10 Most Alarming Ways WWE Rewrites History

3. WCW Raided The WWF's Talent

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Scott Hall and Kevin Nash.

Those are the only two names that one could make a good case for WCW “raiding” from the WWE. Yet in so many retrospectives, it seems that Vince McMahon had his back against the wall and that Billionaire Ted was taking every single big name from him, and he was powerless to fight back. Let’s pick that apart.

Randy Savage? Vince cast him as an announcer and wouldn’t let him wrestle. He knew this upset Savage so the former WWF Champion left when his contract was up...to go wrestle! Bret Hart? Vince reneged on a contract that he himself signed. Hulk Hogan? He’d already left the company after a falling out. Roddy Piper? He hadn’t been a full-time WWF act in years. Who was being stolen again?

Then there’s Brian Adams, Marty Jannetty, The Big Boss Man, Madusa, IRS and many other mid-carders that Vince clearly didn’t have much planned for, or had already let go. Honestly, was he really stinging that much from the departure of Crush that he felt he was about to go out of business?

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