retro-style show. USA refuses.

AEW:

- Hangman Page beats MJF for the World Title, then MJF regains the title a couple months later. Eddie Kingston moves into the World Title scene, and him and MJF feud before the end of the year.
- Thunder Rosa and Miro leave. As said above, Rosa heads to WWE, but Miro goes to NJPW. Akira Tozawa and Mustafa Ali sign and thrive.
- Young Bucks and Kenny Omega continue to set the bar.
- Mick Foley makes a couple of appearances to fire up John Moxley, as Moxley is on the outside looking in at the World Title scene.
- FTR stay the whole year and beat the Acclaimed for the World Tag Team titles. They have the match of the year with the Young Bucks and the Lucha Bros, Meltz goes 6*.
- Ratings and attendance continue to climb, especially after WWE's troubles late in the year. They get a nice new deal to continue showing on TBS and TNT.
- AEW and WWE have a big bidding war for Maki Itoh. In the end, despite WWE throwing tons of money in her direction, she ends up being All Elite. She decided on AEW because they would let her use curse words on TV.

Misc:

- EC3 bets Tyrus for the NWA World Title. They feud throughout the year.
- Elon Musk tries to start up his own wrestling promotion to try to capitalize on AEW's momentum.
- Surprisingly, Meltzer only awards five matches 5 stars or higher. One match will leave everyone scratching their heads because it'd be between two wrestlers no one expects.
- CM Punk doesn't wrestle.

BrigadierSensible posted:

I ~~hope~~predict that Ethan Page will win an AEW belt sometime in 2023.

JUNGLE BOY posted:

WWE

Vince will return to run the company
The Rock won't wrestle at Wrestlemania
Cody will end up with the US Title instead of the World Title
Bray Wyatt will wrestle less than 5 TV / PLE matches
The company will do at least one big release of multiple talent

AEW

Mercedes Mone' will debut
Kota Ibushi will debut
CM Punk will return
Ricky Starks will beat MJF at Winter is Coming for the title
Forbidden Door 2
FTR will resign

Impact

Bully Ray will become world champion

Spiffster posted:

ROH

1. No titles will change hands until their next PPV and Samoa Joe will be the one to drop a title
2. Nigel McGuiness will return to ROH and be used as a commentator
3. Brian Zane will return as a backstage interviewer for ROH
4. Honor Club will struggle to maintain subscribers on its own and the services it provided will eventually be offered on HBO Max.
5. Jonathan Gresham will return to ROH and challenge for the World title again in a losing effort.
6. The IWGP champion Jay White will appear and try to bring a Bullet Club presence back to ROH

AEW

1. MJF will make it to Double or Nothing before losing the title. If I had to chose to who it would be Danielson in a rematch with stakes being the Dragon wins or he has to retire for good
2. Eddie Kingston will become a Champion by years end. Again, if I had to call which one it would be All Atlantic
3. Shelton Benjamin will become All Elite and have a short but surprisingly fun run for a year
4. Dustin Rhodes will pull a Funk and not actually retire despite promises to do so this year.
5. Jade Cargill will lose at Revolution to a surprise returning Statlander.
6. Forbidden Door 2 will be featured in Japan making it the first AEW event in that country
7. AEW�s backlog of programming will start to appear on HBO Max.

0konner posted:

There will be a blade job on a wwe Premium Live Event.

Arn Anderson will appear on a wwe show.

Kevino07 posted:

A New Japan contracted wrestler will win the All Atlantic Title
The Golden Lovers will wrestle together
A major entainment corporation will buy a stake in WWE
Will Ospreay will have a AEW title match
Will Ospreay wins the G-1
At least 2 AEW contracted wrestlers enter the G-1
Eddie Kingston will win the AEW World Championship
Vince McMahon will make an appearance at Wrestlemania
WWE will have a "firing purge" of at least 8 wrestlers who appeared on TV being released within 72 hours of each other

MancXVI posted:

- Cody Rhodes will be released before Wrestlemania
- Bray Wyatt will be released after Wrestlemania
- Mercedes Mon� will be a bigger ratings spike for AEW than CM Punk
- At least one Sasha Banks WWE stan will be arrested for stalking or harassment or whatever because their queen betrayed the fed
- CM Punk will return to team up with FTR against The Elite, will get injured again
- Jim Ross will retire from commentary
- TNT champion Konosuke Takeshita
- Jamie Hayter will keep the belt all year
- Vince McMahon will return
- reDragon will return to NXT and bring the Danzig ripoff song with them, they�ll have a brief run and then disappear
- Adam Cole will retire to his house husband dream life of playing video games all day while Britt fixes teeth and wrestles

