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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 21, 2022 6:09:09 GMT -5
I figure this would be a fun, easy thread idea. Any wrestler you want who can win a belt and has not won it yet, or did not win it/defend it in the fashion you'd like, throw them out there. You can explain how they'd win it, or you can just say the name and title belt, either way works.
Here's a NJPW one, since why not.
I would like for Goto to win the IWGP title.
-He isn't going to ever live up to the hopes some had for him, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't be deserving of the title. NJPW doesn't mind having wrestlers win the title late in their careers sometimes, like Nakanishi, Tenryu, and some other examples, so it doesn't feel implausible. Still, I cannot imagine he'd have the title long. He is one of the only G1 winners who has never won the belt, and hell, if he won it from either Okada or KENTA, it'd be all the sweeter, especially since the latter would also be pretty deserved as an IWGP title winner.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 21, 2022 7:29:22 GMT -5
Actually, come to think of it, Ishii qualifies for a ton of the same reasons, albeit he's never won the G1. Goto probably has a higher chance of winning the world title, but neither guy is someone who their winning would be an enormous surprise. Long shots, yes, but not totally bonkers.
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Post by Bo Rida on Jul 21, 2022 8:06:53 GMT -5
I want Asuka/Veny to win the TBS title from whoever the next champion is and have a decent fighting champion run with it.
(Assuming she wouldn't want to stay in aew long-term)
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 21, 2022 8:13:41 GMT -5
I want Asuka/Veny to win the TBS title from whoever the next champion is and have a decent fighting champion run with it. (Assuming she wouldn't want to stay in aew long-term) That'd rock. Similarly, I'd love if Emi Sakura won one of the titles, herself. |
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jul 21, 2022 8:26:47 GMT -5
Def agree on Goto. He more than has the resume to be champ and I will forever stand on his runs as NEVER champ and how he put that division on his back when Shibata was moved up
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 21, 2022 18:05:15 GMT -5
Here's two.
I'd love for Zack Sabre Jr. to either win the NEVER title or the US title. He's been in some need to win singles gold in NJPW for a while now, and the latter belt, he'd probably be funny holding due to his professed disdain for US wrestling. I don't think he'd trash the belt like Naito used to threaten to do, but I could see him grinning and bearing it while clearly loathing the idea.
And, this is one that is probably inevitable, but when Cody returns from injury, Cody Rhodes, WWE Champion, feels like the absolute right move. WWE have been handling his return well for the most part, and I feel that putting the big one on him would let them do the kind of babyface champion that they have failed to pull off numerous times in the past.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jul 21, 2022 23:53:28 GMT -5
Hirooki Goto goes full-on heel and finally wins the IWGP Heavyweight Title (I guess it's the World Heavyweight Title since the merge but it's still the same position).
If not that, he jumps to All Japan and wins the Triple Crown.
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Post by ANuclearError on Jul 22, 2022 8:09:36 GMT -5
Here's two. I'd love for Zack Sabre Jr. to either win the NEVER title or the US title. He's been in some need to win singles gold in NJPW for a while now, and the latter belt, he'd probably be funny holding due to his professed disdain for US wrestling. I don't think he'd trash the belt like Naito used to threaten to do, but I could see him grinning and bearing it while clearly loathing the idea.And, this is one that is probably inevitable, but when Cody returns from injury, Cody Rhodes, WWE Champion, feels like the absolute right move. WWE have been handling his return well for the most part, and I feel that putting the big one on him would let them do the kind of babyface champion that they have failed to pull off numerous times in the past. I think it'd also work with him being just such a smug git about he's better than the US people.
On a similar note to Goto, I'd loved to have seen Ishii get the IWGP Heavyweight belt.
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Post by King Devitt on Jul 22, 2022 9:03:01 GMT -5
Well while we're on the topic of NJPW....put the world title on Suzuki you cowards!
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Post by Hypnosis on Jul 22, 2022 9:32:44 GMT -5
Kris Statlander with the TBS or AEW Women's World title.
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Post by Sephiroth on Jul 22, 2022 9:57:19 GMT -5
Sheamus should get a short run with the IC belt just so he can officially claim to have done it all
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Post by Instant Classic on Jul 22, 2022 11:06:03 GMT -5
I want Sheamus to beat Gunther for the IC title and Woods to beat Sheamus for the title.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 23, 2022 1:33:40 GMT -5
I want Sheamus to beat Gunther for the IC title and Woods to beat Sheamus for the title. Excellent sequence. Outside of this, wouldn't mind Cody winning the US title sometime after the WWE title, just since his dad and brother both won it, and the tattoo just kind of makes it feel like a given. |
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Post by AwamoriRock on Jul 23, 2022 1:44:03 GMT -5
I always thought there was a small window for Goto to lose it after being clowned by Okada and turning heel (although I would have preferred him winning as a face) and then get the title. BC wouldn’t fit but I thought Suzuki-gun could have, he could have been like Sugiura to Suzuki in NOAH, like an enforcer who’s actually the main dude. If it happened for even one night/defense the crowd would pop huge though.
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Post by Bo Rida on Jul 23, 2022 4:15:25 GMT -5
Eddie Kingston, Chris Brookes, Maki Itoh, Sami Zayn and ZSJ to win the top belt in their respective main promotions.
Orange Cassidy, Kris Statlander and Ninja Mack to win any belt in theirs (I mean Noah for Mack but don't know if that actually is his main promotion now).
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Post by Instant Classic on Jul 23, 2022 13:26:56 GMT -5
I want Sheamus to beat Gunther for the IC title and Woods to beat Sheamus for the title. Excellent sequence. Outside of this, wouldn't mind Cody winning the US title sometime after the WWE title, just since his dad and brother both won it, and the tattoo just kind of makes it feel like a given. I was excited when he was facing Theory for it, then bummed when he didn’t win it. I hope he wins it eventually. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 25, 2022 5:03:04 GMT -5
If he doesn't leave NWA, I'd honestly consider putting the ROH title on Chris Adronis sometime. Or if he wanted to join, Chris Hero.
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