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What If ... WCW raids WWE's big stars earlier than it did
Got the thread idea after being inspired about the recent Monday Night War series on the Network and the Wrestling Observer's recent critic of them.
What if instead of raiding or going after WWE's big stars in the early to mid 90s, WCW and Ted Turner started the raiding process a lot earlier. Would WCW eventually still end up falling apart in the end? Would the "war" still have occurred albeit at an earlier date and as a possibly different or Attitude-like era? Quote:
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09-18-2014, 09:12 PM | #2 |
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By the late 80's the WWF brand became larger than any of the wrestlers, even Hogan.
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09-19-2014, 04:31 AM | #3 |
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Probably no nWo because Bischoff wouldn't have been there to steal New Japan's idea.
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09-19-2014, 08:29 AM | #4 |
Taller than Adam Cole
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I believe that if Watts had someone to tell him that they needed folks to do stuff off the top rope and to be more reasonable with the talent, he could have made a serious run at Vince with WCW.
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09-19-2014, 10:28 AM | #5 |
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WCW still would have fell apart because it had a bad business structure.
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09-19-2014, 11:04 AM | #6 |
You can't teach that
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Watts with a blank checkbook still couldnt book to either
a) An Audience outside of the south b) A teen and young audult audience. Watts was a fossil and even with top talent wouldnt have done a thing. |
09-19-2014, 12:48 PM | #7 |
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I blame Watts for pushing his son Erik down our throats.
His ideas were still stuck in the 80's. |
09-25-2014, 06:25 AM | #8 |
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I say 1996 was the perfect time for what happened. If a few years earlier they took Yoko and Luger for example... meh. It needed to be ultra cool Nash and Hall.
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09-25-2014, 12:54 PM | #9 |
You can't teach that
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If they would have nabbed Hogan and Savage in 1991-1992 instead of 1994 then that could have been a big change
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