Jim Cornette on What If Eric Bischoff Went Against Jerry Jarrett Running WWE Instead Of Vince 

Heck it's even bigger than that. Vince was always the final decision maker, if he was in prison for that 11 year sentence he was facing and the Creative is left to Jerry, just how different would the whole WWF look without him by 1997?

@@robintst thank you for explaining the whole point of this video

Vince was the babyface to me and Austin was the villian.

the point is wcw blew up because of their own failure not wwe

Another factor to consider: in real life, I've heard that Steve Austin was NOT on the best terms with the Jarretts (he hated Jeff Jarrett and refused to work with him later on in WWE and I don't think he was very happy with Jerry Jarrett either due to some type of financial problem he had with him years ago). Does this mean that Steve Austin stays in ECW when he gets fired from WCW and ends up in ECW during 1995 and permanently stays there? Probably not since ECW at that time wasn't paying a huge amount of money and WWE was. If Steve Austin wants big money, he would have to go to WWE during 1996 since ECW wasn't paying enough and WCW had fired him and didn't want him back. However, with Jerry Jarrett in charge, does Jerry Jarrett give Steve Austin a proper push or does he leave him in "mid card hell" stuck in the Ring Master gimmick permanently? It's a possibility, especially when Jeff Jarrett and Steve Austin start having personal issues with each other, Jerry isn't going to push his son Jeff to the side for Steve. Steve Austin might get fed up with the Ring Master crap and he eventually finds his way back to ECW during the period when ECW stars starting getting more money (around mid 1997 or by early 1998 Steve returns to ECW). So this could turn into a situation where WWE remains stale, WCW reigns supreme as the # 1 wrestling promotion during it's NWO era, but ECW gets a very huge push by having Steve Austin in his prime. The long term end result of all of this is WWE remaining in a permanent stale 2nd place, WCW eventually implodes on itself (mainly because WCW's worse enemy was WCW. Sadly, WCW was it's own worse enemy) and ECW manages to rise into a # 1 position in some way over time and doesn't go out of business and becomes financially stable. Just something to think about.

J-E, double F J-A- double R, E, double T!

A wild Slapnuts appears!

So basically early TNA then?

@@Myndir Minus the ladies, edgy wrestlers & Evil Authority.

He would been a Grand Slam champion in WWE if that had happened. The only way he become Champion of the title nowadays is if he won the MITB briefcase from Mr. Money In The Bank and successfully cashes in on the WWE/Universal Champion.

Imagine the ego clashes between Shawn Michaels and Hulk Hogan in WCW.

​@@Jackalblade9I think HBK would have overdosed and probably died if he went to WCW.

Bret and Shawn both would have gone with Hall and Nash

@@prestanmarquis why , he had plenty of chance to do that when he retired in 98 and didnt

Jarrett said he would have fired Shawn and HHH after the curtain call. As good as Shawn was in the ring, Vince let him get away with too much crap. If he went to WCW he would never have been on top while Hogan Flair and Sting were still there

Run that shit over the jail phone mafia style 😅

I once went on chaturbate and paid a girl to cosplay as hulk hogan and had call me brother in a hulk hogan accent.

@@CaptainTard attaboy! That’s good shit brother.

@@CaptainTard She was over brother

Exactly

Worse thing that happened to WCW was the AOL/TW merger.

Yeah, I know he was a wrestler, but I can't see Jerry taking a stunner,

He would’ve got out right in time to tear both his quads at the Royal rumble

They didn't have a case no jury in the world would have convicted Vince on the strength of the evidence that they had against him

​@@stewartmcrae8007 it was a blown case from the beginning. The prosecutor was over excited to be going after mcmahon and didnt vet his witnesses or actually form a case. Had the prosecutor been half interested in the actual case instead of just being so excited to go after vince. Who know. Vince was worried about it enough

@@randemness2680 the guy left shortly afterwards sean o shea I believe his name was or something like that absolute scumbag

Yup. When was the beginning of the end of WCW? When Crockett sold to turner.

Austin's rebutted this a few times - he even had Jeff on his podcast. It was mainly over pay and nobody was making any money there.

He never had any grudge against Jerry that I know of. It was only really rumored to be one against Jeff.

@@maxxdahl6062 It was both Jeff and Jerry he had heat with because Jerry would give him a mediocre salary whilst in Memphis and Jerry would give Jeff tons of money even though he was a glorified midcarder.

@@GenGamesUniverse I've not in my entire life heard it was ever against Jerry. And it kind of sounds like BS to me anyway, Memphis was famous for not paying much unless you were either a main eventer either and/or a main event heel working against lawler, then you would get good money. And at that time Austin wasn't even a glorified mid-carder at that point he was only a notch or two above being an enhancement talent. So either Austin had to be completely ignorant about the territory which would make him either very ignorant or the rumor is BS.

