December 29, 2025 • 12 mins
What does the future hold for WWE in 2026? 🤔
On this short podcast, we break down bold WWE 2026 predictions, including potential world champions, major storyline directions, surprise returns, rising stars, and how WWE’s landscape could look one year ahead. From WrestleMania main events to championship reigns and roster shakeups, these predictions explore where WWE may be headed next.
On this short podcast, we break down bold WWE 2026 predictions, including potential world champions, major storyline directions, surprise returns, rising stars, and how WWE’s landscape could look one year ahead. From WrestleMania main events to championship reigns and roster shakeups, these predictions explore where WWE may be headed next.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fax tags bo, So what's never Oh sorry, Spady fine,
but the secrets bag fra fac takes by.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Welcome to the new channel. Let's get into predictions this
year for WWE because twenty twenty six is coming up
and everyone also has thoughts about what is next. Nope,
crack saxo, so.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
It's never oh sorry, Spady fine, but the secrets bag
frame tax stays.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Will Vince McMahon return in twenty twenty six? Who will
be fired? Let's get into predictions right here. Let's bringing
a new channel talking about current day wrestling because boy
oh boy, with the year ending, everyone has these crazy
bold predictions. Mine, for one, Vince McMahon is going to
somehow legally be able to enter back into the WWE,
(01:15):
because listen, there's a lot of thoughts about Vince McMahon
today's world. But guess what when legally he's not guilty
of anything yet. You know, depending on how you look
at the situation, he can maybe invoke some sucks because
guess what, the man has so many shares of WWE
(01:38):
TKO stocks endeavor, so in reality, he could use that
power anytime he probably really wants to, if he pushed
hard enough, as we know it's in today's world, if
you have enough power, enough money, you can really do
whatever you want in this world, especially this country. So maybe,
just maybe Vince McMahon legally will use his power to
(01:59):
get back in the W. One big prediction I have
is unfortunate a layoffs. It's gonna happen. It's pretty obvious
that every quarter some wrestles get laid off. But right
now we have kind of locked down. Our core talent
are raw and SmackDown. We have our NXT talent that
obviously are still being built up, and you have performance
(02:21):
center wrestlers. But on the main card. You know, recently
I saw this tweet. It really triggered my brain. Where
otis t Zawa, Apollo Cruise. Now, they're all fun people
to be on television, but Apollo Cruise he might work
backstages with producer. But when people see that, But yet
you're laying off wrestlers they enjoy weekly, monthly. There's a
(02:46):
list of wrestlers that I could see go and I
don't want them to go, like Johnny Gargano, Tomaso Champa,
CANi sil Ray, love them to death, always enjoyed their work.
But if the WWE is looking at the roster and
looking at talent and going, well, we're spending almost money
on some people while Wharf got rid of them because
(03:06):
they're really not adding is much value that we're paying
them to our weekly shows. When we have talent NXT
we could bring up and insert them into the game.
I think that's coming up. Unfortunately for Johnny and Tomaso
and Kennel story. I don't want that to happen, but
it just seems like when you look at the card
of wrestlers, they're not gonna lay off Damian Priest. You know,
(03:28):
they're not gonna lay off Eo Scott, Like these are
your main stars. You're Rea Ripley's your John Cen as
a type characters, Cody Rhodes, you know, seeing punk people
aren't leaving any time soon. But wrestles like Otis Tazawa,
they're no longer needed in the Max do pre storyline
because she is off and running on her own. We
(03:50):
did see the comedy group of Our Truth and Joe
Henry on a Smack Dad episode recently, and guess what,
I love those moments. I think those moments are hilarious
and fun, but they've been missing from ww E TV
for so long once Triple Litz took over, Like we
didn't have pumpkins on people's heads during Halloween time or
Santa Claus fighting an evil Santa Claus. I kind of
miss those days. We got to see that moment, but
(04:11):
then when we saw that moment, it felt so out
of place. So I have a feeling that is going
to be the case. There also another one, pay per reviews.