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
One or both members of Top Flight will be a part of The Best of Super Juniors and have a match for the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight tag titles at Forbidden Door 2.
House of Black win the Trios Title
Cody Rhodes wins the Rumble but loses at Mania to Roman who remains champion for another year with less than 5 title defenses.
Bryan Danielson finally gets to compete in the G1

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

Adam Page reunites with the Elite
FTR will stay in AEW, but won't win AEW/ROH gold all year
Jade Cargill's streak will end to somebody other than Kris Statlander
Kenny Omega will not win a singles title all year
Miro will leave AEW
MJF will hold the World title all year, getting the record for longest AEW World title reign in the process
Samoa Joe will leave AEW
Stu Grayson will return to AEW
The wrestler known as Sasha Banks will debut in AEW
Wardlow will main event a PPV

NJPW

Bryan Danielson will wrestle a match in Japan, but not in the G1
Hiroshi Tanahashi will finish in the bottom half of his G1 block
Kazuchika Okada will win the IWGP title at WK, lose it before G1
Kenny Omega will wrestle more than one match in Japan, but not in the G1
Nobody from AEW who hasn't worked for NJPW before will appear in the G1
SANADA will win the New Japan Cup
Tetsuya Naito will win the G1 Climax
The wrestler known as Sasha Banks will win the IWGP Women's Championship
Will Ospreay will end the year as IWGP champion
Zack Sabre Jr will win an NJPW singles title (besides the Television title)

WWE

Bron Breakker will stay in NXT all year
Chad Gable will leave WWE
Charlotte Flair will beat Bianca Belair
CM Punk will return to WWE
Cody Rhodes will NOT win the Royal Rumble, but will win a World title
Mustafa Ali will leave WWE
Roman Reigns will drop the titles, but get at least one world title back before the end of the year
Sasha Banks will return to WWE (yes, I believe she will be in all three companies next year)
The Rock will wrestle more matches than John Cena
Top Dolla will be released

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

Hangman Page will turn heel

FTR won't win the AEW tag belts

Ricky Starks and Sasha Banks will win The Owen

John Cena will make an AEW appearance

Forbidden Door 2 will break the curse and all matches will go on as planned

a cyborg mug posted:

WWE
- Bray Wyatt will be released again after not having wrestled more than ten matches on TV/PPV, his run being widely regarded as some of the worst garbage ever. Bo Dallas however will end up having a career revival
- The Rock will make exactly one in-the-flesh appearance on WWE programming
- Cody Rhodes will finally win The Big One and he�ll cut a bizarre but extremely entertaining promo about it on RAW/SD. He will mention his dad no less than half a dozen times and have tears in his eyes most of the way through
- After losing the title, Roman Reigns takes a break but ends up wrestling more matches on TV (not PPV) in 2023 than he did in 2022
- NXT Japan/Europe etc. will not be launched next year. NXT will get yet another makeover in an attempt to steer it in a direction that doesn�t suck rear end. Shawn Michaels will still beNXT boss by the end of the year but there will be rumors either he or HHH is unhappy with the situation
- Sami Zayn will be tag champions with Kevin Owens but by the end of the year the team will have once again imploded due to Kevin Owens being Kevin Owens
- CM Punk won�t return to pro wrestling next year but he�ll sign a WWE contract for 2024

NJPW
- Omega vs Ospreay will be a contender for the best match of all time despite the usual crowd of poopooers
- G1 will have more non-NJPW talent than ever before and several of the old mainstays not taking part. It will be the first G1 for 20% of the participants
- NJPW will finally have their baseball stadium show with real cheering crowds and it will be a big ol success
- NJPW will do big shows in both the US and UK

AEW
- Rampage�s timeslot will finally be changed to something far more agreeable, which also prompts Tony Khan to book it as a more important show. Its viewership will improve but only slightly
- One of AEW�s championships will be scrapped
- MJF will be considered a face by the end of the year but he will not be World champion anymore
- Unlike recently, Moxley won�t be World champion in 2023
- Jungle Boy will hold singles gold in 2023

Finland
- Shemeikka will lose the FCF championship to a heel early into the year. It will be the result of cheating
- I dunno I fell off hard when I moved to Berlin and couldn�t go to the events

GWF
- Crowchester will hold the Berlin championship next year
- However, it�s Erkan Sulcani who�ll hold the title at the end of the year. He will win Battlefield once again.
- The Loserweight championship will return next year! This I hope!

