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TelevisedInsanity
Dec 19, 2008

"You'll never know if you can fly unless you take the risk of falling."

a cyborg mug posted:

Karl Anderson making dreams come true

As the prediction game master I’m going to rule that Forums Poster TelevisedInsanity predicts that NJPW will have another show in 2023 with both a WWE and an AEW wrestler on the card.

This is correct. I'm not counting Wrestle Kingdom in this. I'm punting for G1 Climax.

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STING 64
Oct 20, 2006

it is 2023

a cyborg mug
Mar 8, 2010



JOHN CENA posted:

it is 2023

no obvious predictions please

a cyborg mug
Mar 8, 2010



The predictions are officially locked in for this year! Feel free to post when you get something horribly right or horribly wrong this year!!

I'll be looking at 2022's predictions and announce our strong & powerful winners sometime this week. It tends to take a while to check everything and last year had an insane amount of posts too. If you posted in the previous thread, maybe you can help me out and check your predictions for me (if you didn't already)?

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

SG Bamboo posted:

- Fuminori Abe will work less than 10 shows in places that are easy to watch for me

Very glad it looks like this one will be wrong, since I made this prediction my boy went freelance and just showed up on today's DDT show

Pat Mustard
Mar 9, 2013
I know it's late, this just popped into my head and it's more a hope than a prediction but I think it'd be cool if Jade Cargill didn't lose until she turns face. I'm not sure why I've had a few beers and started thinking about wrestling.

Fish Of Doom
Aug 18, 2004
I'm too awake for this to be a nightmare


Vince Mcmahon will return on screen at Wrestlemania.

CM Punk will return to AEW.

Orange Cassidy and MJF will have a world title program.

The Rock will not appear at Wrestlemania, but John Cena will.

Jeff Hardy will not return to AEW.

Matt Riddle will be released at some point and show up on impact.

Mandy Rose will return and reclaim the NXT title.

Zach Ryder will return to WWE.

Thunder Rosa will be the first ever 2 time AEW women's champion.

Kris Statlander will return to beat Jade Cargill for the TBS title.

Will Ospreay will win the G1 and the world title.

Neither Randy Orton nor Big E will have any matches, but they may show up and cut a promo.

Bray Wyatt will have 5 televised matches or less in the entire year.

Fish Of Doom fucked around with this message at 08:48 on Jan 4, 2023

a cyborg mug
Mar 8, 2010



Pat Mustard posted:

I know it's late, this just popped into my head and it's more a hope than a prediction but I think it'd be cool if Jade Cargill didn't lose until she turns face. I'm not sure why I've had a few beers and started thinking about wrestling.

Fish Of Doom posted:

Vince Mcmahon will return on screen at Wrestlemania.

CM Punk will return to AEW.

Orange Cassidy and MJF will have a world title program.

The Rock will not appear at Wrestlemania, but John Cena will.

Jeff Hardy will not return to AEW.

Matt Riddle will be released at some point and show up on impact.

Mandy Rose will return and reclaim the NXT title.

Zach Ryder will return to WWE.

Thunder Rosa will be the first ever 2 time AEW women's champion.

Kris Statlander will return to beat Jade Cargill for the TBS title.

Will Ospreay will win the G1 and the world title.

Neither Randy Orton nor Big E will have any matches, but they may show up and cut a promo.

Bray Wyatt will have 5 televised matches or less in the entire year.

I’ll allow it. I’m nothing if not fair, magnanimous and overall wonderful

Maybe this was too much of a gimme but still - nailed it (although I’ve yet to see the poopooing yet. I’m sure it’s out there if I cared enough to go looking for it)

a cyborg mug posted:

- Omega vs Ospreay will be a contender for the best match of all time despite the usual crowd of poopooers


Edit: Currently #4 match of all time as voted on Cagematch. 9.80 score. Dang

a cyborg mug fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Jan 4, 2023

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
Cagematch scores always start high and fade down, check again in a couple of weeks it'll still be #4

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

I hate to be a bother, but can I just add this to my predictions?

WWE
At least one PPV or PLE will have a clean sweep of WMOTY nominations in the MOTYC/WMOTYC nominations thread on PSP.

I should've written this down, but I just randomly remembered one of the recent Rumbles managed that feat, and I'm pretty sure Pointing Paul has it in him to pull it off too.

Bonk
Aug 4, 2002

Douche Baggins
-Kenny will be AEW champion again
-Shingo will be NJPW champion again
-Kenoh will be GHC champion again
-Shun Skywalker will be OTDG champion again
-Eita will resort to forming a unit with the lucha excursion boys since he has no friends left at home
-(longshot prediction) It will finally be Kzy Time

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Bonk posted:

-(longshot prediction) It will finally be Kzy Time

:hfive:

It'll always be Kzy Time in our hearts

fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004
https://twitter.com/EmiSakura_gtmv/status/1611607706821070848

BrigadierSensible
Feb 16, 2012

I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

BrigadierSensible posted:

I hopepredict that Ethan Page will win an AEW belt sometime in 2023.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA5Zn0KQSSY

Does this count?

