A HHH-Era WWE Fan Tries Fantasy Booking

Scenario 1: The Revenge of Steveson


Here's something interesting, Gable Steveson was signed by WWE in September of 2021 and made his first appearance the month prior at SummerSlam. It's now March of 2023, he still has yet to have a match and hasn't been seen on TV since December on SmackDown. As an example of how long Steveson just been training, Punk's first appeared in AEW the day before SummerSlam 2021. So my first fantasy booking is going to be how I'd book Gable Steveson's first year on the WWE roster.


Monday Night Raw, April 3rd, 2023

It's the Raw after WM39, Dexter Lumis and Dolph Ziggler are in the middle of a match when Steveson shows up unannounced and starts beating them up, throwing out the match. The commentary team are shocked and Steveson pulls out a microphone to cut a promo.

"Do you remember me Trips? DO YOU ****ING REMEMBER ME?!"

His mic is cut off as security tries to escort him out of the building. Over the following weeks, makes several posts expressing his anger over not being given anything by creative since his original planned match with Triple H at Mania 38 was cancelled, while people like Dexter Lumis and Bronson Reed have been rehired and given major title shots and storylines. Eventually, it's announced that Gable Steveson will make his in-ring debut at Backlash against the winner of Ziggler vs Lumis.


Backlash 2023: Gable Steveson defeats Dexter Lumis by pinfall

This mainly just a squash match to get over how powerful Steveson is. After the match Steveson batters the life out of Lumis and injures him, this will allow Gargano to hopefully move up the card. Steveson goes on to tear apart the Raw roster and earns himself a spot in the King of the Ring tournament.


King and Queen of the Ring 2023: Bronson Reed defeats Gable Steveson by DQ (King of the Ring Semifinals)

Probably Steveson's biggest test since debuting, the PLE opens with him battling against a recently turned Bronson Reed. After around 10 minutes, Steveson is upset after several kick outs from Reed and decides to start using weapons. This results in his first loss and his first major feud


Money in the Bank 2023: Gable Steveson defeats Bronson Reed by pinfall

Due to Steveson attacking Reed during their match, Reed losses to Gunther in the KOTR finals. Steveson is cutting a promo on Raw when Reed interrupts and challenges him to a match at Money in the Bank. Steveson initially declines because he wants to be in the MITB ladder match, but after Reed causes him to lose a qualify match against Chad Gable, he agrees in order give payback to for causing him a possible world title shot. Reed tries to hit a tsunami but Steveson dodges it and pins Reed.


SummerSlam 2023: Gable Steveson defeats Bronson Reed (Last Man Standing match)

Reed appears at Raw after MITB, claiming that Steveson only won because he dodged the tsunami. Steveson responds stating Reed that only reason he's not currently feuding with Cody Rhodes is because the ref gave Reed the win at KOTR. The 2 decide to end their feud at SummerSlam in a LMS match. After Reed hits the tsunami on Steveson, both men are slow to respond to the count. Steveson eventually rolls out of the ring to narrowly win the match.


No Mercy 2023 (replaces Extreme Rules): Gable Steveson defeats Logan Paul by pinfall

Steveson is mad at Logan Paul because his match with The Miz against The Mysterios is what replaced his match when Triple H retired. Steveson reminds Paul of his many controversies and mistakes before he signed with WWE and refuses to let him change for the better. To the shock of everyone, Steveson squashes Paul at No Mercy and sends him to the IR.


Survivor Series 2023: Gable Steveson defeats Bron Breakker by pinfall to win the United States Championship

Steveson next sets his sights on US champion Bron Breakker. Like Steveson, Breakker debuted on the Raw after WM39 and won the US title at KOTR. Steveson is pissed because he thinks Breakker is given all his opportunities because of his family heritage while Breakker believes the only reason WWE ever even showed any interest in Steveson is because his gold medal, stating that it will be the only gold he's ever going to get. However, Steveson proves Breakker wrong by pinning him and he wins the US title.


Royal Rumble 2024: Gable Steveson defeats Chad Gable by pinfall to retain the United States Championship

After Steveson finishes his feud with Breakker, Chad Gable soon challenges the gold medalist. Gable reminds him of times he attacked him and Otis in 2022 and how he pinned him in their previous encounter. Chad proclaims that at the rumble he will not only leave as US champ but as the definite "Top Gable" in WWE. Despite his best efforts however, Steveson too powerful for the American Alpha to overcome and he takes down Gable to remain US Champion.