IcePhoenix posted:

Shida will win AEW gold again

Someone not currently in AEW will win an AEW title that isn't the All Atlantic

HOOK will lose the FTW title

Something will come out and be confirmed by a reputable source that Jericho plans to retire as a full time wrestler by the end of his current contract.

John Dudebro posted:

maki itoh will win the princess of princess championship

Maigius posted:

There will be at least three tournaments in AEW.

There will be another Woman's Casino Battle Royale.

A NOAH regular will show up on AEW television.

Ric Flair will have a second final match, it will be sad and Dave will not rate it.

Jeff Jarrett and Sting will not have singles matches.

Dustin Rhodes will retire after a match where he puts his career on the line.

The Rock still won't have another match. If he shows up at all, it will be at Mania.

Penguin Patrol posted:

-Kota Ibushi will wrestle for Cyberfight, but not for Bushiroad or AEW
-CM Punk will wrestle for AEW again
-Sasha Banks will win the AEW Women's Championship
-Bray Wyatt will not wrestle on television
-Kris Statlander will win the TBS Championship
-The All-Atlantic Championship will be defended in the UK and Mexico, but not Japan
-Cody will win the Royal Rumble, but he will top out at the Intercontinental Championship
-Orange Cassidy will wear facepaint while tag teaming with Danhausen
-Triple H will lose control of creative
-NXT will undergo another makeover
-No wrestlers will get injured anywhere

edogawa rando posted:

AEW
Shida will win gold again
A women's tag title will be introduced (possibly followed by a trios belt)
Erick Redbeard will be #ALLELITE
Sasha Banks (or Mercedes VK or whatever ring name she opts to go by) will be #ALLELITE
MJF will lose the World Title, and the physical Diamond Ring
Eddie Kingston will win gold
Kris Statlander will win gold, her title reign will be cut short by injury
The Blackpool Combat Club will gain at least one new member
Dynamite or Rampage will beat Raw or Smackdown in the ratings outright
At least one of AEW and ROH will each do at least one Forbidden Door show, and the show(s) will rule, with little to no disruption in the build
Alongside occasional NJPW talent appearing on AEW shows (and vice versa), NOAH and AEW talent will start appearing at each other's shows too
Ring of Honor will get its own weekly shows - at least 1 televised and 1 streamed (e.g., like Dark or Dark Elevation)
Adam Cole will reunite with The Kingdom to pick up where the Elite vs Undisputed programme left off
Kyle O'Reilly will return near the end of the year
Andrade will be quietly released from AEW

WWE
The Rock will wrestle at a WWE PPV or PLE
One of the big main eventers will be granted a release
Andrade will return, and be treated as a pretty big deal

Hefty Leftist posted:

i want my pessimists dream award back

CM Punk retires from wrestling again
Kenny Omega vs Will Ospreay disappoints when Kenny gets injured halfway through
Kota Ibushi retires from wrestling due to injury
Sasha Banks goes into acting and doesn't appear at Wrestle Kingdom at all
MJF loses the AEW Championship to Jay Lethal
FTR leave AEW
Andrade leaves AEW and buries the company in a podcast with Konan
Triple H steals several high-value names from AEW such as Adam Page and Ricky Starks
Bryan Danielson will not appear in NJPW and will leave AEW to return to WWE
Raw and Smackdown ratings climb back to mid-2010s levels
Bobby Fish is rehired by WWE
Cody Rhodes challenges and fails to win the WWE Championship
Roman Reigns is champion until 2024 and doesn't lose any matches all year
Sami Zayn is kicked out of the Bloodline but fails to win against Roman and the storyline is dropped
AEW ratings fall to 700k average for Dynamite and Rampage is eventually cancelled or replaced with a new show
Tay Melo becomes AEW Women's Champion and is featured heavily on Dynamite with Sammy Guevara who is the real focus
The Rock doesn't come back to wrestling
The Young Bucks declare 2023 to be their last active year in wrestling
Jim Ross comes back full time to all AEW shows in commentary after Tony Schiavone retires
Samoa Joe goes back to WWE after his contract is revealed to be for one year
Eddie Kingston is barely on TV all year
ROH is quietly disbanded and most of the wrestlers are released
Jeff Jarrett wins the TNT Championship and is prominently featured on Dynamite
Tony Khan begins leaning heavily on hotshot booking based entirely on Twitter feedback
Ric Flair will appear on Dynamite

