10 Wrestling Moments That Should Have Been Huge (But Weren't)
5. Three Of A Kind
September 1995 represented something a shared sweet spot for the three men who would respectively come to redefine, reimagine and reshape the wrestling industry ahead of an unexpected latter decade boom period.
Eric Bischoff was about to launch WCW Nitro on TNT in direct competition with WWE Raw in a move that (eventually) forced Vince McMahon to force his ailing brand out of stagnation and back into the American mainstream. Paul Heyman, meanwhile, was an innovator, forging ahead with concepts and talents later taken and tweaked by both big boys to furnish their own fight in the Monday Night War.
The on-screen coming together of them all for the first time should have been a history-making affair. Fans watching a May 2005 edition of Raw were old enough to remember all three promotions in their pomp, and deserved more than the trio of talismanic trailblazers coming together for an empty skit to promote the rewarding One Night Stand nostalgia-fest.