What would the WWE be like?

[Guest RenegadeX28]

Well, I didn't follow the WWF that much a few years ago. Now, most of you remember that Vince was charged with using and distributing steroids. (Not sure what the charges were). Well, I remember they carried a sentence of 15 years in jail. Vince came out of court a free man.

 

Now the question is this. If Vince was convicted of the charges, and was put in jail, what would the WWE be like? History would have surely changed big time.

[Guest SlowChemical6]

There wouldn't be a WWE...

 

[Guest Austin3164life]

The WWF would probably cease to exist, the wrestlers would all try and get into WCW and possibly ECW, and perhaps the Monday Night Wars would be between WCW and ECW. Either that would happen or the WWF would be a much smaller federation.

[Guest Anglesault]

Shane would run in, test would be a multi time world champ, and it would go out of business by 1999.

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

An example of Vinnie-less WWF booking:

 

Royale Rumble 1994.

 

Dead in a year.

[Guest buffybeast]

I am not so sure the company would still exist. Business was beginning to decline in 1991-2 when this thing happened. It is very likely that WWF would either have gone out of business all together or revert back to a small time fed.

[Guest TestKick]

1995 was that much better?

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

Testkick: RR 94 is WORSE than KOTR 95. It is just dreadful.

[Guest Shaved Bear]

Testkick: RR 94 is WORSE than KOTR 95. It is just dreadful.

wasn't RR 94 on a saturday if i remember correctly

[Guest Ozymandias]

People let Vince off the hook WAY too easily when it comes to RR94. He may have not written it or been occupied elsewhere, but EVERYTHING that winds up on the air (and on PPV, no less) has to go through him. It was just as much his fault as anyone else's. Besides, 1995 WWF was 1000x worse. The company may have been better off without him at that time.

 

But yeah, in the long-run the WWF would've died.

 

Sure, a lot of the credit of their late '97-2000 boom is due to the contributions of others (Austin, Russo, Shane, the guy who booked things through most of 2000), but without Vince at the head the company would've withered. That was always WWF's most core advantage over WCW - there was ONE boss controlling things and calling the shots. Without Vince the company would have become like WCW and died from all the power struggles before they ever got a chance to make it back to the top.

[Guest ISportsFan]

Royal Rumble 1994 is NOT as bad as King of the Ring 1995.

 

RR 1994:

Yoko/UT (minus a billion)

Not much else that is downright terrible, heck, there's a ***1/2 tag title match (plus 10 million), the Owen/Bret feud continues (plus 90 million), and Bret wins the Rumble (plus 5 million).

 

KOR 1995:

Mabel wrestling 2 times (minus a million)

Mabel winning KOR (minus 900 million)

Savio Vega wrestling 4 times (on home video version, minus 100,000)

Shawn Michaels wrestling KAMA, and drawing him! (minus a million)

Mabel's KOR came with Michaels and UT in the tourney (minus a million more)

Bret Hart wrestles a crappy match with Lawler (minus a million)

We have to see Lawler puke on camera (on Coliseum version, minus 10 million)

 

So, in conclusion, KOR is worse than the RR.

 

Jason

[Guest Dangerous A]

In the book "Sex, lies, and headlocks", it says Vince was convinced he was going to jail and he was setting up communication avenues so he could run the WWF from prison. It probrably wouldn't have been too far off barring whoever was in charge of executing Vince's plans didn't stray too far from his orders. Then again, time in prison could make you a more darker person, so a possible scenario could've been that the product could've gotten somewhat darker.

[Guest RicFlairGlory]

Darker than the Undertaker

 

*rolls eyes back in his head*

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

So, in conclusion, KOR is worse than the RR.

Wait wait wait.. You leave RR with 995 million in the red, and KOR 904,100 in the red.

 

By that logic, RR was worse.

[Guest Ozymandias]

RR is 895,000,000 in the red. MATH!~

 

 

-1,000,000,000

+

90,000,000

+

10,000,000

+

5,000,000

_______________

-895,000,000

 

 

 

Show all work!

[Guest Human Fly]

and Bret wins the Rumble (plus 5 million).

 

But Lex Luger also won the Rumble. Shouldn't that be minus something?

[Guest Ozymandias]

Not really because it symbolized Vince getting his head out of his ass and actually LISTENING TO THE FANS to see if Luger was over or not (imagine that).

 

Plus, it was a hot finish.

[Guest BoboBrazil]

Jerry Jarrett was going to take over the WWF for Vince while he was in prison if he went.

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

RR is 895,000,000 in the red. MATH!~

I did have Windows calculator open but I must have gotten my numbers fuxx0red.

[Guest ISportsFan]

Royal Rumble 1994 was 895,000,000.

 

KOR 1995 was 914,000,000.

 

Therefore, King of the Ring 1995 is worse than RR 1994.

 

And by the way, Luger winning didn't amount to Bret NOT winning in the end, and the thought originally was to get a Luger/Hart main event as opposed to Bret/Yoko, so the thought was good to start.

 

Plus, we would have gotten Bret/Owen either way.

 

Jason

[Guest DJ Jeff]

The WWE would have died, and the battle in the Monday Night Wars would have been between WCW and ECW. Just think, had Vince McMahon gone to jail and the WWE went out of business, everything to do with the WWE would be ECW. I'd be an ECW fan.