10 Times Wrestlers Weirdly Foreshadowed Their Futures
From TV Championship wins to gimmick changes, these wrestlers oddly got their futures spot on.
When down well, the week-to-week nature of wrestling television lends itself brilliantly to long-term storytelling.
Should a company want to plant a few seeds in the form of a throwaway line or seemingly unimportant visual that will go on to become something significant later down the road, the platform is there for them to do so. And audiences will usually celebrate their ingenuity should they commit to such a subtle way of telling a wrasslin' tale.
However, foreshadowing a twist, turn, or landmark moment as part of an ongoing programme on the latest episode of Monday Night Raw is one thing, eerily predicting the future via cute Twitter post, impromptu answer on a video game panel, or long lost backstage interview segment is something else entirely.
From hilarious tweets forecasting an eventual career highlight, to former WWE employees getting their comeback roles spot on years in advance, this bunch of wrestling stars all either consciously or subconsciously knew what the future held for them and proved that brilliant foreshadowing can be found in some of the most unexpected of places.
Sometimes, a beautiful flower blooms from the smallest of seeds...
10. Bray Wyatt's Story Of The Man In The Woods Plants Some Fiendish Seeds
Bray Wyatt isn't the sort of talent who does anything by halves.
This fierce commitment to his gimmick has led to the star routinely foreshadowing his future away from general WWE programming, routinely taking to Twitter to tease what is about to unfold in his own distinct way.
In another instance of him using a less traditional platform to plant some seeds for an eventual shift in direction, Wyatt also let us know about the coming of a chilling new figure way back in October 2015.
During his particular "Superstar Ghost Story" Wyatt explained that he ran into a being with "no pigment in his skin", who was "as pale as a pearl" and had "thin yellow hairs running all the way down to his knees".
Sure, the fact he revealed the "man in the woods" stood at seven feet tall was a bit off in the end, but the remark of him having eyes that "were yellow like a cat" and Sister Abigail noting that Wyatt himself was in fact the "man in the woods" all pointed to a "Fiend"-ish future for the star long before he was ever Let In to our TV screens via the Firefly Funhouse.