WrestleMania XL, Night 1: Johnny Gargano defeats Gable Steveson by pinfall to win the United States Championship

After defending the US title earlier in night, Steveson decides to enter royal rumble match. All of his past PLE opponents (Lumis, Reed, Paul, Breakker, Gable) beat him down and try to eliminate him but it take a entering Johnny Gargano to finally get the job done. The next night on Raw, a furious Steveson pissed at Gargano and calls him an overrated indie reject. Gargano is still mad at him for injuring Lumis at Backlash and demands a US title match but Steveson says Gargano didn't deserve any of his previous titles and he sure has hell doesn't deserve the US title. After winning a #1 contenders elimination chamber match, Steveson tries to make Gargano's life a living hell leading up to WrestleMania. Gargano shocks the world and pins Steveson clean to win the US Championship, become the first person to do so.

Scenario 3: Don't Follow the White Rabbit

The first scenario were I'll actually be trying to fix WWE's current booking instead of trying to book the future. Now Bray Wyatt is considered one of the best storytellers in the company, so maybe he can still explain this story (out of a possible faction of 6, we only really know about maybe 3 people), but his return has been underwhelming at this point. So, I'm going to try and book Bray as something a little bit closer to what we expected to happen when he first returned. Also, I'm just going to say that he doesn't become ill in my timeline so that it can't get in the way of the story I want to tell.


Monday Night Raw, October 10, 2022

Bray cuts basically the same promo as he did when he first returned on SmackDown. The main difference is that instead of being interrupted by Howdy, he just stops, stares off into the distance (something like when Knight slapped him) and leaves abruptly.


Survivor Series Wargames: Bray Wyatt defeats Austin Theory by pinfall

Over the next several weeks, Bray keeps having these episodes where he appears stare at something off camera during during his promos. Byron Saxton eventually interviews Wyatt and confronts him about this trances, all he says is "Don't follow the white rabbit" before leaving. During this time, Austin Theory begins to mock Wyatt, saying he's just scared to face people like him and makes fun of his strange behavior. The two come face to face at Survivor Series where Bray ends up getting the victory but he seems to notice something off into the distance and leaves the area before anybody can talk to him. Also while they don't affect this rebooking, Mustafa Ali replaces Theory in the triple treat where Seth retains the US title and Theory still has the Money in the Bank briefcase until WM39 where Cody pins him to split the titles


Royal Rumble 2023: Men's Rumble

After Survivor Series, Bray Wyatt has several matches on Raw. While he's not cutting as many promos, he seems to be a lot more happy and appears to stop having the strange episodes he used to. During this time, Bo Dallas begins posting about a stray white rabbit he claims to have rescued from between the tires of a garbage truck, however things slowly start to go wrong. Bo starts posting more and more about the rabbit, the associated tags begin to include things like "#nightmare" and "#hell", he tweets about hearing noises in the night and wanting it to stop whenever he isn't posting about the rabbit. On the go home Raw, another QR code appears leading to an image of Bray from a recent house show with the message "Soon you'll suffer with him again" in the source code. Bray enters at #7 replacing Karrion Kross and does well eliminating The Miz, Xavier Woods and Johnny Gargano. The countdown to entry #19 begins



Bo Dallas begins to walk to the ring with a distorted version of his entrance theme, wearing a trench coat and holding his rabbit in a cage. Bray looks at him with fear before Bo starts to batter him continuing to attack him after he gets the elimination, the match is still won by Cody Rhodes.


WrestleMania XXXIX, Night 2: "The White Rabbit" Bo Dallas defeats Bray Wyatt by pinfall (Firefly Funhouse)

The Raw after the Rumble, Bray is cutting a promo when he is interrupted by a new episode of the Firefly Funhouse now hosted by Bo calling himself the white rabbit. This continues after Elimination Chamber with Wyatt begging Bo to stop what he's doing and fight the urges, he replies "Bo Dallas isn't here, it's just The White Rabbit". Wyatt decides to challenge him to a Firefly Funhouse match at WrestleMania which agrees to, under the condition that he joins him if he loses. The match has several call backs to both their pasts with Bo reminding Bray of the failures and pain he's had to endure through, while Bray tries to get him to remember the good times they used to have teaming together in FCW. It looks like Bray has the match won as Bo Dallas appears in his Bolieve attire only him to plant Wyatt with a Sister Abigail and pin him to win the match