Hypothetically speaking....

[Epic Reine 0]

A couple questions, what do you think would happen IF:

 

 

 

1. One of the plane trips to an overseas tour crashes and all of the wrestlers on the plane were to perish in the crash?

 

 

2. WCW had scooped up Kurt Angle and not WWF/E after his 96 Olympics?

 

 

3. Bischoff bought WCW and not Vince?

[JoeDirt 0]

A couple questions, what do you think would happen IF:

 

 

 

1. One of the plane trips to an overseas tour crashes and all of the wrestlers on the plane were to perish in the crash?

 

 

2. WCW had scooped up Kurt Angle and not WWF/E after his 96 Olympics?

 

 

3. Bischoff bought WCW and not Vince?

1. Well I guess that would be the end of the brand extension. We'd have a long mourning period and then they would try and move on, I guess. Who knows.

 

2) They wouldn't have pushed him right, and he wouldn't have done anything in WCW. Who knows if he would have received the same push in the WWE after being in WCW, but he's a talented guy, so I can see it happening.

 

3) It would have struggled some more and gone bankrupt a year later.

[Australian Pride 0]

1. who knows. As mentioned the brand extension would be over, and WWE might even stop running for a few months while the other wrestlers get over it. Then they would come back and Vince would likely milk it for all it's worth, which would be sad.

 

2. He would have been jobbed out to a Red and Yellow wearing, American loving Hulk Hogan, and that would be the end of him.

 

3. There's no way WCW could of survived no matter who bought it. All the old wrestlers had clauses in their contracts that gave them creative control, which meant that nobody under the age of 40 ever got a decent rub. Eventually the whole thing would have just died.

[Styles 0]

1) Well, good thing for the brand extension, hmm?

 

2) Probably would have been brought up before he was ready, but eventually risen to the top, especially at the end when the likes of Jeff Jarrett and Booker T were the top stars. Upon entrance to WWF with the others though, he'd probably be treated like a comedy character, and while given a push, never really scoring any meaningful wins and would promply be put back in place by the likes of HHH and Austin....um....ya know what, absolutely nothing would be different!

 

3) Well, possibly the company could have chugged along if it hooked up with Fox Sports Net or USA or something, because the whole reaosn Bischoff didn't buy it was they didn't have TV anymore on TBS/TNT. NWA-TNA would not exist though, that I'm pretty sure of.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

1. OVW would cease to exist and you'd see every moderately known wrestler not signed to TNA showing up in the WWF. Very strong chance the promotion would go off the air for a few months.

 

2. Probably would've shown up on Saturday Night until later joining the Natural Born Thrillers. Would've had a good chance of being the other breakout star with O'Haire. I could've seen him taking Mike Sanders role as well.

 

3. They would've found new life as they would've been the ones to sign Rob Van Dam and would still be riding him to some degree of success. Ron Killings would hopefully have been signed and done the same act for WCW that he did for TNA.

[Guest ally mccoist]

1) My guess is the company would shut down for a few weeks, maybe just showing highlight shows in place or Raw and SD.

 

2) He would of got over. But, assuming he joined in say 98, then he'd have been in the same position as Benoit and Booker around that time- that whole glass ceiling theory.

 

3) It would still be around today and just hovering below WWE. Sean O'Haire would have got a big push, which was apparently one of Bischoff's plans had he bought the company. Had ECW died, RVD would have joined WCW (WWE was never that interested in him) and got over big with his unique style.

[razazteca 0]

Which plane trip are you thinking about? The one where Michael Hayes got a haircut and Goldust singing in the nude? What if Vince had to push the small wrestlers again since most of the hosses crashed? Would Paul London be champ, would Spanky be IC champ, would Low-Ki be employed by WWE?

[Guest Big Daddy V1]

1. The end of wrestling, unless a merger between NWA TNA and WWE happened fast.

 

2. He would have been in there doing the job to Hogan probably instead of Kidman.

 

3. Intresting, but there would still be no WCW after about a year. It was in a hole so deep it couldn't get out.

[Positively Kanyon 0]

3. Intresting, but there would still be no WCW after about a year. It was in a hole so deep it couldn't get out.

I think Eric Bischoff works at his best potential when Hogan/Nash etc. aren't in his ear and playing politics. I think if Bischoff was given the chance to restart WCW without Hogan and Nash and any of the other backstage players, it could have given WWE another run for it's money.

 

But I live in a fantasy world, so what would I know!

[Guest GreatOne]

Well Bischoff pretty much acknowledged that WWE was always #1 considering who WCW's top stars went from between 1994 and 1997. So he'd be trying to sign Steve Austin today and he'd probably be headlining Halloween Havoc against either Bret Hart in a NEVER SEEN BEFORE match (which Tony and gang would emphasize ad nauseum) or challenging Hogan while Savage, Hall, Nash, Goldberg, and Jarrett would all hog the uppercard.

