By : Allison Weiner
Hello and happy winter. Before you continue reading this blog, I would like to introduce myself. I am the “wonderful” Allison Taylor Weiner. I am proud to be a part of the Face Turn team for SIN. As we end 2022, I would like to start with my first post predicting the future champions in 2023 and when this will happen for AEW, ROH, WWE, and NXT. I’m not doing Impact and NJPW because I don’t know the franchise too well. Also, these are just my predictions for new champions in 2023. If you have any different suggestions, please post them below. Here is a list below as of 12/16/2022 of the current champions and who will be the next champion.
AEW:
- AEW World Champion: Maxwell Jacob Friedman
- Next Champion: Wardlow (Fyter Fest 2023)
- AEW Women’s Champion: Jamie Hayter
- Next Champion: Thunder Rosa (Double or Nothing 2023)
- TNT Champion: Samoa Joe
- Next Champion: Jay Lethal (2023 Battle of the Belts)
- TBS Champion: Jade Cargill
- Next Champion: Paige Vanzant (Double or Nothing 2023)
- AEW Tag Team Champion: The Acclaimed
- Next Champions: Undisputed Elite (Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish or Adam Cole) (June/July 2023)
- FTW Champion: Hook
- Future Champion: Swerve Strickland (Beach Break 2023)
- Trios Tag Team Champion: Death Triangle
- Next Champions: The Elite (AEW Dynamite January 2023)
- All Atlantic Champion: Orange Cassidy
- Next Champion: Rush (AEW Dynamite March/April 2023)
- (BONUS) I believe AEW will have a Women’s Tag Team Title in 2023
- Inaugural Champions: Anna Jay and Tay Melo
ROH:
- ROH World Champion: Claudio Castagnoli
- Next Champion: Brian Cage (Supercard of Honor XVI)
- ROH Women’s Champion: Athena
- Next Champion: Serena Deeb (AEW Rampage May 2023)
- ROH World TV Champion: Samoa Joe
- Next Champion: Miro (Late Summer 2023)
- ROH Pure Champion: Wheeler Yuta
- Next Champion: Sammy Guevara (AEW Dynamite February 2023)
- ROH World Tag Team Champions: Briscoe Brothers
- Next Champions: FTR (Summer 2023)
- ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions: The Empire
- I am predicting that this title will merge with the AEW Trios Tag Team Champions, therefore I am expecting the Elite will join the titles together.
NXT:
- NXT Champion: Bron Brekker
- Next Champion: Grayson Waller (New Year’s Evil 2023)
- NXT Women’s Champion: Roxanne Perez
- Next Champion: Zoey Stark (Stand and Deliver 2023)
- NXT Tag Team Champion: New Day
- Next Champion: Pretty Deadly (New Year’s Evil 2023)
- NXT Women’s Tag Team Champion: Katana Chance and Kayden Carter
- Next Champion: Ivy Nile and Tatum Paxley (Vengeance Day 2023)
- NXT North American Champion: Wes Lee
- Next Champion: Dijak (In Your House 2023)
WWE:
- WWE Champion: Roman Reigns
- Next Champion: Cody Rhodes (Wrestlemania 39)
- Universal Champion: Roman Reigns
- Next Champion: Cody Rhodes (Wrestlemania 39), I expect he would vacate this title after his win in the next Smackdown. Roman Reigns will most likely get it back.
- Raw Women’s Champion: Bianca Belair
- Next Champion: Rhea Ripley (Royal Rumble 2023)
- Smackdown Women’s Champion: Ronda Rousey
- Next Champion: Becky Lynch (Wrestlemania 39)
- Raw Tag Team Champions: Usos
- Next Champion: Brawling Brutes (Elimination Chamber 2023), I expect that they would lose the titles to a Raw Tag team the following night. I am predicting that would be Judgement Day (Damian Priest and Dominick Mysterio)
- Smackdown Tag Team Champions: Usos
- Next Champion: Brawling Brutes (Elimination Chamber 2023)
- Womens Tag Team Champions: Damage CTRL (Dakota Kai and IYO Sky)
- Next Champions: Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler (Spring 2023)
- United States Champion: Austin Theory
- Next Champion: Finn Balor (Elimination Chamber 2023)
- Intercontinental Champion: Gunther
- Next Champion: Seth Rollins (Wrestlemania Backlash)
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