Dear readers, TheSmackDownHotel is happy to bring you our own WWE 2K18 Roster Predictions! The expert analysis of the potential WWE 2K18 Roster, featuring odds for WWE Superstars and Women returning from WWE 2K17, and brand new additions from RAW, SmackDown, NXT and 205 Live, plus Legends!
Each WWE Superstar has been analyzed and associated with their own chances of being in the full WWE 2K18 Roster. Probabilities have been calculated by considering several factors like presence in WWE 2K17, debut date, in-ring presence during the last 6 months and current status in WWE.
(NEW) = Not in WWE 2K17.
Alexa Bliss
99%
Alicia Fox
95%
Apollo Crews
99%
Bayley
99%
Big Cass
99%
Big Show
99%
Bo Dallas
95%
Braun Strowman
99%
Bray Wyatt
99%
Brock Lesnar
99%
Cesaro
99%
Chris Jericho
99%
Curt Hawkins (NEW)
70%
Curtis Axel
95%
Dana Brooke
99%
Darren Young
95%
Dash Wilder
99%
Dean Ambrose
99%
Emma
99%
Enzo Amore
99%
Finn Bálor
99%
Goldberg
99%
Goldust
95%
Heath Slater
99%
Jeff Hardy (NEW)
50% on Disc (90% as DLC)
Kalisto
99%
Karl Anderson
99%
Kurt Angle (NEW)
85%
Luke Gallows
99%
Mark Henry
99%
Maryse (NEW)
50% Playable (90% as Manager)
Matt Hardy (NEW)
50% on Disc (90% as DLC)
Mickie James (NEW)
90%
Nia Jax
99%
Paige
60%
R-Truth
95%
Rhyno (NEW)
80%
Roman Reigns
99%
Samoa Joe
99%
Sasha Banks
99%
Scott Dawson
99%
Seth Rollins
99%
Sheamus
99%
Stephanie McMahon
95%
Summer Rae
90%
The Miz
99%
Titus O'Neil
95%
Triple H
99%
Aiden English
75%
AJ Styles
99%
Baron Corbin
99%
Becky Lynch
99%
Big E
99%
Carmella
99%
Chad Gable
99%
Charlotte Flair
99%
Daniel Bryan
95%
Dolph Ziggler
99%
Epico
70%
Erick Rowan
99%
Eva Marie
65%
Fandango
95%
James Ellsworth (NEW)
75%
Jason Jordan
99%
Jey Uso
99%
Jimmy Uso
99%
Jinder Mahal (NEW)
75%
John Cena
99%
Kane
95%
Kevin Owens
99%
Kofi Kingston
99%
Konnor
95%
Luke Harper
99%
Mojo Rawley
99%
Naomi
99%
Natalya
99%
Nikki Bella
99%
Primo
70%
Randy Orton
99%
Rusev
99%
Sami Zayn
99%
Shane McMahon
99%
Shinsuke Nakamura
99%
Sin Cara
95%
Tamina
90%
Tye Dillinger
10
Tyler Breeze
99%
Viktor
95%
Xavier Woods
99%
Zack Ryder
99%
Akira Tozawa (NEW)
45%
Ariya Daivari (NEW)
20%
Austin Aries
99%
Cedric Alexander (NEW)
55%
Drew Gulak (NEW)
20%
Gran Metalik (NEW)
10%
Gurv Sihra (NEW)
10%
Harv Sihra (NEW)
10%
HoHo Lun (NEW)
10%
Jack Gallagher (NEW)
55%
Lince Dorado (NEW)
10%
Mustafa Ali (NEW)
10%
Neville
99%
Noam Dar (NEW)
40%
Rich Swann (NEW)
65%
Tajiri (NEW)
55%
The Brian Kendrick (NEW)
80%
TJ Perkins (NEW)
80%
Tony Nese (NEW)
20%
Akam (NEW)
60%
Aleister Black (NEW)
10%
Alexander Wolfe (NEW)
15%
Aliyah (NEW)
5%
Andrade Almas (NEW)
60%
Angelo Dawkins (NEW)
5%
Asuka
99%
Billie Kay (NEW)
50%
Bobby Roode (NEW)
95%
Buddy Murphy
70%
Drew McIntyre (NEW)
10%
Elias Samson (NEW)
40%
Ember Moon (NEW)
75%
Eric Young (NEW)
60%
Hideo Itami
95%
Johnny Gargano (NEW)
85%
Kassius Ohno (NEW)
15%
Killian Dain (NEW)
25%
Liv Morgan (NEW)
35%
Mandy Rose (NEW)
15%
Nick Miller (NEW)
5%
Nikki Cross (NEW)
30%
No Way Jose (NEW)
60%
Oney Lorcan (NEW)
5%
Otis Dozovic (NEW)
5%
Peyton Royce (NEW)
50%
Rezar (NEW)
60%
Roderick Strong (NEW)
50%
Ruby Riot (NEW)
5%
Sawyer Fulton (NEW)
5%
Shane Thorne (NEW)
5%
Tommaso Ciampa (NEW)
85%
Tucker Knight (NEW)
5%
Wesley Blake
70%
William Regal (NEW)
50%
Beth Phoenix (NEW)
70%
Booker T
90%
Bret Hart
80%
Christian
70%
DDP
90%
Eddie Guerrero
85%
Edge
85%
Hulk Hogan (NEW)
10%
Lita
90%
Macho Man Randy Savage
85%
Mick Foley
90%
Mr. McMahon
90%
Ric Flair
85%
Rick Rude
90%
The Rock
90%
Shawn Michaels
90%
Sting
90%
Steve Austin
90%
The Undertaker
99%
Trish Stratus
80%
Ultimate Warrior
85%
OTHERS / ALUMNI
Alberto Del Rio
0%
Brie Bella
70%
Bubba Ray Dudley
15%
D-Von Dudley
20%
Jack Swagger
5%
Simon Gotch
5%
Stardust
0%
Tyson Kidd
35%
These are our complete Roster Predictions for WWE 2K18, to give you a preview of what you can expect in the next few months during the WWE 2K18 coverage!
What do you think? Who would you like to see make the WWE 2K18 Roster? Let us know in the comments below!
