WWE and AEW – Reckless Predictions for 2024! | Notsam Wrestling 480

Sam Roberts gives his take on what may happen in the WWE and AEW in 2024, including the stories of Roman Reigns, Cody Rhodes, and CM Punk, potential for Adam Copeland and MJF in AEW, LA Knight, and, of course, answers emails.

0:00 – Notsam Wrestling
2:11 – 2024 Predictions
5:15 – The Rock in 2024
7:00 – Roman Reigns & The Bloodline in 2024
17:17 – Cody Rhodes & CM Punk in 2024
29:30 – Jade Cargill in 2024
34:45 – AEW in 2024
42:26 – Swerve in 2024
48:30 – Adam Copeland and MJF
51:00 – Matt Cardona in 2024
53:34 – Logan Paul & LA Knight
55:45 – TNA
57:30 – EMails

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Today on not Sam wrestling after an amazing year we gaze into the crystal ball as we look at what 2024 will bring us in the worlds of WWE and aew this is not Sam wrestling happy New Year welcome to 2024 welcome to notam wrestling we have so much to talk about today with

Everything that is possible everything that there’s a chance of in this next 365 days and I’ll tell you right now I’m feeling excited I’m feeling optimistic not just because of the world of professional wrestling and what we’ve got on our plate the fact that I would argue that as we start

2024 there is more that is possible in the world of professional wrestling than at any time that I have ever watched the product but with that said the world world of not Sam wrestling just keeps expanding and expanding and expanding 2024 is looking to be a fabulous year

Already so much in store of course we’re not getting through the first month without a live show January 26th that’s the Friday before the Royal Rumble in Tampa Florida you can go to Side Splitters Comedy Club at 5:00 p.m. on Friday January 26th to see not Sam wrestling live I was already working

Over the holidays starting to guest book it is going to be a fabulous show go to notsam live.com for tickets now and here on this channel later this week we start 2024 with one of the biggest wrestling interviews that I’ve ever done in this studio if you build it they will come

Well I built the Nots Sam studio and boy did they come it’s coming up this Wednesday so make sure you’re subscribed but before we get there you bet they did before we get there we’ve got to talk about what we can expect in 2024 of course last week on the show we went

Over 2023 in the year that was a year ago I did a prediction podcast for 2023 I don’t even want to go back and watch it cuz I’m sure it was 100% Incorrect and I can almost guarantee you that my 2024 predictions podcast will be 100% incorrect but if we’re not here to

Speculate wildly I don’t know why we’re here so let’s get into it here is and and we say predictions right but that word is is is used very Loosely here I would say this is one way that 2024 could go and if you ask me to day at the time of this

Recording is this a good idea I would say yes this is one or several I guess because it’s various ideas but this is one group of things that you could do in 2024 uh both in WWE and in aew and when I think about 2024 I begin with the tribal Chief Roman

Reigns now the bloodline is at a a a key moment evolution is essential it’s also a mystery it’s essential for the bloodline because people feel like they’ve seen so much of what the bloodline has to offer well I have a tremendous idea to evolve the bloodline into 2024 and truly get to

That next chapter where we need to go first of all I think the J Uso experiment if you want to call call it that has been an unbelievable success Jay Uso named my wrestler of 2023 last week I do not see the bloodline reforming I do not see Jay Uso finding

Himself back into that structure because Jay Uso is a big enough star on his own he’s a great hero he’s an awesome good guy wrestler so I think when we look at the bloodline here’s what we’ve got Roman Reigns in specific and I know that there’s speculation about whether Roman Reigns

Will even be around after WrestleMania This and That that we can’t live in that world cuz we don’t know we can wildly speculate but you can’t tell me well you can’t make any Roman Reigns predictions CU he’s going to be gone because you don’t know if he’s going to be gone so

Let me speculate in the world in which I exist so I think Roman Reigns obviously gets to WrestleMania as the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion I think that uh we’ll find out very soon who he faces at at the Royal Rumble uh but he’ll get through that challenge um the

Elimination chamber I believe we’ll have another big Roman Reigns match on the way to WrestleMania I think it’s entirely possible here’s prediction number one I believe we’re going to see The Rock wrestle in 2024 I think that the the rock is very aware of all things at all times he’s

The all- knowing he’s the Almighty he’s Dwayne The Rock Johnson and I think that he realizes that now would be a great time to get involved with WWE because the product is is hot and why not be the biggest part of a hot product and that’s

What would happen if the rock came back I think the idea of the rock coming back and facing anyone besides Roman Reigns does not make a huge amount of sense I think it’s possible that The Rock wrestles at elimination chamber uh I think it’s possible that the rock

Wrestles sometime after that I don’t have on my dance card The Rock wrestling at WrestleMania I believe the Wrestlemania main event will be Roman Reigns versus Cody rhods but I believe that main event will take place on night one now if the rock is to whenever the rock

Is to wrestle Roman Reigns that could happen at elimination chamber before WrestleMania and I know you’re saying you think we’re going to bring the the rock out for elimination chamber keep in mind this is not your typical elimination chamber pay-per-view this is not a b show by any stretch of the

Imagination this is an international premium live event this is we’re going all the way to Australia to put this show on this is a massive massive show so the idea that The Rock could come out for an elimination chamber pay-per-view now would be the time to do it if not it

Could happen after it could happen at a money in the bank it could happen at a SummerSlam either way the scenario is the same Roman Reigns defeats the rock he does so with the help of solo seoa however he didn’t necessarily want solo seo’s help he beats The Rock he looks

Triumphant but he also is slightly not majorly but slightly annoyed that solo sooa got involved he wanted to do this one himself we get to WrestleMania Cody rhods does not win the Royal Rumble he has to work harder to get to WrestleMania he has to win an elimination chamber match to get to

WrestleMania he does win that Elimination Chamber match he he he travels that long journey to get back to where he started a year ago the main event of WrestleMania against Roman Reigns the reason that I have Cody rhods and Roman Reigns in the main event of night one not night two of

