Predicting What The Entire Wrestling World Will Look Like In Five Years

2. What's The Wildest Thing That Could Happen?

A new cable TV competitor forms.

Its founding member, the most vocal advocate for change, jumps right back.

CM Punk returns to wrestling.

Something unfathomable always happens in wrestling within a five year cycle...

...so what happens between now and 2027?

Sasha Banks jumps and moves the needle in AEW's favour in the key 18-49 demo battle.

The list of talents WWE has squandered in this modern era is endless; appropriately, this very website has compiled endless lists on that topic. Modern WWE is practically defined by its piss-poor handling of incredible, un-f*ck-up-able talent.

But Sasha is the one.

Sasha Banks is a vicious wrestler who is fantastic at transitioning between chains of offence with a sense of poise and fury in perfect balance. She sells moves like death. She gets GIF'd heavily for her - how to put this without appearing too much like one is wearing a cowboy hat? - displays of body language. She has no right to appear as cool as she does within the WWE system. And, if you disagree with all of that, it hardly matters. This wrestler has a following that is absolutely devoted to her. It's not as if WWE has to spend a dreaded few months to build her up consistently: she has an obsessed base that frequently make her the quarter hour draw in all of wrestling, and most of the time she's working nothing tags.

Imagine how much more popular she could be if she was pushed, consistently, as the focal point of the division without sh*tty, careless booking?

She has fallen out of love with WWE before, and gauging by her under-reported 2019 Japan tour, she doesn't live in the bubble.

Sasha Banks is the last needle-mover, or at least, the very best version of Sasha Banks is. We've not seen that version since 2015. This - WWE placing second for the first time in 24 years - would be massive. But it's not quite earth-shattering.

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