They're only gonna somehow go up in price because you
have ESPN. That's one bill. You have Peacock if you
want to watch Saturday Night's main event. But I have
(04:34):
a feeling they're going to somehow squeeze in more special
type shows. You'll have the ples for ESPN. And if
you count that as having twelve, well you have WrestleMania
as two, you have Summer Slam as two. That reality
means you have a gap. That means you've fulfilled your
(04:55):
pay per view, your pl fulfillment for the year by
the time you get to September, October, November, December. You're
telling me that WWE is not gonna try to figure
out how to go to Netflix and go you know
what we should do. We should have like a Netflix
special every quarter, and we'll bring in your Netflix shows
and we'll have their talent backstage rubbing shoulders with ww wrestlers.
(05:19):
Oh man, we should do that. We should do that again.
These are predictions, but have a bad feeling they're gonna
like figure out how to do that, because if you're
not watching Raw on Netflix, oh I don't want to
miss this special they're having, so you buy Netflix. Now
you're watching Raw and the special Smackdowns on cable. I
(05:41):
got rid of cable. You can just watch SmackDown pretty
much on Twitter, and WWE's social team posts clips way
too quickly. I get it because they're trying to compete
with the other social media accounts doing the same exact
thing before the WWE does. But if you wait five minutes,
(06:01):
let's smack Down start at eight o'clock wherever you live,
wait about five minutes, ten minutes, and you'll get that clip,
the highlight, the best part of the past ten minutes
will be posted socially online. So I wouldn't question the
WWE figuring out how to have separate brands have separate specials.
You know, Raw and Netflix will have a special and
(06:22):
SmackDown in Peacock because they're part of the USA family
will do that as well. They're gonna try to lock
us down into more money. Somehow. It's gonna happen, and
I'm not excited to see that. One thing I'm excited
to see is my prediction is the WWE is gonna
bring back having an event on the beach, just like
WCW used to. They're gonna have the pool, they're gonna
(06:44):
have the beach, They're gonna have the theme, and it's gonna
be gigantic. It will be the WWE's concert, a whole festival.
They already have the world, but what theyre going to
create is a different atmosphere, a beach atmosphere. Get all
the pretty people in there, get all the pretty people
in their baithen suits, put their shirts on. Everybody else,
(07:06):
including myself. I'm included, and they will have a beach
party themed pay per view, beach Blast, perhaps Great American Bash.
But that's my big prediction because the WWE is trying
to figure out how to create these events to be special.
How do you do it? Well, let's go to Daytona Beach.
Let's get Daytona to pay us a crazy amount of
(07:28):
money to come to this event, have a arena outside,
build stages, build the whole thing. Have Daytona pay for it,
of course, but you're going to bring in things across
the world locally also, and they will attend this event.
They will go to the local bars, stay in the hotels,
eat the restaurants, buy from mom and pop pizza places.
(07:50):
And then you will see that the Daytona Beach was
smart enough to realize we need a special event because
how many times you see a specional event like that.
You don't need Moore because it's all arenas and stadiums.
But if you build, if you build and build and build,
like the Olympics does every time they come around, people
stop building hotels and building pools and buildings and hotel everything.
(08:13):
That's what the WWE is going to have to do next.
They're not going to just be a sports entertainment company.
They're gonna be a company that is creating revenue out
of real estate. Physical Hall of Fame people keep bringing up,
but guess what if they do that, then forever you
have to go to this one location to go to
(08:35):
the Hall of Fame. But if you hold special events
all across the world all the time. Well, then you
have to keep going to all these events all the time,
because just like certain concerts, people travel to Taylor Swift
concerts just to get the merchandise, the exclusive for that
or event merchandise. Same thing for WWE fans who wouldn't
(08:58):
say they want to go to Daytona Beach to buy
exclusive twenty twenty six. Sure from this event, go to
the local bar, take a picture like these are the
things that are gonna be in the ww's I next,
just like McDonald's didn't build their franchise based off of
burgers and fries, they built their franchise off of real estate.