WrestleMania is because this year at WrestleMania solo seoa tries to interfere again but Cody catches him this time Cody knocks solo seoa off the apron rendering him useless and when he goes after Roman Reigns Roman is still able to get the advantage of Co over Cody rhods and without solo seo’s

Successful interference Roman Reigns is still able to beat Cody rhods Cody rhods leaves the main event of night one of WrestleMania losing to Roman Reigns clean and if you thought the look on Cody’s face after night one after night two of WrestleMania last year was hopeless you have not seen the levels of

Despair that will be on the face of Cody rhods after WrestleMania night one almost to say what’s next Roman leaves WrestleMania with a new feeling of of Triumph that he has not only defeated Cody rhods twice but now there’s there’s no question he didn’t do it with the help of the

Bloodline now some will say well Solo getting involved just distracted Cody rhods enough that in and of itself was interference and that’s true and that’s what solo May argue at some point but in Roman’s mind he beat Cody rhods without any help from the bloodline and that’s it now uh the the

Smackdown after WrestleMania Roman Reigns holds a meeting of the bloodline and what he does is he sends Jimmy Uso home Jimmy Uso is for all intents and purposes Out Of The Bloodline but it’s not in a very it’s not in a hostile way it’s just in a

Jimmy it’s time for you to go home it’s time for you to go visit the elders that’s what he says to Jimmy Uso the problem with Jimmy Uso is that Jimmy went to WrestleMania and he faced off against Jay Uso Jay Uso versus Jimmy Uso finally goes down at WrestleMania Jay Uso beats

His brother Jimmy without question and when we get to SmackDown with Roman still the Undisputed Universal Champion Jimmy Uso is sent home to visit the Elders because in the state that he’s in he’s no longer of value to the bloodline Jimmy disappears for the while and as we go forward Roman Reigns makes

It clear to solo seoa and the wise man that there are members of the Smackdown roster that need to be reminded of the fact that he’s the head of the table there are members of the Smackdown roster that need to be reminded of the reasons that he’s in the position that he’s

In and Roman needs to start doing it alone first Roman tells solo not to get involved and this goes back to the match with the rock where Roman didn’t want solo involved but solo got involved then he starts telling him you know what stay backstage and Roman has post

WrestleMania a couple it’s not going to be a lot of matches it’s never going to be a lot of matches with Roman Reigns but the matches that Roman does have post WrestleMania with that title on the line Roman is going to do by himself Roman is going to be able to beat AJ

Styles without Paul Haymon or solo seoa at ringside Roman is going to be able to beat La Knight or whoever else it is without Solo sakoa or Paul Heyman at ringside also these matches are going to be fantastic matches people are going to be reminded of what Roman Reigns is

Truly capable of this is going to bring us all to the ultimate test at The Bash in Berlin where the main event is title for title Gunther earlier in the year defeated Brock Lesnar in an Intercontinental Championship match at WrestleMania 40 Gunther has been Unstoppable since then

And we get to the bash in Berlin and it’s Gunther and Roman title for title Roman tells solo and Paul this is one of those this is one of those that that I need to do on my own and solo and Paul kind of look at each other like you got

To be nuts are you crazy I don’t think this is a good idea at all and we get to the bash in Berlin and we see Roman and Gunther just unload on each other it takes you back to WrestleMania 31 the original WrestleMania 31 match between Brock

Lesnar and Roman Reigns when these two bths were just trying to strike each other down in the realest way possible that’s what we get at bash and Berlin with Gunther and Roman Reigns at the end of the match solo seoa comes out ready to interfere on Roman’s behalf and Roman sends him

Away he says I don’t want you get out of here solo says okay and as he’s leaving Gunther is able to take advantage of Roman Reigns and defeat the tribal Chief gther stands Victorious holding the universal championship and the Intercontinental Championship Gunther in Berlin has defeated Roman Reigns and stopped Roman within

Weeks of extending his title run beyond what Hulk Hogan was able to do as Champion the record that could never be beaten isn’t beaten and Gunther walks out victoriously as solo looks at Roman Reigns Roman looks up at solo and solo does to Roman exactly what he did to

John Cena solo puts Roman Reigns down and Paul Heyman comes out and he looks at solo as if he’s about to say stop solo stop and he gets that evil grin he smiles and he nods and solo hits one more Samoan Spike and takes out Roman Reigns seemingly for

Good solo comes off of this ready to start a rivalry with Gunther Gunther sacrifices the Intercontinental Championship as the Ultimate Warrior did at WrestleMania 6 a tournament is started coming off of some of bash and Berlin going into the fall to determine a new Intercontinental Champion solo seoa starts chasing

Gunther and Jimmy Uso is brought back to join with solo and Paul hayon as Paul Heyman leads the new tribal Chief solo seoa with Jimmy Uso his brother by his side and they start by going after Gunther Roman Reigns is out of action for the rest of the year of course when

Roman finally does come back in 2025 a Babyface Roman Reigns has fully been established and solo seoa and Jimmy Uso have been running rough shot first first going after Gunther not taking the title off of him and then focusing on Jay Uso who has risen to unprecedented Heights because not only does Jay

Uso beat Jimmy Uso at WrestleMania but Jay Uso wins the Money in the Bank ladder match in 2024 2023 was the year that we raised Jay stock and 2024 is the year that we begin to cash out on it baby a big WrestleMania Victory and winning the

Money in the Bank briefcase at the Money in the Bank pay-per-view lead to Jay Uso looking like the future until the new bloodline and solo seoa get their hands on him possibly after the draft we could see solo being drafted over to Raw we could see see Jay being drafted over to

SmackDown and we see that ignited once again this is more between solo and Jay Uso now you’re probably wondering what of Cody rhod how could Sam you just sit there and say Cody roads just loses at WrestleMania after all this Cody rhs just loses clean to Roman Reigns at WrestleMania and that’s

