Wrestling Roundtable #22 9/28/08 Part 3 - What If?/Time Machine

The panel discusses some interesting alternate universe scenarios for some of the most important and critical events in pro wrestling history :
-What if Hulk Hogan hadn't left Verne Gagne's AWA(American Wrestling Association) in 1983 for Vince McMahon's WWF(World Wrestling Federation)?
-What if Bret The Hitman Hart had accepted Eric Bischoff's big money offer to go to WCW(World Championship Wrestling) in 1996 to join the nWo(New World Order) as the third man at Bash At The Beach along with The Outsiders(Scott Hall & Kevin Nash)?
-What if Stone Cold Steve Austin hadn't suffered a broken neck at the hands of Owen Hart at SummerSlam 1997?
Hosted by Eric Santamaria.

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[jpd632]

What if I hadn't watched this video...

[WrestlingRoundtable]

What if you went & fucked yourself?

-E, Wrestling Roundtable

[JerryvonKramer]

What if Dibiase had won the WWF title at WM4 as was planned?

[SolidMike84]

What if Vince had treated "Mr. Perfect" better during his last days in WWE

[MrTvtech9]

I cringed at the thought of Hulk Crow-gan [shudders]

I have a really good one: What if WWE Raw didn't lead into the first season of The Ultimate Fighter? Would UFC be successful today? And what else do you think would happen?

[SSVCloud]

@Sweetguy9009 If Michaels never broke his back, he'd be in the hall of fame. Posthumously.

[Sweetguy9009]

@WrestlingRoundtable Here's a good What If... What would happened to WWE, if Shawn Michaels never got injured at Royal Rumble 1998? Sure, Austin would've still won the WWE Title at WM 14. But would we have seen, McMahon vs. Austin? Would HHH become the great semi main eventer in 1998 to eventually become a main eventer a year later? Would Rock have become WWE Champion if Shawn Michaels was still around?

[cbaldwinjr]

@MRobert21

Lucky implies that McMahon had like two or three other people in mind that he couldn't and had to come back to Hogan. No, Hogan is FORTUNATE. Big difference. But for all of McMahon's forward thinking, Hogan was the bell cow. He altered THREE wrestling organizations in his time...no one else can say that. So this idea that McMahon just plucked him out and w/o him he would've made the WWF larger than life anyway...bullshit. Look at how the WWF struggled after Hogan before Austin/Rock

[Sweetguy9009]

@WrestlingRoundtable I totally agree with what Haber said about Bret Hart being known as a WWE guy. Similar to what Jim Ross said on Bret's DVD... When Bret went to WCW he was known as such a WWE guy and he had fourteen years in WWE to build up that rep so when he went to WCW he had no rep and that was the many things that killed his WCW run. Survivor Series 1997 didn't help matters either.

[Sweetguy9009]

@WrestlingRoundtable Santamaria you talked about how the arena in Minneapolis was pissed as result of the finish between Hogan and Bockwinkle. Hogan mentions in the AWA DVD how Gagne sold out the arena next door and they watched the event on closed circuit and how Gagne jacked up ticket prices only a few days before... Awful business move by Gagne.

[smoothop1000]

@Sweetguy9009 Losing the top babyface AND the top heel in tragic circumstances will kill ANY promotion!! Imagine if in the WWE John Cena and let's say CM Punk or Chris Jericho pass away? The WWE would be in big trouble...... I can only imagine how big David and Gino would have been if they were alive today!!

[Sweetguy9009]

@smoothop1000 I have often thought about that seeing the documents about WCCW. Would JCP woul;d have been the top promotion in the NWA?

[antsman88]

What if the Montreal Screwjob had never happened?