Crapple! posted:

Some people who I think will hold titles sometime this year:

AEW:
All-atlantic: Konosuke Takeshita
World: Eddie Kingston
TNT: Powerhouse Hobbs
Tag: Top Flight
TBS: Hikaru Shida

Stardom:
Red Belt: Giulia holds it for the whole year
White Belt: Starlight Kid
Goddess: Maika and Himeka
Trios: God's Eye. I think it will be MIRAI, Ami and Tomoka Inaba

forkboy84 posted:

So. Predictions, in no real order.

Keiji Mutoh does not wrestle again this year after his big retirement match in NOAH.

Kota Ibushi turns up at at least 1 GanPro show this year. You'd assume Wrestle Sekigahara but I'd be hardly shocked if it was just a random Itabashi Green Hall event, it'sKita Ibushi, he's mercurial. He was in attendance at their most recent show.

This is one I'm shamelessly stealing from Jamie of the Dramatic DDT blog, but it's pretty plausible. GanPro introduce Tag Titles, and they are intergender belts.

The artist formerly known as Sasha Banks does not get a Is All Elite graphic. She might show up at some point but I don't see it as a regular.

Miyako Matsumoto is on Baka Gaijin + Friends show.

IT'S KZY TIME! Kzy wins the Open The Dream Gate belt at some point. Never stop believing.

One of the Prominence 5 retires. I'm thinking Mochi Natsumi but Akane Fujita & Risa Sera seem candidates. I hope I'm wrong with this one.

Cyberagent buys Big Japan. OK, swinging for the fences here. BJW doesn't seem like it can make any money, Takagi has talked about an Onita inspired promotion, it's not Prominence sadly so gently caress it, BJW. Unlikely but vaguely plausible?

Yuma Aoyagi, Triple Crown champion.

Voodoo Murders gently caress off, finally, from All Japan before year end

10 predictions.

TelevisedInsanity posted:

AEW:

- they get their own WrestleMania/Starcade event

- rampage becomes roh show

- even more titles announced! (Women's Tag, Hardcore)

WWE:

- Vince returns to TV, as a bonus, joins the hall of Fame

- we will see a "halfway" of gimmick match ppvs and the return to ppvs like Armageddon/Fully Loaded

- money in the bank goes back to being a WrestleMania event

NJPW:

- strong finds a "American TV channel" (it'll probably be cw on Saturdays, check your local listings)

- they get an event with a WWE and AEW performer on the same card

- switchblade wins g1??

MISC:

- nwa powerrr gets desperate and calls out aew dark

- impact continues to work with WWE talent

- Hulk Hogan Deadpool brother

a cyborg mug fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Jan 2, 2023

# ? Dec 8, 2022 11:31

a cyborg mug: Mar 8, 2010

You're gonna love to see all the wacky poo poo people come up with let me tell ya hwhat

# ? Dec 8, 2022 11:31

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

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

# ? Dec 8, 2022 11:47

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

Better late than never, right? :v:

# ? Dec 8, 2022 11:47

a cyborg mug: Mar 8, 2010

Hey who�s to say he won�t do it again next year!

# ? Dec 8, 2022 11:55

Trying: Sep 26, 2019

Vikingos going to do a triple flip senton

# ? Dec 8, 2022 12:04

GEORGE W BUSHI: Jul 1, 2012

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

A Fancy Hat: Nov 18, 2016; Always remember that the former President was dumber than the dumbest person you've ever met by a wide margin

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.

# ? Dec 8, 2022 12:24

Stall_19: Jan 2, 2013; Prodigy of Victor von Doom

GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

NJPW

- Shota Umino becomes IWGP Champion

That is a bold one

# ? Dec 8, 2022 13:01

Sticky Nate: Jan 9, 2012

-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

SG Bamboo: Aug 21, 2013; Smile. Win. Yay!