Edit: And he's already lost it to Orange Cassidy.

BrigadierSensible fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Jan 15, 2023

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

Wish I was there...
There will be a substantial, unscripted riot within the arena that will require police intervention at an aew event sometime within this calendar year

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Coaaab posted:

There will be a substantial, unscripted riot within the arena that will require police intervention at an aew event sometime within this calendar year

Cena won :(

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Rarity posted:

Cena won :(

Which reminds me: I did once ponder what would have happened had Vince called their bluff on the night and changed the outcome of the match on the fly.

Lamuella
Jun 26, 2003

It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.


Lamuella posted:



  • Arisu Endo will win a singles match by pinfall or submission

Only took until February.

STING 64
Oct 20, 2006

Rarity posted:

Cena won :(

not yet i have a way to go in awful survivor

0konner
Nov 17, 2016

I WAS THERE
WHEN CODY RHODES
FINISHED THE STORY

0konner posted:

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

Arn Anderson will appear on a wwe show.

I’ll wait for the official word from the dirt sheets but the blood has been enough of a commented-on story element in the currently ongoing HIAC match I’m going to declare victory on 1.

LionYeti
Oct 12, 2008


0konner posted:

I’ll wait for the official word from the dirt sheets but the blood has been enough of a commented-on story element in the currently ongoing HIAC match I’m going to declare victory on 1.

I'm 98% that was hard way blood

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

mines is still happening

Penguin Patrol
Mar 3, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
you should get it stitched up or something

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Rarity posted:

WWE:

- Cody Rhodes returns at the Royal Rumble, wins and challenges for the Universal title at Wrestlemania. He loses

:smug:

Fentry
Mar 7, 2003



LionYeti posted:

I'm 98% that was hard way blood

There are very graphic pics Finn posted of him getting stitched up now, if that was a blade job Finn is the most committed blader in the history of wrestling. Legit looks like he got hit with a machete

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

zetamind2000 posted:

- Cody will not win any titles for the rest of the year

Doing good so far

Seams
Feb 3, 2005

ROCK HARD

scoops club 4 lyfe

0konner
Nov 17, 2016

I WAS THERE
WHEN CODY RHODES
FINISHED THE STORY
gently caress the blood was hardway and it’s only Vince from here on out I’m hosed.

Digital Jedi
May 28, 2007

Fallen Rib

scoops don't miss.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

I predicted NBC would purchase WWE. Welp!

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


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.

So far one of these can basically be written off, GanPro have introduced Tag Titles but so far the title Tournament is men only. So I'm 0/1.

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

A Fancy Hat posted:

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.

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.

Did they do anything to say the Rock might be at Mania this weekend? I was expecting a full on "oh Roman better watch out, I got someone special as an enforcer" though.

Eh more wrong than right on my ROH prediction.

Happily correct.

Happily correct on Cole, too.

I'm willing to say that multi man tag at the pape was 5 stars in my heart.

Seems like WWE is trying their best on this one!!

SalTheBard
Jan 26, 2005

I forgot to post my food for USPOL Thanksgiving but that's okay too!

Fallen Rib

SalTheBard posted:

GCW -
Nick Wayne will win one of GCW's titles

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

A Fancy Hat posted:

Happily correct.

Canada is not part of the US

Bonk
Aug 4, 2002

Douche Baggins
Yeah, and no amount of "America's hat" jokes will make that one count. :v:


Bonk posted:

-Kenny will be AEW champion again
-Shingo will be NJPW champion again
-Kenoh will be GHC champion again
-Shun Skywalker will be OTDG champion again
-Eita will resort to forming a unit with the lucha excursion boys since he has no friends left at home
-(longshot prediction) It will finally be Kzy Time
-Not yet (I'm not counting Trios, I definitely meant Big Plat)
-Not yet
-Not yet
-Correct! Shun won it a week after my post.
-Eita just went 100% freelance so it seems less likely, but he still works DG so who knows
-Still holding out hope

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

IcePhoenix posted:

Canada is not part of the US

Ah crap I'm an idiot (and an American)

Asteroid Alert
Oct 24, 2012

BINGO!

a cyborg mug posted:

Finland
- Shemeikka will lose the FCF championship to a heel early into the year. It will be the result of cheating

I'm afraid I've got some bad news.

Shemeikka eventually turned heel after teasing it for months and has retained his title with cheating.

On the other hand, you could technically consider your prediction correct.

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

plenty of time.

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
𝅘𝅥𝅮

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

-No, but still possible
-Half-truths all around
-No, but still possible
-No, but still possible
-False, but only because he got hurt :smith:
-No, but still possible
-Almost academic at this point

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edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

I thought it would be Okada that would take the record.

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