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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2016 5:27:39 GMT -5
Over the years all sorts of shocking events have happened which surprise us in Wrestling. But has anyone ever predicted something random..?
Honesty only please. I'm not referring to those guys from Reddit who vaguely tease "something" might happen on the obvious landmark episodes of RAW.
I don't mean "predicting the outcome of an angle after weeks of teased build up" either, because we all do that. I'm talking about the real random ones. (Claiming you knew about Shane McMahon or The Streak match at WM30 was obviously unlikely. And anyone with a Broadband connection could've predicted AJ Styles at the Rumble.)
My personal best random prediction ever, prior to watching SummerSlam 2011 we made a prediction/sweepstake chart, and I jokingly predicted Kevin Nash's return to the World Title picture. I read nothing before the show, there was nothing to spoil it, it was just a chance conversation about WCW! Can you imagine our shock when he came through the crowd and spiked CM Punk?! The feud was horrible but we still rave about that comeback to this day!
I also managed to make myself look like a know-it-all recently by correctly predicting Triple H would win the Royal Rumble to my casual-viewer work colleague. But that one wasn't too difficult, let's face it. I managed to call Sami Zayn on our entrant-predictor chart, but I was still massively surprised when he came out.
Anybody had any damn good predictions?
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Post by ¡Twist Of Lime Green Jello! on Mar 2, 2016 5:34:40 GMT -5
JBL vs Jericho at the 2008 Royal Rumble. I predicted Jericho would lose by DQ then went one further and predicted he'd use the cables to choke JBL with after the match.
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Post by LtD73 on Mar 2, 2016 5:49:17 GMT -5
Couple of times
Been messing about with my figures, made up the New Years Revolution Elimination Chamber match about a week before it was announced.
Messed about with Evolution returning and triple powerbombing and fist pose, happened the next week.
Did Triple H vs Seth Rollins street fight, Seth fell abit weird on his knee, I rolled with it, 2 days later he got injured.
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Post by Seoul Survivor on Mar 2, 2016 6:14:44 GMT -5
Several years ago my brother and I were playing around with an Umaga action figure and the figure broke; the next week Umaga died in real life.
Some more:
Now that I'm thinking about it, I remember back when I'd do stories for my figures, I had Cody Rhodes as the Intercontinental champion, but the only belt I had at the time was the Legends 4 one, which Cody went on to use in real life (with the white strap) later down the line. Also an unrelated show, but I remember back in like 2004, I used to be big into Power Rangers, and I was playing with the White Ranger action figure from Dino Thunder, pretending that it was Trent (the main villan's son). Later in the series, it was revealed that it really was Trent in the suit.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2016 6:44:12 GMT -5
A few days before Wrestlemania 28 I thought it would be cool if Lesnar returned, and then he did the next week.
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Post by marino13 on Mar 2, 2016 7:06:36 GMT -5
Two of my favorites...
I was watching Bash at the Beach 96 with a couple of friends. My parents were out of town and they let me invite my buddies over to watch the PPV. I think there was 5 or 6 of us there watching. Before the show started, my friend Chad asked everyone who the third man was going to be. I jokingly said Hulk Hogan. Because everyone I knew, knows how much I hated Hogan. So they all laughed. When his music hit everyone just turned and looked at me. In a cocky manner I shrugged my shoulder like "I told ya". But I was pissed off on the inside because I REALLY hated Hulk Hogan.
Years later, I was watching WM XX with two of my other friends Alan & Jeremy at their apartment. They had made a joke before the show started that I wasn't allowed to make any predictions. Because I had a tendency to be right and ruin the twists beforehand. During the promo to the Christian vs Jericho match, I quickly said "Trish is going to turn on Y2J and aligned herself with Christian". Alan told me to "STOP IT!". As soon as she slapped Jericho, Alan told me to "Get Out!!". He wasn't being serious and we did enjoy the rest of the show.
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Post by BROKEN on Mar 2, 2016 7:25:30 GMT -5
I told people the NWO and DX would come out during sting vs hhh at last years mania
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Post by 500DaysofNight on Mar 2, 2016 9:33:28 GMT -5
I was pretty spot on with the Rumble. Told my cousin that I believed that if AJ was in the Rumble, he's be in the first five entrants (he was #3). Also, I figured if Kevin Owens was in the Rumble, that Sami Zayn would be in it as well and be the one to throw him out (he was, and he did). And last, I got Triple H winning right.
I partially got another one right... I thought Jericho would be the one to eliminate AJ and start a program with him but he wasn't the one to eliminate him. But they have feuded/formed a tag team since then.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2016 10:02:59 GMT -5
Ha, yes. I don't know if anyone was around /r/SquaredCircle on Reddit back in May when Cena was doing his open challenge and someone predicted Sami Zayn will answer and Dean Ambrose will become relevant again.
