Wrestling’s 10 Biggest Missed Opportunities Of 2023

Lost dream matches, lacklustre debuts, and other fumbled 2023 opportunities in wrestling.

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Due to everything from just wanting to head in a different direction creatively to various wrestlers refusing to get along these potentially Majestic occurrences will forever be remembered as the ones that got away this year so I am Gareth this is what culture wrestling and here are wrestling’s 10 biggest

Missed opportunities of 2023 number 10 the outcast lackluster implosion the formation of the outcast seemed like a shrewd aw move back in March it did at least keep the villainous unit busy in the leadup to an inevitable implosion their dramatic breakup appeared to have gone down on the night of the Monumental

Allin pay-per-view with the soon to be timeless Tony accidentally decking sera’s mother before the Brits lifted the aew Women’s World Championship only it wasn’t instead storm stopped by at all out a week later to oddly cost Soho her TBS title match against Chris statlander by nicking her spray can and

Chuckling to herself with even the commentary team not being entirely sure if this bizarre an anticlimactic moment was the official end of the squad the faction finally went their separate ways proper after Sera eventually overcame the increasingly over storm at Grand Slam but by that point folks didn’t care

All that much about storm colliding with her former mates and were more interested in who she would be chucking her shoe at next number nine the underwhelming arrival of Nick Aldis in WWE while he had produced some strong work in the likes of TNA and the NWA during his near 20-year career Nick

Aldis had never been in handed the opportunity to make a splash in the World of Sports entertainment however he was finally given that chance in October and it was about as underwhelming as you could possibly imagine the same guy who wrestled Cody rhs for the aforementioned

Top NWA title at Allin 2018 was given one of the blandest and strangest introductions of recent times with Triple H revealing his new Smackdown general manager by simply having him suddenly appear at ringside all this immediately looked like just another dull authority figure but he thankfully

Gone on to smash the role in the wake of this crap arrival now I’ve got a quick question for you what is the worst debut of 2023 let me know in the comment section down below number eight La Knights doesn’t get his hands on money in the bank make no mistake Damian

Priest was a refreshing call in the end but seeing the yeah man blow the roof off the place before strutting around the blue show with his briefcase and regularly threatening to bring Roman’s Reign to an end or even hopping over to Monday nights to drown out Seth Rollins

Song with everybody say in La night would have no doubt been just as exhilarating admittedly the super popular Mega star has still found a way to remain relevant despite coming up short in London and even earned himself an Undisputed WWE Universal Championship shot however his pretty uninspiring

Summer outside of his slim jim win would have been a whole lot more engaging had Knight unhook the briefcase instead of a priest who was already on the rise without it number seven tribal combat doesn’t deliver Jimmy and Jay’s turning on the head of the table the exceptional

Bloodline Civil War in London and a masterfully executed spell of weekly TV had fans chomping at the bit to see if Main Event Jay could do the unthinkable under tribal combat rules sadly though what came next was a frustrating convoluted mess of a 36-minute stage play with Jimmy’s heel turn and the

Tired bloodline tropes finally forcing WWE to cool off on this family affair for a little while both of the Usos have managed to just about recover on separate Brands after the most underwhelming moments in the threeyear story but they wouldn’t have needed to had WWE kept things simple and just had

Roman and Jay keep it tight and explosive in their fight for the title of Undisputed WWE Universal Champion SL tribal Chief number six not giving Trish Stratus and Becky Lynch the SummerSlam stage the story of a legend coming back to take the respect she felt she

Deserved for Paving the way for the four horse women had the makings of something captivating However the fact WWE clearly had SummerSlam in mind as the destination for the final chapter of this Blockbuster Feud ultimately resulted in weeks and months of too many uninspiring promos and an overall

Program that felt like a two-month ride stretched out twice as long WWE pivoted away from a Lynch Stratus climactic fight in Detroit in favor of giving them the payback opening slot instead WWE had the opportunity to put on a SummerSlam that boasted three fairly high-profile women’s fights but instead decided to

Bump the biggest women’s program in the company off a big four PL feeling that things like Roman and Jay’s dull Opera and a slim Gym battle royal needed the minutes more on the night number five the failed aw trios Championship experiment the last thing aw needed in

