March 29, 2024

Roundtable: 15 Predictions for 2018

Omega in WWE? Ronda Rousey at the Rumble?

In this edition of The Wrestling Estate roundtable, the gang rub their crystal balls and prophesize the next 12 months.

Paul Heyman will betray his Beast. – John Corrigan

Kenny Omega debuts in WWE. This goes a little against the grain because from everything I’ve read, he plans on staying with NJPW. However, with his upcoming match with Y2J, I think the stage is being set perfectly. It wouldn’t shock me in the least if Vince sent Jericho to New Japan for the sole reason of chirping to Omega and telling him WWE is the place to be. – Anthony Mahalis

Dolph Ziggler will leave WWE. Whether he has one foot out the door already is debatable, but he’s claimed multiple times in interviews how unhappy he has been this past year. I would love to see him move to the indies where he can shine just like Cody Rhodes did. He would make as big, or even bigger, of an impact as Rhodes made. – Troy Taroff

Under the new leadership of Don Callis and Scott D’Amore, Impact Wrestling will lose its decades-old stench and be considered a hot promotion on par with Ring of Honor and New Japan. – JC

Daniel Bryan will return to the ring. This whole angle with Bryan and Shane O’Mac just seems like WWE is planting seeds for a possible in-ring return for the leader of the Yes Movement. This would be tremendous for wrestling fans, unless, of course, you have him wrestle Shane. Please, please, please, don’t do that. Bryan vs. Styles would tear the house down. – AM

Troy and Jack will be putting out even better content on the podcast. We’re just getting started folks! Thanks for all the support and we look forward to pissing you all off more! – TT

Deonna Purrazzo will become the first Women of Honor Champion. – JC

This one is for you Corrigan…John Cena will break Ric Flair’s record and become 17 time world heavyweight champion. – AM

John Corrigan will finally buy into John Cena. Ok, this may not happen cause Corrigan is super stubborn but we can dream right? – TT

John Cena will get caught on an episode of Cheaters, wrecking the first kiss between Enzo and Nia Jax. – JC

Batista will return to the company at some point. I have read on various sites that he would like to come back, so it makes sense that this would happen at some point in 2018. – AM

Rusev and Aiden English will become Tag Team Champions. This may even happen in the next few weeks. Imagine the pop that would happen if these guys win it; I’ve never seen a tag team as over in quite some time. – TT

Nick Aldis will hold the 10 Pounds of Gold for the entire year. – JC

My buddy Greg gets credit for this prediction, as he is the one who brought it to my attention. Ronda Rousey will enter, and win, the first ever female Royal Rumble. This may be or may not be obvious at this point, but I don’t know how I didn’t think of it on my own. This would also be kind of a slap in the face to the women already on the roster, but hey, WWE has never really cared about that sort of thing. It would definitely bring an interesting wrinkle into the women’s division. I wanted so badly to say CM Punk enters the Royal Rumble at No. 30, to one of the biggest pops in WWE history, wins the Rumble and main events WrestleMania against AJ Styles. Unfortunately, that is a pipe dream and not a prediction. – AM

The Wrestling Estate will keep growing. This is a not a prediction, more like a guarantee. We keep growing every day and we look forward to putting out the best, original wrestling content on the internet. – TT

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