AEW 2022 Predictions Thread

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

…May as well shoot my shot now I’m actually watching this regularly. Also see what everyone else has got.

*Adam Page continues the trend of long AEW World Championship reigns with successful feuds/defenses over Bryan Danielson, Miro and Jon Moxley, among others… In fact he reigns the full calendar year, but will lose the belt in his first PPV defense in 2023
*Kenny Omega returns as a babyface alongside an also-turned-babyface Young Bucks against Adam Cole, Bobby Fish and new signing Kyle O’Reilly, leading to a six-man Blood And Guts match at some point
*Someone from both one of the pre-existing major babyface stables (Dark Order, Inner Circle, Best Friends) AND one of the pre-existing major heel stables (Pinnacle, Hardy Family Office) will join The House Of Black
*First-time AEW championship winners: Thunder Rosa (AEW Women’s), Malakai Black (TNT), Jungle Boy (TNT), Daniel Garcia (TNT), Keith Lee*/Shane Taylor* (AEW Tag), Ruby Soho (TBS), Jade Cargill (TBS), Danhausen* (FTW (NO SWEARING))
*Owen Hart Cup Winners: Dante Martin and Serena Deeb
*At least one episode of AEW Dynamite will get within 100,000 viewers of that week’s WWE RAW by the end of 2022
*Wildcard 2022 WWE release that will land in AEW: Mustafa Ali

*Assuming these people sign

[CeilingFan]

in June or July, Hook and Danhausen will have an epic match.

[Hypnosis]

Danhausen is signed, and has matches with The Ass Boys, Pepsi Man, and Bryan Dragonson.  He'll team up with Sting.

Thunder Rosa becomes AEW Women's Champion at Revolution.

Keith Lee debuts and YEETs Adam Cole into the crowd once again.

Private Party goes to Impact.

Abadon vs. Rosemary FINALLY happens?

Brian Cage leaves for WWE.

Sarray gets released from WWE and signs with AEW.

Omega vs. Punk at All Out 2022.

[Fade is a CodyCryBaby]

- Trios titles are finally introduced.
- Bucks turn face again
- Jericho has a “retirement” match.
- MJF becomes AEW Champion
- Britt Baker and Adam Cole lead their own stable
- Moxley comes back as a face only to quickly turn heel
- Archer and Hager quietly are on their way out, Cage obviously gone.
- Lio Rush “retires”
- Cody Rhodes cries at some point.
- Jungle Boy wins TNT Championship
- Statlander becomes women’s champion

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Hangman will draw less as champion than his predecessors. I hope I'm wrong!


He also won't leave 2022 with the belt.

[thewaykokid]

Punk/Brian Tag team Champs.
Miro finds a new God in the House of Black.
Darby turns on Sting.
Cody challenges for the World Title.
MJF becomes World Champ.
Wardlow turns face.
Hardys vs Bucks ladder match.
Dustin becomes TNT Champ.

[Bang Bang Bart]

- The Wardlow face turn finally happens in the Dynamite Diamond Ring stuff at the end of the year. He and MJF end up being the final two in the Dynamite Dozen Battle Royal, and we have MJF trying to convince him to lay down. Then the DDR match where Wardlow just destroys Max.

- The next "major" storyline will be the House of Black growing, which leads to Malakai challenging Hangman for the AEW World Title. Page ends up retaining, though.

- Speaking of Hangman, his title run will last up until All Out or a TNT Saturday Special event.

- The first TBS Champion will be Ruby Soho.

- Thunder Rosa vs. Britt Baker happens at Revolution and will be the main event of the evening.

- Danhausen is signed and immediately becomes a fan favorite.

- An episode of Dynamite ends up beating Raw in overall viewership.

- When Kenny Omega returns, he'll be a babyface (though strategically kept away from Hangman, for the most part, so that when the two do reconcile, it's gonna be a big moment) with the Young Bucks (who'll have turned face by then, but are mostly just left to fend for themselves due to the other faces hating them). They end up fighting the Not-Quite Undisputed Era.

- AEW introduces the Trios Championship Belts, which will be won by Cole, O'Reilly, & Fish.

- Johnny Gargano signs with AEW, slotting himself as an upper midcard babyface who's a loose ally of the Best Friends. He ends up being a TNT Champion.

[ChitownKnight]

-Hangman loses the title at Double or Nothing to Punk, then quickly wins it back a month or two laterz. Giving the AEW title its first transitional reign. Hangman then holds it till Full Gear, where he loses it to a heel Moxley
-Mox returns as a face, then eventually turns on Eddie Kingston, then as stated above beats Hangman for the AEW world title making hangman and Mox the first two time champs
-MJF has a run with the TNT title next year before moving on to the World title in 2022
-Cargill wins the TBS title
-Bryan becomes face again and eventually fueds with MJF which will be amazing

[Kalmia]

Safe(ish) predictions
- MJF wins the world title before the end of the year
- Okada and Ibushi step through the forbidden door
- Danhausen is signed and is very nice, very evil
- The move to TBS eventually gives Dynamite the stability back it needs and it grows closer to RAW in demo and figures
- Eddie Kingston wins a singles title
- Punk turns heel and is amazing
- We start getting two women's matches on a show
- Santana and Ortiz finally win the damn tag titles
- If Covid permits it, AEW does some international shows
- Schiavone continues to hate everything MJF and Adam Cole do

[Mike Strike]

Dynamite will have 2 women's matches.

