2023 Pro Wrestling Thread

When you’re booking this in your head, remember to insert this factor into your head canon: The next PPV is WrestleMania. This is just the PPV version of the go-home show.

 

GREAT video.

 

Perhaps a Montreal Screwjob II: Just when it looks like Sami is about to win clean with no Usos to help, KO interferes and costs Sami the title.

I mean, we all said KO would just turn on Sami again, so why should he trust him, right? So make it happen, allow the Bloodline to tell Sami, “We told you so,” and let KO get nuclear heat to end a match that began with Sami’s Sonic-level pop.

Protects Sami in his hometown, still no shortage of emotion, and maybe even sets up a three-way with Reigns and Cody at WM. Or maybe sets up Sami having to go through a Bloodline gauntlet to get to Reigns and a second crack at WM.

 

I love these ideas. I basically love anything that’s not, Jey betrays and its KO/Sami vs Usos at Mania.

Storys been too good for that obvious/derrivitive ending, I think

 

They've shoehorned a third person into the main event so much in the last 10 years, I don't think I want to see it again, at risk of it being cliche.

Roman/Brock/Rollins at Levi
Ronda/Charlotte/Becky at MetLife
Roman/Bryan/Edge at Tampa

 

It cheapens the Royal Rumble. This is one issue with having a unified belt -- there isn't a second champion for the Rumble winner to challenge when organic storylines like Sami-Roman develop.

 

So there have been lots of great storyline ideas on this thread, but here's one we haven't talked about: What if they decide to really shock the world and heel turn Cody. Have him come out to help KO fight off the Bloodline, and then Cody turns and nails Sami. He comes out on Raw the next night and says he didn't work all those months recovering and spend all that time away from the WWE growing as a wrestler to come back and face some midcard wannabe like Zayn. He came back to face the Tribal Chief. I know it would throw a wrench in everything they've been working toward with Cody, but no one would see it coming and man, the reaction in Montreal would be hellacious. Would be Montreal Screwjob II.

Then you build a way to get Zayn into a triple threat that makes a little more sense, with him wanting to take down Roman and get his revenge against Cody by ruining his story.

 

Throwing out ideas that haven’t been said already, how about this:

Jey comes out in Montreal and accidentally costs Sami the match, and KO comes down to save Sami from the rest of the Bloodline as Jey walks away.


WM Night 1: KO/Sami vs. Jey/Jimmy for the tag belts with the stipulation that if Jey and Jimmy lose, Sami gets put into Cody/Roman for Night 2.

For night 1., Jey gets torn between helping his brother and helping Sami, and ends up costing Jimmy the match. Night 2, Sami wins after Jey finally turns on Roman.

 

That's good, but I don't think we can see either of the twins north of the border, unless WWE got some sort of waiver on their behalf. I think that's why Roman told whichever brother on SmackDown last week to sit at home and watch the match on TV.

 

Didn’t Meltzer or someone say that the travel ban was rescinded?

 

Three-way dance Ironman match. First 30 minutes is for one title. Second 30 is for the other. Titles might remain together. They might be split.

 

Bray vs. Bobby or Brock? Umm ... what?