I believe that the hardyz and bobby roode will make it. If they put the cruiserweights in the game then I can use guys like gentlemen jack Gallagher Neville Austin Aries and the my favourite who was once know as suicide and manik in tna tj perkins #WWEvsTNA
Tbh I'm annoyed that WWE is still the only sports game that releases out of date and doesn't have a single update until the next game comes out.
Every other sports game will add new players update stats etc.
WWE 2k18 needs to start updating the roster they must surely create the new wrestlers well ahead of time or have the tools to create one equal to the better ones on Community. And if it can't give us new wrestlers as soon as possible after they join then I'd like to at least see some smaller bits added like their titantron and music so the community made stuff looks better. Along with just adding some minor updates to announcing it'd be awesome to get some updates that just keep the game fresh a little longer. Within a week after WrestleMania there could have been the Hardy's entrance and announce.
New arenas: Raw Smackdown Live and the new NXT are all missing from WWE 2K17 but I bet the arena was made months ago it could have easily been added in via an update same with PPV arenas throughout the year. It annoys me playing 2K17 universe mode with all the arenas from a year previous. Just so they can be kept behind for 2K18 at which point I'll want the arenas that are relevant for then. And the graphics for them.
Belts: Absolutely no excuse for these to not be updated. The Universal title is literally a red version of the WWE title. And we have no Smackdown titles Cruiserweight or UK Championship.
Stats: Probably the easiest part to update but WWE 2k18 should be updating stats with updates. NXT call ups get stuck with NXT ratings Braun Strowman has become a monster but is stuck with an overall of a mere 80. I can change it myself by buying the accelerator but at some point it should be up to the developers to upgrade stats to match the real life product something that's easy to do and matches the real life product.
@MG Hind Ant John Yet every other sports game updates their game and people still buy it every year. If fans were more vocal in their annoyance about it they might actually fix it rather than us just making excuses for them.
@MG Hind A lot of the community creations are pretty good. I agree about some of that stuff in 2K17 but it was too late for them to add it in. You can't just add in stuff last minute. But the should have added them later. The UK Championship didn't even come out until after the game was out.
@MG Hind MG Hind Other sports games are not necessarily creating exact likenesses of every athlete. You don't see faces with helmets on. Updated a roster on a sports game and on a wrestling game is not the same thing.
@MG Hind The titles aren't a massive issue seeing as people create ones which are spot on.
But then there's no announce for it. Now at some point they get the woman in and records that sound for Universal etc and it isn't added to the current game. The same can be said for all the shows etc.
I don't play Madden but for FIFA I was playing a game where the commentary mentioned something that had happened one day earlier. Twice a year all transfers happen and every month or 2 new players are added and smaller changes done.
It'd be a nice touch for fans if new wrestlers were available as DLC when they're ready and titantron and themes were added when someone new debuts etc. And it has nothing to do with it not being possible they add over 100 wrestlers to the game each year and there are 52 weeks in a year so there is no way a wrestler takes anywhere over a month to create. New themes could be a simple patch. And move animations are sometimes in there before a wrestler even moves to WWE. Shinsuke had his finisher in 2k16.