[Kizzo 0]

There would still be a wCw if it wasn't for the asses @ AOL.....they sold wCw behind Ted Turners back(one of the reasons why he resigned...among other things)

 

I wish Time Warner didn't merge with AOL in 2000.....but I guess it doesn't matter now...because AOL Time Warner is no more...the company has went back to being Time Warner again....and a new executive in charge...

[Guest Just Looking]

I wish Time Warner didn't merge with AOL in 2000.....

Me too, because maybe my company stock would actually be worth a shit. Fucking AOL...

[justcoz 0]

1. The media would of course be all over the story getting the McMahon's plenty of face time. They would more than likely preempt Raw and Smackdown for two weeks. I see them maybe running career highlights of those who perished on one of the shows and then biographical pieces on each of the performers who passed away. Maybe pushing a charity for the performers families.

 

2. Had Angle joined WCW immediately after winning the Olympics it wouldn't have worked out. He didn't understand the business at that time and he wasn't a fan of the choreographed art and characters. He would have accepted the offer due to $$$$$ alone without the same type of passion he had when he entered voluntarily years later. He wouldn't have gone through WWF's territory system and would have instead been trained at the Power Plant and thrown on television immediately so WCW could get a rise from his name and Olympic achievements.

 

3. I think the business would have been better off. Bischoff could have probably worked his way back on television in some form. USA may have bit at that time considering they were still fuming over losing RAW and Nitro was still scoring high 2.0's. Perhaps a late night Monday night slot. Just think if Austin would have walked out due to frustrations with WWF's creative dept. like he did. It's probable that Bischoff could have grabbed him up. RVD would have definitely signed. He would have got ECW guys like Mikey Whipwreck, Tommy Dreamer, Spike Dudley, Super Crazy, Jerry Lynn, Tajiri, Rhyno, etc. He would have retbuilt WCW's cruiserweight division which had talent like Noble, Helms, Moore, Mysterio, etc. He would have given Sean O'Haire that monster push he wanted to do and he'd have Goldberg, Booker T, Flair, Hogan, etc. for name value.

[jester 0]

1. For the next several weeks, WWE would have moving tributes and video packages to HHH... "and oh yeah, those other guys that died too."

 

2. Upon joining the company, Nash and Hogan would have noticed he could wrestle and talk, and would have buried him so deep that they would have struck oil in the process.

 

3. Vince would have kept buying out any talent just for the spite of it, like he did with AWA. He wouldn't have stayed in business for much longer.

[Da Maintenance Man 0]

1. I hope the only ones on mentioned plane are Kenzo Suzuki, Tyson Tomko, Heidenreich, Sylvan Grenier and JBL. If it did happen, like others said, WWE would go off the air for a little while and the company would get a huge media blitz.

 

2. I could see him getting a push. Not to the extent that WWE pushed him but still

 

3. I have no idea.

[The Buzz 0]

1. Weird...I was thinking about this the other day.

 

2. It'd be "Kurt Who".

 

3. If you had Sting, Booker T, Steiner, Jarrett, Goldberg, O'Haire and a few others working their ass off in the top tier. Cut some worthless talent in the main event, mid-card, and lower end of the card.(Hogan, Barbarian, Terry Funk, Some Luchas) A decent tv deal on one of the already mentioned networks....then yes WCW could be working itself back up to a prominent role as we speak.

[Twisted Intestine 0]

3. If you had Sting, Booker T, Steiner, Jarrett, Goldberg, O'Haire and a few others working their ass off in the top tier. Cut some worthless talent in the main event, mid-card, and lower end of the card.(Hogan, Barbarian, Terry Funk, Some Luchas) A decent tv deal on one of the already mentioned networks....then yes WCW could be working itself back up to a prominent role as we speak.

Erm...

 

I'd rather watch Hogan than Goldberg, Steiner, Sting, Jarrett, and O'Haire.. and possibly Booker T, as he hasn't been that great recently either.

[Lt. Al Giardello 0]

3. If you had Sting, Booker T, Steiner, Jarrett, Goldberg, O'Haire and a few others working their ass off in the top tier. Cut some worthless talent in the main event, mid-card, and lower end of the card.(Hogan, Barbarian, Terry Funk, Some Luchas) A decent tv deal on one of the already mentioned networks....then yes WCW could be working itself back up to a prominent role as we speak.

Erm...

 

I'd rather watch Hogan than Goldberg, Steiner, Sting, Jarrett, and O'Haire.. and possibly Booker T, as he hasn't been that great recently either.

This isn't current verison of Booker T.

 

This is WCW Booker T we are talking about.

 

Who would honestly take Hogan over WCW Booker T in terms of wrestling ability?