(09:18):
In the WWE opening little hotels in little places and
making deals with companies that are profiting like a hard
rock cafe. Hotel a hard rock cafe, I know, they
had a restaurant a long time ago, and Vince tried
to open a hotel years ago, but he didn't have
the vision of how to do it. You gotta bring
in partners, and these partners have to sustain it for you.
(09:39):
Not you sustain it for them, they sustain it for you.
That's my big prediction getting WWE back in the game
with a Beach Blast or Bash at the Bees Beach
or Great American Bash, but also building a real estate
on everything they do, because sooner enough they don't want
(10:00):
the circus or aw or concerts to be Summarna's main
source of income. The WWE wants to show that they're
the best partner. You don't want to have this band, No,
you want the WWE. So you will give us a
little every time we guarantee will come to you. And
if you do that, you give us a piece of
your gate all the time, not just WWE events, the
(10:22):
gate for little events. Here comes you know who's Aerosmith,
you know kid Rock? Here come these people, these talented
artists coming in. We want a piece of that. I
see the WWE really expanding into a money market. But
you know, those are my big predictions. All in all,
I'm hoping that Judgment Day gets back together in the
(10:44):
way I want it to be. Rear Ripley turning heel
with Damien Priest, with Dom leading the way and finnbal
Are also in toe. That's what I want. That's my prediction.
I don't care if no one else thinks a good idea.
That's what I want because it's it's deserved. That was
(11:08):
the best version of Judgment Day. We won't get it, though.
What we will get is the endless teasing of Cody
Roads turning evil and less teasing of Cody Rose turning evil.
And I really don't think they will because just like
John Cena for the past, you know, twenty years was
(11:30):
this man was telling so much merchandise. Why would you
deny that money, like well, for star jetting. No, they're
not doing that for storytelling. They can turn you know,
see him punk bad and they'll be okay, you know,
he'll he'll still people will still buy his stuff. But
Cody Rhodes, that's a money machine, money machine, so not
(11:54):
gonna get rid of that anytime soon. But the AEO folks,
those are my WW twenty twenty six predictions right here
on the New Channel. Hope you enjoyed it. Talk soon
and we'll be back with more current content. Have a
good one, folks.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Fax Days so it's never who's sorry, who's coming up?
So steady bye, But the secrets break fame, Tax Days
pass a real
Fax tags bo, So what's never Oh sorry, Spady fine,
but the secrets bag fra fac takes by.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Welcome to the new channel. Let's get into predictions this
year for WWE because twenty twenty six is coming up
and everyone also has thoughts about what is next. Nope,
crack saxo, so.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
It's never oh sorry, Spady fine, but the secrets bag
frame tax stays.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Will Vince McMahon return in twenty twenty six? Who will
be fired? Let's get into predictions right here. Let's bringing
a new channel talking about current day wrestling because boy
oh boy, with the year ending, everyone has these crazy
bold predictions. Mine, for one, Vince McMahon is going to
somehow legally be able to enter back into the WWE,
(01:15):
because listen, there's a lot of thoughts about Vince McMahon
today's world. But guess what when legally he's not guilty
of anything yet. You know, depending on how you look
at the situation, he can maybe invoke some sucks because
guess what, the man has so many shares of WWE
(01:38):
TKO stocks endeavor, so in reality, he could use that
power anytime he probably really wants to, if he pushed
hard enough, as we know it's in today's world, if
you have enough power, enough money, you can really do
whatever you want in this world, especially this country. So maybe,
just maybe Vince McMahon legally will use his power to
(01:59):
get back in the W. One big prediction I have
is unfortunate a layoffs. It's gonna happen. It's pretty obvious
that every quarter some wrestles get laid off. But right
now we have kind of locked down. Our core talent
are raw and SmackDown. We have our NXT talent that
obviously are still being built up, and you have performance
(02:21):
center wrestlers. But on the main card. You know, recently
I saw this tweet. It really triggered my brain. Where
otis t Zawa, Apollo Cruise. Now, they're all fun people
to be on television, but Apollo Cruise he might work
backstages with producer. But when people see that, But yet
you're laying off wrestlers they enjoy weekly, monthly. There's a
(02:46):
list of wrestlers that I could see go and I
don't want them to go, like Johnny Gargano, Tomaso Champa,
CANi sil Ray, love them to death, always enjoyed their work.