Dlc wwe woman rival showcase lita Trish stratus Jacqueline jazz irovy chyna Victoria
Dlc wwe rival showcase hardy boys Dudley boys edge and Christian a.p.a too cool the rock and mankind right of central Billy Gunn and road dogg
We want wwe legend stone cold the rock triple h shawn Michaels mankind sting Goldberg ultimate warrior hulk Hogan Bret Hart British bulldog Jim neidhart Ric Flair Ricky steamboat Kevin Nash Scott hall x Pac Kane undertaker big show mark Henry mankind roddy piper legion of doom midnight express Randy savage Batista Rey mysterio earthquake and typhoons big boss man ken shamrock Jake Roberts Brutus beefcake Tantra Vader
@Joseph Clancy Had enough of bret triple h hbk austin sting warrior taker etc also having so many retro or variant t costumes means less space / slots for actual wrestlers which means we have to dl so many current superstars: 2k need to follow what StarWars Battlefront 2 will do this year - you pay for the game and ALL dlc is free no extra for season pass
@Joseph Clancy Daniel Grubb yes he does and he's spitting his venom on every site related to 2k18 i went.
That's so stupid to whine about legends when you see the state of the current roster and the fact that most of them will still be included anyway.
I wonder who are his favorite wrestlers and i'll be curious to see if he still thinks legends sucks in 10 years when his favorite wrestlers will be considered as such (in an undeserving way as no current wrestler can touch Warrior Hogan Austin Rock and so on in charisma and impact department)
@Joseph Clancy Daniel Grubb I don't hate the Legends I just wish they would give us more variety - eg Studd Bundy Slaughter Yokozuna LOD Demolition etc
I don't see why everyone on this list can't make it either on disc or in DLC tho I'd rather see Ellsworth as a manager than an actual wrestler if he's in the game considering he's a joke character. Hell Hornswaggle is a more legitimate athlete than Ellsworth.
I don't see the Hardy boyz as dlc at all i think they should b on raw as the tag champs and hulk hogan I do see him being in wwe 2K18 and they should do a 2k showcase of the deadman through his career but otherwise the roster is good legit good
I find it interesting how Alexander Wolfe has the second lowest chance according to SmackDown Hotel's prediction despite the fact that Wolfe Eric and Cross have been part of SAnitY since SAnitY's debut. If anything Killian Dain (Replaced Fulton in the faction after trying out for SAnitY by attacking SAnity's enemies) and Swayer Fulton (After he got injured and was kicked out of the faction SAnity was just Eric Wolfe and Cross until Killan Dain [formerly Big Damo] joined the faction) should have the lowest chances of SAnitY's members.
Personally I could see The Hardy Boys being part of a Future Stars DLC pack for 2K18 and the reason being that ever since 2K16 the Future Stars DLC pack has consisted of 3 NXT wrestlers and a main roster team. (The NXT Arrival Pack from 2K15 was JBL Adam Rose Emma and The Ascension)
The only other main roster team to debut in WWE but isn't in 2K17 would be The Bollywood Boyz (Harv Sihra & Gurv Sihra) but The Sihra Brothers have had 1 match on 205 Live [29.11.2016 which also the first 205 Live show] and 3 matches on NXT. The Bollywood alligened with Jinder Mahal after WrestleMania 33.
@James Woollett James Woollett Hardy Boyz Future Stars Pack? Are you insane? The Hardy Boyz have been stars with WWE since the late 90s Given the fact they were in TNA for that short time Honestly you make it sound like you don't even know who the Hardy Boyz are Legends Pack more like it
@James Woollett James Payne I know who the Hardys are as I have been watching WWE non-stop since 93 and I am aware that they are not really Future Stars (Neither were Fernando (Epico) and Diego (Primo) but they were in the Future Stars pack of 2K16 and Luke Gallows was in the 2K17 Future Stars pack despite making a name for himself outside WWE). There was only 2 main roster tag teams whom not in 2K17 that they are the The Hardy Boyz whom returned to WWE at WM33 (whom I agree with you are legends) and The Bollywood Boyz who made their made their Main Roster debut on the 205 Live's (which is Raw's Cruiseweight show) first episode where they defeated Tony Nese and Drew Gulak.
@James Woollett Future stars will probably have a NXT tag team who make their debut on main roster by the time the game comes out. Thus continuing the cycle of new WWE games being out of date by the time they release.
So probasbly Ciampa and Gargano or Sanity.
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