10 Times Wrestling Opened The Forbidden Door
4. The Simulcast
The WWF was never going to co-promote with dubya see dubya. That door was forbidden.
It was forbidden because WCW enraged Vince McMahon, who actually was receptive to crossovers once upon a time. It helped him make money in and gain exposure to the Japanese market in the '90s, for example. But he wouldn't work with WCW under any circumstances, even a super-show extravaganza, something of immense scope both promotions badly needed in 1995. WCW took his stars, competed with the WWF directly on television, and generally used its vast riches to mount a massive-aggressive strategy to become the number one wrestling promotion in the country.
Which is literally the exact same thing the WWF did a decade prior, the only difference being that now, "it wasn't fair".
The door was nonetheless opened when WCW imploded and collapsed in on itself in 2001. Vince McMahon paid the meagre sum of money to purchase the competition, and set about penning a storyline: his c*ck versus their ashes. The resulting invasion was piss-poor, and the reason bandied about since - WCW lacked the star-power - was an excuse.
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