Sami Zayn answered the challenge and Dean Ambrose pinned Seth Rollins to get a world title match.
I was the person who predicted it. When I woke up, I was rather confused as to what had happened while I was asleep.
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Mar 2, 2016 10:10:06 GMT -5
Cool thread idea.
I remember watching the 2010 Royal Rumble with a group of friends (it was tradition by this point). One of my friends, Joseph, was a massive Shawn Michaels fan who badly wanted him to win so we could get the rematch against Taker. Another friend, Christian, loved Batista. Before the Rumble, just to mess with them, I said that Batista would eliminate Michaels from the Rumble. When he finally did in the end, Joseph got up and left without saying a word.
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Post by slappy on Mar 2, 2016 10:33:23 GMT -5
I did a walk out in my text fed here on WF before they did a walk out in WWE. Not really predicting but more like accusing WWE of stealing from me.
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Post by havoc7179 on Mar 2, 2016 11:32:47 GMT -5
Technically, I predicted the Hogan turn in WCW.
When they were talking about the third man, my brother and I were trying to figure out who WWF was sending. We knew it had to be a big anme since there was secrecy, so guys like Kid were out. We eliminated Steve Austin, Warrior, and Ahmed Johnson based on what they were doing at the moment. We thought Shawn Michaels would be the perfect representative since he was champion, but also wondered why Vince would send their champion over. What if they lost? So then we discussed the Undertaker or Mankind, but figured there would be no reason since the team of Diesel, Razor, and Undertaker/Mankind would be weird. We then started to look at guys from WCW who wrestled in WWF, and landed on Hogan, who we hadn't seen in a while. We never considered Orndorf, Avalanche, or any other worker who was in WWF because we were still relatively new to watching wrestling, and didn't really know they competed in the WWF. Since he was the face of WWF (and my brother and I used to confuse WWF with WCW when we initially started watching), we felt Hogan was the right choice.
Apparently so did WCW.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2016 11:40:06 GMT -5
I predict Dean Ambrose to beat Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania
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Post by Mark Martin on Mar 2, 2016 12:20:48 GMT -5
The only 2 I can remember was watching Raw when Michaels/Hogan won a tag match and as they started celebrating I told my Dad "I bet Michaels superkicks Hogan" which he did. That and Scott Steiner turning on Rick at Superbrawl VIII is all I can think of.
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Post by ellisd on Mar 2, 2016 12:25:33 GMT -5
I remember right after King of the Ring 1994 after Anvil turned on Bret and sided with Owen, my brother and I talked how cool it would be if Bulldog came back and helped Bret against them.
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Post by Kanenite on Mar 2, 2016 12:26:23 GMT -5
I predicted Edge winning the 2010 Royal Rumble and even guessed his number.
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Post by sitruC on Mar 2, 2016 12:27:51 GMT -5
I thought Seth would cash in at Mania when he had that unsuccessful one at Night of Champions (or some show), but I guess most people predicted that.
Apart from Rumble winners (which are usually obvious) I don't think I have, which is worrying considering how predictable it is now.
Here's one for the future: Balor will debut the night after Mania and confront Reigns.
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Post by BrIaNMeRcY on Mar 2, 2016 12:50:20 GMT -5
There is two that really came to mind while all of the cards were on the deck:
Seth Rollins cashing in Money In The Bank at WrestleMania XXXI. I came to predict this because it was the tenth anniversary of the MITB and allowing something that hasn't happened at WrestleMania. That being a MITB cash-in. With that said, Rollins cashing-in, he became the first WWE Champion to have been born after the inception of WrestleMania.
The other being predicting the match order at the 2007 Royal Rumble. The match order made sense. You had MNM vs. The Hardys as the opener, Bobby Lashley vs. Test for the ECW Championship, Batista vs. Mr Kennedy for the World Heavyweight Championship, John Cena vs. Umaga for the WWE Championship, and finally, the Royal Rumble match. Looking back at 2007, I would be hard pressed to find somebody who would have predicted The Undertaker & Shawn Michaels being the final two. Additionally, I don't think anybody would have thought 2007 would be the year the 30th entrant would end up clinching a World Championship match for WrestleMania 23.
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Post by davie™ on Mar 2, 2016 12:56:50 GMT -5
Cena Rumble 08.
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Mar 2, 2016 13:01:51 GMT -5
Twice in my figure fed.
I had Batista and Flair win the tag belts and then 1 week later it happened in real life.
Same with John Cena I had him win the US belt a few months before WM 20.
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