10 Bold Wrestling Predictions For 2022
3. Braun Strowman Returns To WWE
The thing about WWE releasing scores and scores of talent is that someone like a Braun Strowman feels less punishingly dull and over-familiar than he did in the first quarter of 2021.
He is blessed to no longer appear on the deadening grind that is WWE television. The stark reality is that the best means of getting over in WWE is by not being present in the company. The part-timer era is proof enough of that. The show is proof enough of that.
Over time, people will forget that Strowman was portrayed as a daft sh*te who ran around the ring to the soundtrack of train noises. Perhaps Vince will begin to reminisce over the big lug, and bring him back into the fold - for considerably less money, of course. At this point, WWE's best long-term booking strategy is heartless cruelty.
It's not as if Omos is any closer to replacing Strowman as WWE's next giant singles act. He wrestles in a different time zone to his opponents. Von Wagner is a big lad, but his energy is a bit weird.
That leaves Strowman as one of few remaining acts that qualifies as a big return - which is WWE's primary means of popping a rating.