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I think looking back, that Savage had a huge vendetta with the nWo story-line wise. He had been cutoff by Hogan and the nWo in every way leading up to Havoc. I think that WCW missed out on a good opportunity with Savage and Sting. They should have had Savage and Sting continue their rogue...

We also need to point out that Vince couldn't find a network for any company called 'WCW' since it was notorious for hemorrhaging money and bad ratings in its final years. There is only so much the bulk of wrestling viewers have in watching wrestling. The problem comes when you have several...

It was almost like Vince couldn't manage a story line without good guys and bad guys so he made WCW heels. WCW started out as underemployed faces which work IMO, but Vince quickly relegated them to heels when ECW joined up. Vince did need the mainstay talent from WCW, but it would have been...

Hindsight is always 20/20, but there was some glaring errors that even Vince should have recognized: -Too much McMahon(s). I don't think anyone wanted to see Shane as the owner of WCW or Stephanie owning ECW. In addition, this just kept the already exhausted angle between Austin and McMahon...

What year would the WWF had went under? WCW's best time frame for putting WWF out of business was in late 97. Sting should have got over Hogan cleanly. Hart should have been instantly at odds with Nash, Hall, and Syxx as Michaels' friends. The NWO should have split into the two factions...

I think this PPV main event is a heavy indictment on Hulk Hogan's ego running wild. Initially Hogan was brought to WCW with heavy fanfare and I think some former WWF viewers switched over or at least started watching both. WCW had always been more wrasslin' and focused heavier on kayfabe than...

Considering the very minor contributions of other celebrities and other wrestlers to the industry I would say that Turner is definitely HoF worthy. Turner may not have understood the logistics and production of a wrestling company, but he definitely enjoyed wrestling and was willing to invest...

Sting vs. Warrior-1998 This one seemed like a no-brainer to me. I wouldn't have either of them as a heel, but it could have had the same effect of Hogan vs. Savage about 10 years earlier. I would have Sting vs. Warrior match around the title at WW3, and the winner facing Goldberg maybe at...

I agree with you there. Watch that year's summer slam and you can see that Lex was hugely over with the crowd. Just like with the Ultimate Warrior and Jarrett, WWE likes to black ball guys that did certain things and they did this with Lex. They can say that Vince tried to recreate Hogan, but...

To reiterate, I don't think Michaels' being the third man would have been AS successful as Hogan, I just think it would have worked. Michaels was clearly capable of cutting edgy and cocky promos as we saw just a year later in 97, he was leagues better in the ring than Hogan, and maybe even on...

I think it just shows WCW really had no concrete plans for their investment with Hart. It was like some kind of NWO associate, but not a full on indoctrinated member. I don't know who's decision it was to put Hart there and have him make US title runs; but much like Savage, it kept Hart under...

I don't believe it was that obvious either. Just because Hogan hadn't been present, doesn't mean that he was going to be the third man. I think most expected Hogan to lead the fight against the nWo the way he had against the Dungeon of Doom.

I standby Michaels coming over with the WWF championship as a the third man at Bash of the Beach and then beating the Giant to hold both titles would have elevated him at least somewhere close to Hogan's level at the time. Remember by late 95 and early 96, WCW fans were largely apathetic to...

To the preface this post, I'm not saying that the nWo wasn't booked properly or that Michaels would have made a better 3rd man than Hogan. In all likelihood he would not have. This is simply a 'What if?' and how I would have booked it. After the Curtain Call incident begins to circulate through...

I would have thought that Hall, Nash, and Syxx's relationship with Michaels and HHH would have been a natural bridge into a feud between the nWo and Hart, possibly with Bulldog and Neidhart. I think it's obvious that WCW didn't have real plans for Hart, and in large part it was more about...