10 Outcomes If HUGE Wrestling Complaints Were Answered
1. The WWF Should Have Booked WCW As A Separate Entity
The complaint:
The WWF just f*cked mainstream wrestling for 20 years by being so gotten-to, even in actual victory, that they booked Diamond Dallas Page as a mark for the Undertaker's wife, who you suspect was introduced to storylines purely to make him that bit more pathetic.
Dumb a**hole, wanting to work for a living in an industry bequeathed to Vince McMahon as his birthright.
The outcome if it were answered:
A better wrestling world could have existed. It wasn't not doable. There was enough talent in the remnants of the dead WCW and ECW organisations, and that's not accounting for defections, to build a more than adequate roster for a weekly B show in storyline competition with RAW. That's what SmackDown came to be, anyway.
If ECW had arrived to ambush the first WCW on the first WWF-produced WCW show, the inter-promotional demand would have been satiated, allowing WCW to quietly grow, subsume ECW to regain its name value, and ultimately mount an invasion of the WWF proper - complete with the first wave of holdouts - once it was rehabilitated in the minds of the public. Booker T, Rob Van Dam, DDP, a defecting Chris Jericho, perhaps, with his history in both promotions - there's a worse crop of talent around which to build a brand.
It wasn't not doable, if the enterprising spirit of the Attitude Era remained in place, but it wasn't.
The latent arrogance killed it as much as the economic reality did.