The end no no no no no that’s not the end it’s the beginning you see because after losing to Roman Reigns Cody rhods explains that he’s going to need to figure some things out and Cody says that he realizes now that as good as things have been for

The last two years in the WWE that he may have made some mistakes he’s had some great accomplishments he’s had some incredible matches a war games Victory a tag team championship Victory a Royal Rumble Victory an elimination chamber Victory but for some reason he can’t finish the

Story and he’s going to need to go home and figure that out so as Cody drifts away and we’re left to wonder what’s next for Cody rhods we had tonight twoo of WrestleMania in the main event CM Punk is facing Seth Rollins CM Punk wins the Royal Rumble last eliminating Cody

Rhods and CM Punk Goes to Philadelphia and on night two of WrestleMania Punk and Seth Rollins after an amazing buildup our face to face and after all the drama that only two nights of WrestleMania can bring it’s heightened CM Punk has been in Orlando for the last several months building and

Building and building that skill set and we see a great CM Punk at WrestleMania and he’s just great enough that on that night CM Punk is able to be the one to finally defeat Seth Rollins yes Roman Reigns retains his title on night one of WrestleMania but on night

To it’s CM Punk who is able to Dethrone Seth Rollins and CM Punk becomes the WWE World Heavyweight Champion now raw after WrestleMania the Cody rhods segment that we get is in the 9:00 hour that’s the top of the 9:00 the shift from 8 to 9

Cody rhods is in the ring and he’s letting people know he’s got to go home for a while the 8:00 segment the 8:00 segment is CM Punk coming to the ring with the WWE World Heavyweight Championship on his shoulder Seth Rollins interrupts a promo where CM Punk is basically explaining to

The audience that he can’t believe where he’s at he never thought he would be here but God does it feel good to be there Seth Rollins comes out and after all the buildup and after all the threats and after all the I don’t want you here oh Philly Phil

Has done more than just won the world heavyweight title at WrestleMania he has proven to Seth Rollins that he’s there for the right reasons that he belongs there and that he is the right man to hold the world heavyweight title and Seth Rollin shakes that man’s hand says Punk we’re never

Going to line up on everything exactly the same and I’m never going to approve of the way you behaved coming off of your WWE run but as I look at you here today I know that you’re here for the right reasons and you are the World Heavyweight

Champion and CM Punk says well Seth you were the fightingest champion that that I’ve ever seen Seth you defined what this title is and this title isn’t designed to be defended every three months this title is designed to be defended all the time and a lot of people are

Worried that now that I’m back I’m not going to be wrestling at every pay-per-view I’m not going to be wrestling on every raw and this title is going to disappear Seth this title is not going to disappear and I want to offer you a rematch tonight woo The Crowd Goes

Wild they can’t believe it and Seth accepts and Seth and punk who beat each other down unmercifully the night before agree that the main event of Monday Night Raw the raw after WrestleMania will be a rematch for the World Heavyweight Championship Seth Rollins versus CM Punk and the two go to the

Ring and Philadelphia can’t believe how lucky they are to get this match not once but twice and the match goes on for one two segments people are loving it and just as the match reach reaches a heightened point of drama just as you think that both Punk and Rollins have given

Everything that they possibly can after tearing the house down in a stadium the night before they’re now in an arena doing the same thing and here comes Damen priest Damen priest comes out lays out Seth Rollins lays out CM Punk hands over his briefcase one two three Damen priest pins CM Punk

And Damen priest the night after CM Punk has beaten Seth Rollins becomes the World Heavyweight Champion now this is going to send uh Seth Rollins on a mission to get that title back from Damen priest so now we’re looking at Rollins chasing Damien priest so where does Punk

Go well Punk comes out a couple of weeks later and says you know I had to go home I had to lick some wounds I had to eat a few slices of Humble Pie and I had to look at what was in front of me and I’m going to tell you

Right now Damen priest you’re going to get what’s coming to you you didn’t beat anybody but my focus is elsewhere right now because since I’ve been gone there’s been somebody that is holding the WWE hostage and I don’t know how I’m going to get there but I need to get from this

Red show to that that blue show cuz Roman Reigns I’m coming for you and everybody freaks out and punk drops the microphone when a gentleman with jet black hair shows up to take out CM Punk Cody rhs is back without the bleach blonde and beats

The you know what out of CM Punk you’re not going to take this from me you’re not going to take this from me Cody stops CM Punk in his tracks and that episode of ra ra goes off the air with the vision of a a darkhaired Cody rhods looking down on Punk saying

Not this time Phil not this time and we start this story of of Cody rhods making it clear that that that CM Punk has has has over the last several years taking everything from Cody Cody goes back to that original aw promo and he goes back and he repeats

Some of he doesn’t obviously doesn’t say it but he repeats a lot of it he goes CM Punk you said everybody gives you credit for changing the industry punk you take credit for changing the industry see that’s Cody’s problem it’s not that everybody gives Punk credit it’s that punk accepts

It punk you you think that you changed the industry by words that you spoke but history is not changed by words spoken history is changed by actions taken and CM Punk I didn’t talk about the way I wanted to change this industry I did it I left

Here and far with far less perceived value than you had punk I didn’t leave here a former world champion I left here somebody that would never get the opportunity to be a world champion and what did I do I revolutionized the way people from here do their thing outside of

Here by going on the independence by going to Japan by starting a promotion that gave WWE its first sniff of competition in 20 years and then when I came back here I became the biggest superstar in the company until you showed up punk you showed up to the house that I

Built and acted like it was yours you moved in as if you owned it so I left and I came here to finish my story and what did you do you decided to take my story again you went to WrestleMania and you told everybody you were going to

Finish your story you took my second Royal Rumble from me you took my WrestleMania night two main event from me you took my world title win from me and now you think you’re the one that’s going to take down Roman Reigns it’s never going to happen because I’m going

