10 Biggest Things WWE Stole From WCW

After the initial success of WrestleMania, you'd expect a businessman like Vince McMahon to jump on the pay-per-view concept as soon as possible. Yet, once again, it took WCW's influence for Vinnie Mac to truly catch on.

By 1990, Vince had established his Big Four pay-per-views: Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series. These weren't just the main events of the year though... they were the only events of the year. Barring special events, like 'The Wrestling Classic', 'This Tuesday In Texas', and that awful 'No Holds Barred' match/movie combination, it took WWF until '93 to even introduce a permanent fifth pay-per-view, King of the Ring.

In comparison, WCW held eight different pay-per-views in 1993, and had been delivering at least six events since '91. By 1995, the companies were finally on equal footing, but WWF had filled in their gaps with the 'In Your House' series. These were essentially B-tier pay-per-views that cost less and ran shorter, but this formula had to change due to - you guessed it - WCW. Once the competition was handling ten pay-per-views a month, all longer than the average 'In Your House', Vince started tampering with the structure until he had a full pay-per-view running every month.

Pretty much every step of the Monday Night Wars, McMahon was looking over his shoulder and saying "well, they added more, so we will too!".