What is the wildest thing you could see coming in 2023?

[Vastardikai]

Thread title, basically. Just a bit more off the wall predictions that are somewhat plausible.

My big one is that the Usos lose the tag titles to Kevin Owens and El Generico. As in, Sami Zayn brings back the El Generico gimmick to take on the Usos, while Sami himself is either still in the Bloodline or he is run out of WWE by the same. The angle then becomes its obviously him, but it can't be "proven."

[Destor]

Tencent and Zuffa go halfsies and buy the WWF

[Mr. Nerfect]

Austin vs. Goldberg

[xrodmuc316]

Tiny Khan's Cocaine Overdose

[XL]

Noid says “You know, that was pretty good” about something AEW does.

[Helmsphere]

Roman Reigns still being champion at the end of 2023.

[Sepholio]

Super Humman getting the shot he deserves in one of the big leagues.

[Vastardikai]

Yabo the Clown winning the All Atlantic Title. :shifty:

[rez]

Super Humman getting the shot he deserves in one of the big leagues.

:yes:

[xrodmuc316]

Teddy Hart commercial just aired during Raw. Not 2023 yet, but that is pretty wild.

[Lock Jaw]

"Wildman" Marc Mero returns to win the Royal Rumble

[Rammsteinmad]

Probably not the "wildest", but I'd really love to see some surprise Rumble entrants that we've never seen before. Guys like Ken Shamrock, Chris Masters, Rene Dupree or others from that era who haven't had a Rumble entry before would be cool.

[Rammsteinmad]

And maybe not those guys in particular, but just people from that kinda 1998-2005 period.

[drave]

Steve Blackman

[Vastardikai]

That thing Brian Last always alludes to comes out and we learn the truth about Omega.

[XL]

Probably not the "wildest", but I'd really love to see some surprise Rumble entrants that we've never seen before. Guys like Ken Shamrock, Chris Masters, Rene Dupree or others from that era who haven't had a Rumble entry before would be cool.

Seconded.

Same with the inevitable nostalgia show for Raw’s 30th Anniversary. I’d like to see them do a sort of “Raw through the years” deal where they use the giant screen to make the stage look like the Raw arena era by era and have relevant stars appear through the night.

Even have some guys that played different gimmicks over the years appear in multiple gimmicks. We get Godfather quite often, would love to see Papa Shango in the first hour of the show.

Get Shamrock in for the Attitude Era portion as well as some others you rarely see and the usual suspects.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I can see something big going down business-wise. I don’t know if it will be a new company throwing it’s hat into the ring, or a developing nation throwing insane amounts of money at someone to put something together — but there’s just too much money in wrestling as relatively cheap content.

[Helmsphere]

Just go ahead and say The Rock starting his own wrestling company.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Just go ahead and say The Rock starting his own wrestling company.

Nah ship has sailed on that.

[Helmsphere]

Val Venis starting his own wrestling company funded by pot?

[Helmsphere]

Or Doug Basham funding his own promotion from the trillions of imaginary dollars he's drawn?

[Helmsphere]

Also sadly seeing Tessa Blanchard finally being bought back to a company be it WWE, AEW, Impact or Doug Basham Bash Em promotion.

[Sepholio]

Speaking of Tessa, her being the one to finally take down the tribal chief.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Or Doug Basham funding his own promotion from the trillions of imaginary dollars he's drawn?

Who’s ever said he’s drawn trillions of dollars? Him being a misused talent doesn’t mean he drew money, even in my imagination. Come on, Helmsphere.

[Helmsphere]

So you're saying even in your wild imagination, Doug Basham could never draw money.

So that would mean he was actually not misused and was used accordingly. Visa Vee.

[#1-norm-fan]

Val Venis starting his own wrestling company funded by pot?

Featuring such heels as a dead guy who voted for Biden 3 times “The Ballotfaker”, “Triple Vaxxed” and a stable made up of members of The Global Pedophile Elite.

[Mr. Nerfect]

So you're saying even in your wild imagination, Doug Basham could never draw money.

So that would mean he was actually not misused and was used accordingly. Visa Vee.

When did anyone say that either?

[Helmsphere]

Ok, could Doug Basham draw with proper booking?

[Mr. Nerfect]

Ok, could Doug Basham draw with proper booking?

Sure. He was great in OVW. Good worker, passable promo. Trillions of dollars? Not sure about that. And not sure about that in 2023 when the dude is north of 50.

[XL]

I can see something big going down business-wise. I don’t know if it will be a new company throwing it’s hat into the ring, or a developing nation throwing insane amounts of money at someone to put something together — but there’s just too much money in wrestling as relatively cheap content.

Do we get “Moscow Meltdown” or “Brawl in Beijing”?

[Big Vic]

White Hummer angle finally explained for no reason.

[Helmsphere]

Sure. He was great in OVW. Good worker, passable promo. Trillions of dollars? Not sure about that. And not sure about that in 2023 when the dude is north of 50.