To take you down everything that everybody’s ever said about you is true and I’m G to stop it all from happening and Cody rhods the villain that he is now goes toe-to-toe and that’s that’s that’s the program that takes us into post WrestleMania is Punk versus

Cody Punk is the baby face Cody is the heel a heel Cody is able to defeat CM Punk and then starts going after J Uso why because Jay Uso has never shown an ounce of gratitude for the fact that Cody rhods is the one that made him if you

Jay Uso acts like it’s still Roman that brought him to the top when it was Cody that allowed him to separate from the bloodline he gets no credit for it none Cody is just out here changing lives and nobody nobody is crediting this guy for it so coming off of WrestleMania we have

A heel Cody going after Punk we then have a heel Cody going after Jay Uso who’s got the Money in the Bank briefcase and that drives Cody roads crazy because now Jay is going to try to steal that moment that Cody never got and then then as Gunther has now become without

Changing his character at all one of the most beloved figures in the WWE he’s disbanded Imperium he doesn’t have those two around him anymore he is by Def default a baby face and after going through CM Punk and Jay Uso a villainous Cody rhods goes after Gunther and this

Time he’s not going to allow anybody to stop him from finishing his story it drives him insane that is Cody’s 2024 to me I don’t know we we’ll see I think uh uh Jade Cargill will be a big superstar in 2024 and it remains to be seen you know it’s hard

To uh figure out exactly what’s going to happen with Jade Carill because we don’t know what she’s going to look like how she’s going to be presented we don’t know how the audience is going to respond to her what I do think is WWE is going to do what WWE does and they’re

Going to give her every reason in the world to succeed and it should work especially given what WWE is now I think that Jade Cargill will have uh a showcase performance in the Royal Rumble I think that will be uh Jade cargill’s spot I don’t know that she’ll win the

Royal Rumble I have CM Punk winning the men’s Royal Rumble and I don’t know that they’ll have Jade Cargill and CM Punk both winning Royal Rumbles because that feels number one it feels similar it just it it’s two similar stories so I don’t know that she’ll actually win the

Royal Rumble but I do think that she’ll go to WrestleMania I I wouldn’t be shocked honestly if it’s up to me I have Bailey winning the women’s Royal Rumble Match I have Bailey winning the women’s Royal Rumble Match I have uh uh damage control convinced that she’s going to go after Ria

Ripley and then I have Bailey turning baby face I think and going after uh eio Sky I think that unless eio it doesn’t really matter who’s the heel on the baby face to tell you the truth I have Bailey separating from damage control and after winning the Royal Rumble going after eio

Sky and having that be your WrestleMania match due to the Royal Rumble Bailey versus IO for the smackdown Women’s Championship and then over on the raw side I do think that you’ve got to get to Jade Cargill versus Ria Ripley I think that kind of has to be your WrestleMania

Match you know I mean because if Jade Cargill is gonna have a WrestleMania match it should be a big WrestleMania match and it’s tough to imagine that she’d be the villain right like Charlotte won’t be at WrestleMania due to injury you could do Jade versus Becky

Lynch but it’s hard to imagine that Jade would be a good guy against Becky Becky Lynch like who’s not going to cheer Becky you could do Jade versus Bianca but again that would be turning Bianca heel and is now the time for Bianca to lose a match to Jade

Cargill I don’t think so I feel like the inevitable Jade Cargill Bianca belir match is after Jade has has garnered some credibility once Jade Cargill has really uh uh risen to the occasion and becomes this force that you don’t know who’s going to be able to beat that’s

When you pull the trigger and finally do Bianca belir Versus Jade Cargill to me I feel like Ria Ripley’s biggest challenge should be built as Jade Cargill and either she wins the chamber or gets to WrestleMania some other way you know because maybe because don’t forget sometimes these Chamber matches end up being

Championship matches as opposed to Championship Contender matches um but with two with a champion on each brand the Royal Rumble is one way to get to WrestleMania it’s not the only way to get to WrestleMania so I would have Jade Cargill versus Ria Ripley at WrestleMania but not have J I would have

Jade Cargill Showcase in the Rumble the way Edge did when he returned the way Kane and Diesel and those guys always did you don’t have to win the beauty of the Royal Rumble is you can have a showcase performance without actually winning the match and that’s what I see

For Jade Cargill now does she beat Ria Ripley at WrestleMania I’m not ready to say that one way or the other yet I’m not ready to sit here and tell you that Jade Cargill should win and I feel like WWE should not be making that plan

I think that Jade cargil we should look at what the feeling is after the Royal Rumble we should look at what the feeling is having Jade on TV between the Royal Rumble and the elimination chamber feel the feelings of Jade at the elimination chamber premium live event and then

Post elimination chamber going into March that’s when you make the decision are we going to put the title on Jade or not because what you don’t want to do is do it too early that wouldn’t do Ria or Jade any favors whatsoever and yeah yeah that’s kind of where I see things going

For Jade I mean I don’t think uh when I look at the at the big picture of American mainstream professional wrestling two big organizations WWE aew I think that that we’ll see nothing’s going to match WWE I think WWE is going to have another record-breaking year WWE is running on all cylinders

Right now the creative refreshment refreshment the creative refreshing is something that people have been waiting for for an extremely long time uh their ability to monetize their ability to to get new eyeballs on the product they’re operating on a different level than they ever have before and I

Think that that’s only going to continue we can see their ability to make stars is something we haven’t seen in a very long time uh however I do think that uh aew will start to accumulate little victories I think that over the past you know few months the L the latter half of

2023 the victories have been very heavy on WWE’s side not as much I would say post Wembley WWE has been chalking up nothing but W’s and I think aw will start to get some of those W’s back not enough that WWE is like necessarily hurt quote

Unquote by it but enough that aw will benefit from it and as wrestling fans that’s what we want we want W’s the benefit companies we want two companies to both be doing as good as possible because only good results will come of that even if you don’t watch all the shows that’s fine

