When WWE purchased WCW, fans were excited like never before - yes, the company promised that WCW would be run as a separate entity, but surely there would be crossover. We'd finally get the dream matches we'd been waiting to see for years. In the end, Vince McMahon quickly squashed the WCW brand and the company's former stars simply because of an outdated grudge. A potential "World Series of Wrestling" supercard never came to pass, and millions upon millions of dollars were wasted. While not a draw on the same level, a WWE/NXT battle could be promoted as the WWE/WCW war should have been. Each year, the two brands could meet in a Pay-Per-View faceoff - the only crossover of the entire year - with dream matches between stars. Sure, the point of NXT is to train wrestlers for WWE, and so those dream matches are supposed to come to play eventually, but what if they don't? What happens to the NXT stars who never leave the brand, or the ones who aren't pushed properly when they do? A top-to-bottom card featuring bouts like Seth Rollins versus Finn Balor, John Cena versus Samoa Joe, and Apollo Crews versus Brock Lesnar would be a huge draw in 2016, and potentially the most anticipated concept Pay-Per-View has seen in years. Fans with and without the WWE Network would be sure to watch it, and the company's bottom line would be the beneficiary.
Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried.
*Best Crowd of the Year, 2013
