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DJ SUGAFREE QUIK:
I was checking the wrestlezone site 2day cause of the tragedy in boston 2 find out what wrestlers would think about it, especially John Cena who is from MA. No topics on it yet BUT...there was an interesting topic that was put on. Makes you think :eh: what coulda been different in wrestling had something else happened. If Hulk Hogan didn't appear to be the 3rd outsider at 1996 bash at the beach.
http://www.wrestlezone.com/news/271053-scott-hall-reveals-who-would-have-been-the-qthird-manq-if-hulk-hogan-hadnt-shown-up-in-time
Reading this type of news, kinda makes me wish that hitman woulda went to wcw in 1996. Be the 3rd man & find a way to bring owen along so he'd be alive 2day. Maybe if there was a time machine & somebody woulda told Bret what would go down for him & his family in the late 90's. Maybe he woulda went then, would make a good storyline on why he left wwf for wcw. Wrestlemania 12, lost in overtime vs. HBK. That match looked like a screwjob then. Maybe hbk has a feud with austin, austin turns face vs hbk at wrestlemania 13. Hitman goes against Sting at starcade 97. Most definitely woulda been a better match than Hogan/Sting starcade match.
Some would say that sting being the 3rd outsider member wouldn't work since he's the ultimate face. Plus hogan would be the hero again ::)
O.G A.Geesta'z:
Hogan would of burried the NWO if he wasnt apart of it... thank god he was smart enough to know it made business sense
Shallow:
--- Quote from: Young Jizz on April 15, 2013, 10:23:52 PM ---Hogan would of burried the NWO if he wasnt apart of it... thank god he was smart enough to know it made business sense
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Exactly. There is no way the nWo even makes it to Starcade 97 if Hogan was going against them. It would have ended with Hogan beating Bret at Starcade 96.
And that actually might have been a good thing for WCW long term. The nWo with Bret would have spread like wildfire, just like it did with Hogan (a bit less because of Hogans stature as the ultimate baby face), and then having old man Hogan, Savage, and probably Ed Leslie, beat the nWo would distinguish that fire and leave such a bad taste in everyone's mouth the company would have been forced to change direction earlier. DDP would have had to have been pushed faster, Goldberg's streak would have been starting, Benoit wouldn't have been as held back, because Nash would have been buried. Hall and Nash probably would have been back in the WWF by 98 when Waltman came back and joined the D-X storyline.
Had WCW not turned into the Russo smut fest, and that may still have happened, it most likely still would have existed today. Although it may have been nothing more than a slightly better TNA.
M Dogg™:
If only the nWo never added Bischoff. I think that was when the nWo went too far. I remember seeing Bischoff joining the nWo and changing the channel. Bischoff believed too much in it to completely bury it with Hogan, Savage and Brutus. The nWo was fresh, and it Hart joined instead of Hogan, it still would have been big. Also remember that the last time anyone saw Hogan was in the god awful Dungeon of Doom match were the Mega Powers defeated the Dungeon or Doom AND the 4 Horsemen. Maybe Hogan would have stayed away for a bit while longer while the nWo runs wild on WCW, allowing the nWo to gain enough momentum so that Bischoff still felt invested enough to join. Then Bischoff join would have made sense. But when you had Ted DiBiase and Vincent, there was no reason at all to have Bischoff join. Oh well. Let's live in the now.
http://www.youtube.com/v/HGgvBfbohQ0?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0
Shallow:
--- Quote from: M Dogg on April 16, 2013, 09:43:22 AM ---If only the nWo never added Bischoff. I think that was when the nWo went too far. I remember seeing Bischoff joining the nWo and changing the channel. Bischoff believed too much in it to completely bury it with Hogan, Savage and Brutus. The nWo was fresh, and it Hart joined instead of Hogan, it still would have been big. Also remember that the last time anyone saw Hogan was in the god awful Dungeon of Doom match were the Mega Powers defeated the Dungeon or Doom AND the 4 Horsemen. Maybe Hogan would have stayed away for a bit while longer while the nWo runs wild on WCW, allowing the nWo to gain enough momentum so that Bischoff still felt invested enough to join. Then Bischoff join would have made sense. But when you had Ted DiBiase and Vincent, there was no reason at all to have Bischoff join. Oh well. Let's live in the now.
http://www.youtube.com/v/HGgvBfbohQ0?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0
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I think it would have half buried itself, and Hogan's return as "the man that built the company that is invading" would have cemented the beginning of the end. I was joking about Ed Leslie. In reality it would have most likely have been Hogan, Luger, Sting, and Savage vs Hall, Nash, Bret, and fake Sting at War Games. Sting cleans house and Hogan chases after him, then Bret gets the win on Savage. Hogan then gets the win on Bret at Starcade and a grey area Crow Sting vs baby face Hogan gets built for Starcade 97.
Bret, Hall and Nash simply wouldn't be able to carry the nWo they way Hollywood Hulk Hogan did. He carried it too far but Bret is half the talent when it comes to marketing himself as a star and with out the Go Canada fire behind him he wouldn't work so well as a heel. Nash could never really get over on his own, and Hall would have been in and out of rehab. The concept that Hulk Hogan became a bad guy gave that company new life and the WCW milked it for all they could and then even after they couldn't anymore. No way does the nWo last until 98.
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