10 Most Alarming Ways WWE Rewrites History

5. Only Vince McMahon Creates Stars

Chris Jericho was offered the role of a regular jobber in WWE before signing on with WCW. The character he may have ended up as? The Goon.

In WCW, he never became a top star, but he held the TV Title and Cruiserweight Title. He was featured on television, he cut entertaining promos that are still remembered, and he was over. He was given an opportunity that Vince McMahon was not about to give him. Eric Bischoff saw talent when Vince did not.

In the WWF, Diesel was World Heavyweight Champion, and people didn’t give a damn. In WCW, he became one of the most over, talked about wrestlers in the planet. Razor Ramon was an upper-mid card act in the WWF, and Bischoff also made him a huge star. Lex Luger was in a mid-card tag team by the time he jumped to WCW, and he soon became a World Champ.

Yet despite all of these examples (and quite a few more) the WWE narrative is that Billionaire Ted stole these people (we'll get to that in a bit), and used Vince's own creations against him, because that was the only way to start a wrestling war.

That is greatly undervaluing the contributions of Bischoff, and his ability to take talent and make them more popular than ever before. Among his success stories is that he re-ignited the careers of Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage, and even made WCW mainstays like Diamond Dallas Page and Sting into big stars.

To say that Goldberg was the only non-WWF talent who got over during that entire period just takes us further away from reality, as so many others reached levels they never could have under the creative control of Vince.