But only good results industry-wise come of two organizations being healthy I think that that what you’ll see with aw I think is people going over there that you might not expect and I think that that is because there are superstars who have accomplished so much in

WWE that they’ll know that at least for the time being right now aew is a place that will pay wrestlers a lot of money and kind of let certain wrestlers do whatever they want there are a lot of WWE Superstars that should they allow their contracts to expire or should WWE

By the way w may make that choice we don’t need to keep everybody that we’ve got or the people there might go I’m ready to try something new and I think that you’ll see that not with everybody by any stretch but I think there are a

Handful of people that you will see a small handful make that choice to go over to aw and to do things frankly like like Christian and Adam Copeland are doing where it’s like yep we can make money we can tell the stories that we

Want to tell and we can have fun in the matches and that’s and and that’s it like let’s not overthink this uh I think the first superstar that you’ll probably see that happen with and there are already rumors out there so it’s not like I’m I’m going out on a limb here is

Mercedes money money I think first of all what has to happen in aew is if Mercedes shows up in aew we’ve got to figure out how to pronounce her last name because when you look at it on paper everybody says Mercedes Monae but then when she comes out she goes money

Is it Mercedes money or Mercedes Mone I have no idea and I’m a fan so I think that’s something that wherever she pops up if she goes to well if she goes to WWE she’ll probably go back to being Sasha Banks but if she goes to aw I

Think a concerted effort needs to be made you have to say her name over and over and over and over again you need to have Excalibur yelling it’s money time whatever you have to do to to to to to get to to get the pronunciation right of that name because

Right now the whole wrestling world is lost on it but I think that that will be looked at as a win you know that choice was made by that Superstar or however it was done maybe you know organization show however it was done instead of going back to WWE she’s in a

And people will go oh that’s an that’s interesting that’s a win for a and if she’s able to succeed over there then I think other people will see that the same way Cody coming to WWE changed everything because people saw Cody succeeding in WWE and what that did

For him and it’s like oh okay yeah I’d like I’m ready to do that I’m not happy with where I’m at now I’m ready to do that over there if we can see people going over there then the other side it’ll it’ll it’ll go back and forth and

And we’ll just see people people all telling the stories that they want to tell all prospering all doing great and just more good fun wrestling stuff for us to watch and I think that’s what we’re going to get on the aw side um I think Samoa Joe being the world champion

In aw is a uh an extremely good thing for that organization and I think under Samoa Joe you may see a lot less drama I don’t think that you’ll see anybody uh sub tweeting about Samoa Joe I don’t think that you’ll see anybody yelling into cameras and going into business for

Themselves about Samo Jo I just don’t think it’s going to happen I don’t think anybody will be going to press conferences and taking shots at Samoa Joe that’s just that ain’t that that ain’t going down with Samoa Joe and I think that that will the fact that you

Have a champion now that will be able to command the attention and make sure that the story that is being told is about the story happening in the ring that we’re trying to get people to pay for tickets and pay-per-views to see is the one that everybody’s talking

About is going to be an incredibly good thing for that organization um I think Eddie Kingston is right there too right Eddie Kingston being the Continental Champion I would love to see aew either drop some of their titles or make certain titles exclusive to certain shows and I’ve said this before if

You’re going to have a trios title and a tag team title you don’t have to say this title is now exclusive to but just through action allow people to realize the trio title gets defended on collision the tag team title gets defended on Dynamite or vice

Versa the TBS title gets defended on TBS the TNT title gets defended on TNT Ring of Honor titles are not popping up all over awtv and then what is there the International Championship I don’t know but like figure out a real meaning for a lot of these titles

Um I I would like to see swerve Samoa Joe I see being Champion for about at least like six months I see Samoa Joe having a nice run couple of pay-per-views under his belt couple of title defenses and I see swerve being forced to wait longer swerve went to the press conference uh

After aew’s uh World’s End pay-per-view and he is talking about how uh it was a waste of his time having to wrestle Dustin rhods and and I loved that from swerve and that’s not because I’m not a Dustin rhods fan I mean I literally have a ringor gold dust outfit in my

Collection I love gold dust I love Dustin rhods but the idea that we’re seeing a swerve now get frustrated over the fact that the inevitable is not being handed to him is interesting I like that I don’t know if it’ll happen because I could easily see because when you look

At what’s in front of us right Adam Cole is revealed as the devil uh and you know the kingdom and wllo and Rod rodri strong but I guess Rodrick is part of the kingdom are the devil’s henchmen which is not you know the least predictable thing in the world

I just put it that way I mean yeah that’s not the least predictable thing in the world um I don’t know if they’re going to start a rivalry with mjf I although you know I don’t know if mjf is going away for a while I don’t know who’s next for

Samoa Joe is the point because even if mjf isn’t going away his beef now is with Adam Cole and the Devil’s Triangle it’s not it’s not with Joe so part of me wonders if they’re going to go straight to Swerve Joe which I would not be in favor of

I would love to see swerve continue to to to get frustrated swerve continue to get angry over the fact that he’s not getting the opportunity have the audience get angry for him have the audience be clamoring to finally see that and then when we get to that Main Event in June

July and we’re finally seeing swerve and Samoa Joe touch for the first time that that’s when we have the opportunity to really do a title switch that matters that’s when we have the opportunity to Crown swerve because if you do it in June or July you also

Know the winner of this gets to take the title into Wembley because then you can go into Wembley with the rematch you can go into Wembley with swerve walking into Wembley Stadium the aew champion and Samoa Joe getting his rematch in front of 80,000 th000 people and can swerve do it

Twice that’s what I would like to see from swerve uh in aw and you know under Samo Joe I think uh as well as with the success of the Continental classic I do think that and hope that aw will refocus to a more sports-based show ultimately that that’s the why competing companies

Have been able to survive like Eric bishof says there’s better than there’s less than there’s different from and when people talk about who are my age or older talk about growing up when the WWF first started you were and this is like the idea that tribalism is new tribalism is

