What are your biggest What Ifs in wrestling?

What if Lesnar didn't quit WWE in 2004?

What if Triple H didn't hook up with Stephanie?

What if The Shockmaster didn't fall through that wall? :)

What if wrestling were real?

What if Hogan never snitched to Vince about Jesse Ventura's unionization attempts?

What if it were WWE who went out of business on March 26th 2001, instead of WCW.

What if goldberg hadn't have smashed up his arm on that limo window, there were big plans afoot there.

What if hogan never turned heel?

What if hogan never went to WCW in 94?

What if Sting was the 3rd man?

What if warrior had been pushed more during his title reign?

What if undertaker never went to the Biker gimmick?

What if he never went back to the dead man?

What if WWF had been able to buy out the contracts of Nash, goldberg etc earlier .

What if Hogan didn't **** up Wrestlemania IX (even more)?

What if Benoit had gotten help?

One just popped into my head now from the time I was the most engaged with WWE - what if Cena lost at Unforgiven 2006 and got shipped off to SmackDown? I can't really see anyone stepping into his top babyface role on Raw. Off the top of my head, there's Jeff Hardy, who lost what I remember being a lacklustre IC match with Johnny Nitro which just seemed to drag on. OTOH, there could be some real life tension with Edge that they could play off.

Then there's DX, fresh off a gruelling Hell in a Cell handicap match. Rewind nearly half a year, a heel Triple H failed to beat Cena for the title. Putting them in the title picture just seems a bit messy, because a breakup would be almost certain. The reactions would generally either be, "Oh great, Trips is heel again. He only just had a face turn!" or "What the hell Shawn, what would Jesus do?!" The prospect of HBK becoming desperate in the "last chance saloon" of his career intrigues me, but it kind of feels like a cheap version of his WM26 angle with far lower stakes.

What if Nexus beat John Cena and basically were more like a Shield type faction, instead of a Spirit Squad.

What if this song wasnt made

Actually it doesn't matter

Money Inc would buy the titles of them.

Interesting what if's .... Only my two cents but i'd say:

I say Undertaker would have been lost in the shuffle and potentially a failure. He couldn't have been the undertaker. So it would have been a knockoff gimmick. Biker gimmick could have worked? but that would have been a few years before maybe the taker even came up with the idea. Hogan had creative control so it was always going to be the Hollywood Hogan show with his mates. Same goes for Michaels too. Hogan would have tried to keep him in the mid/upper card. Stone Cold would have never gone back I reckon. Getting fired from WCW put him on the path to becoming a huge star. His bread was buttered in WWE and likely didnt forget being fired and told "you cant make money with black trunks" lol. Triple H was also in WCW and wouldnt go back too. WWE were making him a star.

Bret would have gotten his way and dropped the title on the following Raw. WCW would have handled him the same I feel.

An interesting question. Don't think anyone would really know. Sure Vince says he bet the farm on it (Did he really?) Am sure he could have tried again in 1987 or 1988 for another big show. But the landscape would be totally different. Would Vince has still pushed Hogan as the star or found someone else? Really is an interesting question.

Eddie was 35 when he died right? Probably would have wrestled for another 5-7 years or something like that. He had some charisma so he probably would have been an on screen persona surely after his retirement.

If Bruno hadn’t been as big a success as he was then vince McMahon wouldn’t be known, which is why vince didn’t bend over backwards to keep him onside in the late 1980s when the relationship soured for years until the HOF induction. Without Bruno there would be no WWE today end of story.

some very very interesting what if though lads.

my what if is what if ric flair had come in to wwf in march 2001 instead of the night after survivor series 2001 ? I think having Ric flair who was synonymous with WCW since it’s start would have given so much more juice to a storyline that many wrestling fans have been dying to see. No offense to Shane McMahon but he was no Ric Flair.

Doing this purely age related....if WWE went all in on Punk in 2011 I don't think there would be an AEW today.

Instead of investing fully in "the one" that they had from the Indies they stockpiled the lot of them with no particular plan.

When you think about it it was Punk's rage at WWE that fuelled the fans that fuelled AEW.

To spin off from this if you are looking Vlogs etc what if Colt hadn’t started The Art of Wresting and shown there was money to be made out of wrestling pods would Conrad have gotten into the podcast business which in turn brought Brother Love back into prominence and got him a job back in the WWE today with what looks like more power than he ever had before.

Punk also would also never would have been on the pod with Colt and their friendship with still be there.

What if Dennis Stamp was actually booked.

.... you mean the 1996 deal? Or the AOL merger?

If Eddie lives then rey doesn’t get the title win, at mania at least, although had Eddie lived I can see him dropping it to rey.

I think Benoit was going to do some messed up **** at some point unfortunately.