10 Wild Outside Bets To Win The 2022 WWE Royal Rumble

5. Cesaro

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It is the year 2042.

Life is unrecognisable. The global population has dwindled as the effects of climate change ravage a planet inundated by almost constant natural disaster. Disease is rife. The slow erosion of green belt policy has led to an overwhelmingly grey and bleak industrial landscape in which only steam-powered technology barely connects us in the old way. The very notion of "entertainment" is a virtual artefact, and exists now only fleetingly. When an area of the planet is recovered from the latest tsunami, certain underground operations attempt a start-up, but that practise, too, is fading into history books that can no longer be printed.

The sheer level of endeavour required is simply too much. The sweltering conditions, the futility of it all: with growth itself untenable, life unfolds quietly in communes as everything we once associated with existence - work, education, recreation - is a relic.

WWE still runs shows in a residency, in which the last band of contractors perform in pods and their hologram avatars collide in a digital arena.

The last vestiges of online fans campaign for the Cesaro hologram to "main event WrestleMania".

It still isn't f*cking happening.

Probability: 0%

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Michael Sidgwick (Creative Writing BA Hons) is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over a decade of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential UK institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!