As a huuuuuuuuuuge fan of Razor, I would have been A-OK with that!

This, Jarrett would have pushed his son and that child sniffer Lawler as main eventers...

@@user-cr4pz5yg7y spot on

Agreed on it being horrible a lot of the time. This isn’t a dig at Jarrett I just think that if Vince isn’t there, there is no Attitude Era and WWE isn’t beating WCW with the NWO and Bischoff at the helm.

The Mr McMahon character was the most important on screen talent character of the Attitude Era.

Can agree to that, adapting to the situation than being adamant is why attitude Era was possible so yeah things might not have been the same.

Agreed

bischoff is a glorified marketer

Replace anyone of those with cactus jack .. Foley was the king maker/gatekeeper. Orton, rock,HHH ,undertaker

I have long thought it would be awesome to have seen HBK come out of the crowd to surprise superkick Sting.

The trial was in 94. Nwo didn't exist. The Curtain Call hadn't happened. Therfore Austin doesn't take HHH'S KOTR spot.

I love Corny, but you’re 100% spot on. I was a kid in the 80s, and fell in love with that era. I know it’s “cartoony,” but they were making money.

and 1970's wwwf..... clueless

Jerry wouldve crushed Bankrupt Bischoff

@@Nostalgia9478 he didn't bankrupt anyone else in history. It would have been honky tonk man vs rockabilly in a guitar on a pole match

How dare you! He can swing a guitar better than anybody.

ECW was a regional promotion that no one saw unless they lived in the northeast or tape traded.

@@spanky9676 or watched on America One network.. they streamed at Midnight Saturdays if there was no station in your area.. REAL MEDIA 33.

It was good having three promotions around at the time. The more the better. No matter how back WCW was I still looked forward Nitro then Raw as well on Mondays on top of ECWs Hardcore TV on the weekend (which was on the MSG Network that I had on satellite)

Shitstain would be stuck writing for the magazine where he belonged

he brought him in for tna didn't he?

@@MarsofAritiaThat was Jeff that did that.

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Yep. Spot on.

Bankrupt Bischoff wouldve lost bigly, BROSKI

​@Nostalgia how was he bankrupt bischoff. Yeah wwe still would have won.

Nope, wwe still wins. Only way wcw doesn't go away is if Turner never loses power.

@@scrappy93 Bankrupt Bischoff has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy TWICE..Hes a horrible Businessman

Nobody says bro anymore bruh

I think this is a good point. As Jim likes to say, it's a marathon, not a sprint. WWE in any form could have held out long enough for WCW to burn itself out, and the AOL/Time Warner merger would have been the final nail in the coffin.

Ted Turner was supposed to be Vice Chairman but they screwed him over.

WCW got taken out, because it was freefalling. If WCW would've been the biggest show in the US & WWE would be in ruins, I think then WCW would've survived the merge.

They just wanted to get out of wrestling because the losses were massive. They were still in sports. Hell, not only they kept NASCAR (it was on TBS) but they promoted it to TNT as part of their “We Know Drama” campaign.

Jarrett was able to draw in his day, but nationwide in ‘94? I don’t see it. No one ever drew shit in TNA/ Impact. Jerry didn’t and Eric didn’t. But overall, yes Jim will dance around on topics he doesn’t want to be critical when talking about those he likes.

Do you think PP would want to captain the ship? Didn’t he prefer the relaxed nature of his role?

@@tommyfraz. YES! Vince was going to do the booking in jail. It was already planned out.

There would have certainly been a power struggle between Bruce/Pat/Dunn and Jerry/possibly Corny.

Eric is Right Meltzer is and always has been a cancer

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Obviously when you’re a kid you will think anything is better. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug

That's a unique take on this.

Charlie? That you?

@@danielburger1775 no it’s me Russo

​@@marcusbennett5444 Bro, come awn bro, we know this ain't Russo bro, because your typing doesn't sound anything, bro, like Russo, bro.

Lmao at the question.

No. Jerry never had the book in TNA. Maybe he should have, but rather than try to fix it he became disgusted with what the promotion had become, with what Jeff Jarrett allowed it to become, though Jeff and Jerry patched up after Jeff got muscled out and failed to buy it back from Panda Energy.

Industry died 2001

@@ebransc09 let’s say in this scenario that in 1997 WWF is bought by Turner and the AOL Time Warner merger happens in 2001 and WCW is canceled. Let’s say in 2002 TNA does start that would still be a full year without any pro wrestling on tv and TNA was small compared to WCW or WWF.