PREDICTIONS: AEW Worlds End
It’s time for the AEW’s newest PPV and its final PPV of 2023, Worlds End. The title would really fit better if this match was taking place in 1999. Either way, as Tony Khan continues to expand the company’s PPV lineup it’s been interesting to see how he’s had to change the flow of his booking in order to convince people to spend 50 bucks a month. We won’t know the success of adding more PPVs from a financial standpoint until the buy rates come out. However, I am going to go out on a limb and predict this show will set the record for the most buys in the history of Worlds End.
The last time we came to you with predictions was for WWE’s Survivor Series. Adam held a one-point lead for most of the show until the very end. The static hit, Cult of Personality started playing, and the roof blew off The All-State Arena as CM Punk made his return. When I was down and it seemed as if I would fall even further behind in the competition my hero, THE BEST IN THE WORLD, came to save me. We tied on the night 5-5 pushing the total tally of our competition to 58-54. With Adam still in the lead, he would usually go first. I’m cutting in line, however, because I got the Punk bonus prediction right. Also, if Adam wouldn’t let me go first, I threatened to punch Luke Perry’s son.
AEW Worlds End Predictions
AEW World Championship
MJF (C) vs Samoa Joe
MIKE: Outside of his time in TNA and NXT Joe has always been in an unfortunate position when it comes to the world title. No matter if he wins or loses he can get his heat back in one week and look like a credible challenger whenever the powers that be need him. The problem is, the times he’s been called upon in AEW, as well as when he was on WWE’s main roster, have been when the company had a champ in the middle of a planned long-term title reign.
There is the added wrinkle of the reported injuries MJF has been working through as well as possible interference by the Devil. However, that doesn’t change my prediction and we all know how the Devil storyline is going to end.
MJF
ADAM: Samoa Joe could do himself a lot of good by switching it up a bit. I mean he’s over as all hell and maybe that’s all you need in the biz but it feels like he’s in a cage of always the challenger never the champ for the exact reason my dimwitted courier laid out.
I can’t wait for the main event to end. At the top of the ramp the Devil is standing there, he points at MJF and Excalibur yells, “Who is behind the mask? Tune in to Dynamite Wednesday on TBS!”
MJF
TNT Championship
No DQ Match: Christian Cage (C) vs Adam Copeland
ADAM: Do I hear a Live Sex Celebration happening? This feels like the Korean War of feuds in AEW’s second half of the year. Forgotten but still meaningful. For whatever reason it just hasn’t gotten the Twitter (currently known as X) base of fans going. I think we see Copeland ride high and maybe one or two memorable spots in a feud that never really seemed to get going.
ADAM COPELAND
MIKE: My preferred strategy when it comes to booking heels who keep creeping out wins is to keep going beyond the point when it feels like it’s time for them to get their comeuppance. So I’m predicting that strategy here. Nick Wayne turned to help Cage, and most recently his mother turned and joined the family. Christian Cage is now the frontrunner to win wrestling dad of the year and his adopted family will find a way to help him win. Maybe they perform a seance and Nick Wayne’s dad strikes Copeland with a lightning bolt from above. If you think that sounds ridiculous you haven’t watched enough wrestling.
CHRISTIAN CAGE
AEW Continental Championship (Continental Classic Finals)
Jon Moxley vs Eddie Kingston
MIKE: Eddie! Eddie! Eddie! Kingston is a rare case of a baby face belt collector and one of the hottest acts in the company. Beating a main eventer like Mox clean would boost him to a new level.
EDDIE KINGSTON
ADAM: Simple flow chart for this one here so see if you can follow:
Is the company in imminent danger of collapse? → No. Is the biggest name in the company presently bullying nerds? → No. Is Jon Moxley about to go on vacation? → No. Okay, so it’s fine if Mox loses this one.
EDDIE KINGSTON
AEW Women’s Championship
“Timeless” Toni Storm (C) vs Riho
ADAM: I can not wait for this match for two reasons. One, “Timeless” Toni Storm has been the best character in the AEW Women’s Division since… siiiiiiiiiince…okay well ever. Two, Mike is going to forget I’m planning on doing this but as soon as Toni gets some offense in I’ll make some comment about how Toni Storm is beating up a sick child. It’ll get laughs trust me. If they take the belt off Toni Storm to put it back on the Forgotten Champion of the Women’s Division it better be because Toni Storm has been skimming from the company coffers and it better be a lot of money.
“TIMELESS’ TONI STORM
MIKE: I am so torn on the “Timeless” Toni Storm character. On one hand, I get a good chuckle out of it. On the other hand, it’s not the kind of act I look for when I watch AEW. Either way, Adam is right. There’s no reason to take the belt of Storm right now.