September 2022 was more gold to fight over but TK was clearly a fan of the idea of giving the numerous gifted trios on his roster something to compete for so the aw president decided to unleash some all Elite trios titles inevitably company EVPs the elite ended up becoming

Inaugural Champs but the new gold was dealt a pretty catastrophic blow on that very same night the young bugs and Kenny Omega clashing with CM Punk backstage forced khah to strip all four men of their gold and while the Elite’s best of seven series with the Lucha Brothers

Certainly had its moments the titles never properly recovered from that stop start arrival both the house of black and the acclaimed have tried and failed to keep the titles somewhat relevant in 2023 number four no Kenny Omega singles match at Wembley it’s not even the fact this dynamite level all in Trio’s match

Felt entirely thrown together that infuriated fans Jay White’s sudden obsession with taking out former bullet Club leader Kenny Omega came completely out of nowhere didn’t it it was the idea of sitting down inside of a packed Wembley Stadium at all in 2023 and not seeing the cleaner put on a five-star

Classic against bitter rival K to kesa had easily the most important and biggest show in the company’s history that really felt unforgivable Tony khah did have a second pay-per-view to sell a week later sure would all out have honestly suffered that much with one less contest on a 13 match card now

There’s every chance Kenny will get his moment to shine at next year’s edition of the stadium spectacular should Omega suffer an unexpected injury and be forced to do a Danielson and watch from the sidelines in 2024 though Khan’s call to save his cleaner for Chicago could go

Down as one of the biggest missed opportunities in all Elite history number three refusing to book Ronda Rousey versus Becky Lynch fast forward a few years on from a spluttering end to WrestleMania 35 and Ronda Rousey is no longer a part of the WWE machine with that Blockbuster one-on-one encounter

Never once landing on a single Sports entertainment event the fact both eventual moms rarely shared the same space or show in the time that follow Becky Lynch’s double title win obviously made booking this one a tad difficult but once Ronnie returned in 2022 it seemed like the pair of longtime Rivals

Were destined to throw down at least once before the former UFC bantamweight champion decided to step away from the company it did honestly look like WWE was set to finally pull the trigger on the this massive showdown at this year’s Mania 39 for a while but as the show of

Shows crept closer it became increasingly clear WWE had other ideas and fans were simply left to wonder what could have been number two not finishing the story as WWE continues to tease what could be a Monumental rematch between Cody rhods and Roman Reigns it’s important to never forget how perfect an

Opportunity they had to create an instantly iconic moments earlier this year and not a single thing that has happened postmania 39 has Justified forcing Cody to live his own American Nightmare the bloodline Saga would have been just as engrossing if Roman was simply trying to keep control of his

Family and hold of the title of tribal Chief and that would still set up an eventual Dwayne duel quite nicely too also Cody’s epic fights with Brock Lesnar with a few result tweaks could have been even more compelling instead the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship has spent the majority of

The year in Reigns’s living room Road has been frustratingly treading water for significant periods on raw and what could have been an old timer of a WrestleMania will forever be remembered as the most Bittersweet number one missing the chance to unleash a CM Punk versus The Elite storyline some things

Are clearly simpler on paper than they are in reality and instead of sitting down with all the parties involved and finding a solution that could set the stage for a program for the ages chaos bitterness and pettiness was given the opportunity to infect the locker room and steal the headlines look it would

Have no doubt taken some pretty uncomfortable conversations and interactions to get the elite and CM Punk on the same page but had Tony khah found a way to get the Young Bucks and Kenny Omega and the Punker to shake hands and agreed to make all the money

Out of their backstage Madness aw would likely still be the Undisputed hottest promotion in town Punk and his FTR Pals Waring with the guys who help create their workplace could have produced months and months of compelling all Elite programming that glorious opportunity came and went in the space

Of just over 2 months however as punks all in collision with Jack Perry finally killed all hopes of a truly Elite Feud and that’s our list know of any other big wrestling opportunities that were missed in 2023 well let us know all about them in the comment section right

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