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

# ? Dec 8, 2022 14:21

LionYeti: Oct 12, 2008

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

# ? Dec 8, 2022 18:51

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

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

# ? Dec 8, 2022 19:00

LionYeti: Oct 12, 2008

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.

# ? Dec 8, 2022 19:10

Kosmo Gallion: Sep 13, 2013

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

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

OK, here we go

At least one current big name AEW talent will leave the company in a way that forces booking plans to be rewritten.
At least one current big name WWE talent will hold a title in AEW
WWE will get more than zero but less than three 5+* matches
Konosuke Takeshita will wrestle for a singles title on pay per view
A weekly Ring Of Honor show of some kind will both debut and still be on the air by the end of the year. It will get about the same ratings that Rampage currently gets.
Gabriel Kidd will keep his poo poo together and not have to take any further mental health breaks before the end of the year
An episode of RAW will get less than 1,400,000 viewers
~~A CyberFight promotion (DDT, Ganbare, TJPW, Pro Wrestling Noah) will hold a branded US show (rather than just their talent appearing on other shows)~~ (this has apparently already been announced, oops)
A holder of a CyberFight promotion title will wrestle on an AEW show and bring the belt with them.
Jim Ross will step away from weekly wrestling commentary but still make pay per view appearances.
CM Punk will not wrestle a match
An AEW title will be defended in Japan.
Arisu Endo will win a singles match by pinfall or submission

Lamuella fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Dec 8, 2022

# ? Dec 8, 2022 19:24

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

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 Mon� 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

# ? Dec 8, 2022 19:39

rare Magic card l00k: Jan 3, 2011

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.

# ? Dec 8, 2022 19:47

SG Bamboo: Aug 21, 2013; Smile. Win. Yay!

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)
[/list]

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

# ? Dec 8, 2022 20:12

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

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.

# ? Dec 8, 2022 20:23

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.

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

Edward Mass: Sep 14, 2011; 𝅘𝅥𝅮 I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
Friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen𝅘𝅥𝅮

-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

# ? Dec 8, 2022 22:03

Quantum of Phallus: Dec 27, 2010

Rampage gets cancelled

# ? Dec 8, 2022 23:33

Seams: Feb 3, 2005; ROCK HARD

- Dick Togo will lose his managers license

# ? Dec 8, 2022 23:54

BrigadierSensible: Feb 16, 2012; I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

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.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 04:46

Cavauro: Jan 9, 2008

somebody's show their penkis on ppv.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 07:35

a cyborg mug: Mar 8, 2010

BrigadierSensible posted:

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.

It was the boldest of predictions: That Bo Dallas would not win any championships that year

# ? Dec 9, 2022 07:36

Fluffy Bunnies: Jan 10, 2009

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.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 12:08

Animal-Mother: Feb 14, 2012; RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT

-Vince McMahon will suffer a massive heart attack. He will be lifting weights and eating steak one week later.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 19:03

SalTheBard: Jan 26, 2005; I forgot to post my food for USPOL Thanksgiving but that's okay too!; Fallen Rib

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

# ? Dec 9, 2022 20:14

Critical: Aug 23, 2007

Quantum of Phallus posted:

Rampage gets cancelled

i predicted this post in my head what do I win?

# ? Dec 9, 2022 20:25

a cyborg mug: Mar 8, 2010

Critical posted:

i predicted this post in my head what do I win?

The ultimate prize: a stranger�s kindness

# ? Dec 9, 2022 20:40

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

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.

# ? Dec 10, 2022 11:36

Quantum of Phallus: Dec 27, 2010

Critical posted:

i predicted this post in my head what do I win?

The QoP Derangement Syndrome Award

# ? Dec 10, 2022 12:05

Pikavangelist: Nov 9, 2016; There is no God but Arceus
And Pikachu is His prophet

Ronda Rousey gets future endeavored for posting QAnon bullshit on social media.

# ? Dec 11, 2022 01:24

zetamind2000: Nov 6, 2007; ~~I'm an alien.~~

- 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

# ? Dec 11, 2022 01:37

Cavauro: Jan 9, 2008

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

# ? Dec 11, 2022 03:54

PantherWill: Feb 23, 2013

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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# ? May 8, 2024 21:25

SatoshiMiwa: May 6, 2007

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

# ? Dec 11, 2022 05:19

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