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Would wrestling exist as we know if if WCW would have won?
Topic Started: Aug 2 2010, 07:28 AM (596 Views)
Nubochanozep
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From the moment Hulk Hogan debuted in WCW up until some time in 1999, the only wrestling show I would watch was Nitro (used to call Raw 'Raw is Bore' :lol: ). Then for a year I had no access to any wrestling show other than SmackDown (and Jakked) but I had been converted to the WWF over the year or so before, thanks to Stone Cold and some WWF fans for friends.


Says a lot about you, really.
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I think it would be about the same, only with a WCW theme. You'd have the same pool of performers. Many of the same creative people, only they'd be working for WCW, so the product wouldn't be drastically different. Remember, all those guys have to have jobs somewhere, and if WCW is there and WWE is not, who do you think they're going to work for?

Financially it could be wacky, since WCW never became a publicly-funded entity. After the AOL-Time Warner merger, Turner was no longer the end-line boss, so who knows what would have gone on? With a whole new business model, wrestling might not even something they wanted to have, period.

As far as ECW, please, WWE did rip them off. Not just in characters and plot concepts. Neb mentioned the culture changing with Simpsons, South Park, etc., which is true. Thing is, ONLY ECW caught onto that change and started catering to it for the first couple of years. WWE and WCW ignored the changing public for a long time, stuck in their ways. It wasn't until WCW starting kicking Vince's ass that WWE woke up and realized it had to change.

But that wasn't all. Look at the matches themselves. ECW was the one that brought that fast-paced, spot-oriented and stiff match style to the majority of the American fans. WCW and WWE performers still worked old-school, "boring" matches until about 1996. It wasn't until former ECW performers went to the "big leagues" that WCW and WWE started to hold those kinds of matches. ECW started the tend of substituting reverse chinlocks and armwringers with suplex chains and crazy false finishes. If they hadn't been doing that, WWE and WCW wouldn't have started to, either.
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To add onto SRP's point, WWF and WCW at the time would really only have one or two legit matches on the card per night, with most of the rest being squashes. So it wasn't only the matches themselves, but the idea of there being less filler on shows and more of a complete lineup from top to bottom.
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