Not new if you were grown up in the Attitude Era you remember the bitter disputes between Nitro and raw WCW WWF if you grew up in in in the 80s you were a Terr iies Jim Crockett NWA Ric Flair person or you were a sports entertainment Vince McMahon Hulk Hogan New York WWF

Person we just didn’t have Twitter so it wasn’t in our faces all the time but the reason when when when people talk about that rivalry between the NWA and the WWF you get a presentation that was Sports entertainment Saturday morning cartoon Larger than Life Superheroes versus sports-based reality-based you know

Dudes in trunks going 45 minutes and fighting with everything that they had I think that that that might be what aew needs to tap into except you know a modernized version of it and when you have guys like John Moxley Eddie Kingston Samoa Joe even young guys Daniel Garcia those

Guys you can tap into that I mean you can also take what WWE does so well and and make it your thing I thought that the Adam Copeland Christian match at World’s End was match of the Night by a mile they told an amazing story in that match and I felt the

Audience I was there in Long Island and I felt the audience sort of go along with that story even people that weren’t necessarily sold on the Christian Copeland story going in by the time that match happened and by the time Copeland did that spot off the uh off the off the

Ledge up in the bleachers in the Nassau Coliseum by the time that happened everybody was on board with the story that was told in that match and I think you can still do that with a with a with a physical based company you could still I mean look at the Continental classic everybody’s

Talking about the fact that it was like clean wrestling just wrestling just having good match But ultimately the story that was told throughout that whole Continental classic was Eddie Kingston the king of the bums the ultimate Underdog the guy that nobody had winning that thing putting everything on the line

Everything that he’s ever worked for to finally be triumphant there was a story being told and I think if you can tell simple stories through physical action that I think is where a company like aw is going to prosper on the topic of Adam Copeland I see two big stories that I’d

Like to see from Adam Copeland in aew number one in 2024 I think that there is a potential for a true highlight of Adam coplin’s running aew to be a storyline with mjf I don’t think it can happen immediately I think that mjf has some stuff to deal with with Adam Cole and

The devil’s babies I think that that that uh that Adam copelan still is in the middle of this Christian thing and then who knows who knows who’s after Christian you don’t have to do it right away but maybe around the a year from now around the end of the year next

Year you could really have some and you could do it either way I think that that mjf is the type of guy where Edge could tap I mean Adam Copeland sorry could tap into being a villain again and go after mjf in a very real way you haven’t earned this you’re not

As good as you think you are you know nothing or you could have Max go back to being a villain and say you know you’re washed up you’re trying to take the spotlight from us however you want to do it there’s multiple ways to tell an extremely compelling story and Adam and

Max are two people highly capable of doing that the other story with Adam Copeland that I believe we should see an a in 2024 and if I’ve got anyone’s ear in aw this is the one that I’m asking for if you want aw to get victories and if you want to talk about

Free agents and Buzz I think aw should be the organization that picks up Matt Cardona and I think Matt Cardona comes to aew to take out Adam Copeland I think that this was a conversation that I had with Matt Cardona in the notam studio about how

Much I would love it if Edge was doing a farewell promo in the WWE and out of nowhere it’s not time to retire yet because Matt Cardona shows up and delivers the Broski boot I think Matt Cardona has clearly proven what he’s capable of and and I think at this point and I

Hate to say this because I don’t want to give this guy more credit I don’t want to blow Matt cardona’s head up any more than it’s already blown up but let’s face it it’s time that there were a bidding war for Matt Cardona of all

People and I think it would be a huge Victory if aw were to get this guy let him come in let him be Matt Cardona let him Flex the creative muscle that he has been flexing across the independence for the last couple of years changing everything by the

Way and let Matt Cardona bring that brand into all elite wrestling and be the villain to Adam Copeland and Go full circle where an edge head finally meets Edge because it’s time for Matt Cardona to take his spot because in 2024 Matt Cardona says I’m a bigger deal

Than Adam Copeland and this is the guy that’s getting the big money contracts step aside Copeland you opened the door for me but you never got out of the doorway and now I got to do death matches and bingo halls because you’re taking up all the air here

No no and then copelan comes up and he goes the only reason I’m sitting I’m still in this doorway is because you haven’t been able to kick me out of it nobody stepped aside from me I fought my way through that’s something you haven’t done and that’s something you can’t do from bingo

Halls come on Copeland Cardona in 2024 in an aw ring it’s money to me it spells money I think at WrestleMania we’re looking at uh La Knight getting a big victory and this is I think where we’re going to take it right because I don’t think that La

Knight is going to be the one to beat Roman Reigns I don’t think La Knight is gonna be the one to beat Gunther I don’t think La Knight’s gonna beat Seth Rollins I don’t think La Knight’s gonna beat CM Punk I don’t think La Knight’s gonna beat Cody rhods I do think La

Knight is going to be the one to beat Logan Paul not many people have beaten Logan Paul Rollins Reigns Knight have Logan Paul defeat what do they I think it’s Logan Paul and I’m me well it’s a prediction show right Logan Paul defeats Kevin Owens at the Royal

Rumble maybe there’s a rematch at uh uh uh elimination chamber maybe there’s another opponent maybe Andrade comes back and takes on Logan Paul at the elimination chamber and Logan Paul beats him too the point is is that Logan Paul has at least one if not two successful title defenses

Under his belt as he goes into WrestleMania and La Knight gets that big moment night one the big male undercard moment goes to J Uso beating Jimmy Uso night two the big male undercard moment goes to La KN winning the title from Logan Paul I think that we will see John Cena

In the WWE once again I don’t think John Cena’s going to let a year go by that he’s not wrestling I don’t know if he’s going to go on another two month run but I believe that in 2024 John Cena will come back and just

As this year his purpose was to try to get Austin Theory over at WrestleMania and to try to get both La Knight and solo seoa over in his Fall Run I think that John Cena will be back this time whether it’s in a tag team or whether it’s in a

