BY MICHAEL GOODPASTER
“Worst Case Scenario” is a new take on the concept of “fantasy booking”. For years professional wrestling fans would spend endless hours of thinking up the coolest things that could happen. Why waste the energy? This only leads to high expectations. “Worst Case Scenario” flips that. Instead of looking through rose colored glasses, let’s take a bi-weekly look at the worst possible scenarios in professional wrestling. I’m not going to be malicious or anything too mean, but I will not refrain from letting my brain come up with the worst possible shit I can. Sadly, it seems the writers and producers of mainstream TV wrestling and the mainstream iPPV level indies are doing the same thing but charging us for it. And now…
“If WCW Bought WWE!”
Everyone knows the story of WCW. It was a big time promotion that spawned out of the NWA. It gave us some of the best wrestlers, matches, and moments in professional wrestling history. If anyone says anything about WCW, good or bad, they can never say they weren’t the biggest company in wrestling for a while. They built a great legacy and then had a huge boom once the nWo stable hit big. Eventually it faded and the owners of WCW lost interest in losing money and wasting time. Vince McMahon’s WWE would quickly scoop up their assets and carry on as normal. They would easily kill off the company’s momentum and ignore it in no time.
What if it were reverse?
Let’s say the WWE didn’t have a resurrection. The Austin 3:16 and Attitude Era fails. Vince McMahon would be forced to sell off his company to Ted Turner’s WCW with Eric Bischoff in charge. The McMahons would go on to put out a rival promotion to the UFC in its early stages and totally destroy it. The UFC would have flopped hard as the WWE would have taken it over with ease. This is an easy out on that part of this. Then there’s wrestling, a monopoly ran by WCW.
WCW would have Starrcade as the biggest event of the year, but would still use WrestleMania to feature legends and to continue with the Hall of Fame. The IC Title would be gone. A lot of the guys who “jumped ship” would go to Japan or work the independents. Without the WWE’s reach, the independents would rise to a larger level because WCW would force fans to seek an alternative. One would assume Paul Heyman could have gotten funding from an outside source (Shane McMahon?!) and rose to a prominent #2 alternative.
Eventually WCW would start a Network, cross promote with Duck Dynasty, and go PG as well.
Imagine a PG nWo…. Imagine it!
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