But if the WWE is looking at the roster and
looking at talent and going, well, we're spending almost money
on some people while Wharf got rid of them because
(03:06):
they're really not adding is much value that we're paying
them to our weekly shows. When we have talent NXT
we could bring up and insert them into the game.
I think that's coming up. Unfortunately for Johnny and Tomaso
and Kennel story. I don't want that to happen, but
it just seems like when you look at the card
of wrestlers, they're not gonna lay off Damian Priest. You know,
(03:28):
they're not gonna lay off Eo Scott, Like these are
your main stars. You're Rea Ripley's your John Cen as
a type characters, Cody Rhodes, you know, seeing punk people
aren't leaving any time soon. But wrestles like Otis Tazawa,
they're no longer needed in the Max do pre storyline
because she is off and running on her own. We
(03:50):
did see the comedy group of Our Truth and Joe
Henry on a Smack Dad episode recently, and guess what,
I love those moments. I think those moments are hilarious
and fun, but they've been missing from ww E TV
for so long once Triple Litz took over, Like we
didn't have pumpkins on people's heads during Halloween time or
Santa Claus fighting an evil Santa Claus. I kind of
miss those days. We got to see that moment, but
(04:11):
then when we saw that moment, it felt so out
of place. So I have a feeling that is going
to be the case. There also another one, pay per reviews.
They're only gonna somehow go up in price because you
have ESPN. That's one bill. You have Peacock if you
want to watch Saturday Night's main event. But I have
(04:34):
a feeling they're going to somehow squeeze in more special
type shows. You'll have the ples for ESPN. And if
you count that as having twelve, well you have WrestleMania
as two, you have Summer Slam as two. That reality
means you have a gap. That means you've fulfilled your
(04:55):
pay per view, your pl fulfillment for the year by
the time you get to September, October, November, December. You're
telling me that WWE is not gonna try to figure
out how to go to Netflix and go you know
what we should do. We should have like a Netflix
special every quarter, and we'll bring in your Netflix shows
and we'll have their talent backstage rubbing shoulders with ww wrestlers.
(05:19):
Oh man, we should do that. We should do that again.
These are predictions, but have a bad feeling they're gonna
like figure out how to do that, because if you're
not watching Raw on Netflix, oh I don't want to
miss this special they're having, so you buy Netflix. Now
you're watching Raw and the special Smackdowns on cable. I
(05:41):
got rid of cable. You can just watch SmackDown pretty
much on Twitter, and WWE's social team posts clips way
too quickly. I get it because they're trying to compete
with the other social media accounts doing the same exact
thing before the WWE does. But if you wait five minutes,
(06:01):
let's smack Down start at eight o'clock wherever you live,
wait about five minutes, ten minutes, and you'll get that clip,
the highlight, the best part of the past ten minutes
will be posted socially online. So I wouldn't question the
WWE figuring out how to have separate brands have separate specials.
You know, Raw and Netflix will have a special and
(06:22):
SmackDown in Peacock because they're part of the USA family
will do that as well. They're gonna try to lock
us down into more money. Somehow. It's gonna happen, and
I'm not excited to see that. One thing I'm excited
to see is my prediction is the WWE is gonna
bring back having an event on the beach, just like
WCW used to. They're gonna have the pool, they're gonna
(06:44):
have the beach, They're gonna have the theme, and it's gonna
be gigantic. It will be the WWE's concert, a whole festival.
They already have the world, but what theyre going to
create is a different atmosphere, a beach atmosphere. Get all
the pretty people in there, get all the pretty people
in their baithen suits, put their shirts on. Everybody else,
(07:06):
including myself. I'm included, and they will have a beach
party themed pay per view, beach Blast, perhaps Great American Bash.