Match to get Carmelo Hayes over I think years ago John Cena did what he did for Kevin Owens and we looked at Kevin Owens and Carmelo Hayes as if car Kevin Owens was taking on the John Cena role but instead I think that that Carmelo Hayes’s first big kind of

Moment on the main roster the one where where it’s going to be okay this was the first step that put him on the road to where he would eventually go is going to be in 2024 when John Cena does whatever John Cena does to give Carmelo Hayes that John Cena

Rub and finally here’s one for you I think in 2024 whether it’s to benefit from the tape Library whether it’s to benefit from talent I believe that in 2024 TNA and WWE will develop a partnership I believe that that that WWE is not going to buy TNA TNA is still

Going to exist but I believe a strategic partnership will be established between WWE and TNA and it will see uh uh uh TNA as well as NXT be used as a develop uh developmental system maybe TNA becomes kind of a finishing school after NXT uh but I also think that that means

That we’ll see some of the bigger Stars maybe we’ll see an AJ Styles pop up in TNA again maybe we’ll see some of the other people that have come maybe we’ll see La KN pop up in TNA again who knows but as TNA rebrands I do believe that

Sometime in 2024 we could very well see a strategic partnership exist between WWE and TNA all right we didn’t do it last week but we like to do it every week the emails if you want to email the show email us notam wrestling gmail.com our email address is notam wrestling

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You should be youtube.com/ notsam wrestling subscribe to the channel we’re going to have an incredible interview posted on Wednesday but you’d also see the new logo shining behind me and if you don’t think that 2024 is going to start with a merch drop you don’t know the last professional broadcaster Sam

Roberts let’s go to the emails not Sam wrestling Gmail not Sam wrestling atgmailcom this is coming from Gran uh greetings and happy New Year Sam from Greece chiming in from Greece some predictions for 2024 okay this is what we’re looking for this is what Grant says Damen priest Cashes in

On Seth at WrestleMania night one after Seth defeats punk I like my booking much better Cody versus solo Main Event backlash in which Jimmy cost solo the match M I would very much depend on what you have happening at Wrestlemania 40 because we’ve already seen Cody versus solo right before last year’s

WrestleMania we already know Cody can beat solo Wrestlemania 40 will be considered by many as the best of all time at the end of the day we’ll see we’ll see right now you know on that WrestleMania 38 made the short list of best wrestlemanias ever WrestleMania 39 was a very good

WrestleMania but I don’t know if it makes the short list of best wrestlemanias ever 17 uh I don’t know I’ve done a WrestleMania ranking it might be time to do another WrestleMania ranking this year though Big E gets cleared in return okay you know i’ have to talk to the doctor

About that Nick neth joins aew alongside Matt Cardona they Feud with Edge and Christian I don’t love that I love Nick nemith joining aw obviously I love Matt Cardona joining a as I predicted it I don’t see Copeland and Christian teaming and I don’t like yeah because that’s too much Dolph

Ziggler and Zack Ryder versus Edge and Christian which is like you know I don’t know it it feels like we need fresh stories for all those people uh Santos has a breakout year and wins money in the bank it’s possible I wouldn’t mind but I think Jay Uso is going to have

That Pete Dunn ends Gunther’s record break breaking rain not butch I don’t know why they would take Butch’s name away at this point and I do not see that makes no sense to me is him breaking Gunther’s reign as he has not been put in a position to be that guy that’s

Crazy the four horse women team together again in Main Event Survivor series War Games I would love to see it I have Mercedes going to aew but if she’s not then I would love to see her back as Sasha oh for Horseman War Games would be unbelievable I would love to

See it dude um Austin writes in happy New Year uh to you and your family hope you had a good Christmas appreciate that there’s two things from the bloodline story this year that I still don’t understand I was hoping maybe you could help me out in case I miss something

Number one why did Jimmy go back to the bloodline when he was the initial one to get the Usos to leave I think because uh Jimmy lost his confidence and realized he couldn’t beat them uh that that’s my but that’s just my interpretation of it it was never fully explained and number

Two what was the deal that Paul Heyman and Ria Ripley made a few months ago I don’t recall this ever playing out but maybe I just missed it huh well I mean that was the bloodline and and the Judgment Day working together right I think that that was

Just when they were working together on Smackdown I don’t think it went beyond that um like in September or October uh Oliver writes in Sam I’ve been seeing a lot of people saying that the turn uh oh this is the Adam Cole turn was predictable dragged out and

Boring while I know it’s not everyone’s opinion it does seem pretty common however I feel like this term was incredible you’re talking about Adam Cole being revealed as uh the devil I don’t know man for me a high schooler I got into wrestling because my dad was

Watching aw and mjf and Adam Cole were in Tag Tournament together okay I love I love where you’re going with this within a month I was buying shirts and posters with the money I had saved the story had me byy my first pay-per-view that being Allin I’ve been more invested in this

Story than almost anything I believe it I believe it especially going into uh Allin because I thought everything going into Allin and the main event of Allin was like perfect I’m with you even though I thought a turn could happen at World’s End I told myself it wouldn’t I

Genuinely yelped when I saw Adam in the chair I know this story hasn’t been for everyone but I think people forget that there are plenty of fans who enjoyed this story and that just because something might be predictable doesn’t mean it’s not interesting and exciting I appreciate that sentiment Oliver and I’m

Glad you wrote in because uh I think that there are people out there that share your opinion and I think that it’s a valid opinion I think that the story Started Hot Adam Cole got injured and it messed things up and I think that people hoped that in the meantime because

You’re talking about something that for all intents and purposes peaked in August and we’ve now gone September October November and December we’ve now gone four months and it’s like it doesn’t feel like anything happened in those four months and that’s what you wanted I feel like if Brit Baker had been revealed as