Okay more playable scenario for you. I have thirty bucks, I want to spend that on a Reality kings membership. Can you make him drawable enough to get my thirty dollars?

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Also sadly seeing Tessa Blanchard finally being bought back to a company be it WWE, AEW, Impact or Doug Basham Bash Em promotion.

Just popping in to note that Bash ‘Em Wrestling is a fantastic promotion name

[Supreme Olajuwon]

B-E-Dub!

[Mr. Nerfect]

Okay more playable scenario for you. I have thirty bucks, I want to spend that on a Reality kings membership. Can you make him drawable enough to get my thirty dollars?

I don’t understand what you’re on about.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I can see Vince selling some of his WWE stock and buying Impact Wrestling via Alpha Entertainment.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Triple H starts his own version of WrestleMania. A new tentpole event.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Another thing I can see re: Impact Wrestling:

They manage to negotiate a spot on TBS or TNT. It provides them with more live entertainment programming in line with wrestling, people getting slapped in the face, etc.

[Jordan]

David Otunga becomes ALL ELITE and after his debut starts his own stable full of AEW stars who are capable of propelling Otunga to the main event where he belongs!

[Sting Fan]

Vince returns to WWE either in charge or in some capacity where hes not in charge but the product skews back towards Vince esque booking almost immediately.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

Punk stops being a whiny bitch and ruins a program versus the elite when somebody tells him Bret hate Shawn but was a man about it and sucked it up to work a program with him that lasted months.

[rez]

Enough people care to have weekly RAW and/or Smackdown active threads.

[Stu Hart]

HHH has another heart related episode leading to Vince coming back in.

CM punk goes back to AEW

Shawn Michaels gets surgery to straighten his fucked up eye

Transgender US champion

Bruce Prichard tells the truth

[Helmsphere]

Ive decided I'm going to start Bash Em Wrestling. I could see me overtaking Impact by years end.

I'm going to make contract with Super Humman

[Lock Jaw]

Helmsphere hires Doug Basham and gives Noid the book

[Helmsphere]

He had his chance to sell me. He didn't. That book is closed.

Now I will hire Danny Basham and push him to even greatest heights.

[Helmsphere]

Already got the plan.

Bash Em Wrestling will exist in its own universe. Danny will acknowledge in another universe he was a former WWE Tag Team Champion with his brother Doug, but that was there. In this universe he ate Doug in the womb and attained ultimate powers by taking his brothers power and the power of his Daddy's spunk Val Venis who years earlier was a undefeated Multiverse Intercontinental World Champion.

I will take every booking decision Noid ever made and give it a crazy anime style backstory.

[Mr. Nerfect]

The Rock returns and wrestles but not when people think. I can see him hitting a Rock Bottom on Roman to close the show. They’ll do the match before the XFL season wraps up to give it an injection at the end. That’ll probably be around May/June, right?

[Helmsphere]

Good. May is when I bring in the Doug Basham from an alternate universe to battle Danny Basham who has ultimate power.

[Seanny One Ball]

Ole Anderson returning to action and dying after complications from a knee drop.

[xrodmuc316]

So shines a good deed in a weary world...

Triple H has released the trademark claim for RYBACK!

It's Feeding Time MUKBANNNNNG!!!https://media.tenor.com/D9LgDm6r9HoAAAAd/ryback-eating-ruffles-potato-chips-rayback.gif

[Sting Fan]

Vince returns to WWE either in charge or in some capacity where hes not in charge but the product skews back towards Vince esque booking almost immediately.

To be fair my timeline was more Juneish not first week of Jan.

[Ruthervin]

Zayn wins the rumble, gets booted from the bloodline, and then goes over Reigns at Mania in the main-event.

[Destor]

Tencent and Zuffa go halfsies and buy the WWFi had the buyers wrong but my scuttlebutt was right

[DAMN iNATOR]

i had the buyers wrong but my scuttlebutt was right

Are you really patting yourself on the back for predicting something that Helen Keller could’ve seen coming?

[Destor]

If by that you mean the thing absolutely no one predicted? Yes

[Destor]

Captain Hindsight overhere

[ron the dial]

he really needed that hindsight to be on point during the bucket days

[Helmsphere]

Are you really patting yourself on the back for predicting something that Helen Keller could’ve seen coming?

No you mean Anne Frank?

[Ruthervin]

Lara Emily coming back from the dead and being revealed as Bray Wyatt’s Sister Abigail.

[Fignuts]

Like, 3 people here are gonna know who that is.

[Sting Fan]

Weirdly I am one of them... What a time to be a TPWWer.

[Sepholio]

I make 3.

Feel like Fignuts might be off with his numbers.

[Helmsphere]

I am aware of Lara Emily. More people would know who Lara Emily is then say Mr. Sinister.....Sinister

[drave]

Is he like Mr. Kennedy.....Kennedy?

[Team Sheep]

Uncle Howdy is... Mick Foley

[Stu Hart]

HHH retires

[ron the dial]

did someone say lara emily?