“TIMELESS” TONI STORM
TBS Championship
Julia Hart (C) vs Abadon
MIKE: The Abadon character is just not for me. She should change her name to ABBAdon Corleone and come out to a cover of Dancing Queen sung by Marlon Brando. The company is obviously invested in building up Julia Hart. I would be surprised to see her drop the belt here. Unless TK is just going to flip-flop the belt with no real plan for whoever is holding it.
JULIA HART
ADAM: Did you think of two jokes and just couldn’t decide which one was funnier? I’ll admit, I get it. ABBAdon works really well the name is very ascetic, but the visual image of Abadon doing a Marlon Brando is very funny. Would she be able to do Brando in other movies? ABADON does Street Car Named Desire? I’ll get day 1 tickets to that show.
JULIA HART
Swerve Strickland vs Keith Lee
ADAM: Didn’t Swerve Strickland commit like 4 or 5 Felony offenses against Adam Page this year? We just ignoring that and looking at Prince Nana? I would say this match has been a year in the making but it really has been a week in the making based on shit that happened a year ago, and despite never being that into Keith Lee, I am super excited for this match. Swerve got hot down the stretch and probably just got the opportunity too late to snag any wrestler of the year love but hey 2024 is a whole new year and just about no one is walking in as a hotter act than Swerve. Let’s set the tone boys.
SWERVE STRICKLAND
MIKE: I’ll keep this short and sweet. Swerve wins. Swerve keeps winning. Swerve beats MJF for the belt at either Revolution or Full Gear.
I STRICKLAND WHEN I DRIVE
ADAM: I’m counting your Swerve champ prediction for the contest.
Miro vs Andrade El Idolo
MIKE: I like both of these wrestlers and it should be a banger match as long as it gets a solid ten minutes or so. However, I can’t say I’m overly invested in this storyline. I imagine some sort of chicanery involving Miro being distracted by his wife will cost him the match. Women, am I right guys? Aye yooooo!
ANDRADE FLAIR
ADAM: I think we should let the loser of this match return to WWE. Look it was a good run for both guys. They earned the internet award for “Guy we want to have every belt without considering all the other guys who deserve the belt.” But the AEW roster has a lot of guys and some have to go. With HHH in charge, I think it’s time for a former NXT Champ to come home.
MIRO
8 Man Tag: Rick Starks, Big Bill & The Don Callis Family (Powerhouse Hobbs & Kyle Fletcher) vs Le Sex Gods (Chris Jericho & Sammy Guevara), Sting, & Darby Allin
ADAM: You see what happens when Kenny gets Shane O’Mac Diseases? We end up with the Jericho/Sammy return. I would make a Ross & Rachel joke here but Ross and Rachel only broke up once and even then, they were on a break. This match kind of bums me out? Starks has fallen down the card, Hobbs is gonna continue to never get a real storyline and we all are just hoping Jericho doesn’t pick up the mic to cut another sick promo. There is one team that always seems to win these matches.
STING AND DARBY ALLIN
MIKE: My excitement for the original form of this match was mild and it was only that much because Omega was involved. Once Omega was taken out by Brock Lesnar disease, my excitement faded. Once Sammy returned my excitement level somehow went into the negatives. Jericho has felt stale for a minute and Le Sex gods reuniting is curdled milk levels of stale. Don’t tell Jericho I said that or else he’ll get overly defensive and tell me to fuck off on Twitter(X). Oh yeah, I guess I have to pick a winner.
STARKS, DOUBLE B, AND THE DON CALLIS FAMILY
20 Man Battle Royal for a Future TNT Title Match
MIKE: It wouldn’t be an AEW PPV without a battle royal. I can’t find a list of participants for this match so I’ll say…Dustin Rhodes? Yeah, sure. Dustin Rhodes
DUSTIN RHODES
ADAM: This guy out here just taking blind shots! Fucking ridiculous. Obviously, this is for a debuting star, and AEW recently signed a big star that hasn’t been able to step into the ring. That’s right, AEW’s brand new Ariel Assassin.
DANHAUSEN
FTW Championship
FTW Rules Match: Hook(c) vs Wheeler Yuta
ADAM: Oh no you got Rampage Main Event in my Pay-Per-View. Well you got Pay-Per-View in my Rampage Main Event! Wheeler Yuta is going for the Grand Slam of third-tier belts by trying to add the FTW Belt to his resume which currently includes the Pure Championship. I’m gonna assume the only guy that has anything to do with Taz walks out with the belt on this one.
HOOK
MIKE: Would be cool if Yuta won and retired this belt. Probably not gonna happen though.
THE SON OF TAZ