The devil you could have taken one step further to have Adam Co it’s not sure whether Adam Cole like does mjf now trust Adam Cole because Brit Baker is his wife if it’s Brit Baker with the kingdom rodri strong and Ward low well now where does Adam Cole

Stand and you could go a little bit further but this was just like when it’s one of those things that when you wait four months and everybody’s going well obviously it could be Adam Cole you’re almost like oh that’s just what it is there there’s nothing Beyond okay but I appreciate you

Man kanj writes in I was thinking about rule three everything counts and I realized Gunther has to be losing to Chad Gable because I don’t know if you remember but right after the raw where Gunther had retained the championship Chad was backstage and cut a promo about

How Gunther beat him in his hometown and taunted his kids and that he will come back for Gunther like you said everything counts so it has to be Gable well it doesn’t mean he has to beat him and it should happen before bash in Berlin because that show is when I think

Gunther should win the World Heavyweight Championship well who does he beat to win the World Heavyweight Championship and how do you rectify the fact that Chad Gable would then hold a victory over the world heavyweight champion also while on the topic of rule three I think WWE should use the

Continuous humiliation of Austin Theory by Brock Lesnar in 2022 as a as fuel for a feud I would have a squash match first then match two will go like 16 minutes with Derry kicking out of an F5 But ultimately passing I I don’t you’re I’m not going to read anymore

Because you you trying to turn Austin Theory into a baby face that like that’s a totally different character the idea that Austin theory is is somebody who’s all heart that can fight through everything I don’t know if that’s if now is the time to do that for Austin Theory

Ultra boy writes in uh okay a lot so here’s what’s the happs with me I Now understand the your pay okay uh also do you know why uh the IW internet wrestling Community hates Sami Zayn so much uh I don’t think that that’s true I saw a YouTube post asking

Whether or not they thought Punk would win the rumble and I commented saying that if he didn’t return I think Sami Zayn would have won The Rumble and then I got destroyed everyone started calling me a dumb kid and laughing at me for even suggesting that uh another time I

Saw a YouTube comment mentioning him as the World Heavyweight Champion that everyone started replying talking about how much that would kill ratings well no I mean I think there are people that don’t like Sami Zayn but I don’t think the community as a whole doesn’t like

Sami Zayn but you I disagree with that totally you know I think that Sami Zayn could easily be a world champion um yeah no I I I I don’t I I I think that there are always going to be people people some people are wrong that’s what

I would tell you Ultra boy some people are wrong Josh writes in uh I have a hunch the devil turns out to be mjf he was the devil originally well you were wrong uh uh mzy I want to say writes in uh this could be a controversial take but I

Like Jimmy’s character better than Jay’s character of The Usos that is controversial but I love I love it because I think there is more depth to the Jimmy Uso character than people give credit for so uh I like that you’re bringing that up I like that that’s your

Take I’d be interested in hearing you uh out in a conversation that’s the type of take I like to hear however you could spoil it you could ruin your interesting take by giving me a dumb explanation and then I wouldn’t like it anymore Poncho writes in from Ecuador my man sup Sam

Fifth time emailer here I’m glad you’re counting I’m curious uh who do you want versus who do you think will Dethrone Roman Gunther retire Cena at I I don’t know it remains to be seen it depends on when it happens like I don’t know uh Dethrone Gunther possibly a heel Cody

Jump ship from aew to WWE next uh Ricky Starks be the biggest surprise entrance at the rumble okay you want me to Batista I just wanted to say it thank you buddy those are good questions Tom Atkins hey Sam happy holidays New Year I just wanted to get this out there before

The world’s end show I think the devil and the devil goons is reforming Pinnacle with wll getting exposed as one of the goons and with Shan Spears announcing retirement I just feel like it could be a throw off well it wasn’t plus I noticed what seemed to be a

Mustache under one of them uh men’s mask in the ring maybe a pair of top guys no uh just doing my detective War I love that you guys are writing in about the devil and it already happened and I can be like you’re wrong ha like cuz I know

And you wrote the emails before uh a writes in I’m not going to lie to you I’m just mad that you were talking about who utilized all 365 days of 2023 and didn’t occur to me it didn’t occur to you to even mention the man who the

First half of 2023 was opening every single show in a match for his title orange Cassidy come on dude orange Cassidy did not own the year orange Cassidy had good matches in 2023 I’m a big orange Cassity fan but you know he didn’t own the year

Liam writes in uh I’m a first time emailer I’ve listened to your so since WrestleMania 38 my man I’ve also uh been watching wrestling since I was three love that my first question is a big one what is your dream aew versus WWE versus T TNA versus New Japan card that’s a

Whole P podcast come on bro I wrote this last week but you weren’t doing emails well I’m glad you wrote it again but I’m not going over an entire Pay-Per-View card maybe one day I did years ago or maybe last year whenever it was I did a a a fantasy forbidden door

Card on the podcast so you can go back and find it but I’m not doing that in the email segment uh Micah writes in what’s the ha Sam uh do you still say that anyway my question is do you think Sasha Banks will return at the Royal Rumble I don’t

But I could be wrong uh Shane writes in with the possible pivot being made uh with damage control not kicking Bailey out it made me think some other pivots made in the WWE past like Vince’s limo or GTV well those aren’t pivots those are just like we’re not going to do

Them like Vince’s limo you know things happen GTV I think they never had a finish in mind anyway and just lost interest so that’s different from uh uh uh damage control but damage control we could still do with the Royal Rumble as I pitched earlier all right last one

Josh writes in uh Sam I was prepared to disagree with your wrestler of the year because I was expecting you to pick Dominic Mysterio you have made it known Dom as your favorite wrestler right now however I can’t agree more with your pick of Jay Uso that’s why I can see Jay

Turning on Cody preventing him from finishing the story everything counts Cody brought him to Raw After the bloodline breaks up Jay face uh when Orton yep I’m with you Josh same reasons everything counts is why I have Cody turning on Jay uh I appreciate all you

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