10 Times WWE Rewrote Its History Books
7. WCW Was A Minor League
Vince McMahon is rightfully proud of emerging from the Monday Night Wars - the most intensely competitive period in professional wrestling history - as the single biggest promotion in the United States.
But wouldn't it be a more remarkable victory if you were the underdog, battling against the financial might of Ted Turner's big-spending rich man's play-thing?
Because that's a more accurate description, really. WWE had the history, but WCW became a far more attractive proposition for wrestlers in the early-to-mid 90s, and for a long while it also had the better product, something reflected in the TV ratings.
In spite of that, WWE would repeatedly insist, following its competitors' demise, that the likes of Booker T and Scott Steiner had been plucked from obscurity, rather than an equally large (and almost equally popular) wrestling league.