Once.

[EP 54 is banned from Collision]

Danhausen will be very nice, very evil, very Elite.

Fuego beats Miro.

Santana and Ortiz become tag team champs.

Matt Sydal, Fenix and Serena Deeb will go all year without having a bad match. Again.

They introduce Trios titles.

[Deleted]

Ruby Soho reaches the final of the TBS tournament and gets screwed. She gets a high profile title shot against whoever dethrones Brit Baker and gets screwed. By Winter is Coming 2022 when she finally wins the title its so cathartic for the crowd the roof comes off the building, makes her career and gives the woman's division a much needed 'moment'.

The Rock attends a Jaguars game, gets a VIP backstage invite, it's probably a coincidence and nothing comes of it, maybe both Dwayne and Tony fancied a bit of mischief and the press promotion of their ventures was a bonus. No chance of The Rock appearing for a non WWE promotion but pictures of them toasting each other after the game leads to elderly fists being pounded into a T-Rex skull many miles to the north.

Ali in the OP is a great shout and I think it'll happen but my shocker is Ziggler as Nick Nemeth coming in for a bit, either cut due to high salary for an unessential mid carder or them just forgetting to renew his contract. I think hes a little banged up so don't expect a huge run. 12 months of tearing through the pillars in bangers before heading back for his HOF/legends deal.

Jay Lethal is going to be pushed at the top of the card once he settles in. I think Hangman loses to a returning Moxley around early spring and Mox/Lethal is the summer fued.

Jericho is stale and needs to reinvent himself and I don't see how he can do it at 50 with him so busy but the old soak has surprised me with how well and how often hes reinvented himself in the past so I'm a little excited to see what he has in store.

Stable wars in the mid card as an expanded House of Black and an Inner Circle V2 recreate the DX/NOD magic as Sammy and Malakai go to war over the TNT title. Miro returns with some friends of his own?

Cody?

Bryan and Punk; two man power trip?

[Instant Classic]

MJF wins the TNT title.

[bob]

Danhausen joins AEW when his broken leg heels and he's ready to wrestle

MJF will be the first person to beat CM Punk in AEW

Ruby Soho will be the first TBS Women's Champion

Brian Cage and Jake Hager leave the company

FTR becomes the first 2 time AEW Tag Team Champions

Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard have a physical confrontation of some sort and it will be awesome

Chavo Guerrero resurfaces

Wardlow finally turns face

[Deleted]

First Trios champs are crowned, as the Dark Order (Silver, Reynolds, and Cabana) defeat the Super Elite

reDRagon will take the tag titles off The Lucha Bros, who will then drop them to Santana & Ortiz.

Shane Taylor, Keith Lee, Dragon Lee are all picked up. I also think by the end of 2022 we may see rumblings of a Womens Tag Titles

Ricky Starks & Tay Conti win there respective Owen Hart Cups. Starks uses the momentum to take the TNT Title off Guevara.

Hangman will retain the World Title versus Danielson, MJF, & Cole before Malaki Black takes it from him.

House of Black will be the major storyline for the later half of 2022 with Black as champ.

[raymondo316]

Jeff Hardy, Keith Lee, Shane Strickland, Johnny Gargano, Bandido, Ember Moon & Tegan Nox debut

Brian Cage goes back to Impact

Santana & Ortiz become tag champs

Adam Cole wins the TNT title

Trio titles are introduced and Cole, Fish & O'Reilly are the first champions

Thunder Rosa wins the women's world title

Hardy Boyz reunion

Danielson vs O'Reilly happens and everyone loves it

Okada makes an appearance

Daniel Garcia wins the Owen Hart Cup

[clodhopper]

FTR get their win back versus Young Bucks

Christian Cage turns on Jurassic Express very early in the year, February at latest

Page drops the world title less than six months into his reign

Danielson turns face, Punk turns heel, the two feud

[gentlemengreg1]

It’s MJF which turns face in 2022 and not Wardlow.

Absolutely Ricky Starks defeats Sammy and wins TNT.

Miro defeats Hangman to become next AEW World Champion.

[CeilingFan]

Jon Moxley will cross the Forbidden Door and win the Impact World Champion. He will become the first wrestler to be World Champion in WWE, AEW, and Impact.

[robferatu]

A few of my predictions include...

Thunder Rosa will win the Women's Championship.
Ruby Rosa will be the inaugural TBS Champion.
MJF will win the TNT Championship.
Jurassic Express will win the Tag Team Championship.
Adam Cole will end the year as AEW World Championship.
Darby Allin turns heel on Sting.
CM Punk will turn heel.
Kenny Omega will turn face.
Britt Baker will turn face.
AEW will introduce a Trios Championship.
AEW signs Danhausen.
AEW's influx of talent over the past year will lead to the likes of Lance Archer and Brain Cage not being resigned when their contracts expire.