But that's my big prediction because the WWE is trying
to figure out how to create these events to be special.
How do you do it? Well, let's go to Daytona Beach.
Let's get Daytona to pay us a crazy amount of
(07:28):
money to come to this event, have a arena outside,
build stages, build the whole thing. Have Daytona pay for it,
of course, but you're going to bring in things across
the world locally also, and they will attend this event.
They will go to the local bars, stay in the hotels,
eat the restaurants, buy from mom and pop pizza places.
(07:50):
And then you will see that the Daytona Beach was
smart enough to realize we need a special event because
how many times you see a specional event like that.
You don't need Moore because it's all arenas and stadiums.
But if you build, if you build and build and build,
like the Olympics does every time they come around, people
stop building hotels and building pools and buildings and hotel everything.
(08:13):
That's what the WWE is going to have to do next.
They're not going to just be a sports entertainment company.
They're gonna be a company that is creating revenue out
of real estate. Physical Hall of Fame people keep bringing up,
but guess what if they do that, then forever you
have to go to this one location to go to
(08:35):
the Hall of Fame. But if you hold special events
all across the world all the time. Well, then you
have to keep going to all these events all the time,
because just like certain concerts, people travel to Taylor Swift
concerts just to get the merchandise, the exclusive for that
or event merchandise. Same thing for WWE fans who wouldn't
(08:58):
say they want to go to Daytona Beach to buy
exclusive twenty twenty six. Sure from this event, go to
the local bar, take a picture like these are the
things that are gonna be in the ww's I next,
just like McDonald's didn't build their franchise based off of
burgers and fries, they built their franchise off of real estate.
(09:18):
In the WWE opening little hotels in little places and
making deals with companies that are profiting like a hard
rock cafe. Hotel a hard rock cafe, I know, they
had a restaurant a long time ago, and Vince tried
to open a hotel years ago, but he didn't have
the vision of how to do it. You gotta bring
in partners, and these partners have to sustain it for you.
(09:39):
Not you sustain it for them, they sustain it for you.
That's my big prediction getting WWE back in the game
with a Beach Blast or Bash at the Bees Beach
or Great American Bash, but also building a real estate
on everything they do, because sooner enough they don't want
(10:00):
the circus or aw or concerts to be Summarna's main
source of income. The WWE wants to show that they're
the best partner. You don't want to have this band, No,
you want the WWE. So you will give us a
little every time we guarantee will come to you. And
if you do that, you give us a piece of
your gate all the time, not just WWE events, the
(10:22):
gate for little events. Here comes you know who's Aerosmith,
you know kid Rock? Here come these people, these talented
artists coming in. We want a piece of that. I
see the WWE really expanding into a money market. But
you know, those are my big predictions. All in all,
I'm hoping that Judgment Day gets back together in the
(10:44):
way I want it to be. Rear Ripley turning heel
with Damien Priest, with Dom leading the way and finnbal
Are also in toe. That's what I want. That's my prediction.
I don't care if no one else thinks a good idea.
That's what I want because it's it's deserved. That was
(11:08):
the best version of Judgment Day. We won't get it, though.
What we will get is the endless teasing of Cody
Roads turning evil and less teasing of Cody Rose turning evil.
And I really don't think they will because just like
John Cena for the past, you know, twenty years was
(11:30):
this man was telling so much merchandise. Why would you
deny that money, like well, for star jetting. No, they're
not doing that for storytelling. They can turn you know,
see him punk bad and they'll be okay, you know,
he'll he'll still people will still buy his stuff. But
Cody Rhodes, that's a money machine, money machine, so not
(11:54):
gonna get rid of that anytime soon. But the AEO folks,
those are my WW twenty twenty six predictions right here
on the New Channel. Hope you enjoyed it. Talk soon
and we'll be back with more current content. Have a
good one, folks.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Fax Days so it's never who's sorry, who's coming up?
So steady bye, But the secrets break fame, Tax Days
pass a real
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