9. Sting Will Bring Back WCW
The Theory: Sting will return to WWE following his appearance at the 2014 Survivor Series but he won't be coming alone: he will bring back WCW as a separate brand/entity to take on WWE.
The Evidence: It has been almost fifteen years since WWE purchased WCW for $4.2m. The company is still making Vince McMahon and the WWE money, thanks to the incredible sales of WCW related DVDs. The Rise And Fall Of WCW, the Monday Nitro compilations, WCW wrestler compilations (particularly Goldberg's) and others have all done extremely well for the company and proven that there is still an audience for WCW. WWE could also use this WCW nostalgia to sell a couple of Network subscriptions. As reported many times, the subscription numbers for the Network have been a huge disappointment to WWE this past year. Perhaps publicising content such as Nitro and old WCW pay-per-views via a Sting-led WCW revival could boost numbers. This revival could also be used as a way to reintroduce former WCW stars, some of whom could be potential Hall of Fame inductees. WWE could use the star power afforded by the likes of Goldberg and Scott Steiner. It might be coincidence, but The Ascension did namedrop WCW during their promo on the Raw Homecoming show.
Will It Happen: Probably not. It's difficult to see how a WCW invasion/rebrand could work in WWE in 2015. While there might still be an audience out there for classic content, most of WCW's major players are either, retired, dead or only have one match left in them. The time to do a WCW Invasion was in 2001 but, unfortunately, WWE made such a mess of it that it will go down in history as one of wrestling's greatest disappointments. Odds are that Sting will return on the road to WrestleMania (possibly at the Royal Rumble) to build to a one-off match against a top WWE star (Triple H, Bray Wyatt and The Undertaker are the most logical choices). It could possibly work with Sting acting as a kind of general manager for a new generation of wrestlers (NXT call-ups and underused midcarders) but that's not to say that WWE should do it.