The Street to WrestleMania is approaching with the flip of the brand new 12 months. January by way of April are a number of the most essential months on the WWE calendar. It is an thrilling season for skilled wrestling followers and consultants to take a position.
WWE welcomes 2025 with a bang for Monday Evening Uncooked’s Netflix debut on Jan. 6. Roman Reigns and Solo Sikoa interact in Tribal Fight, John Cena begins his retirement tour and CM Punk vs. Seth Rollins lastly takes place. These high-stakes storylines will seemingly form WWE’s route by way of WrestleMania and past.
With that in thoughts, our consultants took a shot at some predictions for what we might see occur within the new 12 months.
Solo Sikoa is left adrift after being kicked out of the New Bloodline
The Bloodline Saga is bound to take a number of new turns within the coming 12 months. WWE clearly has no real interest in ending its well-regarded storyline any time quickly, which leaves the query of how the storyline continues to evolve with distinctive and attention-grabbing story developments. One factor that appears very a lot in play is that Sikoa ultimately falls sufferer to his personal hubristic strategy to taking up because the chief of The Bloodline after Reigns misplaced the undisputed WWE championship to Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania 40.
Sikoa invited instability into his life as he recruited wild, unhinged characters resembling Jacob Fatu to again his play. These wildcards might see him as an unworthy chief if he cannot show himself higher than Reigns within the ring. Would Fatu, Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa proceed to comply with Sikoa unquestionably if he cannot really show to be the precise “Tribal Chief” and “Head of the Desk”? Or would the group kick Sikoa to the curb, leaving the present chief rudderless in an effort to take a extra animalistic strategy to their future as they search for a brand new chief who can get the job executed. Fatu’s fixed yells of “I really like you, Solo” rapidly flip right into a extra sinister twist on the time period of affection as he buries the knife in Sikoa’s again? And would Reigns and the “OG Bloodline” ever welcome Sikoa again into the fold? That is the sort of dramatic scenario that has propelled the saga up to now and will proceed to maneuver it ahead all through 2025. — Brent Brookhouse
John Cena embarks on an all-star retirement tour in opposition to elite opponents
2025 is Cena’s final 12 months as an in-ring skilled wrestler. The 16-time world champion embarks on a retirement tour worthy of his standing as a longtime main man. Cena has largely wrestled part-time since 2019 however plans to be extra energetic in his twenty sixth and remaining 12 months. He is already scheduled for the Royal Rumble, Elimination Chamber and WrestleMania 41. That provides Cena ample time to piece collectively a blockbuster 12-month run. I anticipate we’ll see Cena wrestle one final time in opposition to CM Punk, Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton and Roman Reigns. Heck, WWE might even pull off a trilogy match in opposition to The Rock. Add contemporary matchups in opposition to guys like Gunther, plus a potential record-setting seventeenth world title run, and you’ve got one hell of a send-off for an all-time nice. — Shakiel Mahjouri